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Reviews
The Real Valkyrie Initially discovered in 1878 in an elite Viking grave chamber on Bjorko (Birch Island), the site of an ancient Viking community, the bones and grave goods of a Viking warrior were determined through DNA testing in 2017 to be those of a woman. This and similar findings have altered Read more...
The Heron's Cry Detective Sergeant Jen Rafferty was attending a party hosted by her neighbor and best friend, Cynthia Prior, where she met Dr. Nigel Yeo. He wanted to talk to Jen in her professional capacity, not at the party, of course, but soon and asked to get her contact information. The Read more...
The Thursday Murder Club *Audiobook review* Coopers Chase is an upscale retirement village near Fairhaven in the Kentish countryside. The site of a former convent, it is a beautiful, peaceful place until the owner/developer, Ian Ventham, announces he plans to expand operations. To the dismay of the Cooper Chase residents Read more...
The Tiger Mom's Tale Alexa Thomas had just met the man of her dreams when life began to throw curveballs. Her mother is leaving her stepdad for a woman. Her Taiwanese half-sister, Hsu-Ling, calls to tell her their father, from whom Lexa has been estranged since she was 14, has just Read more...
A Time to Swill Chloe Jackson, former Chicago children’s librarian, now part-owner of the beachfront Sea Glass Saloon, comes back to Emerald Cove after tying up the last of the loose ends of her old life up north. Chloe’s best friend, Boone, had left her his stake in Read more...
A Distant Grave Days before a much-anticipated trip to Ireland with her daughter, Lilly, to spend time with her long-distance love, Conor, and his own teenage son, Adrien, Long Island police detective Maggie D'Arcy and her partner, Dave Milich, catch the call of a dead body at a marina Read more...
The Boy in the Photo Daniel was six years old when his father, Megan Stanthorpe’s ex-husband, Greg, picked him up early from school and took off with him. Six years have since passed, and not a day has gone by that his mother hasn’t thought about him: how he Read more...
Pint of No Return Trinidad Jones is at a crossroads in her life. In only a short time, her ex-husband, Gabe Bigley, left her for another woman, was then convicted of embezzlement, and sent to prison. Left her adrift in Oregon, far away from her close-knit Cuban family in Miami, she Read more...
China Room A young man from England is sent by his immigrant shopkeeper-parents to spend the summer after he turned 18 to stay with his uncle and his family, who still live in a rural village in Punjab, India. The young man is at a critical crossroads in his life Read more...
The Break-Up Book Club THE BREAK-UP BOOK CLUB is the story of four women, each at a different stage in life, yet all experiencing a “break-up” of a relationship. They are acquainted with each other through a monthly book club Read more...
Hope, Faith, and a Corpse Naturally, the new associate pastor, Hope Taylor, wants her new position at Faith Chapel Episcopal Church to go well. As the congregation’s first female priest (and there was some hearty dissension over her selection), she’s a bit nervous and wants to make a very good Read more...
The Bookstore on the Beach Autumn Divic's husband, Rick, had been missing for 18 months when that summer began. He'd left the house one morning on a business trip and had never returned and never heard from since, leaving behind in Tampa a desperate and grieving wife and two teenage children: a Read more...
The Roommate AUDIOBOOK EDITION When Connecticut socialite Clara Wheaton finds herself and her life at loose ends, she packs her bags and flies to Los Angeles to pursue a stalled 14-year long relationship with her childhood friend and crush, Everett. However, once on the ground, Everett greets her Read more...
Laying Bones It's January 1969, and northeast Texas was experiencing record cold temperatures and snowfall. However, the new Starlite Bar, located just south of where the Red River had lately changed its course, was the hottest destination in the area for those looking for fun and excitement. It stood on Read more...
Dark Sky AUDIOBOOK REVIEW On orders from the governor, Joe Pickett leads a Silicon Valley tech billionaire and creator of the wildly popular social media app, ConFab, up into the Big Horn Mountains to hunt elk. Steven “Steve-2” Price spent the months of the virus pandemic Read more...
The Lost Village On August 19, 1959, the population of the village of Silvertjarn, Sweden, 887 people, disappeared without a trace. This was initially discovered when Margareta Kullman, heavily pregnant with her first child, hadn’t heard from her family there in over a month, had sent her worried husband to Read more...
The Chelsea Girls Hazel Ripley met Maxine Mead in Naples, Italy, when she joined a USO tour during what was to be the final days of WWII and the war in Europe. Although both were actresses, they were complete opposites and did not 'click' at first. However, through shared experiences, they developed Read more...
Don't Look for Me It was an accident. Molly Clarke, hurrying home from work to see why her teenage daughter, Nicole, wasn’t answering the phone, rounded the blind corner by her home when her youngest, Annie, burst out into the street directly in her path. She’d done all she Read more...
Once Two Sisters On the surface, it appeared Lizzie McPhee had a perfect life, but it was all based on a lie. Unbeknownst to her husband, Andrew, or her beautiful step-daughter, Emma, Lizzie’s name was really Zoe Hallett, and she was hiding from her past as the sister of Read more...
Silent Bite Audiobook, Narrator: Grover Gardner After agreeing to go on a family cruise to kick off the holiday festivities, Andy Carpenter is elated to get his feet back on dry land and go home. He missed watching sports, enjoying an evening at Charlie’s Sports Read more... |
Karen Siddall https://karensiddall.wordpress.com/ Before retiring in 2019, I worked for over 40 years in the public sector as an educator, speaker, and researcher in criminal justice, environmental education, fire protection, groundwater, and water conservation. I live in North-Central Texas (Grand Prairie) with my husband, Jim; Princess, Ginger, and Smoky (the cats); and two basset hounds - Peaches and Stoli. I enjoy reading various genres, including mysteries, SciFi, contemporary and paranormal romance, and thrillers, but I have a real weakness for cozies, westerns, dystopian tales, and post-apocalyptic fiction. I just like to read, and I like to connect other readers with books that they might enjoy. I write a couple of blogs about books I’ve read and participate annually in the Ultimate PopSugar Reading Challenge, Goodreads Personal Reading Challenge, Book Riot’s Read Harder Challenge, and The Celebrity Readers’ Finishing the Series Challenge. All those reading prompts keep me motivated to read some of the many books I’ve bought over the years. Features & PostsFresh Fiction Reviewer Profile | Karen Siddall
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