Month: August 2018
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OH FRIDAY, I THOUGHT YOU WOULD NEVER GET HERE!
It’s a long week-end here in the States. Labor Day signals the beginning of school and the end of summer. No one has told Mother Nature about that as we are still heading for the high 90’s today. I’m reading A Killing by The Sea by Kathleen Bridges right now. The mafia meets the Illuminati. […]
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RED HARVEST by PATRICK GREENE
Ember Hollow takes Halloween to a whole other level! Parades, music, and this year something even more sinister. The premise of this book was good. The execution was not. I spent most of the book filling in missing words and trying to decide who was speaking. I almost gave up half-way in because it was […]
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THE TEACHER by Katerina Diamond ( A DS Imogene Grey #1)
WARNING: Most definitely not for the faint-hearted! Look at that nice book cover. And then read that statement. As a fan of horror I took it as a challenge. And oh my goodness was it challenging. We start with The Teacher, who ends up receiving a package which he understands the meaning of very well. His time […]
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IT’S BOOK RELEASE DAY FOR THESE BEAUTIES!
In a brilliantly twisted debut set among Boston’s elite, Edwin Hill introduces unforgettable sleuth Hester Thursby—and a missing persons case that uncovers a trail of vicious murder… From New York Times bestselling author Kristina McMorris comes another unforgettable novel inspired by a stunning piece of history. he’s never had a no-strings fling. He’s never had anything else. […]
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MAYBE FOR YOU by NICOLE MCLAUGHLIN (A Whiskey and Weddings Novel)
Alexis Parker, sister of Dean, is back stateside after a year long deployment in Italy. For the past year she has been in mourning for her fiance, Nate, who was killed in a helicopter accident just weeks before their wedding. Coming back to her family and her brother and his two partners in the distillary, […]
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TEAR ME APART by J.T.Ellison
The follow-up to her critically acclaimed Lie to Me, J.T. Ellison’s Tear Me Apart is the powerful story of a mother willing to do anything to protect her daughter even as their carefully constructed world unravels around them. One moment will change their lives forever… Mindy Wright is on track to ski in the Olympics. […]
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Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris
This sign, from a 1948 newspaper is what sparked the story the author has told us. Times were hard and after the Great Depression and the War there were more and more single mothers trying to raise children but unable to keep them fed or clothed. Ellis Reed knows hard times and family tragedy. […]
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Little Comfort by Edwin Hill
A Hester Thursby Mystery Harvard librarian Hester Thursby knows that even in the digital age, people still need help finding things. Using her research skills, Hester runs a side business tracking down the lost. Usually, she’s hired to find long-ago prom dates or to reunite adopted children and birth parents. Her new case is finding […]
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SECOND CHANCE AT TWO LOVE LANE by KIERAN KRAMER
Two Love Lane #3 Back at Two Love Lane. Where the ladies help their clients find love. This is the third book in the series and it’s Ella’s turn to find love again. Ella is happy living in Charleston, acting in the local theater and working with her friends at Two Love Lane. She has […]
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not her daughter by Rea Frey
I really wanted to like this book. I did. The one question it claims to ask is how far you would go to protect an abused child? I can say honestly that kidnapping her is not one of those things. Told from the point of view of the mother, Amy, and the kidnapper, Sarah. Sarah […]
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