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 …
By Tim Wynne-Jones ** Publication Date 10 September 2019 ** Braving the outdoors to head up to his family’s camp in Northern Ontario, Nate has a mission. His friend Dodge went missing several months ago when his family decided to deliver a refrigerator to their own camp, down the road from Nate’s. In a terrible …
By: R.H. Herron ** Publication Date 20 August 2019 ** Jojo is the daughter of a police chief and a police dispatcher. She’s a smart kid, but she’s in love, and love sometimes makes us do stupid things. In Jojo’s case this leads her to have to call 911 after a night she can’t remember, …
By Alex North ** Publication Date 20 August 2019 ** Whispers outside a child’s bedroom window. What could be more frightening? Rhymes that remind you to lock your doors so the Whisper Man doesn’t get you. This is the stuff of children’s nightmares. This isn’t just a nightmare though, this is real for the residents …
(Anderson & Costello Thrillers) By: Caro Ramsay ** Publication Date 6 July 2019 (US – previously published in the UK) ** Apparently I’m very late to the Caro Ramsay party. This is book #9 in the Anderson & Costello series. Where have I been hiding? Police procedurals set in Scotland, these are crime thrillers that …
By Jennifer McMahon ** Publication Date 30 April 2019 ** I used to love mysteries/thrillers/suspense novels. And then for a long time I couldn’t read them because I couldn’t sleep at night. Now I’ve delved back into them, and I am finding some amazing books out there. The Invited is one of those. It borders …