I Need You to Read This by Jessa Maxwell

August 13, 2024

Jessa Maxwell is the author of The Golden Spoon. Her second novel, I Need You to Read This, takes readers to the heyday of newspapers and advice columnists. It introduces a lonely young woman whose lifestyle leaves her a perfect victim for gaslighting. Alex Marks...

The Last Lie Told by Debra Webb

August 10, 2022

Debra Webb has written a number of series. She kicks off the Finley O’Sullivan one with The Last Lie Told. Charlie Holmes is in a Tennessee prison, but he still stirs up a hornet’s next when he tells a defense attorney he didn’t kill Lance Legard of...

The Lucky One by Lori Rader-Day

February 18, 2020

You know what I like about Lori Rader-Day’s suspense novels? She takes ordinary women, and puts them in unusual situations, but gives them the intelligence and abilities to solve their own problems. The Lucky One introduces two lost young women who find...

Last Day by Luanne Rice

February 03, 2020

I liked Luanne Rice’s suspense novel, Last Day. My biggest problem? I wanted to love it as much as I loved her book The Silver Boat. Rice often writes about sisters, their love for each other despite their differences. I bogged down in Last Day, though. It...

Unspeakable Things by Jess Lourey

January 05, 2020

I’m not a fan of unreliable narrator novels. I am a big fan of coming-of-age stories. Those stories often are heart-breakers, as is Jess Lourey’s Unspeakable Things. But, I like the voices. Young people see the world, and their situations, with...