Abuse, Atria Books, Book Review, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Mental Illness, Romance, Women's Fiction

It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover

REVIEW Publication Day: 2 August 2016 Publisher: Atria Books ISBN: 9781501110368 Pages: 384 Category:  Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Women's Fiction An exceptional read!  My emotions ran the gamut of joy, laughter, anger, and sorrow with this book.  Goodreads Choice 2016 Winner, Colleen Hoover, is remarkable at drawing you in with so much joy and happiness for her characters and… Continue reading It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover

Blog Tour, Book Review, Crime, Detective Fiction, Love Books Group Tours, Mystery, Serial Killer, Series, Thriller, Urbane Publications

Chasing Monsters (DI Will Scott #1) by Paul Harrison

Publication Day: 4 October 2018 Publisher: Urbane Publications ISBN: 9781912666041 Pages: 360 Category:  Fiction, Genre: Thriller / Crime ABOUT THIS BOOK In a sleepy northern seaside resort, The Eastborough Police Force is shocked into action when a heavily mutilated body is found in a quiet suburb. Murder rarely happens in these parts. Within a short space of time,… Continue reading Chasing Monsters (DI Will Scott #1) by Paul Harrison

Book Review, Little Brown & Co., Political, Thriller

The President is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson

Publication Day: 4 June 2018 [Kindle] Publisher: Little, Brown and Company ISBN: 0316412694 Pages: 529 Category: Fiction, Genre: Action & Adventure, Mystery ABOUT THE BOOK As the novel opens, a threat looms. Enemies are planning an attack of unprecedented scale on America. Uncertainty and fear grip Washington. There are whispers of cyberterror and espionage and a traitor… Continue reading The President is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson

Blog Tour, Book Review, Crime, Detective Fiction, Love Books Group Tours, Mystery, Psychological, Series, Thriller, Urbane Publications

Implant (DI Stewart Gardener #3) by Ray Clark

Publication Day: 9 August 2018 Publisher: Urbane Publications ISBN: 9781911583981 Pages: 376 Category: Fiction, Genre: Thriller / Crime / Psychological ABOUT THIS BOOK Bramfield, near Leeds, a sleepy little market town nestled on the borders of West and North Yorkshire. Detectives Stewart Gardener and Sean Reilly discover the naked corpse of Alex Wilson, nailed to the… Continue reading Implant (DI Stewart Gardener #3) by Ray Clark

Autobahn, Book Review, Crime, Germany, Psychological, Thriller, Urbane Books

Night Driver by Marcelle Perks

Publication Day: 2nd August 2018 Publisher: Urbane Publications ISBN: 978-1911583967 Pages: 376 Category: Fiction, Genre: Thriller / Crime / Psychological ABOUT THE BOOK Heavily pregnant Frannie is facing a crisis. An English woman living in Germany, her marriage is failing, her language skills are hopeless, and she feels like a fish out of water in… Continue reading Night Driver by Marcelle Perks

Black & White Publishing, Book Review, Detective Fiction, Mystery, NetGalley, Police Procedural, Series, Suspense, Thriller

Restless Coffins (Detective J.T. Ellington #3) by M.P. Wright

A HAUNTED MAN. A BURIED PAST. A JOURNEY INTO DARKNESS. The title of Wright's third book in the Detective J.T. Ellington series, caught my eye as I was browsing NetGalley one day, so after debating if I should read the third book in a series I had never read, I downloaded it and the rest… Continue reading Restless Coffins (Detective J.T. Ellington #3) by M.P. Wright

Aliens, Book Review, Fox Point Books, Science Fiction, Series

How I Broke the Sky by E.W. Park

BLURB Nikos was having a bad day. Not an ordinary bad day, but a ‘your-wife-burned-alive-in-a-spaceship’ kind of bad day. Space travel is murder. Every time a ship goes up, the cosmonaut inside it dies. Why? No one knows, but that’s the way it has always been on New Amith. Nevermind that people from the sister… Continue reading How I Broke the Sky by E.W. Park

Book Review, Edelweiss, Fantasy, Harper Collins, Ididarod, Suspense, Thriller

The Wild Inside by Jamey Bradbury

BLURB A natural-born trapper and hunter raised in the Alaskan wilderness, Tracy Petrikoff spends her days tracking animals and running with her dogs in the remote forests surrounding her family’s home. Though she feels safe in this untamed land, Tracy still follows her late mother’s rules: Never Lose Sight of the House. Never Come Home with… Continue reading The Wild Inside by Jamey Bradbury

Alfred A. Knopf, Blog Tour, Book Review, Crime, Detective Fiction, Mystery, Police Procedural, Psychological, Serial Killer, Series, Thriller

The Sandman (Detective Inspector Joona Linna #4) by Lars Kepler

BLURB Late one night, outside Stockholm, Mikael Kohler-Frost is found wandering. Thirteen years earlier, he went missing along with his younger sister. They were long thought to have been victims of Sweden's most notorious serial killer, Jurek Walter, now serving a life sentence in a maximum security psychiatric hospital. Now Mikael tells the police that… Continue reading The Sandman (Detective Inspector Joona Linna #4) by Lars Kepler

Book Review, Gould, Florence, NetGalley, Nonfiction, St. Martin's Press, WWI, WWII

