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Book Review: The Unwedding by Ally CondieEllery Wainwright was not supposed to be at The Resort at Broken Point alone. After reading about it on a list of 50 Places to Visit Before You...
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One Big Happy Family by Jamie Day: A Visual GuideOne Big Happy Family by Jamie Day—bestselling author of The Block Party —is a riveting summer suspense full of twists and turns. Could this...
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Book Review: A Lovely Lie by Jamie Lynn HendricksI was genuinely stunned by how terrific this mystery thriller is! A large part of that is due not only to the wonderfully relentless pacing that...
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Book Review: If Something Happens to Me by Alex FinlayThe pseudonymous Alex Finlay—a prominent lawyer residing in Washington, D.C. and Virginia—achieved breakout success with his debut thriller, Every...
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Book Review: The Goldilocks Genome by Elizabeth Reed Aden, PhDWhen Carrie Hediger’s best friend, Sarah, collapses from a mysterious ailment, Carrie immediately suspects Sarah’s husband of having had something...
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Voices with No FearI love books that have either children or older adults as protagonists or main characters. They speak honestly and I feel, for the most part, are...
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Book Review: The Die by Jude BermanIn the quasi-dystopian setting of Jude Berman’s The Die , the United States of America has fallen, torn apart from within. The authoritarian tides...
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Cooking the Books: Fondant Fumble by Jenn McKinlayWhen Tate Harper tells his best friends and business partners that two football stars want to franchise one of their Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakeries,...
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Conspiracies All the Way DownThe biggest problem with conspiracy theories? They’re so much fun. In childhood, I cut my teeth on cryptid stories like Bigfoot, then moved on to...
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Book Review: Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies by Catherine MackHow can readers resist going on a madcap book vacay with a side offering of mystery? The title of debut author Catherine Mack is an irresistible...
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Featured Excerpt: Pitch Dark by Paul DoironPreorder Pitch Dark by Paul Doiron 3 When I got Charley on the phone and told him what Brandon had told me and what Stacey and I had subsequently...
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Cooking the Books: Three Fudges and a Baby by Nancy CocoHotelier and fudge maker Allie McMurphy’s best friend, Jenn Carpenter, is past her pregnancy due date and about ready to pop. She’s determined to...
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The Rise of the Antihero with Erika Robuck, author of The Last Twelve Miles“You could work for us” —A Former CIA Officer I was flattered when a woman I admire proclaimed this. She had read my novels about women WWII spies...
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Book Review: The Seminarian by Hart HansonXavier “Priest” Priestly is a licensed freelance legal investigator, who gets to charge exorbitant prices to the law firms that hire him because...
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Book Review: The Last Murder At The End Of The World by Stuart TurtonAfter an apocalyptic fog destroyed much of humanity, a small outpost of safety—a scientific research facility that figured out a way to raise a...
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From Southern Charm to Charmageddon with Caroline Cleveland, author of When Cicadas CryAt the heart of every gripping thriller lies the eternal battle of good vs. evil, and a Southern setting with its own symbolic contradictions can...
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Book Review: Liar’s Point: The Texas Murder Files by Laura GriffinThe Texas Murder Files series has come full circle. Hidden (2020) introduced us to Austin investigative reporter Bailey Rhoads and detective...
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Our Most Anticipated Reads: June 2024The Last Note of Warning by Katharine Schellman The third in the luscious, mysterious, and queer Nightingale mystery series by Katharine...
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Cooking the Books: The Witless Protection Program by Maria DiRicoWhile Mia Carina is proud of how she’s turned the Belle View Banquet Hall into Queens’ premier catering hall and party venue, her attention has...
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Book Review: She Left by Stacie GreyTwenty years ago, an angry and humiliated Amy Brewer left the cabin where her circle of popular friends was staying one Memorial Day weekend and...
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Book Review: Man’s Best Friend by Alana B. LytleAlana B. Lytle’s debut novel begins with a dream-like interlude, as what is presumably a dog considers her growing ambivalence towards her owner...
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Book Review: Double Tap by Cindy DeesIs it urban legend that a mother can find the superhuman strength to lift a car in order to save her trapped child? Or is it apocryphal? Most would...
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Book Review: The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko JeanReader, how I gasped! I go through a lot of mystery novels and thrillers, so very few plot twists truly surprise me anymore. The Return Of Ellie...
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Book Review: Disturbing the Dead by Kelley ArmstrongMallory Atkinson used to be a homicide detective here in the 21st century. Accidentally traveling back through time to Victorian Edinburgh was, to...
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Book Review: The Accidental Joe by Tom StrawTom Straw is no stranger to being a ghost. Following the publication of his debut suspense novel, 2007’s Trigger Episode , he secretly assumed the...
