⚖️⚖️⚖️1/2 Worse Than a Lie Ben Crump Ballantine 358 Pages Goodreads/Amazon/Bookshop.org This is the first of a new series by a fledgling author, Ben Crump, about a civil rights attorney, Beau Lee Cooper. In this laudable debut, Cooper represents a … Continued
𓂃✍︎𓂃✍︎𓂃✍︎𓂃✍︎ 1/2 To His New Wife Willow Rose 314 pages Bookouture Goodreads/Amazon/ Bookshop.org This is my first book from this author with a very provocative name and it will not be my last. This was the first psychological thriller … Continued
🥯 🥯 1/2 This is Not About Us Allegra Goodman 310 Pages Random House/The Dial Press Goodreads/Amazon/Bookshop.org I was very torn about this book. I really wanted to love it; I had read Ms. Goodman’s books in the past and … Continued
👮👮👮👮 Jigsaw Jonathan Kellerman 256 Pages Ballantine Publishing Goodreads/Amazon/Bookshop.org For me. Reading Jonathan Kellerman’s Alex Delaware series is like wrapping myself in a fuzzy warm blanket; it is cozy and comforting. Although I have … Continued
🍊🍊🍊 The Scent of Oranges Kathy George 350 pages Harper 360 Goodreads/Amazon/Bookshop.org This is a retelling of the novel Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens, told from the perspective of a different character, Nancy. Perhaps I should have read Oliver … Continued
🌲🏠 🌲🏠 🌲🏠 🌲🏠 🌲🏠 It’s Not Her Mary Kubica 352 Pages Harlequin Trading Co. Goodreads/AmazonBookshop.org While I have always enjoyed thrillers, I have to admit that this is the first book by Mary Kubica that I have read. I … Continued
💍💍💍 Two Wives Helen H. Durrant 284 Pages Bookouture Goodreads/Amazon/Bookshop.org This was a very standard suspense novel, a good fast read, but little more than that. The premise is that there is a wife and an ex wife who … Continued
👻👻👻👻👻 A Box Full of Darkness Simone St. James 344 Pages Berkeley Publishing Goodreads/Amazon/Bookshop.org Simone St. James is an author I keep returning to, even though I have not always liked all of her books equally. She also writes … Continued
📸📸📸📸 When We Were Brilliant Lynn Cullen 400 pages Berkeley Publishing Goodreads/Amazon/Bookshop.org Anything that is about Marilyn Monroe will automatically get my attention. I am fascinated by her, for reasons that I do not understand. This novel is a fictional … Continued
👩🏫👩🏫👩🏫👩🏫 Anne of a Different Island Virginia Kantra 368 pages Berkeley Publishing Goodreads/Amazon/Bookshop.org I confess that I cannot resist books that associate themselves with or are a riff off of another book, especially classics, even where I never read the … Continued