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Reviews

Book Review: Nine Liars by Maureen Johnson

By Michelle Carpenter

January 25, 2023

In the summer of 1995, nine friends enter a manor in the English countryside, but only seven leave the next day. Two deaths, one axe, and seven potential suspects. In the end, the crime lacks evidence, the police stop looking and no one is ever charged for the murders. The story seemingly ends there –…

Book Review: She’s Gone by David Bell

By Doreen Sheridan

January 23, 2023

Seventeen year-old Hunter Gifford wakes up after Homecoming Night to find himself in the hospital, with no memory of how he got there or why. He’s suffering from a concussion, and the hospital’s security footage shows him wandering up to the building’s doors bloody and alone. But Hunter should have been with his girlfriend Chloe…

Book Review: A Book Club to Die For

By Doreen Sheridan

January 20, 2023

Librarian and secret provider of contraband books Trudell Beckett – Tru to her friends – is having second thoughts about giving a speech to the Arete Society, Cypress, South Carolina’s most exclusive book club. For a start, her boss Lida Farnsworth is a member, and has no idea of Tru’s clandestine operation, running a lending…

Book Review: That Dangerous Energy by Aya de León

By Doreen Sheridan

January 19, 2023

Morgan Faraday came to New York City from her small Pennsylvania town looking for glamor and, perhaps more importantly, a chance to make a name for herself in the art world. A talented fabric artist, she finds it difficult to land a job that will actually support her in her chosen field once she graduates…

Book Review: City of Fortune by Victoria Thompson

By Doreen Sheridan

January 18, 2023

Elizabeth Bates, nee Miles, is looking forward to a day at the races with her beloved lawyer husband Gideon and her just as cherished mother-in-law. Sebastian Nolan, a client of Gideon’s, is running a horse in the Belmont Stakes, and is hoping to use the opportunity to introduce his own daughter Irene to some ladies…

Book Review: The Villa by Rachel Hawkins

By Doreen Sheridan

January 18, 2023

This intriguing reinterpretation of the Italian stay that birthed Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein does some truly audacious things with storytelling, as it transports that famed historical episode of 1816 to the 1970s, and further brackets it within the pages of a modern-day domestic thriller. Here in the 21st century, Emily Sheridan is reeling from the seeming…

Book Review: Vinyl Resting Place by Olivia Blacke

By Doreen Sheridan

January 17, 2023

Juni Jessup has given up her entire adult life in Oregon in order to move back to Cedar River, Texas and reopen her family’s record shop with her older sisters, Tansy and Maggie. Sip & Spin Records adds a cafe to the once-shuttered family business, and looks surprisingly well-poised to make a killing even on…

Book Review: Rum and Choke by Sherry Harris

By Doreen Sheridan

January 17, 2023

The last thing that former Chicago children’s librarian turned Florida panhandle saloon owner Chloe Jackson was expecting this summer was for her co-workers to sign her up for the annual Florida Panhandle Barback Games held in their very own beachside town of Emerald Cove. It doesn’t help that her main competition appears to be an…

Book Review: Secrets Typed in Blood by Stephen Spotswood

By Doreen Sheridan

January 11, 2023

Willowjean “Will” Parker is coming off of the fresh high of apprehending a kidnapper with her boss Lillian Pentecost, 1947 New York City’s most celebrated detective. But there’s no time to rest on their laurels, as they must move quickly to once more pick up the trail of Pentecost’s greatest nemesis, Olivia Waterhouse. The woman…

Book Review: Doomed Legacy by Matt Coyle

By Doreen Sheridan

January 10, 2023

Private investigator Rick Cahill has made plenty of changes to his life since settling down in San Diego with his beloved wife Leah and their fourteen-month-old daughter Krista. As a concession to Leah’s decision to move from where her design business is based in Santa Barbara, Rick has tried to keep his work desk-bound, so…

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