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- Review of Only If You're Lucky by Stacy Willingham
Lucy is wild, mischievous, mysterious--and she has an extra room in her rambunctious house next to a
- Review of What Happened to the Bennetts by Lisa Scottoline
Scottoline's suspenseful mystery offers surprising depth in exploring grief while the main protagonist In Lisa Scottoline's recent suspenseful mystery What Happened to the Bennetts, Jason Bennett is a suburban Her treatment of this delicate issue within a solid, suspenseful mystery cemented my interest in reading The mystery within What Happened to the Bennetts is twisty without being manipulative, and the denouement Scottoline is the author of Eternal and 31 other mysteries.
- Review of Skyhunter by Marie Lu
Just look at this gorgeously mesmerizing cover for Marie Lu's latest young adult science fiction/fantasy A mysterious prisoner from the front arrives who could be friend or foe, and our main protagonist Talin
- August Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
of romantic, funny, steamy light fiction; the next wonderful installments in two historical fiction mystery Asuka must find the real culprit before accusations surrounding the mystery destroy her. Yume Kitasei offers plot and mystery, but this is primarily a wonderfully character-driven story--with A Study in Scarlet Women is the first book in Sherry Thomas's gender-flipped Sherlock Holmes mystery The mystery was interesting, with salacious elements, and everyone was a potential suspect.
- Review of The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club #1) by Richard Osman
stories about sharp, disparate septuagenarians who meet to resolve cold cases--then aim to solve the mysteries In this first installment in Osman's mystery series, the story begins in medias res , as the reader witnesses And you can find Bossy reviews of many other mysteries here .
- Six Chilly Books to Read in the Heat of Summer
Light were the Greenland setting, the alternate world, the bitter cold, and the sentimentalism and mystery settings are exquisitely wrought, with stark, rugged, lush landscapes serving as the backdrop for a mystery It isn't a police procedural; this is a starkly beautiful book that happens to have a mystery at its I also listed Disappearing Earth in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year. When we are young, we consume the world in great gulps, and it consumes us, and everything is mysterious
- Review of The Spy Coast (The Martini Club #1) by Tess Gerritsen
Tess Gerritsen is the author of the 13-book Rizzoli and Isles mystery series as well as many other books
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/25/25 Edition
her complicated family and in the world, Vera, or Faith ; I'm reading Steve Cavanagh's twisty revenge mystery Publishing Group and NetGalley. 02 Kill for Me, Kill for You by Steve Cavanagh In Steve Cavanagh's twisty mystery This is the first mystery I've read by Steve Cavanagh.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/15/24 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading the seventh installment in Martha Wells's fantastic science fiction Only a few Antari have been born in a generation, and they have long been the only ones with the power If you've read the Shades of Magic books, you'll already be acquainted with the fantastic characters Now Kosika, a young, impressionable, fervor-driven young Antari, is taking up the mantle of the deceased In LaValle's magical, dark Western, people tend to disappear whenever Adelaide decides to open her mysterious
- Review of I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
Makkai's boarding school-set mystery offers depth as it exposes age-old power mismatches; offers young It's about our societal obsession with tragedies and mysterious murders, and the tendency of bystanders
- Review of Under Story by Chloe Benjamin
wonders if he and she might find their way to each other again--at least in order to understand the mystery Up to this point, I was completely hooked on the story and the mystery of the Arc as well as the past
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/14/25 Edition
Henry's upcoming romance story-within-a-story, Great Big Beautiful Life ; I'm listening to the first mystery in a series, The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens; and I'm reading Charlotte McConaghy's haunting and mysterious Story , Happy Place , and Book Lovers . 02 The Life We Bury ( Joe Talbert #1) by Allen Eskens In this mystery When a mysterious woman washes up half-dead on the remote island of Shearwater, home of the world's largest
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/6/25 Edition
AI, starships, and revenge, Ancillary Justice ; and I'm listening to Maureen Johnson's young adult mystery But everything is upended when a decades-old mystery seems to be the cause of a new friend's aunt's disappearance Maureen Johnson is the author of the six-book Truly Devious young adult mystery series: Truly Devious
- March Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
series; a quirky, campy mystery and revenge fantasy; and a young adult thriller with outlandish circumstances There are mysterious forces and machinations, many of which remain unclear to the reader until late in a black student from Washington, DC, finds herself involved in unraveling a complicated historical mystery After a series of almost slapstick misunderstandings, Finlay is left a mysterious note implying that Cosimano's mystery has a wonderfully quirky setup and campy tone.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/9/26 Edition
stepdaughter who are dear to each other; I'm listening to Lena Dunham's newest memoir about devastating, mysterious Through various mysterious, excruciating, debilitating ailments, conditions, and limitations, Dunham
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/10/25 Edition
Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Black Woods, Blue Sky , literary fiction about a single mother and mysterious ; and I'm reading Death at Morning House , a stand-alone young-adult mystery by the author of the Truly But Arthur is mysterious, and he's not who Birdie thought he was. Can Marlowe solve the mystery of what happened there before she is targeted as the next victim?
