Book Reviews & Bookish Things
Review: The House Swap by Keri Beevis
The House Swap by Keri Beevis follows Poppy, who trades homes with a man she has never met in person to escape to a quiet villa in Crete with her best friend. When her friend disappears without warning, Poppy is left alone with neighbors who seem to know too much, doors that will not stay…
Moonset on Desert Sands by Sherri Dodd ~ Review
Moonset on Desert Sands by Sherri Dodd is a paranormal cozy mystery that balances dark magic, murder, and real human connection with warmth and wit. When a string of fainting spells forces Arista back to the place she once fled, she must face heartbreak, danger, and the return of her bloodthirsty Uncle Fergus, all while…
Review: Try To Keep Up by Shay Knudsen
Try To Keep Up by Shay Knudsen is a psychological thriller that lives entirely inside the uncertainty of an unreliable reality, following a nanny trying to protect a fifteen-year-old girl whose identity shifts by the day. Intense, believable, and genuinely thrilling in the way it handles real psychology. Here is my full review.
Review: The Girl Before Me by Diana Wilkinson
The Girl Before Me by Diana Wilkinson is a psychological thriller about a woman who moves into a new apartment only to learn her predecessor, who looked just like her, was murdered there and her killer was never found. Suspenseful and intriguing with a dark final twist that is not for the faint of heart.…
Review: Her Silence by ST Ashman
Her Silence by S.T. Ashman is a psychological thriller told almost entirely without its own protagonist’s voice, leaving readers to sit in the jury seat and decide for themselves what really happened the night Lacey went silent. Clever, unsettling, and anchored by a genuinely beautiful thread about how far family will go for each other.…
Review: She Never Came Back by Patricia Dixon
She Never Came Back by Patricia Dixon is a raw, gut-wrenching psychological thriller about a missing sister, a cold case seventeen years old, and the buried truth someone will do anything to keep hidden. This one lingered with me long after I closed the book. Content note for themes of abuse. Here is my full…
Review & Giveaway : Kill To Keep by Elena Taylor
Kill To Keep by Elena Taylor is a police procedural with real heart, following Sheriff Bet Rivers as she investigates a murder at a traveling carnival while grappling with her father’s legacy and a secret someone is willing to kill to protect. Not my usual genre, but Elena Taylor always wins me over. Here is…
Guest Appearance with author Elena Taylor
Elena Taylor stops by the blog to answer a question I have always wondered about her writing. Are her characters and storylines based on real people? Her answer involves a real bar fight, a play about a real murder, and a fascinating idea about writers tapping into a shared human unconscious. My review for Kill…
Review: The Secret of the Lantern Keepers by Jenni Keer
The Secret of the Lantern Keepers by Jenni Keer is a gothic historical mystery set in a Victorian asylum on the edge of the Cornish moors, where a woman must pretend to be mad to uncover a murderer before he finds her first. Compassionate, atmospheric, and genuinely paranormal. Here is my full review.
Review: Your Deepest Darkest Secret by Liv Lowry
Your Deepest, Darkest Secret by Liv Lowry is a suffocating psychological thriller with twists that keep twisting long after you think you have figured it out. Told across a dual timeline between a girls’ trip gone wrong and a dark secret from an elite boarding school fifteen years earlier, this one had me forgetting to…
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