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  • 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 Something Wilder by Christina Lauren

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

  • Review of Long Bright River by Liz Moore

    her sister Kacey disappears and a string of murders rock the community, Mickey's need to solve the mystery disappears and a string of murders rock the community, everyone is suspect and Mickey's desire to solve the mystery I like a mystery that makes me care about the characters and doesn't foreshadow too much.

  • 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

  • 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 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, 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

  • Review of Foster by Claire Keegan

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Review of Yellowface by R. F. Kuang

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 Trust No One (Devlin and Falco #1) by Debra Webb

    Webb provides multiple mysteriously missing persons, mixed motivations, naive characters who might be I also loved Falco's back story and his mysterious contact Cross, and I'd love to see more of both of If you like mysteries, you might also want to look at the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries

  • 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

  • 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, 11/11/24 Edition

    dark academia novel, Blood Over Bright Haven ; and I'm reading Frances White's fantasy story about mysterious

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

    01 The God of the Woods by Liz Moore I loved this summer-camp setting, the slow build of mystery in two I was intrigued by the mysteries and their layers, which are continually revealed, and while I usually

  • 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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/15/21 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Wiley Cash's upcoming Southern mystery, When Ghosts Come Home; Come Home by Wiley Cash Cash, author of A Land More Kind than Home and The Last Ballad, here offers a mystery

  • 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

  • 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

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

    Similarly, when he stumbles onto a truth about his own mysterious heritage--a mystery he felt he had heart-pounding pacing, captivating character development, and dark turns in this third book in her young adult 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

  • Review of Before She Disappeared by Lisa Gardner

    Gardner's brand-new character-driven mystery offers an imperfect, unassuming heroine obsessed with solving This is my first Lisa Gardner book, and I love how character driven the mystery was.

  • Six More of My Favorite Historical Fiction Reads of the Year

    Their cultures are sometimes mysteries to each other, and at times conflict greatly with others' traditions Henry Thornton is a wealthy railroad magnate and owner of the mysterious Phoenix Crown, an artifact legendary

  • Review of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #1) by Holly Jackson

    I read this young adult mystery in a day, it was so good. writing her college application essays, but she is doggedly determined to get to the bottom of this mystery I mentioned this book in the Greedy Reading List Six Newish Young Adult Mysteries I Want to Read as well

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/14/22 Edition

    Frankie and Zeke come up with an enigmatic phrase and attention-getting artwork, and they spread the mysterious

  • Review of The Witch Elm by Tana French

    Within a suspenseful mystery structure, French explores privilege, interconnectedness, and the many shades This is a lurking, suspenseful Tana French mystery, so I was plowing through it as usual, eager to find

  • 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.

  • Review of The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy

    emotions surrounding having been assaulted in the past—in order to try to get information about the mystery If you like mysteries with twist, you may be in for Molloy's newest book, Goodnight Beautiful.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/15/24 Edition

    In LaValle's magical, dark Western, people tend to disappear whenever Adelaide decides to open her mysterious

  • My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads

    Summer is ending, and there's a mysterious, unspoken, dark undercurrent at the Kinsellas'. Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery Wrong Place Wrong Time plays with time, and I love books that play review of Wrong Place, Wrong Time. 08 Happiness Falls by Angie Kim Angie Kim's sophomore novel is a mystery Kim's missing-person novel is a mystery and is structured around the discovery and exploration of what

  • Review of The Love of My Life by Rosie Walsh

    For more mysteries and thrillers I've reviewed that you might like, click here.

  • Review of The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins

    deeply developed, but twists and turns make The Wife Upstairs a magnetic, fast read to add to your mystery In Rachel Hawkins's new mystery The Wife Upstairs, each of the main players and their histories aren't feel plausible, but its twists and turns make The Wife Upstairs a magnetic, fast read to add to your mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/23/23 Edition

    Billy's witnessing of the mysterious crash aftermath seems bound to bring him trouble.

  • Review of Half Wild: Stories by Robin MacArthur

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

  • Review of The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin

    Ava's inexperience is essential to her storyline, and her limited perspective creates a mystery regarding

  • Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year

    I recently posted about Six of My Favorite Fiction Reads 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 Reads I After long months of mystery and suffering, she received a diagnosis: acute myeloid leukemia and a rare

  • Six Novels I Loved Reading Last Year

    Similarly, when he stumbles onto a truth about his own mysterious heritage--a mystery he felt he had

  • Review of Tokyo Dreaming (Tokyo Ever After #2) by Emiko Jean

    But she quickly realized that being a princess involved responsibility, political maneuvering, and mysterious

  • Review of The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley

    I was intrigued by the explanation for one of the long-term mysteries of the book (the stealing and odd Do you feel that likable or sympathetic characters are necessary for you to feel invested in a mystery

  • Review of A Play for the End of the World by Jai Chakrabarti

    When Jaryk learns that his like-a-brother friend Misha from his childhood orphanage has died under mysterious

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