Just a girl and her books
THE OVERNIGHT GUEST | Heather Gudenkauf 01.25.2022 | Park Row Rating: 5/5 stars True crime writer Wylie Lark doesn’t mind being snowed in at the isolated farmhouse where she’s retreated to write her new book. A cozy fire, complete silence. It would be perfect, if not for the fact that decades earlier, at this very … Continue reading Book Review: The Overnight Guest
THE INGENUE | Rachel Kapelke-Dale 12.06.2022 | St. Martin’s Press Rating: 3/5 stars When former piano prodigy Saskia Kreis returns home to Milwaukee after her mother's unexpected death, she expects to inherit the family estate, the Elf House. But with the discovery that her mother's will bequeathed the Elf House to a man that Saskia … Continue reading Book Review: The Ingenue
CERTAIN DARK THINGS | Silvia Moreno-Garcia 09.07.2021 | Tor Nightfire Rating: 4/5 stars Welcome to Mexico City, an oasis in a sea of vampires. Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is just trying to survive its heavily policed streets when a jaded vampire on the run swoops into his life. Atl, the descendant of Aztec … Continue reading Book Review: Certain Dark Things
THE CHRISTMAS MURDER GAME | Alexandra Benedict 10.04.2022 | Poisoned Pen Press Rating: 4/5 stars The annual Christmas Game is afoot at Endgame House, the Armitages' grand family home. This year's prize is to die for--deeds to the house itself--but Lily Armitage has no intention of returning. She hasn't been back to Endgame since her … Continue reading Book Review: The Christmas Murder Game
THE PRISONER | B.A. Paris 11.01.2022 | St. Martin’s Press Rating: 4/5 stars Amelie has always been a survivor, from losing her parents as a child in Paris to making it on her own in London. As she builds a life for herself, she is swept up into a glamorous lifestyle where she married the … Continue reading Book Review: The Prisoner
THE GUEST HOUSE | Robin Morgan-Bentley09.13.2022 | Poisoned Pen PressRating: 4/5 stars With a few weeks to go until their first baby is due, Jamie and Victoria head off for a weekend break in a small countryside guesthouse. The next morning, Jamie and Victoria awake to find the guesthouse has been emptied. Both their mobile … Continue reading Book Review: The Guest House
HOW TO SURVIVE EVERYTHING | Ewan Morrison11.15.2022 | Harper PerennialRating: 4/5 stars Children of divorce, Haley and Ben live with their mother. But their dad believes there's a new, much deadlier pandemic coming and is determined to keep them alive. He wants to take them to his prepper hideaway where they will be safe from … Continue reading Book Review: How to Survive Everything
DEAD & GONDOLA | Ann Claire(Christie Bookshop #1)11.01.2022 | BantamRating: 4/5 stars Ellie Christie is thrilled to begin a new chapter. She’s recently returned to her tiny Colorado hometown to run her family’s historic bookshop with her elder sister, Meg, and their friendly bookshop cat, Agatha. Perched in a Swiss-style hamlet accessible by ski gondola … Continue reading Book Review: Dead & Gondola
LEECH | Hiron Ennes09.27.2022 | TordotcomRating: 3/5 stars In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron’s doctor has died. The doctor’s replacement has a mystery to solve: discovering how the Institute lost track of one of its many bodies. For hundreds of years the Interprovincial Medical Institute has grown by taking … Continue reading Book Review: Leech
THE LOST VILLAGE | Camilla Sten03.23.2021 | Minotaur BooksRating: 4.5/5 stars Documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt has been obsessed with the vanishing residents of the old mining town, dubbed “The Lost Village,” since she was a little girl. In 1959, her grandmother’s entire family disappeared in this mysterious tragedy, and ever since, the unanswered questions surrounding … Continue reading Book Review: The Lost Village
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