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Janet Webb

Book Review: Wrong Alibi by Christina Dodd

By Janet Webb

January 5, 2021

Wrong Alibi has a Perils of Pauline or Toad’s Wild Ride feel to it. Step up, step up: find out how Evie transforms herself from Too Stupid to Live to Too Smart to Lose. Everything is larger than life, starting with the location, Alaska. The villains are scarier, the heroism over the top, and the…

Book Review: The Dead Season by Tessa Wegert

By Janet Webb

December 14, 2020

How are things going for Shana Merchant since she solved a “closed-door” mystery at an imposing mansion on one of the Thousand Islands (Death in the Family)? Not so great. She still hasn’t been cleared to return to work. In the aftermath of an unauthorized shooting in the waning hours of her last case, she…

Book Review: Take it Back by Kia Abdullah

By Janet Webb

December 14, 2020

One victim. Four accused. Who is telling the truth? From author Kia Abdullah, Take It Back is a harrowing and twisting courtroom thriller that keeps you guessing until the last page is turned. Take It Back is a fast-paced legal thriller centered around a she-said/they-said rape case. Teenager Jodie Wolfe is severely disabled; her facial…

Book Review: Death, Diamonds, and Deception by Rosemary Simpson

By Janet Webb

December 7, 2020

Rosemary Simpson’s 5th Gilded Age mystery is infused with difficult choices, secrets, and sadness although these sober notes are not immediately apparent. Under the chaperonage of her exquisite Aunt Gillian, Prudence MacKenzie prepares for the Assembly Ball at Delmonico’s. Colleen, Prudence’s Irish maid, laces her mistress into the “whale-boned corset” that the sumptuous gown demands.…

Book Review: The Forgotten Sister by Nicola Cornick

By Janet Webb

December 2, 2020

Season 4 of The Crown, all 10 episodes, hit Netflix on November 15th, 2020. By now every avid fan has gobbled it up. Fortunately, help is at hand for aficionados of royal stories—Nicola Cornick’s The Forgotten Sister. Two women’s lives are intertwined, one historical, Amy Robsart, the first wife of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester…

Book Review: Puzzling Ink by Becky Clark

By Janet Webb

November 20, 2020

Quinn Carr is one of the most authentic and unusual crime solvers it’s been my pleasure to meet. Puzzling Ink is set in the fictional town of Chestnut Station near Denver. A small community where everyone knows your name is so appealing and Clark brings it to life beautifully.  The town of Chestnut Station was…

Book Review: The Cipher by Isabella Maldonado

By Janet Webb

November 18, 2020

No one knows better than the FBI the cruelty and depravity of a serial killer. They absolutely have the receipts. The Cipher is a brutal, viscerally raw, no-holds-barred story that takes readers into the heart of darkness. FBI Special Agent Nina Guerrera was abducted, tortured, raped, and discarded by a vile creature when she was…

Girls of Brackenhill by Kate Moretti

By Janet Webb

November 13, 2020

Hannah Maloney spent idyllic summers at Brackenhill Castle in New York’s Catskill Mountains when she was a teenager. They were halcyon days for Hannah and her older sister Julia until Julia mysteriously disappeared. Seventeen years later, she’s lives in Virginia with her fiancé Huck and their boisterous Irish setter Rink. Hannah only revisits her memories…

Book Review: In the Deep by Loreth Anne White

By Janet Webb

November 12, 2020

Ellie Cresswell-Smith, née Hartley, is a poor little rich girl. She thought she would find salvation in her second marriage to Australian Martin Cresswell-Smith, but fate has other plans. When we first meet her, she’s a widow and an accused murderess. In the Deep opens in February 2021 with a courtroom battle in the Supreme…

Book Review: Cold as Ice by Allison Brennan

By Janet Webb

November 11, 2020

In New York Times bestseller Allison Brennan’s Cold as Ice, FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid must get into the head of a psychopath to save her family, and herself. Cold as Ice marks Allison Brennan’s 17th Lucy Kincaid thriller, proving that readers can’t get enough of Kincaid’s personal and professional triumphs and struggles. Brennan describes her heroine…

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