It finally feels like winter here in Northern Illinois, so why not sit down with a book, a hot cup of tea, and a warm blanket? Today I have an excerpt from Emma Cook’s YOU CAN’T HURT ME. Featuring a neuroscientist who works in a laboratory studying pain in humans and a woman he falls […]
I switched genres with the books I read this week, going from contemporary, second-chance romance to dark mystery/psychological suspense. Maia Chance’s THE BODY NEXT DOOR was a pretty twisted book to listen to, but I’m glad I spent the time in the dark and rainy Pacific Northwest. Here’s an excerpt; stick around for my review […]
Continuing the string of fantastic audiobooks that I’ve listened to lately, PERFECT LITTLE LIES by Amber and Danielle Brown was so suspenseful that I listened to it in one day. Here’s an excerpt and my review is at the end. This is one that I definitely recommend to anyone who loves suspense and thrillers with […]
If you’ve been a reader here for a while, you know that I love a good suspense-especially when it’s domestic or psychological suspense. Cate Ray has a new novel in this genre, Good Husbands, and I’ve got an excerpt for you to check out. This is definitely on my list to read when I get […]
YOU WILL REMEMBER ME is one wicked, twisted tale–but in all the good ways. Amnesia, lies, and murder wind together to form a book that I didn’t want to put down. I just had to know what happened next. This book isn’t exactly formulaic like most psychological suspense since you get bad vibes off of one […]
It’s been a while since I’ve read a psychological suspense that was predictable on the surface, but was oh so twisty-turny underneath that I loved every minute of guessing just what was going on. S.F. Kosa’s debut novel in this genre, The Quiet Girl, was a fantastic case of an unreliable narrator pitted against […]
Adele Parks is a new-to-me author, and I enjoyed her domestic suspense novel, I Invited Her In. Thirty-eight-year old Mel is happily married with three children, living a contented life in suburban England with her husband and working in a shop. But when an old college friend that she’d lost contact with suddenly […]
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 […]
The Girl in the Red Coat was a book that had me utterly engrossed within a few pages, with the recently single mother Beth struggling to raise eight-year-old Carmel on her own after her husband has left her for another woman. While Beth seems to be holding onto her daughter too tightly, she still manages […]
The psychological thriller Beside Myself takes a good look at many things like nature vs. nurture, mental illness and how it affects families, the repercussions of suicide, and sibling rivalry. Twins Helen and Ellie have a unique but tenuous relationship when they’re young, mainly based on the strain after their artist father’s suicide and […]
Horror is my go-to genre, and I’ve read so much that it’s hard to find a thing that hasn’t been done to death (pun-intended) or overcooked until it’s mushy and just tastes sub-par on the palate. Heather Herrman’s debut Consumption is chock full of gore and depravity on a scale that makes sense in a […]
Dr. Zoe Goldman is a psychiatric resident, doing her time at a hospital while juggling her responsibility to her adoptive mother who is starting to lose her memory and is now in a nursing home. When treating a new patient, who has been in psychiatric wards for the past 20 years because she killed her own […]
