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  • About PhDiva
    • About My Reviews
  • Book Spoilers
  • Book Reviews by Author
  • Book Reviews by Genre
    • Contemporary
    • Fiction
    • Mystery
    • Psychological Thriller
    • Romance
    • Suspense
    • Thriller
    • Women’s Fiction

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  • Book Review,  Fiction,  Historical Fiction,  Literary Fiction

    Book Review: Mercury | Amy Jo Burns

    / March 29, 2024

    Amy Jo Burns’s Mercury is a compelling and emotional story about the conflicting loyalties in a small Pennsylvania town. Set in a blue collar town where secrets don’t stay buried forever, this novel…

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  • Book Review,  Cozy Mystery,  Gothic,  Mystery

    Mystery Review: How to Solve Your Own Murder | Kristen Perrin

    / March 28, 2024

    It’s one thing to try to solve someone else’s murder, but do you think you could solve your own murder before it even happens? In Kristen Perrin’s latest mystery, How to Solve Your…

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  • Book Review,  Cozy Mystery,  Mystery

    Cozy Mystery Review: Rhythm and Clues | Olivia Blacke

    / March 27, 2024

    Grab a frosty, creamy, Bohemian Frapsody (an adorably named drink served at Sip & Spin Records) from your favorite coffee shop and settle in to enjoy Olivia Blacke’s new mystery, Rhythm and Clues.…

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  • Book Review,  Cozy Mystery,  Mystery

    Mystery Review: Off the Air | Christina Estes

    / March 26, 2024

    I was intrigued by Christina Estes’ debut novel Off the Air because it promises to be a mystery featuring a local news reporter as the lead character. I come from a family with…

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  • Book Review,  Literary Thriller,  Mystery,  Psychological Thriller

    Literary Thriller Review: The Mystery Writer | Sulari Gentill

    / March 25, 2024

    Sulari Gentill is a master of the literary thriller game. She has this extraordinary talent to take the concept for a thriller and build it out in a complicated and daring plot that…

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  • Book Review,  Contemporary,  Cozy Mystery,  Mystery

    Cozy Mystery Review: The Good, the Bad, and the Aunties | Jesse Q. Sutanto | Aunties #3

    / March 24, 2024

    A new mystery featuring the meddlesome aunties is headed to bookstores from the bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties. What should have been a family celebration of Chinese New Year descends into chaos…

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  • Book Review,  Contemporary,  Cozy Mystery,  Mystery,  Romance

    Cozy Mystery Review: Dial A for Aunties | Jesse Q. Sutanto | Aunties #1

    / March 23, 2024

    Jesse Q. Sutano kicks off a new cozy mystery series with a group of chaotic aunties and a murder in Dial A for Aunties. What happens when you mix 1 (accidental) murder with…

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  • Book Review,  Psychological Thriller,  Suspense

    Book Review: No One Will Miss Her | Kat Rosenfield

    / March 23, 2024

    It is hard to find psychological thrillers that don’t fall somewhere into a common trope (not that there is anything wrong with those—tropes are popular for a reason!), but Kat Rosenfield has done…

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  • Murder Road is a supernatural mystery by Simone St James showing a dark road with a car driving towards the viewer with bright headlights
    Book Review,  Mystery,  Psychological Thriller,  Suspense

    Book Review: Murder Road | Simone St. James

    / March 22, 2024

    Simone St. James has a way of writing what I would describe as intellectual gripping supernatural psychological thrillers. But since that is a confusing mouthful, let’s just say that while all of her…

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  • The Hunting Wives by May Cobb is a blue book with lipstick and a bullet on the cover. This book is a dark, dramatic fiction thriller that is being adapted for television.
    Book Review,  Mystery,  Psychological Thriller,  Suspense

    Book Review: The Hunting Wives | May Cobb | Sneak Peak of TV Series

    / March 21, 2024

    Wickedly juicy fun! Grab an ice cold beverage and your sunglasses, because we are heading to a small town in Texas with big secrets… If you like books about rich people behaving badly,…

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Hi! I'm Mackenzie, the Ph.D. student behind the book reviews and blog. Reading books has always been my favorite pastime and I love sharing my thoughts about them with the world. Now I should probably get back to writing that dissertation...

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