- Six Rockin' Stories about Bands and Music
Then their run abruptly ended, and for the public, the reasons for their breakup were a mystery. their mesmerizing lead singer Daisy, the group's complicated interpersonal conflicts, and the band's mysterious Daisy Jones and the Six explores multiple layers of love and heartbreak, all against a fantastic backdrop
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/7/25 Edition
Greatest Hits ; I'm listening to Miranda July's All Fours ; and I'm reading Christina Lynch's bighearted mystery Then their run abruptly ended, and for the public, the reasons for their breakup were a mystery. So far this is a cute--at times a little too cute for my taste--mystery that seems sure to be headed
- Review of The Wife and the Widow by Christian White
White's twisty mystery is set against the backdrop of an unforgiving winter on an Australian island,
- Review of My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows
the Lady Janies trilogy is funny, and smart, with clever asides, wonderful character development, and fantastic fiction retelling of the story of King Edward, Lady Jane Grey, and Mary Queen of Scots--with an oddball fantasy This is funny, and smart, with clever asides, wonderful character development, and fantastic banter.
- Review of The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
I loved this summer-camp setting, the slow build of mystery in two timelines, the privilege and working I was intrigued by the mysteries and their layers, which are continually revealed, and while I usually Many mysterious elements are cleared up at the end of the book in satisfying swirls of truth; all the
- March Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
In her second fantastic short-story collection, Curtis Sittenfeld explores middle age, fame, friendship review please check out The Favorites . 06 Famous Last Words by Gillian McAllister The author of the fantastic Wrong Place, Wrong Time is back with a smart, twisty mystery that's wonderfully heavy on character Famous Last Words is another smart, twisty mystery from Gillian McAllister. I loved this smart mystery that relies heavily on character development and mental agility for our narrator
- Review of The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike #7) by Robert Galbraith
I listened to The Running Grave, the newest in the mystery series by Robert Galbraith (J. K.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/25/24 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Creation Lake , Rachel Kushner's noir, dark humor mystery; I'm When she meets Bruno, a mysterious figure who trains the young activists, she believes she's manipulating Kushner brings dark humor and noir mystery to the story of Creation Lake .
- Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories
Katherine Arden finishes out the trilogy in typical mesmerizing fashion, with her usual masterful balance multimillion-copy bestselling book (or the Tony award-winning Broadway musical based upon it, or the fantastic made it even more rich. 04 Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin The first book in Mahurin's young adult fantasy
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/18/21 Edition
to have going on at once: a fictional, varied look at modern feminism and race in Britain; a revenge fantasy with magical realism interwoven throughout; and a new-to-me mystery author's current character-driven
- Six Books with Cold, Wintry Settings to Read by the Fire
Light were the Greenland setting, the alternate world, the bitter cold, and the sentimentalism and mystery settings are exquisitely wrought, with stark, rugged, lush landscapes serving as the backdrop for a mystery It isn't a police procedural; this is a starkly beautiful book that happens to have a mystery at its I also listed Disappearing Earth in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year. When we are young, we consume the world in great gulps, and it consumes us, and everything is mysterious
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/22/20 Edition
#mysterysuspense, #deadlywaters 02 Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook It's 1945. Behind a door without a key that is sometimes locked and sometimes mysteriously not, a silent companion Mysterious noises, inexplicable goings-on, haunting stories of the past, and the superstitious hatred #historicalfiction, #mysterysuspense, #gothic, #dualstoryline, #silentcompanions What are you reading
- Review of The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
through India, New York, family and romantic relationships, and career false starts, with missteps, mysterious The situations around relationships and life choices are often messy, complex, mystifying, and frustrating Current-day conflicts link to generational trauma, storytelling, and mysterious power.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/4/24 Edition
protagonist may or may not have murdered her best friend and is tracked down by a podcast investigating the mystery Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle Every time Daphne Bell meets a potential love interest, she receives a mysterious Everyone assumes she killed Savvy, and Lucy can't escape the suspicions and resentment surrounding the mysterious do the one thing she swore she'd never do: return to the scene of Savvy's murder to try to solve the mystery overlap, and their challenges intersect when a young boy is taken from the community, culminating in a mysterious
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/19/26 Edition
In 1664, Alouette is the daughter of a master dyer at the famous Gobelin Tapestry Works. The tone and the cozy-magical-mystery focus is so far reminding me of A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping And Rocky is facing a mysterious, possibly grave, illness that doctors find difficult to diagnose.
- Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West
Reading Lists Six More Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West, Six Historical Fiction Mysteries Davies includes fantastic details of amateur Western exploration that I adored. 04 One for the Blackbird Carson is also the author of the Fire and Thorns series, which is made up of four young adult fantasy
- Review of Nothing Like the Movies (Better Than the Movies #2) by Lynn Painter
But Liz, who is often embedded with the baseball team to gather footage and social media material, isn't But for me, the story didn't support these romantic, sexy fantasies--I remained somewhat irritated by
- Review of Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith
In the fifth installment of the mystery series by Robert Galbraith (J.K. A woman recognizes him and impulsively spills the story of her mother Margot Bamborough's mysterious It was nicely paced, and I liked having time to dig into the characters' evolution and the mystery's
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/9/23 Edition
This Woven Kingdom is the first in Tahereh Mafi's fantasy trilogy of the same name.
- Review of Done and Dusted (Rebel Blue Ranch #1) by Lyla Sage
For example, his fantasies upon seeing her wearing red lipstick take an instantaneous, (for me) alarmingly
- Six Books Set in Australia that Are Fair Dinkum Fascinating
Exiles was the right mystery at the right time for me. For my full review, check out Exiles. 02 The Wife and the Widow by Christian White White's twisty mystery This was like a Secret Garden for grown-ups, with intertwined, mysterious stories from 1900, 1975, and For my full review, check out Only Killers and Thieves. 06 The Lost Man by Jane Harper Harper's mysteries I listed this book in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/3/23 Edition
newest book by Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy, to be published April 4; I'm reading a young adult fantasy
- Six More Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You
Witch by Chris Bohjalian Hour of the Witch is a thoroughly researched, witchy, historical thriller with fantastic Hour of the Witch is a thoroughly researched historical fiction thriller with fantastic details of the dark humor and unexpected details, and the exchanges between El and Orion (and El and everyone) were fantastic In the world of Griffin's young adult fantasy novel The Nature of Witches, witches control the weather
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/26/26 Edition
fiction novel The Secret Book Society , and I'm listening to the first in John McMahon's FBI-focused mystery #1) by John McMahon I'm not sure where I heard about this book, but I believe it was in a roundup of mystery
- Review of I Am Not Jessica Chen by Ann Liang
rom-com I Hope This Doesn't Find You here and my review of Liang's young-adult historical fiction fantasy
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/17/25 Edition
during the Dust Bowl, The Antidote ; and I'm listening to Gillian McAllister's newest twisty, smart mystery Beginning , the first book in Deanna Raybourn's feisty Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction mysteries 03 Famous Last Words by Gillian McAllister Famous Last Words is another smart, twisty mystery from Gillian
- Review of Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner
Faulkner's debut mystery is twisty and turny, with various potential bad seeds and complications--and When she alludes to mysterious connections between the women--and a long-ago crime--her persistent presence situations at the heart of the book to be revealed slowly--aren't too convenient, and they add layers to the mystery
- Another Six Contemporary Novels I Loved in the Past Year
through India, New York, family and romantic relationships, and career false starts, with missteps, mysterious Current-day conflicts link to generational trauma, storytelling, and mysterious power. Then their run abruptly ended, and for the public, the reasons for their breakup were a mystery. for my full review. 05 The Sideways Life of Denny Voss by Holly Kennedy This bighearted novel holds a mystery Voss is a bighearted novel with an irresistible main protagonist and surrounding players, and the mystery
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/7/22 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Rachel Hartman's Tess of the Road, fantasy about a headstrong young , Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama; and I'm listening to the first in the prolific Marie Lu's young adult fantasy
- Review of Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery Wrong Place Wrong Time plays with time, and I love books that play
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/7/23 Edition
mystery about race and history from David Joy, Those We Thought We Knew; I'm listening to the third book in Deanna Raybourn's wonderful Victorian England mystery series, A Treacherous Curse; and I'm reading The Deep Sky, Yume Kitasei's recent science fiction thriller about a deep space expedition and a mysterious Clever Veronica and gruff Stoker will need to unravel the mystery of an ancient curse and sort out the Asuka must find the real culprit before accusations surrounding the mystery destroy her.
- Review of The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry
tragedy of Flora's disappearance), anyone who might have been connected to Flora's disappearance, and the mysterious
- Review of The Poppy Fields by Nikki Erlick
A mysterious therapy center lies in the California desert, and its services are free, but they're only But participation requires traveling to California, consenting to receiving mysterious, purportedly helpful
- Review of The Rush by Beth Lewis
I was disappointed that the "mystery" was not as layered or complex as I'd hoped, but The Rush allows

















































