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  • Book Review,  Cozy Mystery,  Mystery

    Cozy Mystery Review: Fatal First Edition | Jenn McKinlay | Library Lover’s Mystery #14

    / February 14, 2024

    A murder onboard a train seems linked to a rare first edition book that mysteriously appeared at an archivist convention. Jenn McKinlay’s Fatal First Edition is the latest in her Library Lover’s Mysteries…

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  • Book Review,  Cozy Mystery,  Mystery

    Cozy Mystery Review: The Twelve Books of Christmas | Kate Carlisle | A Bibliophile Mystery #17

    / December 20, 2023

    Kate Carlisle’s Bibliophile Mystery series is another cozy mystery series that I have popped in and out of. I hope to eventually read them all, but I find that they are so easy…

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  • Book Review,  Psychological Thriller,  Suspense

    Psychological Thriller Review: I’m Not Done With You Yet | Jesse Q Sutanto

    / December 18, 2023

    Jesse Q Sutanto’s first psychological thriller, I’m Not Done With You Yet, tops my list of best books of 2023. This psychological thriller has everything I could want—a dark academia setting, a story…

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  • The Fatal Folio is a mystery by Elizabeth Penney
    Book Review,  Cozy Mystery,  Mystery

    Cozy Mystery Review: The Fatal Folio | Elizabeth Penney

    / October 25, 2023

    I’ve been enjoying the blend of intrigue, curiosity, mystery, and comfort that cozy mysteries provide and I’m constantly up for trying new series or standalones. After reading The Fatal Folio—book three in Elizabeth…

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  • Book Review,  Psychological Thriller

    Psychological Thriller Review: Kill All Your Darlings | David Bell

    / September 30, 2023

    If you are anything like me, back-to-school season will have you wanting all of the dark academia, set-on-college-campus, university-themed thrillers. I hadn’t had a chance to read David Bell’s dark academic thriller, Kill…

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  • Book Review,  Contemporary,  Romance

    Much Ado About You | Samantha Young | Contemporary Romance Novel

    / August 9, 2023

    I really needed a pick-me-up breezy read and so I looked at what contemporary romance novels I had on my list and picked up Much Ado About You almost at random. I had…

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  • Book Review,  Mystery,  Psychological Thriller

    Book Review: The Plot I Jean Hanff Korelitz

    / July 10, 2021

    Who is the true owner of a story? How much of a story can be used before it becomes someone else’s? Without question The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz is one of the…

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  • Book Review,  Gothic,  Mystery,  Suspense

    Book Review: The Stranger Diaries | Elly Griffiths

    / July 6, 2019

    In her first standalone novel, popular author of the Ruth Galloway series Elly Griffiths brings a dark, haunting mystery that is a surprise standout for me in 2019! There is a gothic feel…

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  • Book Club,  Book Review,  Cozy Mystery,  Mystery

    BOOK REVIEW: The Book Supremacy by Kate Carlisle @KateCarlisle @BerkleyPub @BerkleyMystery #TheBookSupremacy #cozymystery

    / June 21, 2019

    A cozy mystery series based around old books and spies is a pretty hard-to-turn-down combination! Kate Carlisle’s The Book Supremacy is a really fun mystery that has vintage elements in a modern setting.…

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  • Book Club,  Book Review,  Cozy Mystery,  Mystery

    Book Review: Manuscript for Murder | Jon Land & Jessica Fletcher | Murder, She Wrote

    / November 2, 2018

    Clever and addictive, this newest installment in the Murder She Wrote mysteries by Jon Land will have you on the edge of your seat, unable to put this book down! I am one…

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Mackenzie Harms is the owner and author of all content of the PhDiva book blog

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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