🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 An absolutely charming regency romp, hilarious in parts and thoughtful in others, that totally captured the heart of this reader. In an early nineteenth-century era when women are chattel (beholden to their male counterparts), when Lydia Hayworth, the low-born daughter of a now-wealthy gentleman, finds herself “accidentally” betrothed to…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 An engrossing and immersive trip to an exotic South African safari-compound, — Leopard Sands — second-home to an uber-wealthy family from Florida, that is teeming with things that creep, stalk, and kill (and I don’t mean the wildlife). Family matriarch Odelia Bach is in her sixties, undoubtedly a narcissist,…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 A heart-tugging and thoughtful look at love, loneliness, and searching — for answers to the secrets that all humans yearn to untangle — What makes a life “good”, and what, in the end, is it all “for”? Told in the voices of multiple characters, between these pages we will…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 The second in the superb DS Casey Wray series, this taut and complex story stretches tight, pulling the reader close into as absorbing a read as upper-echelon crime fiction can get. Following on the heels of a major police department shakeup (read the first book for details!) Detective Sergeant…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 Book #23 in a mystery series featuring Joanne Kilbourn, this book came to this reader with history attached. Initially a Canadian series I loved, based in Saskatchewan, and featuring a wonderfully-accessible female professor,— a character authored so well, and decades before strongly centered, plain-spoken, independent female leads were a…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 “Nothing to do, but let the dread eat her alive.” A cat and mouse game of the highest order, this psychological suspense novel teems with tension as a thirty-four year old finger-print analyst, still grieving the loss, decades earlier, of her teenage sister, encounters the relentless stalking of a…
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 “A moment arrives when the usefulness of a secret expires. Keeping it becomes the thing that hurts us. We have to tell. “ This heartfelt memoir takes us to the darkest place, and back again, as we meet Amy, and her “perfect life” in Amarillo, Texas, and then are…
🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 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…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 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…