Nina Hill has the life she wants and is perfectly content with it. She has the job she wants. working at a local bookstore; friends she likes; and a home that is close to work and play. She’s not in a relationship right now but that’s okay, too. When the father she never knew existed… Continue reading The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
Lieutenant Jackson Donovan is a firefighter in Ft. Lauderdale who encounters a resident in a building that’s fast being consumed with smoke. She’s reluctant to be rescued because she’s trying to save her own business equipment. Becks Benning is a tattoo artist and just can’t afford to have her tools go up in smoke, literally.… Continue reading Hot to the Touch by Jaci Burton
This book is part of a continuing story arc and is preceded by a novella that’s essential to read before beginning this one. Rowan DuPont walked away from a vibrant and successful career as a profiler in a special unit based in Nashville to return home to her family’s business in Winchester after her father’s… Continue reading The Secrets We Bury by Debra Webb
Odie O’Banion and his older brother Albert were orphaned when his father died, their mother having passed years before. The two then had to call the Lincoln Indian Training School in Minnesota home, the only white boys in attendance and under the supervision of its cruel superintendent Thelma Brickman and her husband Clyde. After four… Continue reading This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
The D. D. Warren series was selected by one of my Goodreads groups to read as a series. I’ll be posting my reviews of each book every month as we work through the series. Detective Sergeant D. D. Warren is called in to the type crime scene all law enforcement agents dread...the murder of children.… Continue reading Live to Tell by Lisa Gardner
John Schram is a seasoned reporter for the Lancaster Standard Newspaper who is suddenly facing lots of change. He’s approaching fifty, his colleagues are getting younger and the paper has hired a consultant to look at cost-cutting solutions. Some of the retirements have shifted workloads and he now has to take on the advice column,… Continue reading All the News by Hollis Bush
Abbie Cullen Scott awakens to find that five years have elapsed and she’s struggling to figure out what happened to her. Her husband, Tim, is there by her side to help prompt her memory. He’s the brilliant inventor in the Silicon Valley tech world, CEO of Scott Robotics. Abbie learns that her existence is now… Continue reading The Perfect Wife by J. P. Delaney
Imogen Pritchard is a nurse by day and at night she works as a maid and barkeep at the Bare Kitten Gin and Dance Hall in London to take care of her mother and sister, as well as help repay her father’s gambling debt to the owner. She has a special arrangement with him where… Continue reading The Duke by Kerrigan Byrne
The Lucy Kincaid series was selected as a group read in one of my Goodreads groups and we determined, because of character crossovers, we needed to first read her earlier series in publication order. FBI Special Agent Megan Elliott is called in to the scene of a brutal murder by the Sacramento Police Detective John… Continue reading Sudden Death by Allison Brennan
Six years ago, Alicia Berenson shot her husband, Gabe, six times in the face. She was 33-years old at the time, a successful artist and he a renowned fashion designer. She’s not said a word since, even during her trial, and now resides at a private mental facility called The Grove. Theo Faber is a… Continue reading The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
