First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if, instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? The Rules: First Lines: “‘Murdering princesses,’ I said, ‘isn’t what I signed […]
The Fair Weather Friend Thank you to NetGalley, St. Martin’s Press, and Macmillan Audio for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. The next gripping domestic suspense novel from Jessie Garcia. It’s always sunny in Detroit for Faith Richards. The popular […]
High Season Thank you to NetGalley, St. Martin’s Press, and Macmillan Audio for giving me access to both a digital and an audiobook version of this in exchange for an honest review. Never speak of that summer. On a beautiful summer’s night twenty years ago, troubled seventeen-year-old Tamara […]
April was a very hectic month for me. I started out the month on the couch during the days, so that I could be close to my mother. Since I live with her, I am often the one who does a lot of helping around the house as […]
Fool Me Once Former special ops pilot Maya, home from the war, sees an unthinkable image captured by her nanny cam while she is at work: her two-year-old daughter playing with Maya’s husband, Joe—who had been brutally murdered two weeks earlier. The provocative question at the heart of […]
Unnatural Exposure Virginia Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta has a bloody puzzle on her hands: five headless, limbless cadavers in Ireland, plus four similar victims in a landfill back home. Is a serial butcher loose in Virginia? That’s what the panicked public thinks, thanks to a local TV reporter […]
The Frozen River Thank you to libro.fm and Random House Audio for providing me with an ALC of this audiobook. I am offering my honest opinion voluntarily. A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who defied the legal […]
The Other Mothers Thank you to libro.fm for providing me with an ALC of this audiobook. I am offering my honest opinion voluntarily. When a young nanny is found dead in mysterious circumstances, new mom, Tash, is intrigued. She has been searching for a story to launch her […]
Foxglove Thank you to YA Books Central and Little, Brown Books for Young Readers for sending me a copy of this ARC in exchange for an honest review. You can find my YA Books Central review here. CONTENT WARNING: murder, blood, grief, gore It’s said that foxglove is […]
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood CONTENT WARNING: mention of addiction, child abandonment, death of a parent, graphic and violent child abuse, graphic violence, depictions of torture, murder, blood, gaslighting, emotional abuse, forced drugging, fatphobic comments, suicide attempt, […]
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