When I started to write this post, I originally opened with the line, “I don’t read a lot of mysteries.” But then I went back through my Read shelf in GoodReads, and realized I’ve read more than I’d originally thought. It’s a genre I don’t look to often, but I do enjoy the occasional “whodunit.”…
Category Archives: Mystery/Suspense
A Rather Remarkable Homecoming
Newlyweds Penny Nichols and Jeremy Laidley are living the life of your dreams. They are international spies, independently wealthy but with Old Money, the kind that includes heirlooms and country manors and Victorian town houses in London and flights to Madeira taken on a whim. But Penny did not grow up with money, so she…
Telling Lies
Telling Lies opens with magazine editor Laurel Imperiole, on vacation in Italy, bumping into a man as she’s leaving the Botticelli gallery. It takes a few minutes, but she recognizes him as Jeffrey Sargasso, a man she thought had died 10 years earlier in the Twin Towers on 9-11, the husband of a good friend….
The Winters in Bloom
I looked forward to my second experience with a page-turning character-driven novel by author Lisa Tucker when I downloaded The Winters in Bloom from NetGalley. The press blurb describes it as her “most optimistic work to date.” Generally that might be construed to mean that it was an optimistic undertaking, but knowing Lisa Tucker’s themes,…
Never Knowing
Sara Gallagher has always struggled with her temper and with obsessive behaviours. She’s prone to debilitating migraines as well. Adopted at birth, she grew up in a family with a gentle but passive mother and a domineering father who treats her differently from her two younger sisters, who aren’t adopted. But she has her life…
Turn of Mind, a 5 Star Read/Listen
Jennifer White is 64-years-old, a trained surgeon, a Chicagoan, a widow, mother of two, and a victim of dementia. Her story is told in her own voice in Alice LaPlante’s fantastic novel Turn of Mind. She is generally aware of her lack of memory and sound mind, but she frequently refers to the notebook that…
The Lantern
The Lantern is the story of Eve, who is working as a translator in Geneva. She meets Dom, an older man who’s a musician, in a cafe. They fall into a whirlwind romance and when Dom asks Eve to come live with him in a hamlet called Le Genévriers in Provence, she can’t turn him…
Grace Interrupted
Grace Interrupted begins, appropriately enough, with protagonist Grace Wheaton being interrupted. She’s at her job as manager of the elegant Marshfield Manor, when two female troublemakers are brought to her. Their goal is to taser a man who jilted their friend, by phone, at the altar, and they feel this request is reasonable. Grace might…
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