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Book Review: The Last Note of Warning | Katharine Schellman
An historical mystery set around a working class Irish woman in New York City during prohibition, Katharine Schellman’s The Last Note of Warning is an engaging and well-crafted story that hooked me until…
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Mystery Review: Death of a Master Chef | Jean-Luc Bannalec
If you even loosely follow my reviews, you know that I will jump into a series at any point. This time it’s the Kommissar Dupin series by Jean-Luc Bannalec and I started right…
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Cozy Mystery Review: A Midnight Puzzle | Gigi Pandian | Secret Staircase Mystery #3
Gigi Pandian’s A Midnight Puzzle is a fun, relatively light mystery centering around a family of magicians. This premise feels fresh—as a frequent mystery reader I don’t think I’ve come across something like…
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Book Review: Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice | Elle Cosimano
Scrreeeeecchhhh! What’s that sound? It’s the sound of the hilarious ball-of-energy, writer-turned-detective Finlay Donovan flying out of town on her next adventure—a girls trip to Atlantic City where she and her nanny Vero…
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Historical Thriller Review: The Rumor Game | Thomas Mullen
If you’ve never read Thomas Mullen before, I consider him best known for his historical mysteries with strong themes of prejudice, racism, hatred, corruption, and violence. His latest historical thriller, The Rumor Game,…
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Book Review: The Heiress | Rachel Hawkins
Grab food and beverages of your choice and settle in somewhere cozy, because Rachel Hawkins’ latest book, The Heiress, is a read-in-a-day soapy psychological thriller! If you like a dash of rich people…
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Book Review: Everyone Who Can Forgive Me is Dead | Jenny Hollander
I love a book with an unreliable narrator, and Jenny Hollander’s debut Everyone Who Can Forgive Me is Dead delivers. After seeing a few less-than-favorable reviews of the ending, I was surprised to…
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Historical Mystery Review: Of Hoaxes and Homicide | Anastasia Hastings
“It is a sad day, indeed, when even an orgy does not interest me.” From the opening line, it’s clear that Anastasia Hastings’s Of Hoaxes and Homicide will be titillating and delightful to…
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Mystery Book Recommendation: The Expectant Detectives | Kat Ailes | The Expectant Detectives #1
This week I really needed a pick me up and The Expectant Detectives delivered the mood lift I needed and more! Fresh, funny, heart-warming, and intriguing—this is the perfect mystery. I can’t imagine…
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Feminist Thriller Review: Speak of the Devil | Rose Wilding
Speak of the Devil is a dark, debut thriller by Rose Wilding centering around seven women who all have a motive to kill the same man. And it appears they did… About the…
