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SUNDAY SILENCE (Frieda Klein #7)| Nicci French 01.09.2018 | William Morrow Rating: 4/5 stars Frieda Klein is a London-based psychologist, who has been known to serve as a consultant with the local police department. After assisting with solving several cases, Frieda suddenly finds herself on the other end of an investigation. A body has been … Continue reading Book Review: Sunday Silence
THE FIREMAKER | Peter May 01.09.2018 (first published 1999) | Quercus USA Rating: 4/5 stars A corpse is found burning in a highly travelled park in Beijing, leaving the man that used to be alive completely unrecognizable. Detective Li Yan has recently been promoted and assigned to the case on his first day. Before he … Continue reading Book Review: The Firemaker
The Chalk Man | C.J. Tudor 01.09.2018 | Crown Publishing Rating: 5/5 stars In 1986, Eddie Adams is trying to live life like any other adolescent boy. Eddie and his friends are filling their summer vacation days with adventures and activities. The gang of friends decide to create a secret code for where to meet … Continue reading Book Review: The Chalk Man
CLOSE TO ME | Amanda Reynolds 12.05.2017 | Quercus USA Rating: 4/5 stars Jo Harding wakes up on the way to the hospital in an ambulance. Everyone around her is telling her she fell down the stairs. The last thing Jo can remember is taking her son, Fin, to university with her husband, Rob. The … Continue reading Book Review: Close to Me
THE WIFE BETWEEN US | Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen 01.09.2018 | St. Martin’s Press Rating: 5/5 stars I’m going to start off my review a bit differently for THE WIFE BETWEEN US. You see, I can’t give you the normal plot summary I typically have because I worry I would give away one of … Continue reading Book Review: The Wife Between Us
THE DARK LAKE | Sarah Bailey 10.03.2017 | Grand Central Publishing Rating: 3.5/5 stars Rosalind Ryan has been found floating in the lake early one morning by a jogger in her rural hometown of Smithson. The night of Rose’s death was the debut of her play, a modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet, performed at … Continue reading Book Review: The Dark Lake
HUNTING THE FIVE POINT KILLER | C.M. Wendelboe 10.08.2017| Midnight Ink Rating: 4/5 stars Former Denver homicide detective, Arn Anderson has been called back into duty. This time around he’s moonlighting as a consultant for a TV news program, hired to look into a cold murder case. TV reporter Ana Maria Villareal believes that the … Continue reading Review: Hunting the Five Point Killer
Read: Dead Woman Walking by Sharon Bolton Odd Child Out by Gilly Macmillian Hello Again by Brenda Novak The Scarred Woman by Jussi Adler-Olsen September was jam packed with life events for me. In case you guys didn't know...I GOT MARRIED!!!! Then the hubby and I went on an amazing 2 week West Coast honeymoon … Continue reading September Wrap Up
THE SCARRED WOMAN | Jussi Adler-Olsen 09.19.2017 | Dutton Books Rating: 4 stars THE SCARRED WOMAN is book seven in the Department Q series. This installment finds Department Q detective, Carl Morck, leading up one of his toughest cases yet. The department specializes in cold cases, but this time around it looks like this players … Continue reading Book Review: The Scarred Woman
HELLO AGAIN | Brenda Novak 10.03.2017 | St. Martin’s Press Rating: 4/5 stars Hilltop, Alaska is home to the maximum-security prison known as Hanover House, which is the destination for some of the United States’ most deplorable criminals. Dr. Evelyn Talbot is the head psychiatrist working there and one of the founders of the institution. … Continue reading Book Review: Hello Again
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