Just a girl and her books
THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET | Catriona Ward 09.28.2021 | Tor Nightfire Rating: 4.5/5 stars! At the end of Needless Street, on the edge of the wild Washington woods, sits a boarded up house where a family of three resides. A teenage girl who isn’t allowed outside after what she did last time. A … Continue reading Book Review: The Last House on Needless Street
A DEADLY INSIDE SCOOP by Abby Collette: Recent MBA grad Bronwyn “Win” Crewse has decided to go back to her hometown and take over her family’s ice cream shop. Chagrin Falls, Ohio is a small town where everyone knows Crewse Creamery. Win is excited to restore the shop to its former glory using her grandmother’s … Continue reading Mini Reviews: A Deadly Inside Scoop & It Takes Two to Mango
THE NINJA BETRAYED | Tori Eldridge (Lily Wong #3) 09.14.2021 | Agora Books Rating: 4/5 stars Lily Wong finds herself in Hong Kong alongside her mother who has been summoned by her grandfather to attend an emergency board meeting. The trip has an air of tension, but Lily is looking forward to family reunions and … Continue reading Book Review: The Ninja Betrayed
THE SUMMONING | J.P. Smith 09.07.2021 | Poisoned Pen Press Rating: 4/5 stars Kit Capriol lost her husband when the North Tower went down on 9/11. Over the years she has scraped by as an actress, barely supporting herself and her daughter. But now her daughter, Zoey, is in the hospital, bills are due, and … Continue reading Book Review: The Summoning
THE KIND WORTH KILLING | Peter Swanson 02.13.2015 | William Morrow Rating: 5/5 stars On a night flight from London to Boston, Ted Severson meets the stunning and mysterious Lily Kitner. Over one too many martinis, the strangers decide to play a game of truth, revealing very intimate details about themselves. Ted shares about his … Continue reading Book Review: The Kind Worth Killing
THE SAFE PLACE | Anna Downes 07.14.2020 | Minotaur Books Rating: 3.5/5 stars Emily Proudman just lost her acting agent, her job, and her apartment in one miserable day. Scott Denny is a successful and charismatic CEO, who just happened to be the one to fire Emily from her job. He now sees her in … Continue reading Book Review: The Safe Place
THE JIGSAW MAN | Nadine Matheson (Inspector Anjelica Henley #1) 03.16.2021 | Hanover Square Press Rating: 4.5/5 stars Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery… DI Anjelica Henley has been tasked with finding a killer who recently left body parts from his victims along the banks of the River Thames in Deptford. Henley can’t help … Continue reading Book Review: The Jigsaw Man
A SOLITUDE OF WOLVERINES | Alice Henderson (Alex Carter #1) 10.27.2020 | William Morrow Rating: 4/5 stars While studying wolverines on a wildlife sanctuary in Montana, biologist Alex Carter is run off the road and threatened by locals determined to force her off the land. It seems this small town has a series of secrets … Continue reading Book Review: A Solitude of Wolverines
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
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
