The Overnight Guest
Don’t miss this twisty thriller that will keep you reading well past your bedtime. The Overnight Guest has three compelling narratives. In August 2020, a husband and wife are murdered on a rural farm. Their twelve-year old daughter, Josie, was wounded but survived. Josie’s best friend, Becky, is missing alongContinue Reading
Nom Nom Paleo Let’s Go
Nom Nom Paleo Let’s Go is jam-packed with well over a hundred recipes. All are paleo and also gluten-free! Each recipe has multiple photographs, diet/allergen notifications, and nutritional information. The recipes within Nom Nom Paleo Let’s Go look delicious! However, many are not for beginners. Though the step-by-step photographs ofContinue Reading
The Book Lover’s Guide to London
The Book Lover’s Guide to London is an extensively researched guide to both authors and their literary characters’ connections to London. Organized by area, the book helpfully includes full-color photographs to supplement the text. There are interesting stories here especially if you live in, or are planning to visit, London.Continue Reading
Don’t Be Trashy
The world, especially its oceans, is becoming a trash heap. Food containers and other excess packaging are filling our landfills and are not composting. Don’t Be Trashy gives all kinds of advice to reduce your family’s carbon footprint, while also significantly decluttering your home. Does anyone else feel smothered byContinue Reading
A Thousand Steps
1968, Laguna Beach, Orange County, California. The hippies and the cults come flocking to the sun and the sea in A Thousand Steps. Fourteen-year-old Matt’s home life is chaotic. His father has left the family for a new job and woman in a faraway state. His mother’s hours are reducedContinue Reading
A Flicker in the Dark
A woman faces her family’s serial killing history in A Flicker in the Dark. Chloe is a clinical psychologist in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Twenty years ago, at age twelve, she turned in evidence that the police used to convict her father of killing six girls in their small hometown. TheContinue Reading
A Three Book Problem
It’s A Three Book Problem when a houseful of guests are all suspects when their host is murdered by a poisoned blow dart! Gemma is the proprietor of the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop. But this weekend, she is helping her bff, Jayne, cater a Sherlockian house party. Gemma’s police detective boyfriendContinue Reading
Taking Down Backpage
Taking Down Backpage is the story of how the author, a California criminal prosecutor, charged three billionaires with sex trafficking because of all the girls advertised for rent in their online advertising website. First, let’s be clear. This is a memoir of a prosecutor’s most famous case. It is notContinue Reading
Organizing for the Rest of Us
The title truly states what this book is about. Even if you are not into a fully minimalistic home, Organizing for the Rest of Us will help you organize just enough so you can find what you are looking for quickly and easily. There are tons of organizing ideas toContinue Reading
When You Get the Chance
Sometimes you feel like reading a light breezy romance. When You Get the Chance is that type of book. Millie is a drama kid in a NYC high school. But she wants more. Her goal this summer is to get parental permission to go to a prestigious drama school inContinue Reading
The Maid
Molly is The Maid at a five-star boutique hotel. She loves her job. Others, find her a bit weird. She isn’t good at interpreting other people’s expressions, motives, or even words, at times. Her beloved Gran, who raised her used to help. But she recently died so Molly is allContinue Reading
Clean(ish)
Just in time for those with a New Year’s resolution to try to eat better or avoid toxic chemicals in makeup and cleaning products, Clean(ish) is here to help. I really wanted to like the book. Unfortunately, I just didn’t. Here’s why. The author loves to talk about her journeyContinue Reading
Reckless Girls
Lux’s mother has died after a lengthy battle with cancer. Lux meets Nico as his server. They fall heavily for each other and sail off on Nico’s boat to Hawaii. The boat needs some repairs before they can continue on with their trip to anywhere but here. Enter the RecklessContinue Reading
The Perfect Escape
Best friends Margaret, Sam and Diana set off on a girl’s trip to upstate New York. It sounds like The Perfect Escape as all have relationship issues with their significant others. However, halfway to their destination, they lose the smart key to their rental car. Forced to stay in ruralContinue Reading
The Core 3 Healthy Eating Plan
Unfortunately, The Core 3 Healthy Eating Plan is not very good for two reasons. First, I took nutrition in college so believe me when I say this book reads like a textbook. It is filled with useful facts but as dry as a bone. Don’t read this in bed unlessContinue Reading
Twenty Years Later
A TV reporter, with secrets of her own, investigates a murder Twenty Years Later when the about-to-be accused murderer’s bones are found in the 9/11 rubble. I was enjoying this convoluted murder mystery until the midpoint. At that point the mysteries just got a bit unbelievable. Does every character haveContinue Reading