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FINLAY DONOVAN JUMPS THE GUN | Elle Cosimano (Finlay Donovan #3) 01.31.2023 | Minotaur Books Rating: 5/5 stars Author and single mom Finlay Donovan has been in messes before―after all, she's a pro at removing bloodstains for various unexpected reasons―but none quite like this. When Finlay and her nanny/partner-in-crime Vero accidentally destroyed a luxury car … Continue reading Book Review: Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun
ALL THE DANGEROUS THINGS | Stacy Willingham 01.10.2023 | Minotaur Books Rating: 5/5 stars One year ago, Isabelle Drake's life changed forever: her toddler son, Mason, was taken out of his crib in the middle of the night while she and her husband were asleep in the next room. With little evidence and few leads … Continue reading Book Review: All the Dangerous Things
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
THINGS WE DO IN THE DARK | Jennifer Hillier 07.19.2022 | Minotaur Books Rating: 4.5/5 stars When Paris Peralta is arrested in her own bathroom—covered in blood, holding a straight razor, her celebrity husband dead in the bathtub behind her—she knows she'll be charged with murder. But as bad as this looks, it's not what … Continue reading Book Review: Things We Do In the Dark
THE FAVOR | Nora Murphy 05.31.2022 | Minotaur Books Rating: 4/5 stars Leah and McKenna have never met, though they have parallel lives. They don’t—ever—find themselves in the same train carriage or meet accidentally at the gym or the coffee shop. They don’t—ever—discuss their problems and find common ground. They don’t—ever—acknowledge to each other that … Continue reading Book Review: The Favor
THE SHADOW HOUSE | Anna Downes 04.05.2022 | Minotaur Books Rating: 3/5 stars Alex, a single mother of two, is determined to make a fresh start for her and her children. In an effort to escape her troubled past, she seeks refuge in a rural community. Pine Ridge is idyllic; the surrounding forests are beautiful … Continue reading Book Review: The Shadow House
THE RESTING PLACE | Camilla Sten 03.29.2022 | Minotaur Books Rating: 4/5 stars Eleanor has prosopagnosia, which is the inability to recognize a familiar person’s face, even the faces of those closest to you. When she walks in on the scene of her capriciously cruel grandmother, Vivianne’s, murder, she came face to face with the … Continue reading Book Review: The Resting Place
THE NIGHT SHIFT | Alex Finlay 03.01.2022 | Minotaur Books Rating: 4.5/5 stars New Year’s Eve 1999: At a Blockbuster Video in Linden, New Jersey, four teenage girls working the night shift are attacked. Only one survives. Police quickly identify a suspect who flees and is never seen again. Fifteen years later: In the same … Continue reading Book Review: The Night Shift
FINLAY DONOVAN KNOCKS ‘EM DEAD | Elle Cosimano (Finlay Donovan #2) 02.01.2022 | Minotaur Books Rating: 5/5 stars Finlay Donovan has found herself yet again struggling to finish her next novel and keep her head above water as a single mother of two. To make matters more complicated, someone wants her ex-husband, Steven, dead and … Continue reading Book Review: Finlay Donovan Knocks ‘Em Dead
A FLICKER IN THE DARK | Stacy Willingham 01.11.2022 | Minotaur Books Rating: 5/5 stars When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end of the summer, Chloe’s father had been arrested as a serial killer and promptly put in prison. Chloe and the rest of … Continue reading Book Review: A Flicker in the Dark
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