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Angie Barry

Angie Barry wrote her thesis on the socio-political commentary in zombie films. Meeting George Romero is high on her bucket list, and she has spent hours putting together her zombie apocalypse survival plan. She also writes horror and fantasy in her spare time, and watches far too much Doctor Who.

Book Review: The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon

By Angie Barry

April 1, 2021

The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon is a haunting, twisty, and compulsively readable modern-day ghost story about a woman who returns to the old family home after her sister mysteriously drowns in its swimming pool—but she’s not the pool’s only victim. Social worker Jax has learned to ignore her sister when she’s in the grip…

Book Review: Saving Grace by Debbie Babitt

By Angie Barry

March 11, 2021

Twenty-four years ago, two eleven-year-old girls disappeared in the small town of Repentance, Arkansas. Mary Grace Dobbs remembers that year very well—she was a sixth-grader herself, a classmate of the missing girls.  I was coming up on the anniversary of my parents’ death when the girls began disappearing.   That summer twenty-four years ago, right…

Book Review: The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex

By Angie Barry

March 10, 2021

In December of 1972, three men disappeared from a tower lighthouse off the English coast. When the relief team arrived, they found the door barred from the inside. Dishes were set out for two at the kitchen table. Both clocks had stopped at a quarter to nine. And there was absolutely no trace of a…

Book Review: The Windsor Knot by SJ Bennett

By Angie Barry

March 3, 2021

The Windsor Knot by SJ Bennett is the first book in a highly original and delightfully clever crime series in which Queen Elizabeth II secretly solves crimes while carrying out her royal duties.  April 2016: Queen Elizabeth’s 90th birthday is fast approaching, and she intends to celebrate it at Windsor, the most beloved of her…

Book Review: Lola on Fire by Rio Youers

By Angie Barry

February 20, 2021

Lola on Fire by Rio Youers combines vengeance and deceit, love and bullets, and secrets and twists in this high-octane action thriller with a vibrant emotional core that sees a desperate brother caught in a dangerous world that he and his sister must battle to survive. Brody Ellis is desperate. He’s 24 and has no…

Book Review: The Diabolical Bones by Bella Ellis

By Angie Barry

February 19, 2021

The Diabolical Bones by Bella Ellis is the second book in the Brontë Sisters Mystery series, where the bones of a child are found bricked up in an abandoned fireplace, and the famous sisters must investigate before more get hurt.  The Brontë sisters—Charlotte, Emily, and Anne—are eagerly anticipating word from their publisher on whether or…

Book Review: Magpie Lane by Lucy Atkins

By Angie Barry

February 18, 2021

Magpie Lane by Lucy Atkins roams through Oxford’s secret passages and hidden graveyards, as the disappearance of a young, traumatized girl ensnares her nanny in an investigation that explores the true meaning of family—and what it is to be denied one. It was pure luck that brought Dee into the lives of the Law family.…

Book Review: Hadley & Grace by Suzanne Redfearn

By Angie Barry

January 25, 2021

Hadley & Grace by Suzanne Redfearn is a powerful story of self-discovery and the heart-racing tale of two women facing insurmountable odds, racing to stay one step ahead of the trouble that is chasing them, and discovering new kinds of love and family along the way. Hadley Torelli is an outwardly glamorous 38-year-old stay-at-home mom…

Book Review: The Breaker by Nick Petrie

By Angie Barry

January 8, 2021

It’s been almost a year since former Marine Peter Ash’s misadventure in Iceland landed him on the FBI’s Most Wanted (see: The Wild One). Since then, he’s been keeping his head down and living simply in Milwaukee with his ladylove June Cassidy and just down the street from his old friend Lewis, supporting the former…

Book Review: The Push by Ashley Audrain

By Angie Barry

January 6, 2021

The Push by Ashley Audrain is a debut novel and a tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family and a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for but everything she feared. College sweethearts Blythe and Fox Connor have a charmed life and romance. With…

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