Commander Gray Pierce arrives home on Christmas Eve, only
to find out that Seichan, his pregnant lover is gone and
his best friend's wife Kat is on the brink of death. Kat
is the only one that saw the attack, but how to get
someone in a semi-comatose Read more...
What if Anne Frank had survived? What if she never died in a
concentration camp and instead was reunited with her father and had
to pick up the pieces left of her life? Having to deal with a life without
her mother and sister. Her life as a writer seems Read more...
THE GOLDEN TRESSES OF THE
DEAD starts off with Flavia's sister Ophelia getting married. Flavia
is delighted when Ophelia discovers a severed human finger in the cake
and she rushes away to examine it...Whose finger is it to and why has Read more...
THE SUSPECT is the very first
book I've read by Fiona Barton. I didn't know that this book is the third
in the Kate Waters series. However, I found no problems reading this
one without having read the previous books. Actually Read more...
HONOR AMONG THIEVES is the first book in The
Honors series by Rachel Caine and Ann Aguirre. I've
previously read a book by Rachel Caine that I greatly
enjoyed, Read more...
Melbourne, Australia. Photography teacher Kimberly Leamy never
thought that she one day would question her identity. But,
when a
stranger shows up telling her that she was kidnapped as a
child and
she's actually named Sammy Went, she doesn't believe him at
first.
Could her wonderful mother, who Read more...
I had never heard about Dorothea Lange before I read this book, but
the blurb intrigued me. I love reading about women who were brave
enough to follow their dreams and LEARNING TO SEE is definitely a book that is worth
reading.
The Read more...
THAT CHURCHILL WOMAN has
been high on my want to read list this year. A book about Winston
Churchill's notorious mother? Count me in!
Jennie Jerome was a rich, privileged, and unconventional New Yorker
who married Lord Randolph Churchill and becomes the Read more...
After reading the fantastic THE
VANISHING SEASON, I was eager to get my hands on the sequel,
NO MERCY. I was not
disappointed!
Police officer Ellery Hathaway is now on involuntary leave because she
shot a Read more...
After reading the great JANE
STEELE and THE WHOLE ART OF DETECTION was I looking
forward to THE PARAGON HOTEL,
the new Lyndsay Faye novel.
Set in 1921, Alice "Nobody" James arrives in Portland after a Read more...
The year is 1924, and Lilly Ross learns her husband,
Kinship's sheriff was killed while transporting a prisoner.
However, just after the funeral, a strange woman shows up
not knowing that Daniel Ross is dead. Marvena Whitcomb has
known Daniel for years, and now she's there to talk Read more...
So, what makes a story about a gown so special? In this case, it's the
wedding gown that Princess Elizabeth wore at her wedding. Jennifer
Robson has woven together a fascinating tale about two women that
worked on the gown and a young woman that discovers her
grandmother has Read more...
THE MANSION is Ezekiel Boone's
new book after fabulous The Hatching trilogy. This book is something
else completely. It's a story about an old crumbling mansion and a love
story that will destroy a friendship and turn two men into bitter Read more...
When a young girl is found dead in a cage, FBI neuroscientist Sayer
Altair must take a break from her research into the brains of serial
killers. This killer seems to be very sadistic, letting the young victim
slowly starve to death, but strangely, had given the girl a puppy Read more...
I've read several Iris Johansen books, but VENDETTA is the
first I've read in the Catherine
Ling series, not that I let that stop me. I love
Iris Johansen's Read more...
Xanthe has a special gift. When she touches antiques she can sense
something from the items past. So, when Xanthe is at an auction and
sees an old chatelaine she feels the tingle of connection. She must
have it and learn of its story. Little does she know, there's Read more...
A young woman goes missing at Lost Lake, near the small town of
Cedar Valley, Colorado. Detective Gemma Monroe is called in and at
the lake, she meets the camping party who is missing its fourth
member, Sari Chesney. Sari seems to have disappeared without a trace.
But, would a Read more...
THE RAIN WATCHER is the first
book I've read by Tatiana de Rosnay and I'm impressed by how the
story got under my skin. I watched the movie version of SARAH'S KEY a Read more...
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