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THE CORAL BRIDE | Roxanne Bouchard (Detective Morales #2) 11.12.2020 | Orenda Books Rating: 4/5 stars Detective Morales has been assigned to the case of a missing fisherwoman who has vanished off of Quebec’s Gaspe Peninsula. What appears to be a straightforward case turns out to be anything but the reality. When Angel Roberts’ lobster … Continue reading Blog Tour: The Coral Bride
THE TALENTED MISS FARWELL | Emily Gray Tedrowe 09.29.2020 | Custom House Rating: 4/5 stars Becky Farwell grew up in the small town of Pierson, Illinois, where she worked hard from an early age to help keep her family afloat. Over the years she has maintained her father’s business, while holding down a government job. … Continue reading Book Review: The Talented Miss Farwell
LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND | Rumaan Alam 10.06.2020 | Ecco Rating: 4/5 stars Two families have been forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong. Amanda and Clay have decided to take a reprieve from their bustling New York City life and spend some quality time with their teenage son and daughter in a … Continue reading Book Review: Leave the World Behind
WATCH OVER ME | Nina LaCour 09.15.2020 | Dutton Rating: 4/5 stars Mila has recently graduated from high school and aged out of the foster care system. She is used to being alone. Perhaps that’s what drew her to accepting a new opportunity. She’ll be living in a remote place, among the flowers and the … Continue reading Book Review: Watch Over Me
THE STONE SKY | N.K. Jemisin (The Broken Earth #3) 08.15.2017 | Orbit Rating: 4.5/5 stars Warning: Potential spoilers ahead This is the way the world ends…for the last time. The Moon will soon return. Whether this means destruction or salvation is in the hands of two women. Essun has learned to harness her power … Continue reading Book Review: The Stone Sky
KILL CREEK | Scott Thomas 10.31.2017 | Inkshares Rating: 4/5 stars At the end of a dark prairie road in the nearly forgotten Kansas countryside sits a home known as the Finch House. For years it has remained abandoned, empty, and left to be overgrown by nature. The door is about to be reopened after … Continue reading Book Review: Kill Creek
THE BOY IN THE WOODS | Scott Thomas 10.31.2020 | Inkshares Rating: 5/5 stars Today was supposed to be Eddie Reicher’s last day at summer camp, however, his parents can’t come to pick him up. Eddie is forced to spend one more night at Camp Cottonwood. He finds himself as one of the last campers … Continue reading Novella review: The Boy in the Woods
THE GRIM SLEEPER | Christine Pelisek 04.27.2018 | Counterpoint, LLC. Rating: 4/5 stars In 2006, Christine Pelisek broke the story of a serial killer who went unchecked in Los Angeles for decades, killing the most vulnerable women in one South Central neighborhood. Two years later the killer was dubbed “The Grim Sleeper” due to his … Continue reading Book Review: The Grim Sleeper
FALLEN ANGELS | Gunnar Staalesen(Varg Veum #8)11.12.2020 | Orenda BooksRating: 4/5 stars Private Investigator Varg Veum finds himself at a funeral of a former classmate, which becomes much more than he bargained for on this occasion. The funeral turns into a sort of reunion for Varg with several classmates, namely his old friend Jakob. This … Continue reading Blog Tour: Fallen Angels
HALLOWE’EN PARTY | Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot #39) 05.04.2016 (first published 11.1969) | William Morrow Rating: 3.5/5 stars! The night of the big Hallowe’en party has arrived! As decorations are being put out, a teenage girl, Joyce, declares that she thinks she may have witnessed a murder. At the time she saw it she didn’t … Continue reading Book Review: Hallowe’en Party
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