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The Betrayals by Fiona Neill

September 12, 2018

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A seemingly happy marriage has cracks that shatter one summer when two families vacation together on the Norfolk coast. Two families with best friends at their center. Rosie and Lisa have known each ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, family, marriage, mental health, Pegasus

It’s Not You, It’s Me: Mini-Reviews

August 25, 2017

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Plausibility is a subjective concept, especially in reading. There are premises, plots, and characters in novels I love that make other readers put the book down. Today’s mini-reviews exemplify the ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature, Fiction Tagged: 1970s, Africa, childhood, mini-reviews, Pegasus, Putnam

The Preservationist: A Novel by Justin Kramon

May 26, 2017

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  She’d never been looked at that way before, with that peculiar mix of intensity and distance. Sam is a thirty-nine-year-old kitchen worker at Stradler College. He’s led a life of movement ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Pegasus, suspense, thriller

The Sleep Room

September 18, 2013

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  There is nothing more frightening than that which cannot be identified, no engine of fear more powerful than the unknown.   It is 1955 and the psychiatric field is making its first foray into ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, mystery, Pegasus

The Bad Miss Bennet

November 19, 2012

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The last time we saw the troublesome Miss Lydia Bennet, she was smirking triumphantly at her sisters while being driven away by her new husband, the bounder Mr. Wickham. Now she has resurfaced, a ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: historical fiction, Pegasus

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