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Cabinet of Curiosities

Agent Pendergast’s Secrets Authors: Douglas Preston & Lincoln Childs The mystery of the museum beast and opening day massacre is long behind him, so journalist Bill Smithback has his sights on other record-breaking stories and on getting his longtime girlfriend, Nora, to move in with him. Everything seems ordinary, but something suspicious and dark is lurking just beneath the surface. When a pale FBI agent shows up on scene, the mystery descends into chaos, which descends into death, long buried secrets, and a family tie-in for the enigmatic Agent Pendergast. Enter the finding of a charnel house, right where a powerful [...]

Frances Carden2024-09-29T16:34:20-07:00September 29th, 2024|Tags: Agent Pendergast, book review, horror, mystery, Pendergast, read, reading, techno thriller, thriller|

Darling Girls

Chosen Sisters Author: Sally Hepworth Some families are biological. Some families are found. Some are created by trauma. The latter is true for Jessica, Norah, and Alicia. Each of them underwent a horrific experience at Wild Meadows where their unpredictable foster mother, Miss Fairchild, oscillated between cloying dependence and ruthless revenge. When Miss Fairchild directed her vitriol towards a new toddler, the girls decided to risk losing each other and report her. They thought it ended there. They were taken from Wild Meadows, raised separately, yet somehow able to keep their connections with one another. They presumed the toddler had been [...]

Frances Carden2024-09-14T21:47:58-07:00September 14th, 2024|Tags: abuse, botm, character study, foster care, mystery, thriller|

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|