Alice Blanchard ** Publication Date 1 December 2020 ** 4.25 stars Burning Lake, New York is known for its history of witches and the wicked. Natalie Lockhart is a detective on the Burning Lake PD. Halloween week is epic in Burning Lake, with a music competition, parties, costumes and the witchy themes of the …
By Lisa Jewell ** Publication Date 13 October 2020 ** 5 stars Don’t even know where to start with a review on this one. This book had me so tied up in knots by the end, I needed a week to recover. Honestly. One of the best books of 2020 by far. Twisty, dark, sad, …
By Joyce Carol Oates ** Publication Date 6 October 2020** 4 stars Joyce Carol Oates has given us another collection of short stories, or novellas. Each has its own elements of suspense, some frightening, some not so much. I truly enjoy the short story format, as it’s nearly possible to finish an entire “book” in …
By Heidi Perks ** Publication Date 18 August 2020 ** 4.25 stars How mad do you have to be to exact revenge on someone? How far are you willing to go to make someone pay for a mistake? Enough to suffer the consequences? Enough to commit arson and murder? Three Perfect Liars tackles these questions …
By Tiffany Rosenhan ** Publication Date 21 July 2020** 5 stars Holy moly, this is an epic YA novel. Sophia and her parents have just settled in the mountain town of Waterford, Montana. After years of moving from one place to another across the world, her parents have decided it’s time for Sophia to be …
By Estelle Laure ** Publication Date 14 July 2020 ** 4.5 stars Mayhem Brayburn was 3 years old when her mom fled their home of Santa Maria landing in Taylor, Texas. Taylor and her mom’s second husband Lyle is pretty much all Mayhem has known. Lyle is a southern charmer on the outside and an …
By Beverly Long ** Publication Date 30 June 2020 ** 4 stars Book two in the A.L. McKittridge series picks up some time after book one. A.L. and Tess are now seriously dating. They are just arriving home from a vacation in California, when A.L. gets word that a child is missing in Baywood. He …
By Sarah Stewart Taylor ** Publication Date 23 June 2020** 4.5 stars Maggie, who comes from a long line of proud Irish ancestors, is a homicide detective in New York. Back in the 1990s, her cousin Erin, more like a sister than a cousin, opted to move to Ireland. Then one day her father, Maggie’s …
By Kristin Miller ** Publication Date 21 April 2020 ** 4.5 stars wel Holy moly what a twisted, wild ride. The beginning of this novel finds us witnessing Colleen broken and bleeding on the floor of the wine cellar at Ravenwood. There is a dark figure at the top of the wine cellar stairs. And …
By D. S. Butler ** Publication Date 26 March 2020 ** 4 stars / This review has been posted at BookwormishMe.com. Here I go again, jumping into a book series midstream! DS Karen Hart #3, otherwise known as “Don’t Turn Back” finds our detective investigating the murder of an unknown man in a public park. …