Katie Brenner wants a perfect life, like her boss' Demeter
Farlowe. Katie from the Somerset has become "Cat" in London,
where she has a small flat she shares with two flaky roommates,
a job that doesn't pay enough, and that she enjoys, or rather
that she would really enjoy Read more...
I could make this my shortest review ever for Fresh Fiction: I
think Andrew Gross' THE ONE MAN is the best thriller ever
written about the Second World War and just say: you must read
it!
Nathan Blum had escaped Poland, while his family was killed by
the Nazis, and Read more...
Dr. Lyle Martin was a revered professor, a charismatic speaker,
whose professional and personal life unraveled. He drinks too
much, he suffers from insomnia and self-medicates, his wife
left him, and he lost his teaching post. When he is invited to
speak at a conference on infectious diseases in Read more...
Vivian Watts' brother Victor has been accused of a murder
Vivian knows he didn't commit; she has only one week until
Victor goes to trial. She appeals to the local Texas Rangers to
look into the case one last time, and it doesn't take long for
Wade Hamilton Read more...
Simeon Boudreaux had spent a few miserable years with the
New Jersey Predators; he was terrified his homophobe
teammates would find out he was gay and it would ruin his
football career. Only Adrián Bravo made his stint bearable,
but when Simeon was traded to the New York Barons Read more...
It was on a Tuesday of July 1969 that Daniel Gold, eleven,
heard boys talking about a fortune teller who could predict the
exact date of one's death. While boys will be boys, Daniel's
sister Varya, thirteen, doesn't want to know; nine year-old
Klara Gold looks Read more...
I might have used every superlative I know in my review of
A MOST
UNLIKELY DUKE, I know I will repeat myself, but this is
bound to happen when an author pens two masterpieces in a
year. THE DUKE OF Read more...
Cape Bonita Prep is an exclusive school in a wealthy North
California small town where the Larks reign supreme. The Larks
is an organisation led by the students for volunteering and
charity work. The Larks consists of ten girls -- five seniors,
five juniors -- who are the brightest, the prettiest, the Read more...
The building had been demolished, the name of the school was
different; there was now a memorial in the courtyard to those
who had not survived the school shooting twelve years ago;
Liv Arias was amongst THE ONES WHO GOT AWAY. A filmmaker is
making a documentary of the Long Read more...
Virginia Troy could not believe that her friend Hannah Brewster
had committed suicide after setting her cabin on fire. Hannah,
an artist who had some paintings stashed in the basement of
Virginia's gallery, might have seemed a bit unstable, but
would
she have gone that far? What had troubled Read more...
The Groskis emigrated from Poland to Chicago to live on
Maxwell
Street, known as Jewtown. Black families had started
moving in,
and Mrs. Groski strongly disapproved; she had never quite
accepted that her daughter Leeba had befriended Aileen
Booker,
one of the interlopers. Aileen and Leeba bonded quickly
because
of Read more...
When she was a child, Roselie had been told that girls
couldn't
be spies or diplomats, that it was impossible, even though
Roselie had been the confidante of her late father, who
worked
for the Home Office. Roselie had given up on her dreams,
until
Fate made it possible Read more...
In the spring of 1876, Houston Legend was moments away
from
marrying his childhood sweetheart, Becky Golden, when his
life
fell apart because of one bullet: Becky was shot and
killed as
the wedding ceremony started. But what finally undid
Houston
were the secrets she had kept from him. A Read more...
After a somewhat eventful first day at her new place of
employment as cook to the Rankin household, Mrs. Kat Holloway
expected the following day to be quieter. Alas, it was not to
be as Kat finds her newly promoted assistant cook Sinead dead;
Sinead was bludgeoned to death. Was Read more...
Until four years ago, Charlotte "Charlie" Finch was a police
officer, but after being betrayed by her NYPD colleagues,
she now works the poker tables in a bar. She still has a
score to settle with Dmitri Romanov, the New York Russian
mafia boss, who had a hand in her Read more...
After five years of travel and adventures, Lord Alaric
Wilde is back on English soil and aghast at the throng of
adoring females who had been awaiting his return. His
books on his observations from abroad have made him a
literary sensation, but the hysteria owes to placards and
prints Read more...
On his way to London, James Cavendish stopped at a tavern in
Southampton; this was his last evening before he would enter
Durham House as the new duke. A title that came as a shock
and that James, an American horse breeder, did not want.
However, when he notices a Read more...
Miss Phryne Fisher is going on a well-deserved vacation,
along with her two adopted daughters, Jane and Ruth, her
faithful companion Dot, and her dog Molly. Driving at
breakneck speed, everyone is relieved to arrive in one
piece, but to an empty house. The caretakers are notably
absent, the Read more...
Captain Phillip Dacre hasn't set foot on terra firma in a
long time, he hadn't even reached home before he can't wait
to go back to sea again. Phillip's wife died two years ago,
a lover he'd had for more than a year also died Read more...
Lazily savoring a pear in her office, Macy Frost was
contemplating why, she of all people, hadn't found The One.
A very successful professional matchmaker, she excelled at
her job, but no one had ignited that elusive spark yet. She
was interrupted in her musings by a knock on Read more...
Monique Daoust
As soon as I learned to read, I read,
and never stopped. As a lifelong
reader of mystery, suspense, and
thrillers, I bifurcated at some point
into romance because of my infatuation
with vampires. I’m a very eclectic
reader – I will read a M/M romance, a
technothriller, a historical romance,
a biography, an erotic romance or an
inspirational one with the same
enthusiasm – but what makes me chose a
book varies little, regardless of the
genre: originality, creativity, solid
plotting, complex and charismatic
characters, wit, and most of all great
writing skills and spellbinding
storytelling. I have a Master's Degree
in Linguistics, and I'm fluent in
French and English, as well as basic
knowledge of a few other languages. I
became a proofreader and sometime
copy-editor because I know I have the
skills to contribute, even ever so
slightly, to this wonderful world of
books, be it only to ensure that those
tiny annoying details – such as a
heroine’s eye color changing midway,
and so on – do not happen. Yes,
accuracy is crucial to me, but so is
being thoroughly entertained.
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