Category: Mystery
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Review: CONFESSIONS by Kanae Minato
This was Criminally Good Book Club’s August pick and let me just say… WOAH. Summary: Yuko Moriguchi had nothing to live for except her only child, four-year-old Manami. Now, following Manami’s tragic death that occurred on the middle school grounds where she teaches, Yuko has given up and tendered her resignation. But first she has…
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Review: GOOD ME BAD ME by Ali Land
This was Instagram’s Criminally Good Book Club’s pick for July and it did not disappoint!! New name. New family. Shiny. New. Me. Summary: Milly’s mother is a serial killer. Though Milly loves her mother, the only way to make her stop is to turn her in to the police. Milly is given a fresh start:…
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Review: DEAD WOMAN WALKING by Sharon Bolton
Thank you so much to Minotaur Books for providing a free advance copy in exchange for my honest review. Summary: Just before dawn in the hills near the Scottish border, a man murders a young woman. At the same time, a hot-air balloon crashes out of the sky. There’s just one survivor. She’s seen the…
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Review: HE SAID/SHE SAID by Erin Kelly
Thank you to St. Martin’s Press and Minotaur Books for this free advance copy in exchange for my honest review. “If revenge is a dish best served cold, confession should be dished up piping hot or not at all.” Summary: In the summer of 1999, Kit and Laura travel to a festival in Cornwall to…
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Review: WEIGHT OF LIES by Emily Carpenter
Thank you to Emily Carpenter and Lake Union Publishing for my free copy in exchange for my honest review. Summary: Reformed party girl Meg Ashley leads a life of privilege, thanks to a bestselling horror novel her mother wrote decades ago. But Meg knows that the glow of their very public life hides a darker…
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Review: MIDNIGHT AT THE BRIGHT IDEAS BOOKSTORE by Matthew J. Sullivan
Summary (from Amazon): When a bookshop patron commits suicide, his favorite store clerk must unravel the puzzle he left behind in this fiendishly clever debut novel from an award-winning short story writer. Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight. A clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, she keeps a meticulously crafted existence among…
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Review: ARE YOU SLEEPING by Kathleen Barber
Thank you so much to Gallery Books for this free advance copy in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are my own. Summary: The only thing more dangerous than a lie…is the truth. Josie Buhrman has spent the last ten years trying to escape her family’s reputation and with good reason. After her father’s…
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Review: WILDE LAKE by Laura Lippman
Thank you to William Morrow for providing me with this free copy in exchange for my honest review. Summary: Luisa “Lu” Brant is the newly elected state’s attorney representing suburban Maryland—including the famous planned community of Columbia, created to be a utopia of racial and economic equality. Prosecuting a controversial case involving a disturbed drifter…
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Review: EVERYTHING YOU WANT ME TO BE by Mindy Mejia
Thank you to Atria Books for providing my free copy in exchange for my honest review. Summary: Hattie Hoffman has spent her whole life playing many parts: the good student, the good daughter, the good girlfriend. But Hattie wants something more, something bigger, and ultimately something that turns out to be exceedingly dangerous. When she’s…
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Review: INTO THE WATER by Paula Hawkins
“No one liked to think about the fact that the water in that river was infected with the blood and bile of persecuted women, unhappy women; they drank it every day.” Summary: A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage…