Sloane can’t help herself—she’s a compulsive liar. When she sees a handsome man at the park helping his hurt daughter she immediately offers her services as a nurse. She’s actually a manicurist, but in Count My Lies this is just the first strand of a web she spins to get the life of her dreams. From this seemingly unplanned meeting Sloane slowly insinuates herself in the ... Read More...
Witness 8 by Steve Cavanagh
I’m switching gears from heart-warming to heart-pounding with Witness 8 the latest in the Eddie Flynn mystery series. When the body of a wealthy woman is found dead in her home in an exclusive Manhattan neighborhood it leaves the rest of the neighbors stunned that such a thing could happen. That the murderer turns out to be one of their own, a renowned pediatric surgeon, is ... Read More...
Wild Dark Shore
A teenage girl who lives on the beach amidst a colony of seals. Her older brother who plays the violin, loves whales, but has a temper so ferocious he boxes to exhaustion on a punching bag. Her younger brother knows more about the Earth’s plants and biodiversity than most scientists. These are the children of Dominic Salt, the caretaker on Shearwater Island, a remote isle near ... Read More...
The Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis
A novel that includes the Egyptian wing of the Metropolitan Museum, Vogue editor Diana Vreeland, and ancient Egypt is not one I’m likely to miss out on. Fiona Davis’s The Stolen Queen follows two women and two timelines right up until they intersect on the night of the Met Gala in 1978 when a priceless Egyptian heirloom is stolen. Charlotte Cross is a young woman who refuses ... Read More...
The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch
If you’ve read the Jane Austen novel Pride & Prejudice or seen the movie you know that Lydia Bennet was one of the most annoying little sisters in the fictional world, nearly bringing down her family’s reputation with her foolish behavior and hasty decisions. But what if there was more to her than that? Melinda Taub answers that question in The Scandalous Confessions of ... Read More...
The Puzzle Box
What do a traumatic brain injury, the imperial family of Japan, and a puzzle have in common? If you’re Mike Brink, a man whose football injury left him a savant in the world of patterns and mathematics, the answer is easy: the myth of the Puzzle Box of Japan. For Danielle Trussoni, this is the jumping off point for her new novel, The Puzzle Box, a fiendish thriller that made me ... Read More...
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