I didn’t realize that The Darkness We Hide was the finale in the Undertaker’s Daughter trilogy when I read the blurb and decided to read it for this blog tour. Debra Webb did a fantastic job of catching me up to speed with the previous two installments so I knew what I’d missed. Dr. […]
Peter Swanson’s last novel Before She Knew Him was stellar in my book, so I was eager to dig into his latest thriller, Eight Perfect Murders. Within just a few pages, I could see that this was a very different book from his previous novel, featuring a bookstore owner named Malcolm who was quite […]
It’s been a few years since I’ve read a Peter Swanson novel, and I really enjoyed Her Every Fear. Before She Knew Him was an equally enjoyable psychological thriller with intriguingly flawed characters playing a deadly game of cat and mouse. Henrietta and Lloyd have just moved to the suburbs of Boston, and they meet their […]
Starting a series that is now eighteen books deep can be daunting, but any reservations that I had were quickly quashed upon digging into A Bitter Feast, Deborah Crombie’s latest installment featuring Scotland Yard Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his wife, D.I. Gemma James. The married couple and their three children are taking a […]
With three people on the road across America for very different reasons, historical thriller November Road is a gripping novel set during the time of the JFK assassination. Charlotte has had enough of her simple life in Oklahoma, married to an alcoholic that treats her and her daughters well, but she can’t be more than […]
Marissa Parlette is an elementary school speech therapist, and she’s newly engaged to the man of her dreams–who happens to be the father of one of her patients that she’s successfully helped at school. To announce their engagement, Marissa and EMT Nathan gather their close friends and family for a dinner party, but the night […]
Ethan and Sutton Montclair are two fiction writers who lead an outwardly idyllic life in Tennessee: million dollar renovated house, both successful in their writing genres, and both attractive, healthy, and seemingly in love. But when Sutton goes missing and Ethan becomes the prime suspect in her disappearance, their perfectly crafted life cracks and frays […]
Red Leaves focuses on a group of four friends in their senior year at Dartmouth College, and their seemingly perfect relationships and friendships that have frayed to the breaking point until one of them ends up dead right before Thanksgiving in 1993. The first third of the book is told in Kristina Kim’s point […]
If you crack open the pages of The Drifter expecting a murder mystery, you’ll be a bit disappointed. It’s stated in black and white in the back cover blurb that former sorority girl Betsy and her two best friends experience a horrible act of violence while in their last year of college in Gainesville, […]
Her Every Fear is my first foray into the world of a Peter Swanson novel, and I thoroughly enjoyed the complex, dark, and twisted voices in this character driven psychological thriller. Told in multiple points of view in larger chunks, you really get into the heads of the three main characters and dig down deep […]
Fresh off my read through of book one in this series, Natchez Burning, and facing another quite large page count for the second installment, The Bone Tree, I decided to do things a little differently with this middle book and listen to the audiobook instead of making my way through the 800-plus pages of […]
I’m excited to kickoff the blog tour for Marie Force’s Fatal Series to celebrate the July 26 release of the Fatal Identity. Since this author and series are new to me, I’m reviewing the first book Fatal Affair, where we first meet Washington D.C. police detective Samantha Holland as she responds to the murder […]
Beneath Still Waters was a book where I felt immediately right at home–with the ease of the simpler times of small town life in the mid-twentieth century, with the sights and sounds of a suffocatingly hot summer. I went into this book expecting a historical novel steeped in mystery, and I definitely got that…but I […]