Dawson’s Fall by Roxana Robinson
Categories: Books, Fiction, Rachel LinebackAuthor: Roxana RobinsonGenre: FictionPublisher: Sarah Crichton BooksPublished: 5/14/2019A cinematic Reconstruction-era drama of violence and fraught moral reckoning In Dawson's Fall, a novel based on the lives of Roxana Robinson's great-grandparents, we see America at its most fragile, fraught, and malleable. Set in 1889, in Charleston, South Carolina, Robinson's tale weaves her family's journal entries and letters with a novelist's narrative grace, and spans the life of her tragic hero, Frank Dawson, as he attempts to navigate the country's new political, social, and…Special thanks to Wunderkind PR for providing our copy of Dawson’s Fall by Roxana Robinson in exchange for an honest & fair review. Dawson’s Fall…
The Look Alike by Erica Spindler
The Look Alike by Erica Spindler When Sienna stumbles upon a bloody body in the stark white snow her life is flipped and her similarities to the body and her mother haunt her. You fall slowly into her personality and background and step with her side by side back into the small town she left to clear her own head. She’s back older and stronger, but is she? I was enthralled by the different paths this mystery leads you down and the way love plays a perfect background note to this mystery. I was on the edge guessing who the killer was until the end. THE VERDICT This book makes you…
A Beautiful Corpse (Harper McClain, #2)
Categories: Books, Fiction, Mysteries & Thrillers, Rachel LinebackGenre: ThrillerSeries: Harper McClainPublisher: Macmillan AudioPublished: 3/12/2019From Christi Daugherty, author of The Echo Killing, comes another pulse-pounding suspenseful thriller featuring crime reporter Harper McClain. For a woman, being killed by someone who claims to love her is the most ordinary murder of all. With its antebellum houses and ancient oak trees draped in a veil of Spanish moss, Savannah’s graceful downtown is famous around the world. When a woman is killed in the heart of that affluent district, the shock is…A Beautiful Corpse (Harper McClain, #2) After reading & loving The Echo Killing, I can’t wait to see what Harper is up to.…
The Echo Killing (Harper McClain, #1)
Categories: Books, Mysteries & Thrillers, Rachel LinebackAuthor: Christi DaughertyGenre: ThrillerSeries: Harper McClainPublisher: Minotaur BooksPublished: 3/13/2018When a murder echoing a fifteen-year-old cold case rocks the Southern town of Savannah, crime reporter Harper McClain risks everything to find the identity of this calculated killer. A city of antebellum architecture, picturesque parks, and cobblestone streets, Savannah moves at a graceful pace. But for Harper McClain, the timeless beauty and culture that distinguishes her home’s Southern heritage vanishes during the dark and dangerous nights. She wouldn’t have it any other way. Not even…The Echo Killing (Harper McClain, #1) What a start to a thrilling series! I love the way Christi brings you into Harper’s…
Revolver Road (Harper McClain, #3)
Categories: Books, Fiction, Mysteries & Thrillers, Rachel LinebackAuthor: Christi DaughertyGenre: ThrillerSeries: Harper McClainPublisher: Minotaur BooksPublished: 3/10/2020Crime reporter Harper McClain is back on the beat when a troubled musician vanishes in Christi Daugherty’s Revolver Road. Even in the chill of February, no place touches Harper McClain’s heart like Savannah. She should be walking beneath the historic city’s towering oaks, surrounded by graceful mansions. Instead, she’s hiding miles away on Tybee Island after a mysterious voice on the phone warned her that someone wanted her dead. The call was too specific to…Revolver Road (Harper McClain, #3) Life has been quiet for Harper out on Tybee until her scanner pops to life, a…
Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain
Dual timelines, riveting storylines & uncovering a mystery in North Carolina make this a five star read! Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain Nothing like southern hospitality! 1939 Anna Dale is a young artist from New Jersey who won a mural competition but for a different state than she had hoped. She takes a trip down south to little Edenton, NC where her mural is to hang in the town’s post office. The sticky sweet southern hospitality sucks her in to stay while she creates the mural. Slowly she realizes the southern hospitality is not a sweet as it seems. 2018 Morgan Christopher is a young artist…
The Hating Game by Sally Thorne Book Review
The Hating Game by Sally Thorne Book Review The lowdown from Goodreads Publication Date August 9th, 2016 Nemesis (n.) 1) An opponent or rival whom a person cannot best or overcome; 2) A person’s undoing; 3) Joshua Templeman. Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman hate each other. Not dislike. Not begrudgingly tolerate. Hate. And they have no problem displaying their feelings through a series of ritualistic passive-aggressive maneuvers as they sit across from each other, executive assistants to co-CEOs of a publishing company. Lucy can’t understand Joshua’s joyless, uptight, meticulous approach to his job. Joshua is clearly baffled by Lucy’s overly bright clothes, quirkiness, and Pollyanna attitude. Now up for the…
Watch Me Disappear by Janelle Brown Book Review
Watch Me Disappear by Janelle Brown Book Review The lowdown from Goodreads Publication Date July 11th, 2017 It’s been a year since Billie Flanagan—a beautiful, charismatic Berkeley mom with an enviable life—went on a solo hike in Desolation Wilderness and vanished from the trail. No body—only a hiking boot—has ever been found. Billie’s husband and teenage daughter cope with her death the best they can: Jonathan drinks, Olive grows remote. But then Olive starts having waking dreams—or are they hallucinations?—that her mother is still alive. Jonathan worries about Olive’s emotional stability, until he starts unearthing secrets from Billie’s past that bring into question everything he thought he knew about his wife.…
The Return of the Ripper: Sherlock Holmes & Lucy James Mystery #7 by Anna Elliott & Charles Veley Book Review
The Return of the Ripper: Sherlock Holmes & Lucy James Mystery #7 by Anna Elliott & Charles Veley Book Review The lowdown from Goodreads Publication Date June 12, 2018 Diamonds can be deadly! In October 1897, a deadly serial killer returns to London, just as Lucy and Jack are planning their wedding and Sherlock is launching a high-stakes investigation at the request of diamond mogul Cecil Rhodes. With Watson, the Baker Street team soon find themselves enmeshed in a deadly conspiracy, with tentacles that reach far beyond the shadows of Whitechapel. Sherlock and Lucy will need more than their usual deductive brilliance to defeat their latest adversary, or else the case…
Safe Houses by Dan Fesperman Book Review
Safe Houses by Dan Fesperman Book Review The lowdown from Goodreads Publication Date July 3, 2018 West Berlin, 1979. Helen Abell oversees the CIA’s network of safe houses, rare havens for field agents and case officers amidst the dangerous milieu of a city in the grips of the Cold War. Helen’s world is upended when, during her routine inspection of an agency property, she overhears a meeting between two people unfamiliar to her speaking a coded language that hints at shadowy realities far beyond her comprehension. Before the day is out, she witnesses a second unauthorized encounter, one that will place her in the sightlines of the most ruthless and…
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