Category: Book Reviews

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  • Book Review: DARK ACROSS THE BAY by Ania Ahlborn

    Book Review: DARK ACROSS THE BAY by Ania Ahlborn

    Spotlight & Review Ania Ahlborn is one of my favorite authors, so I am extremely honored to review her latest creation, Dark Across the Bay. This novel is only available through Earthling Publications as a deluxe hardcover, but it is worth every bit of the hefty $50 price tag. In the acknowledgments, which I always…

  • Review: THE BRIGHT LANDS by John Fram

    Review: THE BRIGHT LANDS by John Fram

    Thank you to Hanover Square Press for my free copy.  If you haven’t read my interview with John Fram on Tor Nightfire, click here – he’s the cat’s pajamas! Description:  The town of Bentley holds two things dear: its football, and its secrets. But when star quarterback Dylan Whitley goes missing, an unremitting fear grips…

  • Review: THE GOLDEN CAGE by Camilla Läckberg

    Review: THE GOLDEN CAGE by Camilla Läckberg

    Thank you so much Knopf and Abby from Crime by the Book for my free copy. Description: Faye has loved Jack since they were students at business school. Jack, the perpetual golden boy, grew up wealthy, unlike Faye, who has worked hard to bury a dark past. When Jack needs help launching a new company,…

  • Review: SAVING RUBY KING by Catherine Adel West

    Review: SAVING RUBY KING by Catherine Adel West

    Thank you so much Park Row Books for my free copy.  Description: When Ruby King’s mother is found murdered in their home in Chicago’s South Side, the police dismiss it as another act of violence in a black neighborhood. But for Ruby, it’s a devastating loss that leaves her on her own with her violent…

  • Blog Tour: THE BOOK DOCTOR by Britney King

    Blog Tour: THE BOOK DOCTOR by Britney King

    Title: The Book Doctor Author: Britney King Genre: Psychological Thriller Release Date: June 11, 2020   From the bestselling author of The Social Affair and HER comes a riveting new thriller about a writer desperate to make a comeback who realizes that success may cost more than he can afford to pay when a stranger…

  • Review: THE SUN DOWN MOTEL by Simone St. James

    Review: THE SUN DOWN MOTEL by Simone St. James

    Thank you so much Berkley Publishing for my free copy.  Description: Upstate New York, 1982. Viv Delaney wants to move to New York City, and to help pay for it she takes a job as the night clerk at the Sun Down Motel in Fell, New York. But something isnʼt right at the motel, something…

  • Review: TRUE CRIME by Samantha Kolesnik

    Review: TRUE CRIME by Samantha Kolesnik

    Thank you so much Night Worms and Grindhouse Press for my free copy.  Description: Suzy and her brother, Lim, live with their abusive mother in a town where the stars don’t shine at night. Once the abuse becomes too much to handle, the two siblings embark on a sordid cross-country murder spree beginning with their…

  • Review: OONA OUT OF ORDER by Margarita Montimore

    Review: OONA OUT OF ORDER by Margarita Montimore

    Thank you so much Book Sparks and Flatiron for my free copy. Description: It’s New Year’s Eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn nineteen, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study economics, or…

  • Review: WE ARE MONSTERS by Brian Kirk

    Review: WE ARE MONSTERS by Brian Kirk

    Thank you Night Worms and Flame Tree Press for my free copy.  Description: Some doctors are sicker than their patients.  When a troubled psychiatrist loses funding to perform clinical trials on an experimental cure for schizophrenia, he begins testing it on his asylum s criminally insane, triggering a series of side effects that opens the…