** Publication Date 17 August 2021 ** 4.5 stars Think your family is dysfunctional? Wait until you meet the Lighthouse family. Mom, Lorraine, is obsessed with murder. After her parents were murdered, with the gun manufactured by their company, Lorraine’s life becomes all about murder. She moves to Blackburn Island to her parent’s summer home. …
By Sarah Stewart Taylor ** Publication Date 22 June 2021 ** 4 stars Having enjoyed getting to know Maggie D’Arcy and all in the first novel in this series, I couldn’t wait to tackle the next adventure in Detective Lt D’Arcy’s life. This time around, Maggie is tasked with finding the murderer of an Irish …
By M.M. Chouinard ** Publication Date 27 May 2021 ** 4 stars / This review will be posted at BookwormishMe.com on 13 May 2021. When Rose’s brother-in-law plans an elaborate vacation for them in Jamaica, Rose balks at the idea. She comes up with every excuse imaginable to try to change the vacation plans, including …
By Laurie Faria Stolarz ** Publication Date 16 March 2021 ** 4.25 stars Terra lost her parents in a tragic house fire when she was younger. She went to live with her mom’s sister, but has never really felt like she did when she had her mom. Not surprising, because no one can really replace …
By Jeremy Robert Johnson ** Publication Date 29 September 2020 ** 4.5 stars Turner Falls is a perfect little ski town in the high desert of eastern Oregon. Quaint, friendly, as long as you’re not Lucy or Bucket. Lucy and Bucket are “brown” and outcasts from most of the Turner Falls students. Spring Meadows High …
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 Caroline Mitchell ** Publication Date 14 January 2020 ** Roz is in her mid-20s and working as a housekeeper for a hotel in Dublin. She shares a flat with her best friend of 20 years, Dympna. When Roz realizes she’s pregnant, she knows she cannot share the identity of the father, and as she’s …
By Nina Sadowsky ** Publication Date 28 January 2020** The Empty Bed picks up where The Burial Society left off. Catherine, an operative for said Burial Society, makes a practice of helping people escape their lives. Mostly women who are in bad marriages – and by bad, I don’t mean unhappy, but truly bad, marriages …
By Tiffany Tsao ** Publication Date 21 January 2020** Gwendolyn, or Doll, shares with us her time in a coma after her sister Estella poisons her entire family and friends at a party for their Opa, or grandfather, who is suffering from Alzheimers. Gwendolyn is the only surviving member of this tragedy. While she is …
By Amber Cowie ** Publication Date 12 November 2019 ** It’s always been my dream to live in the perfect neighborhood. You know the one where all the neighbors are friends, have communal dinners, kids are all buddies. The kind of neighbors you can count on under any circumstances. Well, I had that dream until …