Just a girl and her books
THE LEGACY | Yrsa Sigurdardottir 02.13.2018 | Minotaur Books Rating: 5/5 stars A mother of three has been found murdered in her home while her children slept in their beds. The only witness to this horrific crime is her daughter, Margret, who heard the disturbance and was hiding under her mother’s bed. Unable and unwilling … Continue reading Book Review: The Legacy
SOMEBODY I USED TO KNOW | David Bell 12.31.2018 | Berkley Books Rating: 3/5 stars Nick Hansen is just an average guy out grocery shopping when he comes across a young woman who is the spitting image of his former college girlfriend, Marissa Minor, who died in a house fire twenty years ago. When Nick … Continue reading Book Review: Somebody I Used to Know
THE NOWHERE CHILD | Christian White 01.22.2019 | Minotaur Books Rating: 4.5/5 stars Kim Leamy is a photography teacher living in Australia. One day she is approached by a man named Stuart who tells her about a two-year-old child who disappeared twenty-six years earlier from Manson, Kentucky named Sammy Went. A little girl who was … Continue reading Book Review: The Nowhere Child
CHANGELING | Matt Wesolowski (Six Stories #3) 01.15.2019 | Orenda Books Rating: 5/5 stars Christmas Eve 1988 marks the night that seven-year-old Alfie Marsden disappeared into the Wentshire Forest. Alfie’s father, Sorrel, claims that he pulled over because he heard a tapping noise coming from under the hood. Sometime between Sorrel getting out of the … Continue reading Book Review: Changeling
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO | Stieg Larsson (Millennium #1) 06.23.2009 | Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Rating: 5/5 stars Financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist has found himself being sued for libel by an extremely wealthy financier Hans-Erik Wennerstrom. Blomkvist has ended up in hot water after publishing an article about Wennerstrom that he appears to have … Continue reading Book Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
THE REDBREAST | Jo Nesbo (Harry Hole #3) 12.23.2008 | Harper Collins Rating: 5/5 stars Harry Hole has once again found himself in a predicament that could potentially jeopardize his career. When the President of the United States comes to Norway, Harry finds himself on surveillance duty alongside the Secret Service. Unbeknownst to Harry one … Continue reading Book Review: The Redbreast
NIGHTBLIND | Ragnar Jonasson (Dark Iceland #2) 01.14.2016 | Orenda Books Rating: 4/5 stars NIGHTBLIND launches 5 years since the events of SNOWBLIND. Ari Thor Arason is continuing to serve as a policeman in the peaceful town of Siglufjordur. The calm that normally graces this fishing village and close-knit community has come to a screeching … Continue reading Book Review: Nightblind
THE WIFE | Alafair Burke 01.23.2018 | Harper Rating: 4/5 stars Six years have passed since Angela met Jason Powell while catering a dinner party in East Hampton. Their relationship was just supposed to be a summer fling like the typical relationships locals formed with summer visitors. Jason was unwilling to see things end just … Continue reading Book Review: The Wife
JOYLAND | Stephen King 06.04.2013 | Titan Books Rating: 4/5 stars Devin Jones is a New Hampshire college student looking for summer employment. He has everything mapped out. He’ll find a job near his girlfriend and they’ll spend the summer together. The fantasy of Devin’s perfect summer comes crashing down when Wendy tells him that … Continue reading Book Review: Joyland
KINGDOM OF THE BLIND | Louise Penny (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #14) 11.27.2018 | Minotaur Books Rating: 4/5 stars Armand Gamache has received a mysterious letter inviting him to an abandoned farmhouse on the outskirts of Three Pines. The former head of the Surete du Quebec soon learns that he has been named as an … Continue reading Book Review: Kingdom of the Blind
