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North Woods

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 An exceptional read, with dozens of interesting characters and their stories, a historical perspective, and a thought-provoking message - bundled with gorgeous depictions of nature and its glory. This book is a literary (so historical it is almost scholarly) look at life surrounding, subsuming and begetting more life in…

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The Main Character

🌟🌟🌟🌟 A clever and turbulent story, paced largely by: an achingly slow character-driven build; a plot-driven puzzle that surfaces early, is tweaked and dangled and kept alive with tiny tantalizingly hidden clues (very much solvable, if the reader sticks with it); and a supremely chaotic, crazily consistent ending. Our story…

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The Spy Coast

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟A pitch-perfect spy thriller - so well-written, evocative, and gripping that this reader could literally not put it down. (My first by this very prolific author, and I cannot wait to read more). The epitome of β€œspook” fiction - with all the undercover terror, subterfuge, violence, duplicity, and psychopathy one…

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Every Time I Go On Vacation Someone Dies

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸ’« This charming cozy mystery is clever, engaging and a tweak on the typical murder-in-an-exotic-location trope. With the madcap moodiness, sinister undercurrent, and dreamy gelato-soaked Italian-esque setting of the fabulous (and slyly referenced) β€œWhite Lotus”, this story is coupled with main characters who are themselves mystery authors, including (and a…

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The Graveyard Killings

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸ’« Gritty and dark, this fourth installment in the Yorkshire Murders series is my first by this author, working well as a stand-alone read. With shades of Ian Rankin, this is a world of drug lords and bosses, rival gangs and enforced loyalties, haves and have-nots, the universally-suffering arm of…

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Night Side of the River

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸ’« A wonderful, brilliantly-written, and wildly eclectic collection of ghost-themed short stories, from one of my favorite authors, interspersed with several ghostly introspections based on her own real life experiences. The stories run the gamut from spine-tingling and sinister, to heartbreaking and grieving, all the way to downright reflective and…

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Only If You’re Lucky

🌟🌟🌟🌟 Moody and evocative, this book is the very essence of a slow burn, best described, in the author’s own words, as a tantalizingly β€œslow simmer”, bubbling and congealing, before β€œmorphing into a full-blown boil”. Margot, our first person POV, is a strange and disturbingly-repressed narrator. Revealing little, and concealing…

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