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Mystery/Thriller

Review: Give Me the Child by Mel McGrath

September 29, 2017 by Ann Marie 4 Comments

Give Me the Child

"Who was the creature, this mother, wife, psych, who looked like me and sounded like me, but who had never once in a dozen years suspected her husband of cheating, let alone having another child?"   Give Me the Child is a page-turner straightway! It's told in the first person by Cat, who learns her husband has another child after a middle-of-the-night knock on the door. The mother of the ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery/Thriller, Uncategorized Tagged With: book blogger, Book Expo 2017, Family Dynamics, Fiction, mystery, Pyscological Thriller, thriller

Review: The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld

September 19, 2017 by Ann Marie 13 Comments

Child Finder Book

If you follow me on Goodreads, you may have seen my cry for help. I considered DNF'ing The Child Finder at about the half way point. I had already put it down and picked it again once. Still, I struggled. Then something happened. I'm not sure what it was. Perhaps I had gotten used to the style of writing. Perhaps the pace quickened. Who knows? Whatever it was, I'm glad for it. It would have been a ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery/Thriller, Suspense, Uncategorized Tagged With: BEA 2017, BEA17, book blogger, Family Dynamics, Fiction, Foster and Adoptive Parenting, kidnapping, missing children, Oregon, Rene Denfeld

Blog Tour & Giveaway – The Child by Fiona Barton

July 11, 2017 by Ann Marie 12 Comments

The Child by Fiona Barton

I'm excited and honored to be posting today as a stop on the blog tour of Fiona Barton's latest book, The Child. The Child was a quick and enjoyable read from start to finish. It's told from the perspective of four different woman and differs somewhat from many multiple-perspective books in that only one is narrated in the first person. This gives the book a bit of an unreliable narrator feel, ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery/Thriller, Uncategorized Tagged With: blog tour, book blogger, bookworm, Family Dynamics, giveaway, mystery

Review of The Darkest Corners by Kara Thomas

May 5, 2017 by Ann Marie 5 Comments

Darkest Corners

Though I managed to get through The Darkest Corners fairly quickly, I must say it didn't quite live up to my expectations. I've questioned whether or not that might be because I don't read a lot of YA fiction. I did my best to think about how my teen or YA self would have perceived the book. In the end, I really believe I would have struggled with the issues I had regardless. First, the ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery/Thriller, Uncategorized, YA Tagged With: Book Review, Kara Thomas, YA mystery

Review of Little Deaths by Emma Flint

February 4, 2017 by Ann Marie 6 Comments

Little Deaths

I was so excited to begin this this book. I knew that it was based on a true story story but it was one I was unfamiliar with. I made the conscious decision not to do any research on the case prior to reading this fictionalized version. As you can probably tell from my rating, I had several problems with the book. The first is that it was really quite boring. It just dragged on until the very ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery/Thriller, Uncategorized Tagged With: alice crimmins, ARC, BEA16 Book, emma flint

Review of Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough

January 26, 2017 by Ann Marie 12 Comments

Behind Her Eyes

Though I wouldn't call anything contained in this review a spoiler, if you are thinking about reading this book, you might want to think twice before continuing. I do not feel I can review this book without including certain information which has significantly influenced my rating and opinions. Okay, now that the disclosure is out of the way, I'd like to state that once again, I seem to be the ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery/Thriller, Uncategorized Tagged With: #behindhereyes, #wtfthatending, ARC, mystery

Review of The Sleepwalker by Chris Bohjalian

January 16, 2017 by Ann Marie 6 Comments

Sleepwalker

After reading and enjoying The Guest Room, I was excited to begin reading The Sleepwalker. The disappearance of a woman who sleepwalks is certainly an original concept. I've read stories of people who do some pretty outrageous things in their sleep; from making sandwiches to killing a spouse. (Honest, officer, I dreamt I was wrestling a deer!) But nothing could have prepared me for Annalee's ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery/Thriller Tagged With: ARC, Chris Bohjalian, NetGalley, parasomnia, sleepwalking

Review of Duplicity by Sibel Hodge

January 2, 2017 by Ann Marie 1 Comment

duplicity sibel hidge

MY REVIEW From the outside, Max and Alissa seem to have the perfect marriage. They should. They’re filthy rich and have only been married for two months… But everything is not always as it seems. Or is it? Duplicity is a clever and well-paced story of murder and mayhem. I was kept in suspense from the very first page where we are introduced to The Other One. At first, all we know about the ...

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Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery/Thriller, Uncategorized Tagged With: ARC, murder mystery, sibel hodge

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