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  • Review of Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen

    working for the charming complex's owner, all the while cultivating her obsession with a reclusive, mysterious

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/28/22 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading A Flicker in the Dark, Stacy Willingham's recent mystery about twisty mystery The Missing Piece continues his popular Dismas Hardy series.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/22/24 Edition

    introduced her to it; this is a brutal existence buoyed only by thoughts of the past and wonder at the mysteries

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/23/24 Edition

    playful dive into life as a villain in a fantasy story, Long Live Evil ; I'm reading Liz Moore's newest mystery

  • Six Great Stories about Robots

    Eason's science fiction mystery Nightwatch on the Hinterlands , a templar, Iari, and a spy, Gaer, have And I was wholly charmed by the rievs (former battle robots) who mysteriously show sentience and surprising

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/9/24 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Ava Glass's newest Emma Makepeace spy mystery, The Trap ; I'm listening

  • Review of The Unwilling by John Hart

    Hart reliably offers character-driven mysteries with heartbreaking interpersonal complications. I mentioned my love for Hart's book The Last Child in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries

  • Review of The Trackers by Charles Frazier

    In Dawes, he meets eccentric, wealthy art lovers John and Eve Long--mysterious, possibly hiding something

  • One More List of My Favorite Historical Fiction Reads of the Year

    by Katherine Arden Katherine Arden, the author of the captivating Winternight trilogy, here shares a mysterious Freddie is reported as having died, but strange and unnerving clues indicate to Laura that something more mysterious

  • Six More Satisfying Novels about Revenge

    Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo When tough, stubborn Alex Stern is offered a new start after surviving a mysterious spoiled socialite—and one of the cons aims to right some wrongs in two of the characters' shared (but mysterious the main players at one point or another and couldn't wait for the big reveal for this young adult mystery

  • 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 Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall

    Looking for Jane is a story of women living in three timelines who are linked through decades by a mysterious

  • Review of The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson

    The mystery isn't over--Truly Devious led to the disappearance of Alice Ellingham decades ago, and now And the mysterious deaths of people connected to Ellingham Academy aren't over. #series, #youngadult, #mysterysuspense, #threestarbookreview

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/8/21 Edition

    of seeking and exposing the truth around her as a journalist, while Bea retreats into a reclusive, mysterious When mysterious events come to light that seem linked to the publicly harmless, seemingly benevolent

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/20/23 Edition

    Until June witnesses Athena's death and mysteriously comes up with a story about Chinese laborers during

  • Review of Maddalena and the Dark by Julia Fine

    That is, until the mysterious Maddalena arrives.

  • April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    are the books I most loved reading in April: Exiles, the third in Jane Harper's Australian Aaron Falk mystery Exiles was the right mystery at the right time for me. Then mysterious threats and unexplained feminist changes begin appearing within the script, aimed at

  • Review of Something Wilder by Christina Lauren

    early turns and surprises didn't always feel as though they followed logical paths, I appreciated the mystery-lite

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/17/24 Edition

    thriller, which is set in the wilderness and concerns old lovers thrown together in hopes of finding a mysteriously

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/3/25 Edition

    Lizzie finds a secret notebook of her mother's, she becomes more determined than ever to solve the mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/16/23 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading the newest suspenseful mystery by Wendy Walker, scheduled for publication

  • Review of Gregor the Overlander (The Underland Chronicles #1) by Suzanne Collins

    talking) creepy-crawlies in this middle-grade novel, you'll find a noble quest, unlikely heroes, a mysterious

  • Review of Changeless (Parasol Protectorate #2) by Gail Carriger

    installment involves technology of the time, ancient Egyptian artifacts, revelations about Alexia's mysterious

  • Review of Foster by Claire Keegan

    Summer is ending, and there's a mysterious, unspoken, dark undercurrent at the Kinsellas'.

  • May Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    we age, and second chances; Wrong Place, Wrong Time, Gillian McAllister's fascinating time-twisting mystery In Dawes, he meets eccentric, wealthy art lovers John and Eve Long--mysterious, possibly hiding something Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery Wrong Place Wrong Time plays with time, and I love books that play

  • Review of Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara

    Despite the mysterious disappearances of children that are at the heart of the story, this primarily watching police shows), his youthful belief that he and a ragtag group of friends can quickly resolve the mystery #mysterysuspense, #india

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/30/22 Edition

    Now I'm reading A Rip Through Time, the first in Kelley Armstrong's time-travel historical fiction mystery But she quickly realized that being a princess involved responsibility, political maneuvering, and mysterious

