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Nine Lives To Die

When Pets Investigate Author: Rita Mae Brown The town of Crozet, Virginia is preparing for a snowy Christmas season. Almost everyone in town is busily involved in some holiday charity preparations, bringing food and company to those in need or continuing to work with the local youth organization, Silver Linings, in their blowout annual fundraiser. But someone isn’t feeling the holiday spirit. They want to take, not give. With two bodies of prominent citizens, bastions of Silver Linings no less, discovered, the town is desperate to find the culprit. Meanwhile, on a nearby farm that belongs to Harry and her husband [...]

Frances Carden2024-08-12T18:43:35-07:00August 12th, 2024|Tags: book review, cozy mystery, Mrs. Murphy, mystery, read, reading|

Rapture

The Dangers of Obsession Author: Thomas Tessier Jeff Lister is a successful man, at least in the world’s eyes. He lives in Hollywood, he’s rich, and he has built his own multi-million-dollar computer business from scratch (it’s the late 80s). But Jeff is a divorced workaholic, and his rare times at home leave him staring at his fancy fish tank, alone. That’s before he returns to his out-of-the-way hometown for a funeral and makes a connection with his high school crush. Jeff never asked Georgianne out, never took the risk of rejection. But he always wanted her. Even his current, underaged [...]

Frances Carden2024-08-11T14:20:32-07:00August 11th, 2024|Tags: book review, horror, read, reading, stalker|

Nestlings

Motherhood and Mayhem Author: Nat Cassidy Anna and Reid are a young couple with a new baby and a traumatic backstory. Their fertility struggles have rendered them emotionally raw, and Charlie’s birth has left formerly athletic Anna consigned to a wheelchair with dark feelings of resentment. The sudden news that they’ve won a luxury apartment by Central Park in the exclusive Deptford building should signal a change in their luck. But something nags at Anna. Perhaps it’s the building’s unearthly silence, the grinning elevator operators, the twisting stairwells, the gargoyles that seem to move, that strange substance on the windows, and [...]

Frances Carden2024-08-04T17:00:24-07:00August 4th, 2024|Tags: horror, read, reading|