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The third in Jane Harper's Aaron Falk series offers procedural detail, a lush Australian setting, and Jane Harper's The Dry (Aaron Falk #1) is set in small-town Australia with dark secrets and twists and In Exiles, Jane Harper tells another Aaron Falk story, as Federal Investigator Falk ventures into Australian I'm in for all Jane Harper and all Aaron Falk stories! The Survivors, which is set on the Tasmanian coast, is one of my favorite Harper novels.

This is my favorite Harper mystery so far. I'm a big Jane Harper fan. The Survivors is my favorite Harper book yet. Although this book is set on the Tasmanian coast, Harper often sets her stories in an Australian bush

Harper's small-town Australia dark secrets and twists and turns have me totally hooked. Harper's writing and tone remind me of a more spare Tana French. I loved being along for the ride as Harper's story unfolded, and I was all in for the main protagonist Harper is also the author of Force of Nature (Aaron Falk #2) and The Lost Man, which I mentioned in my

Harper's mysteries read like twisty character-driven Westerns set in Australia, and things aren’t always Harper skillfully builds the pool of potential culprits for Nathan to examine in this story of uncovering Things aren’t what they seem in The Lost Man, but Harper isn’t manipulative or tricky, either. Harper has also written two books in her Aaron Falk series so far, The Dry and Force of Nature.

I didn’t feel as attached to Aaron in this mystery set in the Australian bush, but I still love Harper's Federal Police investigator Aaron Falk is back on the case in this second in Jane Harper's Aaron Falk I would like more more more Falk and for him to be at the heart of all of Harper's stories. I do love Harper’s tone and pacing, and and writing style in general. What did you think? Harper is also the author of The Dry (Aaron Falk #1) and The Lost Man, which I mentioned in my Greedy

01 Exiles (Aaron Falk #3) by Jane Harper The third in Jane Harper's Aaron Falk series offers procedural I'm in for all Jane Harper and all Aaron Falk stories! You can find my other Jane Harper reviews here . 02 The Wife and the Widow by Christian White White's For my full review, check out Only Killers and Thieves . 06 The Lost Man by Jane Harper Harper's mysteries You can find my other Jane Harper reviews here .

Jane is a young single mother and a librarian at the New York Public Library. Byrd, Jane goes missing. The novel alternates between the points of view of Jane and Dr. Byrd because of Jane's select sharing of the facts with him, and Jane because of the gaps in her recollections I listened to The Strange Case of Jane O.  as an audiobook.

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Jane Harper's newest Australian-set Aaron Falk mystery, Exiles; 01 Exiles by Jane Harper Jane Harper's The Dry (Aaron Falk #1) is set in small-town Australia with dark In Exiles, Jane Harper tells another Aaron Falk story, as Federal Investigator Falk ventures into Australian Harper often sets her stories in an Australian bush setting, and her somewhat spare writing style complements But The Survivors, which is set on the Tasmanian coast, is my favorite Harper novel so far. 02 The Dream

Looking for Jane is a story of women living in three timelines who are linked through decades by a mysterious Looking for Jane is Heather Marshall's debut novel.

Harper obsession alone; two of her books are listed here and I stand by this wholeheartedly). 01 Exiles (Aaron Falk #3) by Jane Harper The third in Jane Harper's Aaron Falk series offers procedural Jane Harper's The Dry (Aaron Falk #1) is set in small-town Australia with dark secrets and twists and I'm in for all Jane Harper and all Aaron Falk stories! For my full review, check out Only Killers and Thieves. 06 The Lost Man by Jane Harper Harper's mysteries

Here are the books I most loved reading in April: Exiles, the third in Jane Harper's Australian Aaron 01 Exiles (Aaron Falk #3) by Jane Harper The third in Jane Harper's Aaron Falk series offers procedural Harper allows for Falk to develop more fully as a character--as a friend, a romantic interest, a father Jane Harper's The Dry (Aaron Falk #1) is set in small-town Australia with dark secrets and twists and I'm in for all Jane Harper and all Aaron Falk stories!

