She Left by Stacie Grey

May 14, 2024

Every time I start a book that uses Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None motif, I’m a little skeptical. While Stacie Grey’s She Left shows some promise, it’s a little uneven. And, I do have a complaint. The premise is that twenty years...

I Didn’t Do It by Jaime Lynn Hendricks

May 24, 2023

A personal comment before the review of Jaime Lynn Hendricks’ I Didn’t Do It. My reviews have always been my personal opinion. I know there are books that I liked or disliked, and others will have the opposite opinion. In fact, I love to see readers who...

The Retreat by Sarah Pearse

July 20, 2022

In the case of Sarah Pearse’s The Retreat, I may be glad I didn’t read the previous book in the series, The Sanatorium. A fellow librarian said she loved the earlier book, and couldn’t get into this one. I didn’t have that problem because I...

Nine Lives by Peter Swanson

April 12, 2022

I picked up Peter Swanson’s Nine Lives because everything I read about it mentioned Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. I can see that it’s a riff off the classic. I’ll admit, though, by the time the characters were killed off in Nine...

The Match by Harlan Coben

March 15, 2022

Harlan Coben brings back some of my favorite characters from The Boy from the Woods, Wilde, attorney Hester Crimstein, and Hester’s grandson, Matthew, in The Match, a disturbing novel that takes on social media. Wilde, found in the woods thirty years earlier, is...