A Dangerous Woman: The Life of Florence Gould by Susan Ronald

Florence understood instinctively that beauty, as well as money, was power; and she had both in abundance. Florence Gould was an intelligent, conniving, self-centered, savvy business woman, but most of all she was a survivor.  She survived the San Francisco earthquake and fire as a child, a major flood in France, World War I and… Continue reading A Dangerous Woman: The Life of Florence Gould by Susan Ronald

Book Review, Chick Lit, Comedy, Contemporary, Gallery Books, NetGalley, Romance, Women's Fiction

By the Book by Julia Sonneborn

"You know how people start to look a lot like their dogs? Well, professors start to look a lot like their subjects." Professor Anne Corey normally looks forward to starting the new academic year, but this year is different.  She's been desperately trying to find a publisher for her book so she can keep her… Continue reading By the Book by Julia Sonneborn

Book Review, Bookouture, Crime, Detective Fiction, Mystery, NetGalley, Police Procedural, Serial Killer, Series, Thriller

Forget Me Not (Detective Jess Bishop #1) by Kierney Scott

"Please don’t recognize me, she silently prayed. Even now, nearly thirty years later, her gut clenched when she met new people, especially law enforcement. It was stupid. The odds of someone recognizing her now were slim but every time the panic was real." FBI Special Agent Jessica "Jess" Bishop has a secret which has held… Continue reading Forget Me Not (Detective Jess Bishop #1) by Kierney Scott

Two Girls Down
Book Review, Crime, Doubleday Books, Mystery, NetGalley, Series, Suspense, Thriller

Two Girls Down (Alice Vega #1) by Louisa Luna

"When two young sisters disappear from a strip mall parking lot in a small Pennsylvania town, their devastated mother hires an enigmatic bounty hunter, Alice Vega, to help find the girls. Immediately shut out by a local police department already stretched thin by budget cuts and the growing OxyContin and meth epidemic, Vega enlists the… Continue reading Two Girls Down (Alice Vega #1) by Louisa Luna

MadeToBreakYourHeart
Book Glow, Book Review, Comedy, Contemporary, Romance, Sports

Made to Break Your Heart by Richard Fellinger

Made to Break Your Heart is a family saga, set in a gossipy suburb, that explores the complexities of raising a child, holding a marriage together, and maintaining your sanity in the cutthroat world of Little League baseball. It’s 2008, and Nick Marhoffer is a stressed-out dad who finds himself flirting with thoughts of infidelity.… Continue reading Made to Break Your Heart by Richard Fellinger

Copper Sky
Book Glow, Book Review, Historical, Romance

Copper Sky by Milana Marsenich

"No one had ever been there when she needed them." 1917. Copper Camp of Butte, Montana.  Growing up as an orphan and losing her twin sister to a murder at the age of 10, Kaly Shane had a lot of ghosts and a lot of secrets.  Over the years she tried to live a decent… Continue reading Copper Sky by Milana Marsenich

triplecrosskiller
Book Review, Detective Fiction, Fiery Seas Publishing, Mystery, Police Procedural, Serial Killer, Series, Suspense, Thriller

Triple Cross Killer (State Detective Special Forces #1) by Rosemarie Aquilina

ABOUT THE BOOK Genre: Suspense, Thriller, Series Release Date:  December 5, 2017 Publisher:   Fiery Seas Publishing Pages: 320 Have you ever wondered what really happens to Santa Claus letters?  In Detroit and Sarasota some children’s letters are diverted and reviewed by Nick Archer, a religiously obsessed, narcissist. Nick responds, leaving a trail of devastation in the two cities. In Detroit,… Continue reading Triple Cross Killer (State Detective Special Forces #1) by Rosemarie Aquilina

WomanInTheWindow
Agoraphobia, Book Review, Edelweiss, Harper Collins, Psychological, Suspense, Thriller

The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

“The definition of insanity, Fox,” Wesley used to remind me, paraphrasing Einstein, “is doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result.” Dr. Anna Fox is agoraphobic and has been holed up in her home for ten months after her tragic accident.  She spends her days drinking and medicating herself watching her… Continue reading The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

PlagueofGiants
Book Review, Fantasy, Mythology, NetGalley, Random House, Series

Plague of Giants (The Seven Kennings #1) by Kevin Hearne

MOTHER AND WARRIORTallynd is a soldier who has already survived her toughest battle: losing her husband. But now she finds herself on the front lines of an invasion of giants, intent on wiping out the entire kingdom, including Tallynd’s two sons—all that she has left. The stakes have never been higher. If Tallynd fails, her boys… Continue reading Plague of Giants (The Seven Kennings #1) by Kevin Hearne

BeneathTheMountain
Book Review, Edelweiss, Harper Collins, Italy, Psychological, Thriller

Beneath the Mountain by Luca D’Andrea

That's how it always is.  In the ice, first you hear the voice of the Beast, then you die. What was beneath the mountain and what really happened in Italy to the three young people murdered on April 28, 1985?  Jeremiah Salinger was determined to find out.  He was a writer from New Jersey who… Continue reading Beneath the Mountain by Luca D’Andrea

Catching the Player
Book Review, Contemporary, Entangled Publishing, NetGalley, Romance, Series, Sports

Catching the Player (A Hamilton Family Series #3) by Diane Alberts

Kassidy Thomas' life was about to change forever. After losing a bet with her brother, Caleb, she is destined to meet Wyatt Hamilton, star quarterback of the Atlanta Saviors. She doesn't take risks and hasn't dated for 4 years. He is never seen with the same girl twice and his only commitment is football. Can… Continue reading Catching the Player (A Hamilton Family Series #3) by Diane Alberts