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  • Book Review,  Historical Fiction,  Thriller

    BOOK REVIEW: The Fifth Column by Andrew Gross @The_AndrewGross @MinotaurBooks #TheFifthColumn #minotaurbooks

    / September 17, 2019

    In Andrew Gross’s latest historical thriller, complicated sociopolitical dynamics from the late 1930s surround a conspiracy uncovered involving U.S. government officials. The Fifth Column is particularly fascinating because it is set in a…

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  • Book Review,  Psychological Thriller

    BOOK REVIEW: The Escape Room by Megan Goldin @megangoldin @stmartinspress #theescaperoom #psychologicalthriller

    / August 9, 2019

    Megan Goldin’s The Escape Room is the type of book that more than deserves every glowing review, every reader who calls it “unputdownable”, and every list who identifies it as a top-thriller of…

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  • Book Review,  Psychological Thriller,  Suspense

    BOOK REVIEW: A Stranger on the Beach by Michele Campbell @MCampbellBooks @StMartinsPress #astrangeronthebeach

    / August 1, 2019

    Compulsively readable and deeply satisfying—Michele Campbell’s latest psychological thriller is suspenseful and wild in the best way! I have read both of Michele Campbell’s previous books and I am a huge fan of…

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  • Book Review,  Mystery,  Thriller

    BOOK REVIEW: Buried by Ellison Cooper @ECooperAuthor @MinotaurBooks #buried #ellisoncooper

    / July 19, 2019

    Seriously chilling! Are you prepared to dive deep into the mind of a serial killer? This book will keep you up at night reading, and you should maybe think about keeping the lights…

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  • Book Club,  Book Review,  Gothic,  Suspense

    BOOK REVIEW: Stone Mothers by Erin Kelly @mserinkelly @minotaurbooks #stonemothers #bookreview #minotaurbooks

    / April 23, 2019

    Poignant and haunting—Erin Kelly’s latest novel Stone Mothers has an elegance to it that is both poetic and dark. I read this book as a buddy read with my friend Berit at Audio…

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  • Book Review,  Historical Fiction,  Mystery

    BOOK REVIEW: Death of a New American by Mariah Fredericks @mariahfredericks @Minotaurbooks #minotaurbooks #deathofanewamerican #bookreview

    / April 20, 2019

    A socially-conscious, atmospheric, historical mystery exploring issues of ethnicity, class, and gender equality in the backdrop of early 1900s New York City. The novel is set right after news of the Titanic hits…

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  • Book Review,  Cozy Mystery

    BOOK REVIEW: The Loch Ness Papers by Paige Shelton @authorpaige @minotaurbooks #thelochnesspapers #minotaurbooks #bookreview

    / April 8, 2019

    Paige Shelton’s fourth installment in the Scottish Bookshop Mysteries The Loch Ness Papers has it all—wedding troubles, an adorable setting, a bookshop, an eccentric lochness monster enthusiast, and a hunt for the enigmatic…

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  • Book Review,  Psychological Thriller

    Book Review: Between the Lies | Michelle Adams

    / March 15, 2019

    Would there be anything more terrifying than waking up and not remembering who you were? When Chloe Daniels regains consciousness after a car accident, she doesn’t recognize her own family, and she isn’t…

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  • Book Club,  Book Review,  Mystery

    BOOK REVIEW: A Beautiful Corpse by Christi Daugherty @CJ_Daugherty @MinotaurBooks #bookbestiesabeautifulcorpse #abeautifulcorpse

    / March 7, 2019

    Wow, this book was so compulsively readable and addictive! I found myself thinking about the mystery of A Beautiful Corpse by Christi Daugherty whenever I wasn’t reading it. As journalist Harper McClain pursues…

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  • Book Club,  Book Review,  Thriller

    BOOK REVIEW: A Deadly Divide by Ausma Zehanat Khan @AusmaZehanat #bookbestiesadeadlydivide #adeadlydivide @minotaurbooks

    / February 7, 2019

    Riveting, influential, and terrifying—A Deadly Divide by Ausma Zehanat Khan is a socially conscious thriller with an incredibly powerful storyline and characters that will be hard to forget. I not only loved the…

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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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