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Tag: mystery

Categories Book Review, Maria Abrams, Reviews with Spoilers

Maria Abrams | DEATH IN THE DOWNLINE Spoilers

The Plot (from Goodreads): It’s multi-level murder in this darkly funny mystery novel about the glamorous world of MLM “huns”—and the dangerous secrets at the…

January 15, 2025January 14, 2025
Categories Book Review, Pyae Moe Thet War, Reviews with Spoilers

Pyae Moe Thet War | I DID SOMETHING BAD Spoilers

The Plot (from Goodreads): When freelance journalist Khin Hlaing is assigned by Vogue to get a scoop on Tyler Tun, Hollywood’s hottest movie star who has returned…

January 6, 2025January 6, 2025
Categories Book Review, Carlie Walker

Carlie Walker | Code Work Romance

The Plot (from Goodreads): Two exes. One mission. A trip she’ll never forget…Max is just your average girl. She works odd jobs, has a soul-crushing…

December 19, 2024December 19, 2024
Categories Ally Carter, Book Review, Reviews with Spoilers

Ally Carter | THE MOST WONDERFUL CRIME OF THE YEAR Spoilers

The Plot (from Goodreads): The bridge is out. The phones are down. And the most famous mystery writer in the world just disappeared out of…

November 6, 2024January 6, 2025
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Categories Benjamin Stevenson, Book Review, Reviews with Spoilers

Benjamin Stevenson | EVERYONE ON THIS TRAIN IS A SUSPECT Spoilers

The Plot (from Goodreads): When the Australian Mystery Writers’ Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and…

August 25, 2024August 28, 2024
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Categories Ally Condie, Book Review, Reviews with Spoilers

Ally Condie | THE UNWEDDING Spoilers

The Plot (from Goodreads): Ellery Wainwright is alone at the edge of the world. She and her husband, Luke, were supposed to spend their twentieth…

July 1, 2024July 28, 2024
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Categories Book Review, Catherine McKenzie, Reviews with Spoilers

Catherine Mack | EVERY TIME I GO ON VACATION SOMEONE DIES Spoilers

The Plot (from Goodreads): Ten days, eight suspects, six cities, five authors, three bodies . . . one trip to die for. All that bestselling…

June 12, 2024June 14, 2024
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Categories Book Review, Katherine Faulkner, Reviews with Spoilers

Katherine Faulkner | The Other Mothers

The Plot (Goodreads): When a young nanny is found dead in mysterious circumstances, new mom, Tash, is intrigued. She has been searching for a story…

May 9, 2024May 9, 2024
Categories Book Review, Reviews with Spoilers

Nina Simon | Mother-Daughter Murder Night

The Plot (from Goodreads): Nothing brings a family together like a murder next door. A lighthearted whodunnit about a grandmother-mother-daughter trio of amateur sleuths. Gilmore…

February 23, 2024May 24, 2024
Categories Ashley Elston, Book Review, Reviews with Spoilers

Ashley Elston | First Lie Wins

The Plot (Goodreads): Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and…

February 10, 2024March 18, 2024
Categories Book Review, Chandler Baker, Reviews with Spoilers

Chandler Baker | Cutting Teeth

The Plot (from Goodreads): Darby, Mary Beth, and Rhea are on personal quests to reclaim aspects of their identities subsumed by motherhood—their careers, their sex…

September 10, 2023September 16, 2023
Categories Benjamin Stevenson, Book Review, Reviews with Spoilers

Benjamin Stevenson | Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

The Book:  Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson(Ernest Cunningham #1)Published January 17, 2023 by Mariner BooksDate read: March 18, 2023 The…

April 11, 2023
Categories Book Review, Reviews with Spoilers, Ruth Ware

Ruth Ware | The Lying Game

The Book:  The Lying Game by Ruth WarePublished: June 2017 by Scout Press Torrie’s Rating: ★★★★ Get it on Bookshop.org | Amazon The Plot (Goodreads): On…

December 29, 2022January 8, 2024
Categories Book Review, Reviews with Spoilers, Ruth Ware

Ruth Ware | In a Dark, Dark Wood

The Book:  In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth WarePublished: July 2015 by Harvill Secker/Scout Press Torrie’s Rating: ★★★ The Plot (Goodreads): What should be…

December 11, 2022January 8, 2024
Categories Book Review, Jessica Strawser, Reviews with Spoilers

Jessica Strawser | Almost Missed You

The Book:  Almost Missed You by Jessica StrawserPublished: March 2017 by St. Martin’s Press Almost Missed You is actually how I found “How Did That…

September 17, 2022October 11, 2022
Categories Book Review, Lisa Gardner, Reviews with Spoilers

Lisa Gardner | The Neighbor (Detective D.D. Warren #3)

The Book:  The Neighbor (Detective D.D. Warren #3) by Lisa GardnerPublished: June 4, 2009 by Bantam Books Torrie’s Rating: ★★★★ The Plot (Goodreads): From a master…

September 10, 2022November 6, 2022
Categories Book Review, Erik Therme, Reviews with Spoilers

Erik Therme | If She Wakes

The Plot (from Goodreads): How do you survive the death of a child? My name is Tess Parker. Two days ago, I was in a…

April 13, 2022April 13, 2022
Categories Book Review, Reviews with Spoilers

Erik Therme | I Know You

The Plot (from Goodreads): Sisters Bree and Alissa Walker share a special bond. Neglected by their parents, they have always looked out for one another….

December 18, 2021March 4, 2022
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Categories Book Review, Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks | The Return

The Plot (from Goodreads): Trevor Benson never intended to move back to New Bern, NC. But when a mortar blast outside the hospital where he…

September 16, 2021February 5, 2023
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Categories Book Review, Colleen Oakley, Reviews with Spoilers

Colleen Oakley | The Invisible Husband of Frick Island

The Plot (from Goodreads): Piper Parrish’s life on Frick Island—a tiny, remote town smack in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay—is nearly perfect. Well, aside…

August 27, 2021March 18, 2024
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Categories Book Review, Reviews with Spoilers, Tess Stimson

Tess Stimson | One in Three

The Plot (from Goodreads): Both of them loved him. One of them killed him . . . Louise has had to watch her husband, Andrew,…

December 17, 2020February 3, 2022
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Categories Book Review, Reviews with Spoilers, Tana French

Tana French | The Searcher

The Plot (from Goodreads): Retired detective Cal Hooper moves to a remote village in rural Ireland. His plans are to fix up the dilapidated cottage…

November 12, 2020December 30, 2021
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Categories Book Review, Chris Bohjalian, Reviews with Spoilers

Chris Bohjalian | The Red Lotus

The Plot (from Goodreads): The first time Alexis saw Austin, it was a Saturday night. Not in a bar, but in the emergency room where…

October 27, 2020June 3, 2024
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