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- Review of Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith
In the fifth installment of the mystery series by Robert Galbraith (J.K. A woman recognizes him and impulsively spills the story of her mother Margot Bamborough's mysterious It was nicely paced, and I liked having time to dig into the characters' evolution and the mystery's
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/17/20 Edition
But I'm still excited to read Marie Lu's latest young adult science fiction/fantasy book, the first in When a mysterious prisoner from the front arrives who could be friend or foe, our main protagonist Talin
- Review of The Spy Coast (The Martini Club #1) by Tess Gerritsen
Tess Gerritsen is the author of the 13-book Rizzoli and Isles mystery series as well as many other books
- Review of The Wife and the Widow by Christian White
White's twisty mystery is set against the backdrop of an unforgiving winter on an Australian island,
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/6/25 Edition
And I'm listening to The Blood of the Old Kings , the first in Sung-Il Kim's fantasy series in which
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/15/24 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading the seventh installment in Martha Wells's fantastic science fiction Only a few Antari have been born in a generation, and they have long been the only ones with the power If you've read the Shades of Magic books, you'll already be acquainted with the fantastic characters Now Kosika, a young, impressionable, fervor-driven young Antari, is taking up the mantle of the deceased In LaValle's magical, dark Western, people tend to disappear whenever Adelaide decides to open her mysterious
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/14/21 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading a memoir about coping with chronic illness; a twisty mystery in which people aren't always what they seem; and a young adult mystery with heart, the second in a series was a twentysomething writer in New York City when she began having odd symptoms, terrible pain, and mysterious Laura Dave is setting up a well-rounded, fascinating mystery so far; Hannah and Bailey are pushed to the destructive gossip app taking down reputations and revealing secrets, and they managed to trace a mysterious
- Review of Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner
Faulkner's debut mystery is twisty and turny, with various potential bad seeds and complications--and When she alludes to mysterious connections between the women--and a long-ago crime--her persistent presence situations at the heart of the book to be revealed slowly--aren't too convenient, and they add layers to the mystery
- Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series
White's And I Darken, the first book in her Conquerer's Saga series, has a cover that to me evokes fantasy This blend of historical fiction, fantasy, and paranormal continues with LaFevers's Dark Triumph, Mortal relationship growth. 04 The Folk of the Air series by Holly Black The Folk of the Air is a young adult fantasy Have you read any or all of these magical young adult mysteries related to royalty?
- Review of When Ghosts Come Home by Wiley Cash
In his newest book, Wiley Cash offers a mystery and police procedural set in a small Southern town. abandoned airplane are found in his quiet, coastal North Carolina town, Winston must try to unravel the mystery But I really like Cash's character-driven mystery writing, and I'm definitely in for reading his future
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/18/21 Edition
a beautiful modern classic from a bestselling author who writes about faith and life; and a recent mystery is Alexandra Andrews's first book, and so far the mystery's twists and turns are fantastic.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/11/21 Edition
Reading Now I'm reading Paper & Blood, Kevin Hearne's second and final book in his quirky Ink & Sigil fantasy Paper & Blood is a quirky, lighthearted fantasy with entertaining pop culture references, copious Scottish
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/17/21 Edition
I've got a mysterious story with an unreliable narrator and an imagined nationwide hubbub (a la "baby Jessica" and the well), the third and final book in a captivating fantasy trilogy, and a lighter fiction
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/7/22 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Rachel Hartman's Tess of the Road, fantasy about a headstrong young , Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama; and I'm listening to the first in the prolific Marie Lu's young adult fantasy
- Review of The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
Dave offers unexpected twists and turns and complex relationships in this great mystery. Laura Dave sets up a well-rounded, fascinating mystery; Hannah and Bailey are pushed to work together Another recent mystery I enjoyed was Who Is Maud Dixon? Click here for my review. You can always search by category on the blog; to see posts tagged as Mystery, click here and take a
- Review of The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike #7) by Robert Galbraith
I listened to The Running Grave, the newest in the mystery series by Robert Galbraith (J. K.
