Rory Moore is a forensic reconstructionist (I’d never heard of that, either) working with local Chicago law enforcement on a contract basis, specializing in cold cases. When her father, a defense attorney, suddenly dies, Rory has to settle his affairs, including the disposition of his client cases. She’s able to successfully refer all but one… Continue reading Some Choose Darkness by Charlie Donlea
This is another series I read with a group on Goodreads and finished earlier this year. 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.This is also the last book released to… Continue reading I Know a Secret by Tess Gerritsen
Jules Larsen, a 20-something who’s just lost her job and cheating boyfriend, thinks her luck is turning around when she’s hired as an apartment sitter in Manhattan’s historic and iconic Bartholomew. She’s being paid an incredible amount of money to essentially live in luxury and gaze out at Central Park from her new home. But,… Continue reading Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
The D. D. Warren series was selected by one of my Goodreads groups to read as a series and we just started. I’ll be posting my reviews of each book every month as we work through the series. Massachusetts State Trooper Bobby Dodge is called to a tense domestic disturbance standoff. He’s the trained sniper… Continue reading Alone by Lisa Gardner
This is another series I read with a group on Goodreads and finished earlier this year. 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. Detective Jane Rizzoli & Medical Examiner Maura… Continue reading Die Again by Tess Gerritsen
On Libby Jones 25th birthday, she receives a letter from a solicitor that unlocks the door leading to the answers about her past. She’s inherited a mansion owned by her late biological parents, Martina and Henry Lamb, Sr. But, she’s also learning the tragic circumstances that led to her being adopted when she was less… Continue reading The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
This is another series I read with a group on Goodreads and finished earlier this year. 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. Claire Ward, Will Yablonski and Teddy Clock… Continue reading Last to Die by Tess Gerritsen
The mystery of all the strange events in Promise Falls involving the number 23 culminates in this story...the 23 bloody mannequins discovered in the abandoned Ferris wheel, the out-of-control bus #23, the 23 dead squirrels, etc. It’s the Saturday of the Memorial Day weekend, May 23, and the worst of all these phenomena occurs. Both… Continue reading The Twenty Three by Linwood Barclay
Lindsey Nash was living her own private nightmare in her own home. Husband Andrew seemed perfect, loving and attentive to everyone, including Lindsey's family. But alone with her, he was controlling, threatening and hypersensitive to every move she made. When things escalated, she found her moment to escape to freedom but it came at a… Continue reading Never Let You Go by Chevy Stevens
Natalie (Nat) Murphy is a 21-year old art student, really struggling financially to make school work as well as survive in New York. As she reaches a desperate point, one of her fellow students who seems to be living well beyond her means suggests that she consider her solution...become a “Sugar Baby” and find herself… Continue reading The Arrangement by Robyn Harding
Blue Mood Café 