Harper The third in Jane Harper's Aaron Falk series offers procedural detail, a lush Australian setting Harper allows for Falk to develop more fully as a character--as a friend, a romantic interest, a father Meanwhile Harper explores loyalty, procedural details related to the past and near past, beginnings and Jane Harper's The Dry (Aaron Falk #1) is set in small-town Australia with dark secrets and twists and I'm in for all Jane Harper and all Aaron Falk stories!

In Blau's gleefully 1970s-set novel, Mary Jane doesn't merely shift from emotional innocence to young In Jessica Anya Blau's novel Mary Jane, we're in 1970s Baltimore (with all of the glorious, immersive details of the era), and straitlaced teen Mary Jane has landed a nanny job with a nearby family. Mary Jane lies to her conservative, protective, socially focused parents in order to immerse herself Blau explores interesting gray areas and provides lots of heart and unexpected elements in Mary Jane.

01 Exiles (Aaron Falk #3) by Jane Harper The third in Jane Harper's Aaron Falk series offers procedural Harper allows for Falk to develop more fully as a character--as a friend, a romantic interest, a father Meanwhile Harper explores loyalty, procedural details related to the past and near past, beginnings and Jane Harper's The Dry (Aaron Falk #1) is set in small-town Australia with dark secrets and twists and I'm in for all Jane Harper and all Aaron Falk stories!

spooky, gothic tale of deceit that's full of twists and turns, set in Victorian England; and I'm reading Jane Harper's newest character-driven Australian mystery. Harper I'm a big Jane Harper fan. The Australian bush setting (along with Harper's sometimes spare writing style, which complements it) So far, The Survivors is shaping up to be my favorite Harper book yet.

Jane doesn't remember living in the Bay area, where her mother died. In mid-1990s rural Montana, Jane only knows the books her father gives her instead of sending her to I was captivated by the first part of the book, in which Jane and her father are entrenched in their and problems, is part of Jane's na ï vit é , but it still feels far-fetched. Jane.

For my full review of this book, see The Witch Elm. 02 The Lost Man by Jane Harper ​ Nathan and Bub come Harper skillfully builds the pool of potential culprits for Nathan to examine in this story of uncovering Harper's books read like Westerns to me, and her sometimes spare tone suits the setting, the situations Things aren’t what they seem in The Lost Man, but Harper isn’t manipulative or tricky, either. Harper has also written two books in her Aaron Falk series so far, The Dry and Force of Nature. 03 Disappearing

This first book in the Lady Janies trilogy is funny, and smart, with clever asides, wonderful character I'd had My Lady Jane on my to-read list for a couple of years, and the only good news resulting from this inexplicable delay is that now all three of the books in the Lady Janies trilogy (each is a stand-alone , creative retelling of a famous Jane's story) are published, so there will be no impatient waiting for Are you interested in a historical fiction retelling of the story of King Edward, Lady Jane Grey, and

playful, mischievous, and never cloyingly sweet book of essays about joy and wonder; The Survivors, Jane Harper's newest Australia-set, character-driven mystery, in which a past accident and a new tragedy For my full review of this book, please see The Book of Delights. 03 The Survivors by Jane Harper I'm a big Jane Harper fan. The Survivors is my favorite Harper book yet.

James's debut novel is poignant, funny, heartbreaking, often surprising, and heartwarming. James crafts a tender, funny story with zing about a secretly trans high school teacher in a small town James doesn't lay out neat endings tied up with bows, but there is promise and hope for each main protagonist James's first novel.

Percival Everett's James is a fascinating retelling of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the point In James , Percival Everett's retelling of the Mark Twain novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , we hear James is secretly teaching other enslaved people to read; sneaking to delve into the library of books The timing will almost certainly set white folks on James's tail as a presumed child murderer. I listened to James as an audiobook. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book?

