Fall has been a great time for several fabulous suspense and thrillers to come out, and Lisa Unger’s latest Under My Skin is my first taste of a work by this author, and I really enjoyed her writing. When Poppy’s husband Jack was brutally murdered while on an early morning jog in a park in New York […]
With cooler nights finally coming around here in Northern Illinois, a little Gothic suspense sounded good with the impending change in season–and Stephen Giles’ The Boy at the Keyhole certainly fit the bill. Set in the early 1960s in small town England, nine-year-old Samuel wants nothing more than for his mother to return home […]
Honeysuckle Dreams is a great novel about friends entering into a marriage of convenience, and in this case it’s so a father can gain custody of the child that he thought was his from his now deceased ex-wife. I’ve never read a Denise Hunter book, but I was instantly drawn into the small southern community […]
Little Broken Things is a suspenseful, entrancing family drama that had me engaged from the very first word until the last page. Told from the perspectives of the three Stanford women: 60-something and recently widowed mother Liz, older sister Nora, and 26-year-old Quinn tell the story of their lives changing from the entrance of […]
Natchez Burning is quite a hefty tome–to the tune of 816 pages in the paperback–and I found myself wondering what I’d gotten myself into when I cracked open the spine. But I was drawn into the world of Penn Cage, mayor of Natchez, Mississippi, and his crusade to clear the name of his doctor father […]
Sunset In Central Park is the second book in the From Manhattan With Love series, and even though I haven’t read book one or any other book by Sarah Morgan, I really enjoyed this book and the author’s writing style. This is really a friends to lovers book at its heart, and its also […]
The Girls in the Garden starts off with a twelve-year-old girl discovering her sister’s unconscious body, half naked and bloodied from an attack during a neighborhood party. Immediately you’re left wondering who would hurt this thirteen-year-old girl, let alone leave there for anyone to discover her body. Author Lisa Jewell backs things up and goes […]
Fire Brand was one of those books that I really enjoyed reading, especially since I’ve been branching out of my usual genres. This western romance is set in Arizona in the 1980s–before cell phones or the internet, and when computers were only desktops. I’m starting my review with this because I had one hell of […]
If you’re looking for a fun, cute, on the shorter side, beach read this summer, then Sing by Vivi Greene is for you. Pop star Lily Ross is fresh off a break up and has an album full of love songs about her ex-boyfriend due out soon, with an upcoming tour at the end of […]
The troubling suicide of her half-brother has reporter Kate Beaumont traveling to the small town of Laurel Ridge, Pennsylvania nearly one year after the loss of her sibling, once she’s between jobs and can get away from her big city life. But what she thinks will be a short stay to dig up some […]
In this second installment of the Girls of Mischief Bay series, three characters come to the forefront to tell their stories in alternating viewpoints. Nicole was a main character in book #1, The Girls of Mischief Bay, Hayley was a secondary character in book #1, and Abby is a new character that’s connected to these […]
Out Rider is the eleventh installment in the Jackson Hole, Wyoming series featuring former military members in a western setting. This is the second book in this series that I’ve read, and I was instantly at home with these characters. The book was written as a standalone,just featuring a new set of main characters with some […]
Night Hawk is the tenth installment in the Jackson Hole, Wyoming series featuring former military members in a western setting. Although this is the first book that I’ve read in this series and by this author, I didn’t have a problem jumping right in since the books are written as stand alones–featuring a new […]