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  • Review of The Book of Love by Kelly Link

    Meanwhile, mysterious forces with dangerous plans converge upon Lovesend, drawn by the resurrection of

  • Review of The Boy from the Sea by Garrett Carr

    As the community wonders at his mysterious, whimsical appearance, they embrace Brendan, as he is ultimately

  • Review of American Mermaid by Julia Langbein

    Then mysterious threats and unexplained feminist changes begin appearing within the script, aimed at water (I'm sorry, but I can't stop the puns), making the reader wonder about the nature of multiple mysterious

  • Review of Libby Lost and Found by Stephanie Booth

    Elaborate mythology swirls around the mysterious author of the blockbuster fantasy series The Falling

  • My Very Favorite Bossy 2025 Reads

    For my full review, please see Everything Is Tuberculosis . 03 Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy Mysteries When a mysterious woman washes up half-dead on the remote island of Shearwater, home of the world's largest There are mysteries at the center of the story, but for me this was a captivating, atmospheric dive into As the community wonders at his mysterious, whimsical appearance, they embrace Brendan, as he is ultimately

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/21/22 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading What Happened to the Bennetts, the upcoming mystery from the prolific 01 What Happened to the Bennetts by Lisa Scottoline In Lisa Scottoline's upcoming mystery What Happened Scottoline is the author of Eternal and 31 other mysteries.

  • Review of The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen

    Their cultures are sometimes mysteries to each other, and at times conflict greatly with others' traditions

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

    Determined not to give up on the musical, Riley sneaks and works on a master plan for a performance-- Gillian McAllister The author of the fantastic Wrong Place, Wrong Time  is back with a smart, twisty mystery 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

  • Six Fantastic Novels Set in North Carolina

    abandoned airplane are found in his quiet, coastal North Carolina town, Winston must try to unravel the mystery underbelly of their rural North Carolina town, and basically everything about this intricate literary mystery-thriller The Last Child appears in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year.

  • Six Long Contemporary Novels to Sink Into

    She disappears from her family and leaves behind a tragic mystery, while in her forays through new worlds immensely readable book rich in period detail, with great dialogue and satisfying elements of love, mystery making a difference, but I admit that I was curious about how even a historical fiction storytelling master

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

    ) by Freya Marske The first book in Marske's duology is full of Edwardian England detail, gay love, mystery Robin and Edwin's love is romantic and sweet and heartbreaking and sexy; the mystery at the heart of camp; and winds it all through our middle-aged heroines' satisfying solving of a disturbing set of mysteries Nessa, Jo, and Harriet work together and use their newfound abilities to try to solve the mystery of But August's adorably quirky roommates and a mystery woman she keeps running into on the Q train might

  • Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore

    When she finds a mysterious book her father had acquired, it shows January unlikely possibilities about She disappears from her family and leaves behind a tragic mystery, while in her forays through new worlds

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/16/24 Edition

    fraternity members and a multi-million-dollar interstate drug ring; and I'm listening to a suspenseful mystery

  • Review of Queen of Lombard Street by Lisa Kleypas

    The minor mystery and some of the romance elements didn't resonate as strongly with me as other aspects

  • Review of Fallen: A Novel of Suspense by Linda Castillo

    Castillo's Amish setting is intriguing, I didn't see the resolution of the mystery coming, and I was Brutal violence is at the heart of the mystery--and there's enough bashing people over the head that But Castillo's Amish setting is intriguing, I didn't see the mystery's resolution coming, and I was

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

    forgiveness; historical fiction about strong women and the power of books; and the first in an FBI procedural mystery investigators who reinvent methods of finding their culprit in a smart, intriguing, and satisfying mystery

  • Review of Kills Well with Others (Killers of a Certain Age #2) by Deanna Raybourn

    Beginning , the first book in Deanna Raybourn's feisty Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction mysteries

  • Six Fantasy Reads I Loved in the Past Year

    Jess Kidd is the author of Things in Jars, a mystery I gave four Bossy stars--and listed in two Greedy Reading Lists, Six Spooky, Gothic Tales and Six Historical Fiction Mysteries Sure to Intrigue You. talking) creepy-crawlies in this middle-grade novel, you'll find a noble quest, unlikely heroes, a mysterious

  • Review of Good Material by Dolly Alderton

    I listened to Good Material as an audiobook. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book?

