My thoughts and musings about all things books & cozy living
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Continue reading β: Review & Giveaway : Kill To Keep by Elena TaylorKill 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…
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Continue reading β: Guest Appearance with author Elena TaylorElena 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…
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Continue reading β: Review: The Secret of the Lantern Keepers by Jenni KeerThe 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…
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Continue reading β: Review: Your Deepest Darkest Secret by Liv LowryYour 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…
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Continue reading β: Review & Giveaway : The Vanishers by RG BelskyThe Vanishers by RG Belsky is an eerie paranormal gothic thriller with a sci-fi edge that completely won over a self-proclaimed sci-fi skeptic. A little boy vanishes from a seaside house and everyone insists he never existed. I forgot how much I don’t like sci-fi while reading this. Here is…
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Continue reading β: Review: What Lies Next Door by Shelly M. PatelWhat Lies Next Door by Shelly M. Patel is a gripping domestic psychological thriller set in a picture perfect neighborhood where everyone has secrets, no one is innocent, and the web of catastrophe just keeps growing. I turned pages so fast on this one. Here is my full review.
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Continue reading β: Review: Bound In Botany by AM WalkerBound in Botany by A.M. Walker is the second book in the Root and Vein Trilogy and this series gets dirtier and more complicated and more intoxicating with every page. Like a poisonous flower, it is so beautiful and so compelling and so dangerous all at once. Here is my…
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Continue reading β: Review: Rooted In Silence by AM WalkerRooted in Silence by A.M. Walker is the first book in a trilogy and it got under my skin from the very first page and has not left. A psychological thriller told from inside the mind of a woman planning something unthinkable, written with an elegant, floral quiet that makes…
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Continue reading β: Review: The Tradwife’s Lie by Bella Ellwood-ClaytonThe Tradwife’s Lie by Bella Ellwood-Clayton is a twisty psychological thriller set inside a tradwife community where perfection is the price of belonging and the secrets steaming underneath the surface will completely blindside you. Think Stepford Wives meets The Village with an ending you will not see coming. Here is…
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Continue reading β: Guest Appearance with author Marlene BellMarlene Bell stops by the blog today to talk about the writing of Lies To Forever, including what it was like to shift from cozy mystery to thriller, how she built April’s relentless pace from page one, and the backstory detail that reframes everything you thought you knew about the…
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