When I first heard that Tana French’s newest book was going to be a stand-alone and not part of her Dublin Murder Squad series, I was disappointed but I am certainly not disappointed any longer.  I just finished reading The Witch Elm late this afternoon after being immersed in it all day and I... Continue Reading →

  This is a debut novel that begins a new series about a London Detective Constable, Cat Kinsella.  A woman’s body has been found in a public garden and Cat is assigned the case.  The problem is that she remembers the deceased from when she was a teenager visiting her Gran in Ireland with her... Continue Reading →

  I really had no plans on reading this series by J.K. Rowling but when her latest book, Lethal White, was published this fall, I saw so many people on Book tube and Instagram talk about it, and the series as a whole.  It intrigued me enough that I started looking at The Cuckoo’s Calling... Continue Reading →

This is the second novella in the Murderbot Diaries series.  Murderbot, who is part android/part human is determined to find out what happened to cause the human massacre that he was part of during a past assignment.  He needs to return to the mining facility space station where the massacre took place but can only... Continue Reading →

  This is the first book in a new series by J.R. Ward (Firefighters #1).  Ann Ashburn is a firefighter that has the hots for fellow firefighter, Danny McGuire.  When Ann is seriously injured in an accident during a warehouse fire, she is no longer able to perform as a firefighter.  She takes on a... Continue Reading →

The main character in this book is actually a house called Birchwood Manor set in the Oxfordshire countryside.  In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists spend several weeks at the property painting and creating and generally being young and having fun.  By the time they leave however, one person has been killed... Continue Reading →

This was a perfect revenge book.  Jane is a self diagnosed sociopath that understands that while she doesn’t feel empathy, sadness and other emotions that humans regularly feel, she is smart enough to be able to fake it to get through life.  She is a lawyer and lives quietly in the middle east but comes... Continue Reading →

This is the first of four novellas about an introverted android that is part machine and part human who absolutely hates being around people.  Unfortunately, his job is to be a security guard to protect humans while they are on different planets performing research.  He has hacked his own system so that has some independent... Continue Reading →

  I have heard many people refer to this book over the years as a great love story.  By the time I finished reading it, however, I really felt that it was a story of revenge. The book begins with Catherine and her brother, Hindley, being presented one day with a young, homeless ruffian that... Continue Reading →

Maurice Swift has excellent writing skills.  The problem is that Maurice has no imagination and writes boring stories.  Maurice is well aware that he lacks talent with story telling and so he steals other people’s stories.  Maurice’s first victim is a celebrated novelist, Erich Ackermann.  He meets Erich when he is working as a bartender... Continue Reading →