🌟🌟🌟🌟 “Revenge is like honey. It doesn’t matter how long you leave it, it never goes bad.” A rollercoaster of a thriller, with twists and turns, one of the chilliest heroines this reader has encountered, and an ending that not only offers resolution, but does so with a wry smile.…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 A twisty, engaging, and fun to read murder mystery, set in a gorgeous vacation home in the Adirondacks, and centering on a hugely dysfunctional family. Sisters Esme (horribly status conscious), Piper (anxious and obsessive) and Regina (cocky and impulsive) are all married, all mothers, and all messed up. Particularly…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 An extremely well-executed thriller, with a unique premise and more than one puzzle to decipher, backwards! When Jen Brotherhood, a forty-something lawyer who cares too much for her clients, witnesses a horrific event, her life is flung upside down in a manner that absolutely could not be predicted. For…
🌟🌟🌟💫 A very mixed bag for this reader — first, the good (which is actually very good). This book starts with an interesting premise, featuring a detailed set of characters, each with their own POV, in a gorgeous island setting. The story is somewhat centered on a fascinating and horrifying…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 A non-stop thriller which mixes Mexican drug cartel sheer and bloody terror with the incredible saga of a simple tequila-producing family, who grows from 1950’s Mexico to present day, along the way becoming a hugely successful, and absolutely dysfunctional, globally situated corporate dynasty, modeled with the moniker “RAM”. Peopled…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 A stylish and engrossing thriller, this terrific murder mystery hits all the right notes, starting with a premise that is both tantalizing and original. We all know that murderers’ lives have been commercialized, sensationalized and documented far more thoroughly than the lives of their victims. But what of murderer’s…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 #15 in the Mike Bowditch series, this is a nail-biter of a novel, which follows our hero, Mike, a game warden investigator based in the Maine North Woods, on a case which will have him facing an ex-military recluse, Mark Redmond, who is living in seclusion with his twelve…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 “It could fizzle away to nothing, or it could build itself into a monster.” Written in the first person voices of our main protagonists, this story essentially follows a place, St Medard’s bay, on Alabamas Gulf Coast, which has been shell shocked by violent hurricanes across the decades. In…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 Absorbing and masterful psychological suspense, this top-notch thriller is intermingled with thoughtful social commentary on aging, grief, loneliness, and mental clarity — and how hard it is really separate those concepts. Linda Davidson, our first person POV narrator, is seventy-six years old, recently widowed, and living in the retirement…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 A heart-pounding thriller, based on the stories of three women, each of which will connect to the other in ways the reader will absolutely not predict. Told in three alternating points-of-view, between these pages we will visit an affluent New England town, the fictional Cloverhill Lakes, and the entitled,…