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- Review of City of Windows (Lucas Page #1) by Robert Pobi
I loved Pobi's mystery; the character of Page, a retired detective who is pulled back onto a case; and This was a really compelling mystery/thriller—with a smart underlying commentary about gun ownership, It wouldn’t have made any material difference to events, but not putting that protection in place felt Lucas Page is a fantastic character (as are Whitaker, Kehoe, Erin, and Dingo). I mentioned this book in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year.
- December Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
, Roaring Twenties-set historical fiction, postapocalyptic fiction, and the newest in a young adult mystery review of The Light Pirate. 03 The Box in the Woods (Truly Devious #4) by Maureen Johnson The fourth mystery The Box in the Woods is another smart, funny, intriguing young adult mystery from Maureen Johnson. here for my full review of Tell Me an Ending. 05 Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson Atkinson's newest mystery by the intersection of Gwendolyn and Ma Coker's golden child, her eldest son Niven--along with the mystery
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/17/21 Edition
What I'm Reading Now: Three Fun Fantasy Stories I'm reading the newest book from Naomi Novik, which showcases powerful than any of her classmates realize--fears she might accidentally take him out before she can master Novik also wrote the fantastic Spinning Silver and Uprooted, both of which appear on the Greedy Reading
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/14/23 Edition
He lays bare some of the mysteries of college admissions--aiming to offer some sanity to those of us Thomas A Study in Scarlet Women was the first book in Sherry Thomas's gender-flipped Sherlock Holmes mystery Lady Ingram is seeking confidential answers to the mystery of the disappearance of someone revealed as client and her duty to reveal the hurtful truth to her friend as she dives into solving this complicated mystery
- Review of Tokyo Dreaming (Tokyo Ever After #2) by Emiko Jean
But she quickly realized that being a princess involved responsibility, political maneuvering, and mysterious The details of princess life, privilege, and pressures are fun and fantastic, including elaborate clothing
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/25/23 Edition
listening to the fifth installment in Deanna Raybourn's irresistible Veronica Speedwell Victorian-era mystery Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's feisty Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction mysteries Raybourn is masterful at providing a captivating main character with depth and flaws; a tantalizing attraction characters, and dialogue that makes me laugh out loud--all set against the backdrop of a Victorian-age mystery In this fifth book of the series, Veronica and Stoker become involved in a mystery involving a house
- Review of The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley
I was intrigued by the explanation for one of the long-term mysteries of the book (the stealing and odd Do you feel that likable or sympathetic characters are necessary for you to feel invested in a mystery #mysterysuspense, #threestarbookreview
- Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Reads
The Autoboyography dialogue is fantastic and witty but feels effortless and like it comes from actual This is fantastic contemporary young adult fiction. I loved this fantastic memoir! Wood's memoir is heartwarming and funny and tragic and vivid. an immensely readable book rich in period detail, great dialogue, and satisfying elements of love, mystery
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/13/20 Edition
This title was listed in the Greedy Reading List Six Newish Young Adult Mysteries I Want to Read. 03 Webb provides multiple mysteriously missing persons, mixed motivations, naive characters ruined by sinister I'm alternating between a fictionalized celebrity story with heart; a young adult mystery with a nerdy heroine and a dark plot twist; and a prolific mystery author's first in a series, where almost everyone
- Review of Swift the Storm, Fierce the Flame by Meg Long
The sequel to Long's young adult fantasy/science fiction debut Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves takes
- Review of A Play for the End of the World by Jai Chakrabarti
When Jaryk learns that his like-a-brother friend Misha from his childhood orphanage has died under mysterious The unlikely Jaryk-Lucy connection captured my heart, the Misha-Jaryk friendship was fantastic, and Chakrabarti's
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/15/21 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Wiley Cash's upcoming Southern mystery, When Ghosts Come Home; Come Home by Wiley Cash Cash, author of A Land More Kind than Home and The Last Ballad, here offers a mystery
- October Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
month: two historical fiction stories, gothic magical realism, science fiction, a character-driven mystery , and yet another of Deanna Raybourn's Veronica Speedwell Victorian mysteries. American Girl by Wendy Walker This is another whodunit winner from Wendy Walker: a character-driven mystery She's been cobbling together enough to get by, but when a mysterious draw to the spooky Starling House In A Murderous Relation, Veronica and Stoker become involved in a mystery involving a house of debauchery
- Review of One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
But August's adorably quirky roommates and a mystery woman she keeps running into on the Q train might The book revels in wonderful LGBTQ love and tons of sexiness; fantastic New York-centric details; and
- Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series
White's And I Darken, the first book in her Conquerer's Saga series, has cover art 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
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/12/24 Edition
Cosby's Southern small-town murder mystery, All the Sinners Bleed; and I'm reading The Night Tiger author Bao, a detective set on uncovering the mystery of the woman's identity and death, has long been fascinated also the author of The Night Tiger, a title I listed in my Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Mysteries
- Review of The Half-Drowned King by Linnea Hartsuyker
Linnea Hartsuyker is the first in a completed trilogy of the same name that links historical fiction and fantasy
- Review of The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson
The mystery isn't over--Truly Devious led to the disappearance of Alice Ellingham decades ago, and now And the mysterious deaths of people connected to Ellingham Academy aren't over. #series, #youngadult, #mysterysuspense, #threestarbookreview
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/18/23 Edition
listening to the fourth installment in Deanna Raybourn's irresistible Veronica Speedwell Victorian-era mystery Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's feisty Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction mysteries Raybourn is masterful at providing a captivating main character with depth and flaws; a tantalizing will-they-won't-they a tease, and dialogue that makes me laugh out loud--all set against the backdrop of a Victorian-age mystery
- Review of Fourth Wing (The Empyrean #1) by Rebecca Yarros
Fourth Wing is the first in Rebecca Yarros's Empyrean fantasy series, about a war college for dragon
- Review of Trust No One (Devlin and Falco #1) by Debra Webb
Webb provides multiple mysteriously missing persons, mixed motivations, naive characters who might be I also loved Falco's back story and his mysterious contact Cross, and I'd love to see more of both of If you like mysteries, you might also want to look at the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries
- Review of Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
The tone of Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth was unlike any fantasy novel I’ve read—Gideon’s speech is
- Six Chilly Books to Read in the Heat of Summer
Light were the Greenland setting, the alternate world, the bitter cold, and the sentimentalism and mystery settings are exquisitely wrought, with stark, rugged, lush landscapes serving as the backdrop for a mystery It isn't a police procedural; this is a starkly beautiful book that happens to have a mystery at its I also listed Disappearing Earth in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year. When we are young, we consume the world in great gulps, and it consumes us, and everything is mysterious
- Six More Time-Travel Stories to Dive Into
But when one of Cara's eight remaining selves mysteriously dies while she is world walking, shocking But she is incapable of BS and full of rage, fear, unquenched revenge fantasies, vulnerability, and the
- Review of Before She Disappeared by Lisa Gardner
Gardner's brand-new character-driven mystery offers an imperfect, unassuming heroine obsessed with solving This is my first Lisa Gardner book, and I love how character driven the mystery was.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/13/22 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Woman of Light, Kali Fajardo-Anstine's upcoming fantastical, indigenous historical fiction about the secrets of an Old Hollywood starlet; and A Marvellous Light, Freya Marske's fantastical Edwardian England story of mystery and love.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/13/24 Edition
witty time-travel story The Ministry of Time; I'm listening to Only If You're Lucky, Stacy Willingham's mystery Kaliane Bradley In a world of the near future, a young woman is one of many civil servants offered a mysterious Lucy is wild, mischievous, mysterious--and she has an extra room in her rambunctious house for the summer
- Review of The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
Katherine Arden, author of the captivating Winternight trilogy, here shares a mysterious, haunting historical Freddie is reported as having died, but strange and unnerving clues indicate to Laura that something more mysterious
- July Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
My Bossy takes on more great reads are to come--but I do have some fantastic July favorites to share melded into another: young friendship, serial killer, outlaw search, small-town intrigue, and longtime mysteries But a young, half-feral female student and a shockingly unorthodox widow both seem to hold mysterious act as a Hollywood movie star, linking the story's two timelines and revealing long-held secrets and mysteries
- Review of The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin
In the world of Griffin's young adult fantasy novel The Nature of Witches, witches control the weather
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/3/23 Edition
01 Fourth Wing (Empyrean #1) by Rebecca Yarros Fourth Wing is the first in Rebecca Yarros's Empyrean fantasy
- Review of Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
Despite the mysterious disappearances of children that are at the heart of the story, this primarily watching police shows), his youthful belief that he and a ragtag group of friends can quickly resolve the mystery #mysterysuspense, #india
- Review of The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy
emotions surrounding having been assaulted in the past—in order to try to get information about the mystery If you like mysteries with twist, you may be in for Molloy's newest book, Goodnight Beautiful.
