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Daisy Darker

One By One They Die Author: Alice Feeney In an isolated ocean mansion cut off from land by high tide, 80 clocks are chiming on the wall and one old woman lies murdered beneath a cryptic poem about her dysfunctional family. Her family has gathered around her on this Halloween night, her 80th birthday. They all hoped to inherit. They all had reason, opportunity, and motive. As the clocks chime each hour, another family member goes missing, another family member dies. Someone is culling the heirs; someone is willing to do anything for Nana’s money. Slowly, lines are crossed out on [...]

2023-02-06T20:54:41-07:00February 6th, 2023|Tags: , , , , |

Paris Apartment, The

Another Generic Thriller Author: Lucy Foley Jess is a stranger in Pairs, a girl on the run from a job turned sour, looking for her pretentious brother and a place to crash. Instead, she finds an elaborate, empty apartment, a spot of blood, and a building full of strange people with secrets. In the darkness of shadows and wealth, Jess is alone, and she doesn’t know if she can trust anyone. This is my first venture into the hyped world of famed mystery/thriller author Lucy Foley. I have some of her other books on my shelves, curtesy of Book of the [...]

2022-08-26T09:41:43-07:00August 20th, 2022|Tags: , , , , , , |

Last Thing He Told Me, The

Protect Her Author: Laura Dave Protect her. That’s the last thing Hannah Hall hears from her husband, Owen, before he goes missing. And she doesn’t even hear it from him so much as receive the note. Then she finds the bag of money. She sees the breaking story: the investigation into her husband’s company, the shady deals, the missing money, and now the missing man. Did she ever really know Owen? Despite all the questions, the lies, the subterfuge, she still thinks she knows him well enough to understand his last desperate message. Hannah needs to protect Bailey, her belligerent teenage [...]

2022-07-26T09:40:07-07:00June 18th, 2022|Tags: , , , , , , |
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