Harper is appealingly centered despite upheaval in her life, but I didn't feel emotionally drawn into Harper's memoir begins when her marriage is ending and her medical career as an ER doctor is beginning I felt more that I was being told things about Harper's life than that she was allowing me into her story Harper recounts her childhood with an abusive father and her journey toward finding her own peace. Harper is appealingly centered and in touch with her feelings.

For my full review of this book, see The Witch Elm. 02 The Lost Man by Jane Harper ​ Nathan and Bub come Harper skillfully builds the pool of potential culprits for Nathan to examine in this story of uncovering Harper's books read like Westerns to me, and her sometimes spare tone suits the setting, the situations Things aren’t what they seem in The Lost Man, but Harper isn’t manipulative or tricky, either. Harper has also written two books in her Aaron Falk series so far, The Dry and Force of Nature. 03 Disappearing

My very favorite Bossy June reads! These were my favorite reads in June. Barker's novel features Janet, a misunderstood, mocked, badly treated young woman coming of age in a Janet's only ally is her eccentric old Aunt Lila, who is herself powerless and in danger of being thrust Boarding school leads to further ostracization and irritating demands upon Janet's time, when she'd prefer Each attempt Janet makes to be her true self, delve into her interests, or behave naturally ends in a

Stephen Graham Jones offers an intriguing premise--an Indigenous man with supernatural abilities enacts More about Stephen Graham Jones Stephen Graham Jones is also the author of The Only Good Indians , I

In Daisy Jones & the Six , Reid offers a fictionalized account (written as fictional interviews) of the Daisy Jones & the Six  explores multiple layers of love and heartbreak, all against a fantastic backdrop I mentioned Daisy Jones & the Six in the Greedy Reading List Six Rockin' Stories about Bands and Music

My very favorite Bossy June reads! Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month. What brings the book to life are versions of the real-life figures of Mother Jones (the elderly woman

Quinn and Chang share an adventure- and danger-laden story of women artists, women of color, and women of various social classes in San Francisco just before the Great 1906 Earthquake--as well as their determination to find justice. In 1906 San Francisco, two very different women seek new beginnings: Gemma is a gifted soprano whose career is in need of an overhaul, while Suling is an embroideress in Chinatown who is set against entering into the marriage that's been arranged for her. Henry Thornton is a wealthy railroad magnate and owner of the mysterious Phoenix Crown, an artifact legendary because of its origins in Beijing's Summer Palace. Thornton draws both Suling and Gemma into his world by offering to be their patron. But Thornton isn't a selfless, kind benefactor--he's a cruel, cutthroat, flighty villain holding deadly secrets. When San Francisco is devastated by an earthquake and the widespread destruction of its aftermath, Thornton disappears--and the Phoenix Crown with him. Those he's left behind are traumatized, reeling from cruelties, close calls, and haunted by the deaths Thornton exacted on others. Five years later, the crown reappears--spurring more mystery and questions than answers. When the authorities require too much time and evidence to take control, the varied women he's left in his wake, far from cowed, become determined to take down Thornton themselves. At times the story felt as though it was shifting into overly dramatic soap-opera territory for me, and while I understood the buildup to the earthquake, I didn't enjoy the interjections of multiple omniscient countdowns to the event. Yet I loved the rich early-1900s San Francisco setting, the focus on the arts, the strong women characters, and the varied representation of classes and circumstances, so I was willing to go wherever Quinn and Chang were taking me. It's evident that the authors exhaustively researched the era, prominent figures, and circumstances within San Francisco for women, artists, people of color, and others. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book? Kate Quinn is the author of the fantastic titles The Diamond Eye, The Huntress, The Rose Code, and The Alice Network.

June struggles with the complicated implications of her family's curse of hallucinations and mental illness June Farrow is biding her time on her family's flower farm in the small town of Jasper, North Carolina June would love to end the curse, the fraying of the Farrow women's minds, once and for all--by never The Unmaking of June Farrow involves some maddening determination on certain characters' parts to keep The mystery of why June left a past timeline is intriguing and keeps the story going.

