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Review

Book Review: The Lost Kings by Tyrell Johnson

By Doreen Sheridan

August 5, 2022

When Jeanie King was a little girl, she lost her mother to a car accident that nearly claimed her own life as well. With her twin brother Jamie, she’s subsequently raised by her loving Aunt Eileen and Uncle Derek in Santa Clara, California, until her father finally comes home from his stint in the military.…

Book Review: Red Flags by Lisa Black

By Doreen Sheridan

August 4, 2022

When FBI Evidence Response Team analyst Dr Ellie Carr is called in to help investigate a kidnapping case, the last thing she expects is for the missing child to belong to her own estranged cousin, Becca Carlisle. The two girls had once been very close as pre-teens growing up together in West Virginia, but fell…

Book Review: Kismet by Amina Akhtar

By Doreen Sheridan

August 3, 2022

Ronnie Khan is starting to have second thoughts about her newfound independence. While she’s one hundred percent glad to be out from under the thumb of her abusive aunt back in Queens, New York, she’s beginning to doubt whether picking up stakes and moving to the wellness hotspot of Sedona, Arizona was really the best…

Book Review: A Simple Choice by David Pepper

By Doreen Sheridan

August 2, 2022

When the venerable senior Senator from Maine, Duke Garber, commits suicide, the political impact reverberates through the nation. No one knows why he decided to end his life, or even exactly how, but star reporter Palmer Knight is determined to sniff out the full story. The good-looking grandson of a former senator himself, Palmer is…

Book Review: The Finalists by David Bell

By Jenny Maloney

August 1, 2022

The Hyde scholarship is many things—competitive, comprehensive, and a golden ticket for the student who wins it. The scholarship is awarded to only one student every year. It covers all tuition and guarantees a job after graduation. To attain the award, a select group of students is brought to Hyde House, the family home of…

Book Review: The Swell by Allie Reynolds

By Doreen Sheridan

July 29, 2022

After her boyfriend died while surfing with her in Cornwall, Kenna Ward gave up her beloved pastime and moved to London, choosing to focus on her work as a massage therapist instead. In the three years since, her best friend Mikki has also left Cornwall behind, traveling around the world in search of the perfect…

Book Review: The Birdcage by Eve Chase

By Doreen Sheridan

July 29, 2022

Lauren Molloy is not looking forward to returning to the Cornwall estate where she was last together with her half-sisters and their father—her Finch family as her late mother used to call them—twenty years earlier. Staying at Rock Point had been the highlight of her young life, the only place she and her older sisters…

Book Review: The Local by Joey Hartstone

By John Valeri

July 28, 2022

Joey Hartstone may be a debut novelist, but he’s certainly no novice when it comes to writing. He studied screenwriting at UCLA and later had two of his scripts directed for film by Rob Reiner: LBJ (2016) and Shock and Awe (2017). Hartstone also wrote on the first two seasons of The Good Fight and…

Book Review: The Retreat by Sarah Pearse

By Doreen Sheridan

July 28, 2022

Detective Sergeant Elin Wagner is back on the force, ready and eager to do her job. Well, perhaps more eager than ready, as the newly reassigned Detective Constable Steed has been brought in to help and support her, particularly in cases reminiscent of the one that nearly forced her out of her job after a…

Book Review: Denial by Jon Raymond

By Doreen Sheridan

July 28, 2022

The world of 2052 has been scarred but not devastated by the effects of climate change. The fact that things haven’t gone completely over the edge is due in large part to the efforts of activists who, in the 2030s, managed to break the world of its dependency on fossil fuels. This quest for environmental…

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