  • Six More Science Fiction Reads I Loved in the Past Year

    Eason In Eason's science fiction mystery, an unlikely pair who get on each other's nerves work together 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 In this science fiction novel, Mandel plays with time and time travel as well as mysteries surrounding

  • The Once and Future Queen (Lives of Guinevere #1) by Paula Lafferty

    Vera struggles against the powerful, mysterious former presence of herself as Guinevere, looming like

  • Review of The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

    Jackson's gothic horror tale is made all the more frightening by its reliance on terror, shadows, and mystery unorthodox woman with an open mind and brave disposition, Theodora; a young woman who has witnessed mysterious Jackson's gothic horror tale is made all the more frightening by its reliance on terror, shadows, and mystery

  • Review of The Project by Courtney Summers

    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 seemingly harmless, benevolent group The I'm intrigued by stories about secrets and mysterious communities or private groups, so the focus on

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/18/24 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to the first book in Blake Crouch's Wayward Pines mystery trilogy

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/14/21 Edition

    Moscow and Rules of Civility. 02 Troubled Blood by Robert Galbratih In the fifth installment of the mystery A woman recognizes him and impulsively spills the story of her mother Margot Bamborough's mysterious So far it feels nicely paced, and I like having time to dig into the characters' evolution and the mystery's

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/17/25 Edition

    But the mysteries surrounding the power of their enemies, her own dragon, and the future of her beloved

  • Six More Novels I Loved Reading Last Year

    Then mysterious threats and unexplained feminist changes begin appearing within the script, aimed at When June witnesses Athena's death and then mysteriously comes up with a story about Chinese laborers learns that his like-a-brother friend Misha from his childhood World War II-era orphanage has died under mysterious

  • 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

  • Review of The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff

    connection, to the young daughter of her former household, her former charge--and her growing wonder at the mysteries

  • Review of Things in Jars by Jess Kidd

    Jess Kidd offers a creepy, dark mystery tale gloriously steeped in details of Victorian London and seedy Various depraved and frighteningly cruel characters help drive the story of Things in Jars and add to the mystery Oh, and a mysterious, dangerous, but tragic child-creature-mermaid necessitates detective work and a In Jars offers solid historical fiction details of Victorian London, which I love, within a creepy mystery liked recently was A Curious Beginning, and it shares some of these elements of historical fiction, mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/15/25 Edition

    When a neighbor dies mysteriously, Cordelia's mother insists they leave town in the middle of the night

  • Review of Lone Women by Victor LaValle

    In LaValle's magical, dark Western, people tend to disappear whenever Adelaide's mysterious trunk opens

  • Review of The Last Confession of Autumn Casterly by Meredith Tate

    The mystery moves along at a nice clip, with Ivy and her loyal friends making plucky efforts to uncover sister Autumn has been emotionally closed off since their mother died and has become involved in a mysterious The Last Confession of Autumn Casterly is a young adult mystery, and the main protagonists are high schoolers The mystery moves along at a nice clip, with Ivy and her wonderfully loyal friends making plucky efforts Greedy Reading List Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/13/20 Edition, as well as in Six Newish Young Adult Mysteries

  • 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 Dowry of Blood by S. T. Gibson

    Then a mysterious stranger arrives--seemingly drawn by her wavering between life and death--and promises

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

    Her pain and the mysterious sources of her frequent agony affected every aspect of her life, and Dunham Through years of various mysterious, excruciating, debilitating ailments, conditions, and limitations

  • Review of Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby

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

  • Review of To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit #1) by Moniquill Blackgoose

    colonizers expect Anequs to either adhere to their strict customs and expectations--all of which are a mystery

  • Six Bossy Favorite Literary Fiction Reads from the Past Year

    What We Can Know. 02 I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman Harpman's slim novel poses a mysterious As the community wonders at his mysterious, whimsical appearance, they embrace Brendan, as he is ultimately

  • Six Great Stories about Robots, Humans and Alien Life, and AI

    A mysterious prisoner from the front arrives who could be friend or foe, and our main protagonist Talin world-renowned physicist working to unlock the secrets of the hand and the curious artifacts, but the mysteries

  • 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

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

    This is a character-driven mystery with a twist. This is a character-driven mystery with an interesting twist. That is, until the mysterious Maddalena arrives.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/22/24 Edition

    But a young, half-feral female student and a shockingly unorthodox widow both seem to hold mysterious

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/20/22 Edition

    Morris's All Her Little Secrets, a fast-paced Southern mystery that also explores issues of race and Morris is one of our picks from last year's event, and because it's a fast-paced mystery, we decided

  • Review of Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up by Selma Blair

    She shares that because of the gloomy mystery of years of suffering, her multiple sclerosis diagnosis lays bare her experiences with depression and her attempted suicides after heartbreaks; her long-term, mysterious

  • Review of As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #3) by Holly Jackson

    heart-pounding pacing, captivating character development, and dark turns in this third book in her young adult mystery justified) intense feelings of responsibility for being the one to not only find elusive answers to various mysteries

  • 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

  • Shhh! Bossy Book Gift Ideas: Science and the Natural World

    As always, Tyson breaks down the mysteries of the universe into understandable pieces, using humor and globe, operate as one system, "powered by sunlight, driving huge flows of energy, water, life, and raw materials cutting-edge research. 09 Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery the remarkable cooperation across many branches of science that led scientists to "solve the great mystery

  • Review of Shut Up and Read: A Memoir from Harriett’s Bookshop by Jeannine A. Cook

    Cook's connection to deceased authors feels mystical and mysterious--it's all deeper and shapes her more

  • Review of Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

    boast forces Miryem into a position of meeting the tsar's impossible challenge, she finds that the mysterious

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