Just a girl and her books
WINTERKILL | Ragnar Jónasson (Dark Iceland #6) 1.21.21 | Orenda Books Rating: 4/5 stars The body of a nineteen-year-old girl has been found on the main street of Siglufjörður. Police Inspector Ari Thór sets out to investigate if the girl’s death is the result of a suicide or homocide. The hunt is on as the … Continue reading Blog Tour: Winterkill
WHITEOUT | Ragnar Jonasson (Dark Iceland #5) 09.01.2017 | Orenda Books Rating: 4.5/5 stars Two days before Christmas, a young woman is found dead beneath the cliffs of a deserted Icelandic village. Did she jump or did something more sinister happen? Winter is quickly closing in on this remote rocky outcrop and the suspects are … Continue reading Book Review: Whiteout
TAKE IT BACK | Kia Abdullah 06.2020 (12.2020 in US) | HQ Rating: 5/5 stars The Victim: A sixteen-year-old girl with facial deformities, neglected by her alcoholic mother. She has accused her classmates of rape. The Defendants: Four handsome teenage boys from immigrant families. All tell the same story. Someone is lying. TAKE IT BACK … Continue reading Book Review: Take It Back
AGATHA CHRISTIE MINI REVIEWS: HERCULE POIROT’S CHRISTMAS:The holidays are anything but merry when a family reunion is marred by murder. The wealthy Simeon Lee has invited his four sons and their wives home for Christmas. This isn’t a heartwarming holiday experience and instead quickly shifts into a tense and uncomfortable situation that crescendos when Simeon … Continue reading Agatha Christie Mini Reviews
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
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
GOODNIGHT BEAUTIFUL | Aimee Molloy 10.13.2020 | Harper Rating: 4/5 stars Newlyweds Sam Statler and Annie Potter are crazy about each other. They have decided to say goodbye to New York City and start over in Sam’s quaint hometown in upstate New York. Things aren’t quite the way they pictured. Annie spends most of her … Continue reading Book Review: Goodnight Beautiful
BETRAYAL | Lilja Sigurðardóttir 10.01.2020 | Orenda Books Rating: 4/5 stars Úrsula has decided to return to Iceland after years spent working around the world fighting epidemics and violence. Unable to fully step away from a high-stress lifestyle, she accepts a high-profile government position where she hopes to be able to make a difference. On … Continue reading Blog Tour: Betrayal
NEVER TURN BACK | Christopher Swann 10.06.2020 | Crooked Lane Books Rating: 3.5/5 stars Ethan Faulkner was a precocious child with a troublesome sister, a war veteran father, and a weary mother trying to keep them all together. One night there was a pounding knock at their door. A young girl on the run from … Continue reading Book Review: Never Turn Back
