This is another series I’m reading with a group on Goodreads. We’re a bit further along but I’m posting the earlier reviews. This book series was developed into the television series Rizzoli & Isles that aired on TNT starring Angie Harmon & Sasha Alexander. The books are much grittier than the television show, however. … Continue reading The Apprentice by Tess Gerritsen
Frances Metcalfe is a married, stay at home mother of an 11-year old son who is struggling socially, as is she. She’s slightly overweight and doesn’t fit in with the other mothers of the children attending her son’s private school who go out of their way to make her feel socially unacceptable. Enter Karen… Continue reading Her Pretty Face by Robyn Harding
Emma Davis is an artist who is beginning to make a name for herself in the New York City art world. But, 15 years ago, she suffered a traumatic event while at summer camp and it still haunts her, shown through her paintings. When the owner of the camp, socialite Francesca Harris-White, shows up at… Continue reading The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager
Jane is working at an insurance company in Minneapolis as a low level clerk. But, that’s not who she really is. She’s taken 50 days of leave from her real job in Kuala Lumpur as an import-export attorney to exact revenge on middle manager Steven Hepsworth. Why? You’ll need to read or listen to… Continue reading Jane Doe by Victoria Helen Stone
First, this isn’t a series you read out of order. It has a continuing story arc and this book picks up where the first ends. Nevertheless, I’ll keep this spoiler free. Gwen Proctor has to leave Stillhouse Lake to protect her family from the long arm of a powerful network of online trolls who go… Continue reading Killman Creek by Rachel Caine
This is another series I’m reading with a group on Goodreads. We’re a bit further along but I thought I’d start from the beginning. This book series was developed into the television series Rizzoli & Isles that aired on TNT starring Angie Harmon & Sasha Alexander. The books are much grittier than the television show,… Continue reading The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen
David Harwood is a former Boston Globe city editor and widower who returned home to Promise Falls so he could spend more quality time with his nine-year old son (better hours). He was to be a reporter for the local newspaper but it closed on his first day and now he’s living with his parents… Continue reading Promise Falls by Linwood Barclay
Cork O'Connor is contacted by Willie Raye to help find his daughter, Shiloh, who's disappeared. She's a famous Country & Western singer who apparently has chosen to remove herself into the Quetico-Superior Wilderness for some self reflection. The Feds have also inserted themselves into the search because they believe she now remembers information about her… Continue reading Boundary Waters by William Kent Krueger
Ten years ago, Grace Sebold was convicted of murdering her boyfriend, Julian Crist, while they were attending her friend’s wedding in St. Lucia. She reached out to Sidney Ryan for help, a true crime documentarian of rising fame whose work was directly responsible for helping to free three wrongly convicted people. After some preliminary research,… Continue reading Don’t Believe It by Charlie Donlea
Detective Angie Pallorino is part of the Victoria Metro Police Department sex crimes unit and answers the call for a young woman desecrated in a nearby cemetery. She and her new partner are still finding their way with each other (mostly not) and haven't created "team" yet. She's got LOTS of baggage and being the… Continue reading The Drowned Girls by Loreth Anne White
