Moving to Italy to escape your problems sounds like an excellent plan, especially when pasta and a charming bookstore are involved. Unfortunately, Boo Walker’s The English Bookstore in Bologna proves that emotional...
Four women, a parapsychology experiment, and a house frozen in time. The Women in White by Sarah Pekkanen is a dual-timeline mystery with very questionable science.
Richard Milford had four wives, plenty of enemies, and a remarkable talent for making people want him dead. Nafissa Thompson-Spires turns his murder into a wickedly funny mystery where everyone has a story.
Elsie Fitzpatrick has spent decades hiding her past, and the seven-year-old across the road is not helping. Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth is a mystery with a grump worth rooting for.
A doting grandmother runs the drug trade in a small Maine town, and when her daughter turns up dead, she doesn’t grieve quietly. Rating: 3.25 out of 5 stars Babs Dionne is a grandmother, a proud Franco-American, and the...
One beach wedding, one arrest, and twelve years of silence. The One Day You Were My Husband is more emotional than mysterious, and I wanted the mystery to move a little faster.
The scenery is gorgeous, the relationships are a disaster, and everyone could probably use a long nap and a TED Talk on boundaries. Welcome to The Plunge.
Cork O’Connor heads into the Boundary Waters for what should be a family trip, but instead finds missing friends, dangerous men, and questions about the difference between justice and revenge. Relaxing vacations are not...
A missing family, a mansion turned local legend, and one of the vanished daughters strolling back into town fifteen years later. Such a Clever Girl has a genuinely creepy hook; it takes way too long to pay off.
A recent grad falls for her boyfriend’s cat and makes a surprisingly decent case for feline retirement. Kitten is funny and sharp on class and dependency, but I might have been the wrong age for this debut novel.
The Good Daughter had me turning pages and second-guessing every single character. Now Peacock’s adaptation is bringing all that buried trauma, family tension, and danger to the screen. Watch the new trailer.
Hayden Panettiere spent her whole life having her story told by other people. She finally wrote it herself, and just as I was finishing her story, she was gone.
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