Frankie isn’t thrilled with the witchy tourists flocking to her small Connecticut town. When her neighbor’s renter comes complaining to her about ghosts stealing their food, Frankie can’t help but laugh. She doesn’t believe in ghosts any more than she believes in ...
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Francesca Cocchi is a force to be reckoned with when it comes to heart-tugging stories, and she is now an auto-buy author for me! HAVE A GREAT SUMMER is a debut novel and the perfect book to get lost in! Francesca is going to be the voice in women’s fiction, and s...
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A BEAUTIFUL LIE  artfully disguises a character who is bent and delusional but oh so pleasing.

Emily provides a useful service that tends to overwhelm most people. She helps her clients declutter and get organized. There is much more to Emily than her color-...
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Afghanistan during the early return of the Taliban is the focus of this story. Marjan and her daughter Hawa have left a rural village for Kabul, the capital, but now, so has everyone else who can. CITY OF WIDOWS is a reference made by a woman in the shelter where ...
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Be prepared to fall in love with two awesome families, quirky characters, and even a parrot who is the comic relief in many scenes.

Lots of action and living and learning are happening in the small town of Star Falls, Sonoma County. HE FALLS FIRST is action-...
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Welcome to Heather Graham’s new Krewe F.B.I. series, The Crows, with THE WITCHING HOURS as its premiere book.

Skye McMahon is one of the special people in the world, though she was never sure it wasn’t a curse. She sees things. She can walk into a c...
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Typical Lisa Gardner wit and sarcasm. Love it. I can’t think of any other author of crime novels who could have me smiling and possibly laughing aloud while conveying the story about a missing family of six. And let’s not forget the dog named Dog.

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Poplar in the industrialised East End of London is an unforgiving place for a widow with small children. Having taken up inadvertently with a lout, Mrs Connell soon regrets it. THE IRISH GIRL is her daughter Ivy, who aged just thirteen is left to care for her youn...
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A long-running series with puns in the titles isn’t unusual in terms of crime novels. But the protagonist being a large dog, that’s probably unique. CAT ON A HOT TIN WOOF features Chet the German Shepherd Dog and his keeper, PI Bernie Little, as together they form...
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During the gorgeous cherry blossom season, known as Sakura, Japan is busy with tourists travelling to walk under the blooming trees, and it’s regarded as a family time, a new beginning and a break from normal life. All this features in a charming and uplifting mag...
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Harley Tatum returns to Copper Mountain, Alaska, as a PI, tracking down a man called T-Bone Travis, who probably thought the law couldn’t or wouldn’t follow him so far. SCENT OF HOPE is second in a series about the great outdoors and crime, romance, and danger.Read More

Kerrigan Argon, a half-human, half-Fae, took part in a major contest during the first of this Royal Houses series. After unexpectedly winning the tournament, she’s got a small dragon, which doesn’t seem that delighted. HOUSE OF SHADOWS is their new allegiance.  Read More

This strikes me as the dystopian version of Water For Elephants. Tif Tamim ekes out a living in a future version of a circus, in which the sole form of entertainment is performing dinosaurs. BOY, WITH ACCIDENTAL DINOSAUR predicts the discovery of time travel at a ...
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The title itself suggests a kind of oxymoronic sense to this story, which features one of the most unsettling characters. Clare’s life seems filled with unexplored and unexplained out-of-body experiences. You almost wish to feel empathy for her, but for some reaso...
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When a cheerful halfling, Pansy, decides she needs to leave home and explore, it seems perfect to move into her grandmother’s cottage. Just like all granny cottages in fairytales, this one stands alone in a wood. Pansy has title to it in the will. To her surprise ...
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I came fresh to this Booktown Mystery series at instalment number 19, which is definitely not a great idea. A PERILOUS PLOT continues what seems to be a series-long family dispute. At this point, matters are serious enough that Tricia Miles and her sister...
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Superintendent Robert McDonald of Scotland Yard, hero of over forty cases at this point, is flying abroad on a well- earned holiday. This reissue of a classic era detective novel will provide him with MURDER IN VIENNA.

To many readers, post-war Vienna is fam...
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The Accession has arrived in Skein, and with it comes all the chaos and mayhem you would expect. Enemies become lovers, predators become prey, new allegiances are made, and betrayals of the highest degree are committed. Through it all, survival is the ultimate pri...
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Returning to the Hotel of Dreams, Alice Radstone was ready to ENTER THE NIGHTMARE that had become her life. A former teacher at the academy where the orphaned girl had been sent because her psychic abilities were considered dangerous and she needed extra training ...
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Hanna Kang has been an investigator for the Black Lantern Society long enough to understand her duty. The organization is a behind-the-scenes group of witches, werewolves, and vampires who do their best to bring the wicked ones to their knees. But Hanna has a few ...
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You know I had taken a short break from my ever-consuming relationship with Carolyn Brown. I had practically caught up with this consummate literary entertainer and her awesome stories. Have been a fan since, well, forever.

When I started reading UNTIL IT GE...
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1909, and the city is crowded. Thrilled spectators line the streets of New York for parades to celebrate the three hundredth anniversary of the discovery of the Hudson River. VANISHED IN THE CROWD looks at the status of women at that time, working hard and getting...
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Outside of the town of Branntville sits a ranch belonging to the Everett family, where John Everett lives and works with his family’s prize bulls. He is nursing the heartbreak of losing the woman of his dreams to his brother. The last thing he expects is to come f...
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