A Familiar Stranger is a bumpy ride to say the least. Lillian Smith lives a boring life; she repeatedly says so herself. Lillian used to write obituaries for…
Category Archives: Mystery/Suspense
The Darkness of Others by Cate Holahan
The Darkness of Others is a slow-burn thriller set in the early days of the pandemic in NYC. It opens with the gruesome death of a famed movie director.
The Guest House by Robin Morgan-Bentley
The Guest House is a compulsively readable thriller but veers into OTT territory for much of the book. Victoria and Jamie are spending a weekend away at a remot
The Last Girl to Die by Helen Fields
The Last Girl to Die is a chilling thriller set in a small town in Scotland. When sixteen-year-old Adriana Clark goes missing, her family hires a P.I…
The Last to Vanish by Megan Miranda
The Last to Vanish is an intriguing slow-burn thriller. Abigail Lovett has lived in Cutter’s Pass for the last ten years. It’s a close-knit community, but Ab…
Reputation by Sarah Vaughan
Reputation by Sarah Vaughan shows that it takes time to build a good reputation, but only a moment to tear it asunder. Emma, a relatively new politician, is…
And There He Kept Her by Joshua Moehling
And There He Kept Her is a dark and disturbing police procedural novel. On a frigid, rainy night, two teens attempt to break into what they believe is an uns…
The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
The Woman in the Library is a story within a story within another story. It should have been one I loved, but I was never fully invested in it…
A Botanist’s Guide to Parties and Poisons by Kate Khavari
A Botanist’s Guide to Parties and Poisons is a slowly-paced historical mystery. Set in 1923 at the University College of London, where Saffron Everleigh is…
Never Coming Home by Hannah Mary McKinnon
Never Coming Home will have you rooting for the bad guy. To outward appearances, Lucas Forester looks like the grieving husband he should be. His wife went…