  • April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    Ghosts by Katherine Arden Katherine Arden, author of the captivating Winternight trilogy, here shares a mysterious Freddie is reported as having died, but strange and unnerving clues indicate to Laura that something more mysterious

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/28/21 Edition

    I mentioned my love for Hart's book The Last Child in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries mix: young adult space science fiction story, dystopian fantasy series prequel, and character-driven mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/4/23 Edition

    Beresford pieces together the story of Hannah's life from her first-person account--and tries to solve a mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/10/23 Edition

    In Dawes, he meets eccentric, wealthy art lovers John and Eve Long--mysterious, possibly shady, and certainly

  • Review of Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski

    is accessible and her examples come from years of experience with clients and their varied dilemmas, mysteries

  • Review of Yellowface by R. F. Kuang

    When June witnesses Athena's death and then mysteriously comes up with a story about Chinese laborers

  • My Six Favorite Book Club Books of 2022

    Prose offers a surprising amount of heart and a unique main protagonist in this lighthearted murder mystery check out Doctors and Friends. 05 Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams Williams's historical fiction mystery The mystery skips back and forth in time, and four years later, Iris's twin sister Ruth finally receives

  • Six of My Favorite Lighter Fiction Reads from the Past Year

    Favorite Fiction Reads from Last Year Six More of My Favorite Fiction Reads from Last Year Six Four-Star Mystery Reads I Loved Last Year Six More Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Last Year Six Four-Star Historical Fiction But August's adorably quirky roommates and a mystery woman she keeps running into on the Q train might

  • Review of The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell

    Behind a door without a key--a door that is sometimes locked and other times mysteriously not--a "silent Mysterious noises, inexplicable goings-on, the appearance of additional silent companions, haunting stories

  • March Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    through two timelines; the final book in a darkly playful young adult fantasy series; a quirky, campy mystery 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.

  • June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    see Rednecks . 02 Bride by Ali Hazelwood Ali Hazelwood brings her wonderful banter and an intriguing mystery Misery Lark is the only daughter of the most powerful Vampyre in the region, and she'd prefer to literally As a child, Misery was given up by her family and community as collateral to keep the peace. But Misery has her own reasons for willingly entering into this marriage--her best friend's safety may can't let go of the fear that he might have targeted her specifically, and feels as though solving the mystery

  • January Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    month my favorite reads consisted of multiple fantasy reads, aka escapes from reality--one magical mystery 01 Voyage of the Damned by Frances White Frances White's debut is a locked-room mystery on a magical

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/2/21 Edition

    I loved last year's gritty, character-driven mystery-thriller Blacktop Wasteland so much that it made In Razorblade Tears, two men are coping with the tragic, violent, mysterious deaths of their married

  • Review of Nocturne by Alyssa Wees

    The understated dark undercurrents felt powerful and mysterious.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/26/22 Edition

    When Jaryk learns that his father has been killed under mysterious circumstances in India, he travels

  • March Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    Our Woman in Moscow, Beatriz Williams's historical fiction mystery, based on real-life double agents broken up by and bound together by tragedy; Quantum Girl Theory, Erin Kate Ryan's historical fiction-mystery-speculative Williams's historical fiction mystery--based on real-life double agents in the Cambridge Spy Ring--is Revival of Opal & Nev. 06 Quantum Girl Theory by Erin Kate Ryan In Erin Kate Ryan's historical fiction mystery

  • Review of The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston

    In town, she'll always be known as The Girl Who Solved a Murder Mystery by Talking to Ghosts, with all

  • May Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    Then their run abruptly ended, and for the public, the reasons for their breakup were a mystery. Definitely Better Now . 06 I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman Harpman's slim novel poses a mysterious

  • Another Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You

    VenCo by Cherie Dimaline VenCo offers feminist, hard-drinking, foul-mouthed witches bound together by mysterious James is offered a mysterious job at a publishing company...but she and her grandmother are folded into

  • Review of Half Wild: Stories by Robin MacArthur

    MacArthur is also the author of the mystery Heart Spring Mountain.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/20/21 Edition

    and turns, set in Victorian England; and I'm reading Jane Harper's newest character-driven Australian mystery Her mysteries are set in Australia, and she makes me care about her characters while keeping me guessing

  • Six Four-Star Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year

    for my full review of The Last Green Valley. 03 Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson Atkinson's newest mystery in vivid Roaring Twenties London as Nellie Coker struggles to hold on to her empire of clubs while mysterious by the intersection of Gwendolyn and Ma Coker's golden child, her eldest son Niven--along with the mystery

  • Six Fascinating Books Set in Maine

    1960s; historical fiction about a midwife that's based on a real historical figure; the first in a mystery The mystery of what happened to the man is a subplot that winds through the story.

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