- Review of The Villa by Rachel Hawkins
The Villa is gothic suspense told in two timelines, both at the same Italian villa, where dark mysteries flighty Chess is a popular, single self-help author and influencer, while Emily, who is emerging from a mysterious long-term illness and in the middle of a contentious divorce, is the author of a successful series of cozy mysteries Hawkins takes us back and forth from the decades-old mystery and deaths at the villa to the growing unease
- Review of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #1) by Holly Jackson
I read this young adult mystery in a day, it was so good. writing her college application essays, but she is doggedly determined to get to the bottom of this mystery I mentioned this book in the Greedy Reading List Six Newish Young Adult Mysteries I Want to Read as well
- Review of The Witch Elm by Tana French
Within a suspenseful mystery structure, French explores privilege, interconnectedness, and the many shades This is a lurking, suspenseful Tana French mystery, so I was plowing through it as usual, eager to find
- Six Great Stories about Robots, Humans and Alien Life, and AI
SecUnit is a fantastic main character; it's grumpily and charmingly obsessed with keeping its people A mysterious prisoner from the front arrives who could be friend or foe, and our main protagonist Talin world-renowned physicist working to unlock the secrets of the hand and the curious artifacts, but the mysteries
- Review of VenCo by Cherie Dimaline
VenCo offers feminist, hard-drinking, foul-mouthed witches bound together by mysterious forces who undergo Then a mysterious power begins calling to her. Through a series of unexpected events, she is offered a mysterious job at a publishing company...but
- Review of The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins
deeply developed, but twists and turns make The Wife Upstairs a magnetic, fast read to add to your mystery In Rachel Hawkins's new mystery The Wife Upstairs, each of the main players and their histories aren't feel plausible, but its twists and turns make The Wife Upstairs a magnetic, fast read to add to your mystery
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/20/23 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Jane Harper's newest Australian-set Aaron Falk mystery, Exiles; adapt her surprise feminist bestseller into a movie--without losing her integrity or being derailed by mysterious But the year-old mysterious disappearance of Kim Gillespie, a young woman from the area, hooks Falk and Then mysterious threats begin appearing within the script, aimed at the writers who are picking apart
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/16/24 Edition
and a gothic setting in 19th-century Scotland; I'm reading Kate Atkinson's most recent Jackson Brodie mystery string of unsolved art thefts--and he's led to Burton Makepeace, an old hotel that also hosts Murder Mystery
- Review of The Unwilling by John Hart
Hart reliably offers character-driven mysteries with heartbreaking interpersonal complications. I mentioned my love for Hart's book The Last Child in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/4/23 Edition
Over the course of the past two books, the Bayview Four solved mysteries and established that they were and Knox from book one--along with other old favorites and fresh faces--in a new set of intertwined, mysterious unexpected comes to town, our sleuths realize that not everyone is who they say they are; that old mysteries
- Six More Novels I Loved Reading Last Year
Then mysterious threats and unexplained feminist changes begin appearing within the script, aimed at When June witnesses Athena's death and then mysteriously comes up with a story about Chinese laborers learns that his like-a-brother friend Misha from his childhood World War II-era orphanage has died under mysterious The unlikely Jaryk-Lucy connection captured my heart, the Misha-Jaryk friendship was fantastic, and Chakrabarti's
- Review of the Cormoran Strike series books 1-4 by Robert Galbraith
These are generally deep dives into mysterious, often creepy situations. Strike and Robin was hinted at but not consummated. 03 Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith In the third mystery
- Three Wackily Different Books I'm Reading Right Now, 9/12/20 Edition
on the tone of this one yet; Connor is a little snarky, but I believe the plot is going to include mystery #LGBTQ, #youngadult, #mysterysuspense 02 A Very Punchable Face Has Colin Jost lived long enough to Concurrently reading a young adult LGBTQ mystery, a comedian's memoir, and a historical fiction story
- July Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
This was funny, sweet, steamy, and poignant--a fantastic summer light-fiction read that I loved. This is a character-driven mystery with a twist. This is a character-driven mystery with an interesting twist. That is, until the mysterious Maddalena arrives.
- Review of Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth
But she is incapable of BS and full of rage, fear, unquenched revenge fantasies, vulnerability, and the
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/2/21 Edition
I loved last year's gritty, character-driven mystery-thriller Blacktop Wasteland so much that it made In Razorblade Tears, two men are coping with the tragic, violent, mysterious deaths of their married
- Review of Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
They remain driven by doubt and fear and desperation; some are deluded by a fantasy of what medical science to become a patient, and I, the clinician, agree to try to fix you, whatever the improbability, the misery