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    Review: Murder At Raven’s Gate

    May 19, 2026
    Review: Murder At Raven’s Gate

    Murder at Raven’s Gate by Louise Marley is a gothic atmospheric mystery wrapped in folklore, soldier spirits, and the question of whether the haunting is real or something far more sinister. A beautifully constructed procedural with genuine eerie charm. Here is my full review.

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    Review: Pretty Dead Things

    May 14, 2026
    Review: Pretty Dead Things

    Pretty Dead Things by Liv Lowry is a gothic psychological thriller set in a decaying Everglades estate that pulled me into a hypnotic reading state and did not let me go until long after the last page. Repressed memories, a mother who is both victim and monster, sisters shaped by…

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    Book Review & Giveaway : The Bush Tea Murder

    May 13, 2026
    Book Review & Giveaway : The Bush Tea Murder

    Bush Tea Murder by Ashley Ruth M Bernier is a cozy Caribbean mystery that does something genuinely creative with structure, weaving a series of layered mini mysteries through a richly cultural Saint Thomas setting before bringing them all together. The cover is as warm and inviting as the book itself.

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    Review: Rumors, Romance, and Rhubarb Crumble by Rosie Green

    May 12, 2026
    Review: Rumors, Romance, and Rhubarb Crumble by Rosie Green

    Rumours, Romance and Rhubarb Crumble by Rosie Green is my cozy come home read between all the dark and intense books on my TBR. Warm, sweet, and feel-good with a quiet mystery underneath the surface and a surprisingly real theme about empathy and boundaries running through the whole story. Here…

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    Review: One Of Them Is Lying, CL Swatman

    May 7, 2026
    Review: One Of Them Is Lying, CL Swatman

    One of Them Is Lying by CL Swatman is a clever, layered thriller about a stormy weekend, a dead body, and a house full of people with secrets they will do anything to protect. The first half asks for your patience. The second half makes every page worth it. Here…

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    Review: The Housewife by Valerie Keogh

    May 5, 2026
    Review: The Housewife by Valerie Keogh

    The Housewife by Valerie Keogh is a psychological domestic suspense thriller built around one of the most unsettling questions a book can ask. How do you trust your gut when you are not sure your gut is sane? I went in expecting a good thriller and came out with a…

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    Back Where We Belong, Jo Bartlett

    April 30, 2026
    Back Where We Belong, Jo Bartlett

    Back Where We Belong by Jo Bartlett is women’s fiction about two sisters, fifteen years of silence, and whether some bonds are too strong to stay broken. I came to this one as a Jo Bartlett fan trying her women’s fiction for the first time and she absolutely delivered. Warm,…

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    Book Review & Giveaway : Daughter of Mine, Angie Stanton

    April 28, 2026
    Book Review & Giveaway : Daughter of Mine, Angie Stanton

    Daughter of Mine by Angie Stanton is domestic suspense that lives entirely in the complicated gray space between right and wrong and it completely wrecked me. Two mothers, one child, and sixteen years of buried secrets that detonate in a single devastating moment. I went in with very clear moral…

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    Soul Bargain by Kovessa Nighte ~ Review

    April 24, 2026
    Soul Bargain by Kovessa Nighte ~ Review

    Soul Bargain by Kovessa Nighte is a dark, atmospheric, and completely addicting gothic paranormal read with a protagonist I fell for immediately and a brooding love interest I wanted to fix from the moment he appeared. The writing is immersive, the tension is delicious, and the underworld setting is everything.…

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    Caio by LS Delorme ~ Review

    April 22, 2026
    Caio by LS Delorme ~ Review

    Caio by LS Delorme has genuinely good bones. The writing is strong, the mystery hooked me, and the paranormal world has real potential. But there are some significant content choices in this book that I need to talk about honestly, and I think you deserve to know about them before…

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