James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store tracks the victories, missteps, losses, and love among

I love a book about scrappy librarians , and Janet Skeslien Charles's historical fiction novel Miss Morgan's Janet Skeslien Charles is also the author of The Paris Library .

My very favorite Bossy June reads! First, would someone please explain how it's possibly the last day of June? Second, here are the books I most loved reading in June! Despite the unrelenting pressure and sky-high expectations from June Chu's Taiwanese mother, June has Rowley's husband Byron Lane wrote another book I loved, A Star Is Bored.

My very favorite books from June!

Much of the book involves thwarted attempts to unravel the past by a main protagonist who has been emotionally destroyed by trauma and loss. Joseph Bridgeman took his little sister to the fair, and he only looked away for a second. But in that instant, his little sister Amy disappeared. Two decades later, Joe remains haunted by her absence. He obsesses over what he might have done differently, how he might have paid more attention, how he might have saved her. Joe has always had certain "viewings": he can sometimes touch an object and see clear scenes from the past, understanding how and when that object was important to someone. He glimpses moments from the past when he holds Amy's hair ribbon, which was lost that day. But the viewing offers no concrete information that he can use. He is a shell of a man, ruined by the loss of his sister. His father and mother were similarly brutally damaged by Amy's disappearance. In an attempt to cure his insomnia, Joe undergoes hypnotherapy...and finds out that he has bigger powers than he ever imagined: he can travel back through time. He repeatedly attempts to time travel to the night Amy disappeared, but the amount of time he can spend in the past is getting shorter and shorter, and if he can't reach the correct day soon, the possibility of figuring out what happened to Amy will slip through his fingers forever. I listened to And Then She Vanished as an audiobook. The book is set in Great Britain, and the supporting characters have British accents. I couldn't figure out any reason why Joe would not have a British accent, but he did not, although he uses words like "tetchy" and "proper" and is meant to be British. I found this American-accented Joe extremely distracting. A grown man's voicing of the little-girl voice for Amy felt off to me, and the tone of the narration came across to me as generally irritated, as though Joe were fed up with it all. Joe is presented as a guy's guy here. He is understandably emotionally stunted and is somewhat childlike in certain ways because of his life of trauma and loss. But at one point in the book, when he's preparing to have a woman at his house, he looks around at how messy it is and says something to the effect of "Did all of these clothes that are lying around just walk themselves into every room?" I was impatient with this "helpless, clueless man" scenario. NO, JOE. THAT IS NOT WHAT HAPPENED. You made a mess. You made all of this mess. Take responsibility for yourself, mister! Because of our extremely limited our page time with Amy, who is the heart of the mission here--and the loss of Amy caused the unraveling heartbreak and destruction for her family--she comes across as one-dimensional. The structure of the story and its focus on Joe and his attempt to master time travel didn't allow me to feel a connection to her. At around 85 percent of the way through the book, we finally see a version of the encounter we've been waiting for. We spend much of the page time that leads up to that moment--that is, by far the bulk of the book--with other people telling Joe theories about how to jump through time, teaching Joe how to improve his mindfulness, and with Joe making frustratingly brief, failed attempts. The resolution involves a twist I had anticipated and leaves a main character in a state of upheaval as a result of the time travel (as part of a classic time-travel conundrum involving alternate paths and lives). The latter situation felt immensely unsatisfying to me. Yet I loved the premise of this story, and I do love a time-travel book and a mystery. This is the first in a series. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book? If you like books that play with time, you may like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories or some of the other time-travel stories I've reviewed.

light fiction novel The Unsinkable Greta James, Greta is an up-and-coming indie rock star whose father

Katie Sturino's upcoming rom-com with body positivity at the center, Sunny Side Up ; and I'm reading Janelle Jane doesn't remember living in the Bay area, where her mother died. In mid-1990s rural Montana, Jane only knows the books her father gives her instead of sending her to But when Jane becomes a teenager and starts to push her father for freedom--and for answers--she begins Janelle Brown is also the author of Pretty Things and other novels.

