The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley Hardcover, 304 pages May 10, 2016, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Not quite horror but more than just a mystery or historical fiction, The Loney is certainly a Gothic something. Filled with descriptions of grey skies and bleak seascapes, the Loney is more than a setting; it becomes a character itself. A desolate stretch of … Continue reading April Book Review Club: The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley
I Recommend This Book...Strongly This novel is firmly placed in the middle of our modern concern of Russian involvement in American lives, but it also works on a deeper level as a novel of marriage and children, work and the hard choices parents have to make in order to do the right things - … Continue reading Need to Know by Karen Cleveland
Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner Hardcover, 400 pages June 28, 2016, Random House I'm always excited at the prospect of a character-driven police procedural (especially if it's British) and Missing, Presumed did not disappoint. The plot centers around a young woman who has gone missing after a night of carousing at her local university pub. Not an … Continue reading October Book Review Club: Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner
I love suspense thrillers – really, if I'm being honest, they're my favorite kind of book. I love to tuck into a good mystery or a nonfiction book about a topic I love but, at the end of the day, it's suspense thrillers I go back to when I want to get lost in a book. … Continue reading September Book Review Club: Emma in the Night by Wendy Walker
Despite this being the story of the famous Borden ax murders, at it's heart it's really the story of a terribly dysfunctional family. Sarah Schmidt's novel paints a fabulously unsettling picture of the Borden family - a family ruled by a tyrannical, miserly patriarch, an addled stepmother, codependent and unstable sisters, and poor Bridget the … Continue reading See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt
Final Girls attempts to turn the horror trope of the "final girl" - the blood-stained heroine who makes it out alive at the end of a slasher-horror flick - on it's head, with great success. Our heroine, Quincy, is one of three "final girls" but is trying desperately to move on with her life. Between … Continue reading Final Girls by Riley Sager
Hercule Poirot is having a quiet dinner in his favorite London coffeehouse when he encounters a young woman who confesses to him that she is terrified of being murdered but refuses his offers of assistance. Later that day Poirot hears of a series of bizarre murders at an upscale London hotel and accompanies the Scotland … Continue reading May Book Review Club: The Monogram Murders by Sophie Hannah
Rose is out riding her new bike when she falls through the earth and makes an astounding archaeological discovery – a massive hand, buried in what appears to be some kind of man-made chamber whose walls are covered with carvings. Seventeen years later, Rose is a physicist, working to crack the code of the carvings … Continue reading April Book Review Club: Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
How interesting can a book about a group of parents brought together when their children attend the same kindergarten class possibly be? Very, when put in the capable hands of Liane Moriarty.
"The best security is invisible security. The most thorough safety is safety one's object of protection doesn't know about." Security is really best described as a slasher film in book form and hits all the right notes in that regard. It follows the story of Tessa, the hotel manager at Manderly Resort, the newest, flashiest … Continue reading February Book Review Club: Security by Gina Wholsdorf