- Review of The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
I loved this summer-camp setting, the slow build of mystery in two timelines, the privilege and working I was intrigued by the mysteries and their layers, which are continually revealed, and while I usually Many mysterious elements are cleared up at the end of the book in satisfying swirls of truth; all the
- April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
of essays about joy and wonder; The Survivors, Jane Harper's newest Australia-set, character-driven mystery Her mysteries are set in Australia, and she makes me care about her characters while keeping me guessing When a fresh tragedy occurs, it brings the pain and terrible mystery of years past swirling back to wreak Novik also wrote the fantastic Spinning Silver and Uprooted, both of which appear on the Greedy Reading incredible genetic cloning advancements--but people have noticed that her husband has recently been mysteriously
- Review of Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams
Williams's historical fiction mystery--based on real-life double agents in the Cambridge Spy Ring--is In Williams's historical fiction mystery, which skips back and forth in time, four years later, Iris's
- Review of The Maid by Nita Prose
Prose offers a surprising amount of heart and a unique main protagonist in this lighthearted murder mystery The lighthearted aspect of this mystery reminds me a little bit of Finley Donovan Is Killing It, but
- Review of Things in Jars by Jess Kidd
Jess Kidd offers a creepy, dark mystery tale gloriously steeped in details of Victorian London and seedy Various depraved and frighteningly cruel characters help drive the story of Things in Jars and add to the mystery Oh, and a mysterious, dangerous, but tragic child-creature-mermaid necessitates detective work and a In Jars offers solid historical fiction details of Victorian London, which I love, within a creepy mystery liked recently was A Curious Beginning, and it shares some of these elements of historical fiction, mystery
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/9/23 Edition
This Woven Kingdom is the first in Tahereh Mafi's fantasy trilogy of the same name.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/4/24 Edition
protagonist may or may not have murdered her best friend and is tracked down by a podcast investigating the mystery Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle Every time Daphne Bell meets a potential love interest, she receives a mysterious Everyone assumes she killed Savvy, and Lucy can't escape the suspicions and resentment surrounding the mysterious do the one thing she swore she'd never do: return to the scene of Savvy's murder to try to solve the mystery overlap, and their challenges intersect when a young boy is taken from the community, culminating in a mysterious
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/25/24 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Creation Lake , Rachel Kushner's noir, dark humor mystery; I'm When she meets Bruno, a mysterious figure who trains the young activists, she believes she's manipulating Kushner brings dark humor and noir mystery to the story of Creation Lake .
- Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West
Reading Lists Six More Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West, Six Historical Fiction Mysteries Davies includes fantastic details of amateur Western exploration that I adored. 04 One for the Blackbird Carson is also the author of the Fire and Thorns series, which is made up of four young adult fantasy
- Review of The Survivors by Jane Harper
This is my favorite Harper mystery so far. On the Tasmanian coast, characters explore loss and grief and the swirling mysteries surrounding long-ago Her mysteries are set in Australia, and she makes me care about her characters while keeping me guessing When a fresh tragedy occurs, it brings the pain and terrible mystery of years past swirling back to wreak
- Six More Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You
Witch by Chris Bohjalian Hour of the Witch is a thoroughly researched, witchy, historical thriller with fantastic Hour of the Witch is a thoroughly researched historical fiction thriller with fantastic details of the dark humor and unexpected details, and the exchanges between El and Orion (and El and everyone) were fantastic In the world of Griffin's young adult fantasy novel The Nature of Witches, witches control the weather
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/3/23 Edition
newest book by Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy, to be published April 4; I'm reading a young adult fantasy
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/7/23 Edition
mystery about race and history from David Joy, Those We Thought We Knew; I'm listening to the third book in Deanna Raybourn's wonderful Victorian England mystery series, A Treacherous Curse; and I'm reading The Deep Sky, Yume Kitasei's recent science fiction thriller about a deep space expedition and a mysterious Clever Veronica and gruff Stoker will need to unravel the mystery of an ancient curse and sort out the Asuka must find the real culprit before accusations surrounding the mystery destroy her.
- Six Books Set in Australia that Are Fair Dinkum Fascinating
Exiles was the right mystery at the right time for me. For my full review, check out Exiles. 02 The Wife and the Widow by Christian White White's twisty mystery This was like a Secret Garden for grown-ups, with intertwined, mysterious stories from 1900, 1975, and For my full review, check out Only Killers and Thieves. 06 The Lost Man by Jane Harper Harper's mysteries I listed this book in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year.
