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What Wild Women Do: A Novel

January 30, 2024

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When Rowan and her fiancé Seth stall out in their dreams of being a screenwriter (her) and a novelist (him) they decide to take a break from the dreary reality of moving back home to Michigan and rent a rustic cabin in the Adirondacks for a month. This simple decision, made to save money, leads to the discoveries that lie at the heart of What Wild Women Do by Karma Brown. The ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, mystery, vacation reading, women

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

January 19, 2024

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The holidays are a wrap and while the time with family was hopefully enjoyable or at least not painful, I thought it might be fun to spice things up with a murder mystery about one extended family that finds itself stranded at a ski resort. Even better, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone just released in paperback so it’s easy to find at the library—or purchase with ... Read More...

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Holly by Stephen King

December 18, 2023

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I know many people have moved towards cozy holiday reading in the last month, but my reading has remained varied and a little bit dark. So, I have a compromise today: a book with a Christmas-y title, but written by the master of suspense and horror. It’s Stephen King’s Holly and while it won’t warm your heart it does involve hearts and is no more terrifying than the news these ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, horror, mystery, suspense

The Berry Pickers: A Novel

November 14, 2023

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For one Mi’kmaq family summers in Maine have always been about sunshine, campfires, and reunions with old friends amidst long days of picking blueberries as migrant workers. Until 1962 when Ruthie, their youngest daughter, disappears, irrevocably changing the lives of the two main characters in Amanda Peters’ stunning debut The Berry Pickers. For Joe it begins a cycle of loss ... Read More...

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Murder in the Family

November 10, 2023

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Somehow this ended up being a week of true crime fiction and nonfiction so I’ll carry the theme through to the end with Murder in the Family, a novel about the making of a Netflix documentary about an unsolved murder. The producer is the stepson of the murder victim, who was his wealthy mother’s second, much younger husband. And the plot picks up speed from there. Caroline ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, London, murder, mystery

Kill Show: A Novel

November 8, 2023

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Sara Parcell is a teenager and gifted violinist who disappears on what seems to be an ordinary day. Within days her case goes national, coming to the attention of an ambitious reality TV show producer desperate to do something bigger than dating competition shows. To that end she reaches out to Sara’s parents to follow her abduction in real-time as a TV documentary. This is the ... Read More...

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