In Admissions, Kendra James explores race, friendship, ambition, and the absurdities and rhythm of daily Kendra James was the first Black legacy to graduate from The Taft School, an elite boarding school in Digging into the past often seems a difficult undertaking, and as she looks back, Kendra James explains James notes repeatedly that she felt largely unseen and unknown during her boarding school years. Kendra James was a founding editor at Shondaland, where she worked for two years.

In this hefty expansion of the 1619 Project, which was spearheaded by Nikole Hannah-Jones at The New James Baldwin famously said, “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed Hannah-Jones aims to better shape how we recognize and address our country's past wrongs and how we might

Lane's story is zany and wonderful, with lots of glimpses into behind-the-scenes celebrity details--and Author Byron Lane was Carrie Fisher's personal assistant in real life, and in this novel, Byron's main There are fun and frenetic scenes about meeting the varied demands of an enormous star, and Lane explores What surprised me was how much heart and reflection Lane injected into the story to flesh out a deeper

My very favorite books from June!

James is also the author of The Quiet at the End of the World, The Next Together and its sequel The Last

In James Riley's middle-grade fantasy book Story Thieves, young introvert Bethany and impulsive Owen Story Thieves is the first in a five-book series by James Riley.

The characters were largely unsympathetic, yet Janelle Brown kept me happily turning the pages of Pretty

Thompson Walker's speculative mystery around memory and the dimensions of the mind, The Strange Case of Jane Byrd, Jane goes missing. Byrd begins to believe Jane is suffering from dissociative fugue. Dr. Byrd and Jane form a bond, even as past traumas resurface for both of them and they cope with issues I'm listening to The Strange Case of Jane O. as an audiobook.

For the Janeite or Gilded Age Fan 03 Jane Austen's Fashion Bible by Ros Ballaster This year marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth, and I've loved the many Jane tributes and renewed attention Jane Austen's Fashion Bible showcases color illustrations from Regency magazine La Belle Assemblée and Emma : " From elaborate evening gowns and elegant walking dresses to charming seaside outfits, Jane Austen's Fashion Bible brings to life the world of Jane Austen."

witchy novel from Cherie Dimaline, VenCo, scheduled for publication tomorrow; I'm reading Looking for Jane I received a prepublication audiobook version of this book courtesy of Libro.fm and HarperAudio. Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories and Six More Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You. 02 Looking for Jane Looking for Jane is a story of three timelines linked through decades by a mysterious letter and enormously Looking for Jane is Heather Marshall's debut novel. It's scheduled for publication February 7.

01 Liars by Sarah Manguso Jane is an ambitious, aspiring writer who falls in love with John, a filmmaker Jane's beginning to believe she can have it all when on top of it all, she becomes a mother.

Their best friends Avi and Jane feel like a correlating relationship to Andy and Jen's, and Avi and Jane's bickering, hectic, haggard states seem to serve as a potential warning sign to Andy and Jen of

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Jessica Anya Blau's 1970s-set music-focused story Mary Jane; I'm 01 Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau In Jessica Anya Blau's novel Mary Jane, it's 1970s Baltimore, and straitlaced teen Mary Jane has landed a nanny job with a nearby family--a "respectable" family, her mother says move in with the doctor's family while the star struggles with his issues, so in the household, Mary Jane By the time summer is over, Mary Jane will understand how many more possibilities there are for her future

stories; Jessica Anya Blau's 1970s-set story of a young woman figuring out her place in the world, Mary Jane In Jessica Anya Blau's novel Mary Jane, we're in 1970s Baltimore (with all of the glorious, immersive details of the era), and straitlaced teen Mary Jane has landed a nanny job in the neighborhood. Blau explores interesting gray areas and provides lots of heart and unexpected elements in Mary Jane. Because of the music involved in the story, Mary Jane reminded me of the books on the Greedy Reading