the setup… Dinah Marino is a Los Angeles homicide detective married to Joe, a psychiatrist with his own clinic. She loves her husband who makes her feel special every day of their marriage, unlike her own family. When she gets a call to the scene of Reese Bishop, a woman found dead in her home,… Continue reading A Happy Marriage by A. R. Torre @alessandratorre4 @paigevoice_official @maytheforcebewithjonno @chardiary @brilliancepublishing @netgalley #AHappyMarriage
the setup… Elizabeth May is a traveling nurse now living in Santa Cruz. It’s a job that perfectly suits her lifestyle as she normally never stays anywhere long enough to form roots, long term friends or connections. Even here she compartmentalizes her life, using different versions of her name…Eliza, Beth, Betsy, etc…as her identity with… Continue reading Bald-Faced Liar by Victoria Helen Stone @victoriahelenstone @victoriadahl.bsky.social @soneela @brilliancepublishing #BaldFacedLiar
Saturdays at the Café is a weekly feature hosted here to talk about and discuss the books I’ve discovered during the past week, added to my shelf and am excited about reading. They may be new/scheduled releases I’ve seen on NetGalley, at the library, or from publishers or they may be older titles my friends… Continue reading Saturdays at the Café
the setup… It’s the spring of 2014 in Pondville, Massachusetts and Paul (PJ) Halliday was reading the obituaries and saw that his old friend and rival Gene Bartlett had died. Gene married Michelle Cobb, “the one that got away,” and PJ is inspired to drive across the country to the Tender Hearts Retirement Community in… Continue reading The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett @annie_hartnett @anniehartnett.bsky.social @mbram17 @prhaudio @prhaudio.bsky.social #TheRoadToTenderHearts
Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they're books that have yet to be released. It's based on Waiting on Wednesday that was hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. Still loving this series after 60+… Continue reading Can’t Wait Wednesday – Stolen in Death by J. D. Robb @jdrobbauthor @stmartinspress @macmillan.audio @macmillanaudio.bsky.social #InDeath #StolenInDeath #CantWaitWednesday
the setup… It’s 1984 Seattle and the city is rocked by what appears to be a serial killer called the Green River Killer because of where the bodies are found. Holly Sparks is a journalist with a personal interest in these cases. Her sister Meg was murdered and suspicions are that she was one of… Continue reading The First Hunt by Audrey J. Cole @audreyjcole #AdelaideFernport #PeteCross @spotify @netgalley #TheFinalHunt #TheFirstHunt
the setup… Jane Darling is working hard to make Cupid’s Arrow, her startup matchmaking business, a success so showing up in sports bars in a toga and angel wings to promote it isn’t beneath her. Running into the annoying Jasper Jannich, New York’s star quarterback and the best friend of her brother-in-law, wasn’t part of… Continue reading My Darling Jane by Ilsa Madden-Mills @ilsamaddenmills @stellahunternarrator @sebastianyork_official @brilliancepublishing #TheDarlings #My Darling Jane
Saturdays at the Café is a weekly feature hosted here to talk about and discuss the books I’ve discovered during the past week, added to my shelf and am excited about reading. They may be new/scheduled releases I’ve seen on NetGalley, at the library, or from publishers or they may be older titles my friends… Continue reading Saturdays at the Café
the setup… Detective Sergeant Stilwell works for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, assigned to Catalina Island, where all the misfits are sent for penitence. He was with the Homicide Division before he found himself ensnared in department politics. While he’s investigating a poaching incident on a protected reserve, he gets a report of a… Continue reading Nightshade by Michael Connelly @michaelconnellybooks@michaelconnelly.bsky.social @jwdamron @jwdamron.bsky.social @hachetteaudio @hachetteaudio.bsky.social #DetectiveStilwell #Nightshade
the setup… Noelle Marshall is a Deschutes County Sheriff’s detective living and working in Bend, Oregon. But thirteen years ago, she was the wife of Sacramento Assemblyman Derrick Bell who was murdered in their home. Noelle was there, too, apparently left for dead. The killer was never identified or found and she couldn’t remember what… Continue reading Her First Mistake by Kendra Elliot @kendraelliot @snemethparker @snemethparkerbsky.social @brilliancepublishing #NoelleMarshall #HerFirstMistake
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