Category: Mystery

  • House of Cavanaugh

    House of Cavanaugh

    Author: Polly DuganPublisher: Sybilline PressPublished: October 7, 2025 This is the second book in my track from the BookSparks #FRC2025 Fall Reading Challenge. House of Cavanaugh revolves around the worst kind of secret: an affair that led to a pregnancy, that neither the woman’s husband, her daughter, nor the father knows about. Through a series of…

  • Nine Dolls

    Nine Dolls

    Author: Rupa MahadevanPublisher: Joffe BooksTo Be Published: September 25, 2025 I loved learning about the Hindu Festival of Dolls, or Navaratri, where traditionally, nine dolls are displayed on handmade tiers.  The higher tiers represent gods and goddesses, characters from mythology, or scenes from weddings. Everyday scenes are displayed on the lower tiers.  However, Leela’s version is…

  • In Deadly Company

    In Deadly Company

    Author: L. S. StrattonPublisher: Union Square & Co.To Be Published: September 2, 2025 As an ambassador for the BookSparks Fall Reading Challenge, I chose the “Secrets” track.  This is Book One of my challenge! In Deadly Company takes you through the days leading up to a birthday bash for Nicole Underwood’s very entitled boss.  We flip…

  • In Deadly Company

    In Deadly Company

    Author: L. S. StrattonPublisher: Union Square & Co.Publication Date: September 2, 2025 Thank you to Book Sparks for including me in their autumn release celebration of In Deadly Company by L. S. Stratton. DescriptionAs the assistant to the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, Nicole Underwood has plenty of tasks on her to-do list – one…

  • You Are Fatally Invited

    You Are Fatally Invited

    Author: Ande PliegoPublisher: Random House Publishing – BallantineDate Published: February 11, 2025 Six prominent mystery writers are invited to a private island by an anonymous author, J. R. Alastor, whose works are well known even if he isn’t. And each writer is hiding a secret. This book is a wonderful debut by author Ande Pliego. It’s…

  • No One Will Know

    No One Will Know

    Author: Rose CarlylePublisher: William MorrowDate Published: October 1, 2024 I thought I knew where this book was going but it turns out…I did not! Poor Eve is left grieving and pregnant, and I I felt her pain. Then someone makes her an offer that is too good to be true…and you know what they say…. Eve…

  • A Game of Lies

    A Game of Lies

    Author: Clare MacintoshPublisher: Sourcebooks LandmarkDate Published: April 23, 2024 I will never look at game shows the same after reading A Game of Lies! In a real-life version of bait-and-switch, 7 contestants find out the reality show premise is not what they signed up for. Whose secret is worth killing for and why? DC Ffion Morgan…

  • The Clinic

    The Clinic

    Author: Cate QuinnPublisher: Sourcebooks, LandmarkDate Published: January 23, 2024 Remote location ✔️Mysterious death✔️Eccentric doctor✔️Undercover patient✔️ These are all the makings of an original thriller by Cate Quinn, titled, The Clinic. When Meg goes undercover in a rehab center to get to the bottom of her sister’s death, she didn’t expect to be faced with her…

  • Holmes, Marple & Poe

    Holmes, Marple & Poe

    Author: James Patterson, Brian SittsPublisher: Little, Brown and CompanyDate Published: January 8, 2024 This was an unexpectedly fun read! Auguste (Poe), Brendan (Holmes) and Margaret (Marple) are three private investigators with exceptional detective skills and unidentified sources of wealth. They may or my not be related to Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Agatha Christie, and…

  • The Girl Who Heard Maggots

    The Girl Who Heard Maggots

    Author: Abby DaviesPublisher: Apple Loft PressDate Published: December 5, 2023 Ivy has the best of intentions. She’s protective of her six-year-old charge Wren, and she likes her employer enough to dress up in a Victorian maid’s outfit.  She’s not too sure about the other inhabitants of the house.  Then there is the chauffeur, Maddock, who…