- Review of An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (The Carls #1) by Hank Green
featuring unorthodox friendships, the frightening power of social media, the emergence of alien life, and mysterious able to communicate with the Carls--thereby becoming the spokesperson for a movement to protect the mysterious With funny, heartwarming, heartbreaking, fantastically bizarre elements; imperfect and wonderful friendships
- Review of Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery Wrong Place Wrong Time plays with time, and I love books that play
- Review of The Eighth Detective by Alex Pavesi
This is an engaging and quick read, and the old-fashioned mystery stories within the story are intriguing The murder mystery stories were written decades before the book's present-day events take place and are There's a book within a book here, and the fictitious author of the stories has approached the murder mystery The mystery stories within the story are intriguing, and I loved paying attention to their varied structures #mysterysuspense, #booksaboutbooks, #gothicnoir
- Review of Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sass
mention that the essence of his story remained intact through years and "a million" versions (including a fantasy #LGBTQ, #youngadult, #mysterysuspense, #dysfunctionalfamily, #twostarbookreview
- Review of The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry
tragedy of Flora's disappearance), anyone who might have been connected to Flora's disappearance, and the mysterious
- June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
; The Last Thing He Told Me, Laura Dave's great mystery that offers unexpected (but not manipulative) McManus's great, character-driven sequel to her young adult mystery One of Us Is Lying; and The Great behind looming secrets whose answers her mother took to her grave, establishes the link between the mysteries Laura Dave sets up a well-rounded, fascinating mystery; Hannah and Bailey are pushed to work together McManus Last year, in McManus's great young adult mystery One of Us Is Lying, the Bayview Four cut through
- Review of Long Bright River by Liz Moore
her sister Kacey disappears and a string of murders rock the community, Mickey's need to solve the mystery disappears and a string of murders rock the community, everyone is suspect and Mickey's desire to solve the mystery I like a mystery that makes me care about the characters and doesn't foreshadow too much. #mysterysuspense, #siblings, #dysfunctionalfamily, #fourstarbookreview
- Six More Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You
Hour of the Witch is a thoroughly researched historical fiction thriller with fantastic details of the dark humor and unexpected details, and the exchanges between El and Orion (and El and everyone) were fantastic Grown-Ups Will Love. 06 The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin In the world of Griffin's young adult fantasy
- Review of Fallen: A Novel of Suspense by Linda Castillo
Castillo's Amish setting is intriguing, I didn't see the resolution of the mystery coming, and I was Brutal violence is at the heart of the mystery--and there's enough bashing people over the head that But Castillo's Amish setting is intriguing, I didn't see the mystery's resolution coming, and I was
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/17/23 Edition
Happy Place, scheduled for release April 25; and I'm reading the first in Tracy Deonn's young adult fantasy
- July Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
In Fugitive Telemetry, Murderbot attempts to solve the mystery of a murder--while generally annoyed and Cosby's Razorblade Tears, two men are coping with the tragic, violent, mysterious deaths of their married I loved his gritty, character-driven mystery-thriller Blacktop Wasteland so much that it made my Six In this second and final book in Bardugo's young adult fantasy King of Scars duology, Nikolai, Zoya,
- Review of In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
This is the epitome of glorious young adult fantasy, but the book is truly character driven. In Other Lands is the epitome of glorious young adult fantasy—there’s a portal; there are mermaids, elves
- Review of The Last Confession of Autumn Casterly by Meredith Tate
The mystery moves along at a nice clip, with Ivy and her loyal friends making plucky efforts to uncover sister Autumn has been emotionally closed off since their mother died and has become involved in a mysterious The Last Confession of Autumn Casterly is a young adult mystery, and the main protagonists are high schoolers The mystery moves along at a nice clip, with Ivy and her wonderfully loyal friends making plucky efforts Greedy Reading List Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/13/20 Edition, as well as in Six Newish Young Adult Mysteries
- Review of Deadly Waters by Dot Hutchison
It's a revenge fantasy, but the issues at the heart of the story are real and weighty and important. I imagined that the alligator angle might make for a campy revenge fantasy. And it is revenge fantasy.
- Review of Nothing Like the Movies (Better Than the Movies #2) by Lynn Painter
But Liz, who is often embedded with the baseball team to gather footage and social media material, isn't But for me, the story didn't support these romantic, sexy fantasies--I remained somewhat irritated by
- Review of The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious #2) by Maureen Johnson
ICYMI: The second in Johnson's young adult mystery series offers growing friendships, determined sleuthing Stevie Bell solved one mystery last year--the mystery of her murdered classmate. But just as she's pulling closer to solving the original mystery that drew her to Ellingham Academy ( And far from forgetting about the decades-old mysteries of Ellingham Academy, Stevie is more obsessed She kept me hooked and moved things along while not making me feel mystery-manipulated.
- Review of Sarahland: Stories by Sam Cohen
darkly funny, and the situations range from that of a Sarah who is being paid to act out necrophilia fantasies
- Review of Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
In Razorblade Tears, two men are coping with the tragic, violent, mysterious deaths of their married I loved last year's gritty, character-driven mystery-thriller Blacktop Wasteland so much that it made
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/8/23 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery that plays with time, Wrong one of my favorite authors, Claire Keegan; and I'm listening to Janice Hallett's unreliable narrator mystery 01 Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery Wrong Place Wrong Things Like These. 03 The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett Janice Hallett's The Twyford Code explores a mysterious he's out of prison and mainly resists sinking back into illegal habits...but he's got a hunch that the mystery
- Review of Rule of Wolves (King of Scars #2) by Leigh Bardugo
Rule of Wolves is the second and final book in Bardugo's young adult fantasy King of Scars duology. her inconvenient romantic feelings for Nikolai (and vice versa) and begins to come to terms with the mysterious