🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 A gentle heart-warming read, that tells the true-life tale of a woman who becomes the unexpected care-giver for a newborn European brown hare, known as a Leveret, when she finds it in a vulnerable and seemingly abandoned position in a remote UK region. With infinite tenderness, the author, a…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 The ninth installment of the Shetland series, this mystery takes place in a new location — Orkney, a remote series of islands north of Scotland, rich with archeological significance. Famous for their Neolithic structures, the author incorporates two of these — a pair of ancient story stones from the…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 A well plotted thriller centering on a relatable debut author and her first book tour, beginning with a trickle of menace and turning into a full-blown downpour. Tessa Calloway, our third-person POV narrator, is a former corporate trainer who has struck it big with her first novel. Starring the…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 A wonderfully diverse mystery, peopled with characters you will wish for more time with, this is the third (and final) book in a trilogy featuring PI Merry Bell, a transgender woman based in Saskatchewan, Canada. The first in the series for this reader, this book is easily enjoyed as…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 Gardner Camden (Gardy) is a thirty-seven year old FBI agent who works for an unusual division called PAR (Patterns and Recognition). With a focus on solving the toughest crimes, those involving pattern recognition and the making of obscure connections, Gardy is a genius level agent, who just happens to…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 Part memoir, and part historically accurate re-telling of a fatal and horrific bear attack on two campers in 1991, this is a difficult book to read, both for its emotional content and its blood-curdling recounting of the most nightmarish encounter with wildlife this reader could ever imagine. Made all…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Wowza! A perfectly crafted multiple-POV psychological suspense story, rich with sizzling characters (all of them hiding something) and a setting as lip-smackingly luscious as it is creepy and sinister. With a plot that builds, and winds, and re-winds, gleefully delighting in tricking the reader, several times, into what feels…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A gorgeous, mesmerizing read with a stop-the-clock ending, that you may just find yourself dreaming about, the next time you hear a bird sing outside your window (your very own soul-stirring spark bird). Simon, our third person POV narrator is a thirty-year-old musician, who has never quite managed to…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 Perhaps the strangest collection of short stories this reader has encountered, this is a hard book to categorize, but an easy book to love. Laugh-out-loud funny in places, often sardonic, absurd and always wildly inventive, these short stories contain some repeating characters and straddle situations, including those involving: inane…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A beautiful and generous memoir, written by a professor of Philosophy who has experienced more pain, quite likely, than most of us, and has acted on her inclination and thoughtfulness to share her learnings with us. Chloe, from birth, suffers from a disorder related to disruptions in the development…