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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…
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Casual Cruelties
Author: Alison IrvingPublisher: Bloodhound BooksDate Published: November 3, 2023 While this book is classified as a domestic thriller, it read to me more like women’s fiction. A woman, going through a certain stage of her life, is constantly finding herself having to do what her husband wants. Every day is filled with his constant little…
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There Should Have Been Eight
Author: Nalini SinghPublisher: Berkley Publishing GroupDate Published: November 21, 2023 For me, two things combined to make this a truly suspenseful book – the descriptions of the mansion, and Luna’s impending loss of vision. The author made me want to know about every twisting hallway and hidden room in this gothic family estate located across…
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The Christmas Holiday
Author: Mikayla DavidsPublisher: IndieDate Published: December 2, 2023 Meet the in-laws. How awful can it be? Alicia has finally married the guy she’s been friends with benefits since college. She had no idea his family were as wealthy as they are so when she’s invited to spend the Christmas holiday with them at their lodge…
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The House Guest
Author: Alison JamesPublisher: BookoutureDate Published: November 1, 2023 Wow! I have been very stingy with my 5-star reviews but I’m happy that I found The House Guest well deserving of that rating! This is an intricate but fast-paced story with well-conceived characters that reel you in. Because of a trust that’s almost diabolical in the…
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When I’m Dead
Author: Hannah MorrisseyPublisher: St. Martin’s PressDate Published: October 31, 2023 I would say it would be great to be back in Black Harbor, but oh what a bleak place! The way the author paints the town, you just know you would never want to live there, either by birth or accident. You can just feel…
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Gone Tonight
Author: Sarah PekkanenPublisher: St. Martin’s PressDate Published: August 1, 2023 Ruth takes a mother’s love to its extreme. She will do anything to protect her daughter Catherine from her past. Catherine is a dutiful daughter, bound at the hip to her single mother. So when Ruth is diagnosed with a fatal disease, Catherine at first…
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The Lodge
Author: Sue WatsonPublisher: BookoutureDate Published: October 24, 2023 Sue Watson is an auto-buy for me, and this book had all the ingredients to keep me reading: a remote location, a snowstorm, a group of contentious people, and a murder (or two!). I loved the descriptions of the setting in this book – a cozy cottage,…
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The Boss
Author: James CainePublisher: James CaineDate Published: October 15, 2023 The perfect job or the perfect nightmare? That’s the question that Alice must decide in order to answer the question: how far would she go to keep it? This book has all the moral dilemmas you might encounter at work: should you do personal errands for…
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The Family Secret
Author: Mikayla DavidsPublisher: Mikayla DavidsDate Published: September 1, 2023 I seem to be drawn to books that take place in chalets on ski mountains. Without a doubt, you know that something bad is going to happen. This book was a perfect recipe for disaster: the grandmom, the 3 sisters who all have secrets, and the…
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