Just a girl and her books
THE OVERNIGHT GUEST | Heather Gudenkauf 01.25.2022 | Park Row Rating: 5/5 stars True crime writer Wylie Lark doesn’t mind being snowed in at the isolated farmhouse where she’s retreated to write her new book. A cozy fire, complete silence. It would be perfect, if not for the fact that decades earlier, at this very … Continue reading Book Review: The Overnight Guest
THE TWO LIVES OF SARA | Catherine Adel West 09.06.2022 | Park Row Rating: 5/5 stars Sara King has nothing, save for her secrets and the baby in her belly, as she boards the bus to Memphis, hoping to outrun her past in Chicago. She is welcomed with open arms by Mama Sugar, a kindly … Continue reading Book Review: The Two Lives of Sara
THE LYING CLUB | Annie Ward 03.22.2022 | Park Row Rating: 4/5 stars At an elite private school nestled in the Colorado mountains, Natalie, an office assistant, dreams of having a life like the school moms she deals with every day. Women like Brooke – a gorgeous heiress, ferociously loving mother, and serial cheater – … Continue reading Book Review: The Lying Club
LOCAL WOMAN MISSING | Mary Kubica 05.18.2021 | Park Row Rating: 4/5 stars Shelby Tebow is the first to go missing. Not long after, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, vanish just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen, striking fear into their once peaceful community. Are these incidents connected? After an elusive … Continue reading Book Review: Local Woman Missing
SAVING RUBY KING | Catherine Adel West 06.16.2020 | Park Row Rating: 5/5 stars The world always finds a way of coming full circle. When Ruby King’s mother is found murdered in their home on Chicago’s South Side, the police brush the case aside and file it away as another act of violence in a … Continue reading Book Review: Saving Ruby King
THE OTHER MRS. | Mary Kubica 02.18.2020 | Park Row Rating: 4/5 stars Sadie and Will Foust have just relocated their family from busy Chicago to a small island town in Maine. This new town brings new challenges, starting with getting to know the niece they’re now in charge of caring for due to an … Continue reading Book Review: The Other Mrs.
BEAUTIFUL BAD | Annie Ward 03.05.2019 | Park Row Rating: 3.5/5 stars Maddie and Ian’s romance first began when they met overseas many years ago. They were both young and attracted to each other. Ian was serving in the British Army and Maddie was a travel writer. Brought together in a chance encounter thanks to … Continue reading Book Review: Beautiful Bad
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