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Murder Buys a One-Way Ticket

Jaine on a Train Author: Laura Levine Jaine is looking to keep herself in Chunky Monkey when a new ghost-writing opportunity appears. Chip Miller, aka Iron Man, is a wealthy gym owner. When he’s not jet-setting on his private train car, he’s running on his treadmill, visiting his gym, making his special Iron Man martini, and lambasting his family and loyal friends. Chip is ready to write an exercise book for the every-man or every-woman, something to promote his methods and his gym. If Jaine can get it, with her craving for savory snacks and her elastic waist pants, anyone can! [...]

Frances Carden2024-09-15T14:30:30-07:00September 15th, 2024|Tags: book review, cozy mystery, mystery, read, reading|

Burning Girls, The

Irrational, Irreligious, and Irritating Author: C.J. Tudor Reverand Jack Brooks and her fourteen-year-old daughter have been sent to the disheveled, gothic village of Chapel Croft after the previous vicar’s gruesome in-church suicide. Neither woman wants to be part of this new place, but Reverand Jack is on shaky ground, and she can’t say no. When she gets to the village, fearful of the man who murdered her husband and is now out of jail, tracking her, she is welcomed by a dark history and an exorcism kit complete with an ominous verse: “But there is nothing covered up that will not [...]

Frances Carden2024-09-14T22:51:08-07:00September 14th, 2024|Tags: book review, horror, read, reading|

All the Dangerous Things

We've Seen It All Before Author: Stacy Willingham Isabelle Drake hasn’t slept in a year. Not since the day her infant son, Mason, was stolen out of his crib. How could she not have heard? Not have checked earlier? Not have known? And what about all those nights she hated motherhood, the stress, the strain, the demand? Is the absence somehow her fault? The police have no leads. Her husband has now moved on to a new relationship; it’s been a year. He wants to move on with his life. Everyone has accepted that Mason is gone. Probably dead. Certainly, never [...]

Frances Carden2024-09-14T14:13:05-07:00September 14th, 2024|Tags: book review, mystery, read, reading, thriller|