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Count My Lies

April 4, 2025

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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 ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: mystery, suspense, vacation reading

Witness 8 by Steve Cavanagh

March 26, 2025

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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 ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Manhattan, mystery, thriller, vacation reading

The Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis

February 13, 2025

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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 ... Read More...

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Penitence: A Novel

February 3, 2025

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When Penitence begins 13-year-old Nora is alone in a jail cell after turning herself in for killing her 14-year-old brother. An opening like this has the heft to carry a traditional thriller/mystery ... Read More...

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January Reading Wrap-Up

January 31, 2025

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Wrap-up is the perfect word for this January. One, it is COLD here in Seattle. Flannel sheets cold which makes for cozy reading. Two, for the first time in a very long time a month has felt like it ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature Tagged: fantasy, mini-reviews, mystery, sports, young adult

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