Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Deserve to Die by Miranda Rijks! When Emma at Dampebbles Blog Tours sent out the synopsis for this one, I was immediately drawn to it. Who can resist a good domestic thriller that includes a couple with the perfect marriage living the perfect suburban life with a "patient, systematic, methodical" femme fatale thrown into the mix? NOT this girl! What did ...
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Blog Tour and Giveaway: Layover by David Bell
Greetings, fellow readers! It's great to be back from my hiatus with a blog tour stop and giveaway for Layover by David Bell. I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit this but, for whatever reason, I hadn't read any of his previous books. On the brighter side, that only made me more excited to read this one so I could see for myself what all the fuss is about. And see, I do! We start off with our ...
Blog Tour and Giveaway: The Au Pair by Emma Rous
Serephine and her twin brother Danny have just lost their father in a most unfortunate accident. As Serephine begins to look through her father's belongings, she finds a photograph of her mother on the day of their birth. Her mother looks happy and but is holding only one baby. Which of them is it? And why, shortly after being photographed looking so content, did she fling herself off a ...
Blog Tour and Review: The Cold Cold Sea by @LindaHuber19 #LoveBooksGroupTours
Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for The Cold Cold Sea by Linda Huber. Though reliably disturbing, stories about missing children never fail to attract my attention. When I had the opportunity to join the blog tour for this one, I couldn't say anything but YES! The Cold Cold Sea is told in the third person but straightaway events and twists brought the phrase "unreliable narrator" to mind. I ...
Review: The Bird Tribunal by Agnes Ravatn
I'm off to Book Expo later this morning but wanted to sneak in one more post before I go. This one is long overdue owing, for the most part, to my lack of technical skills. There is really no excuse but, you see, this is the first time I have successfully installed a Mobi file onto my Kindle. I will not say how long it took.My previous attempts all ended in frustration and wine. This time, ...
First Chapter/First Paragraph: Why Kill the Innocent by C.S. Harris
First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros is a weekly meme hosted by Vicky at I’d Rather Be At The Beach. Each week, participants share a paragraph (or two) from a book they are currently reading or are planning to read soon. Today I'll be sharing the first chapter of Why Kill the Innocent by C.S. Harris. I'll be posting my review as part of the blog tour in April. CHAPTER 1 Clerkenwell, ...
Mini Review: The Storm King by Brendan Duffy
The Good: Cover - It's one of the most beautiful covers I've seen in a long time. Atmosphere - Greystone Lake is the perfect setting for this book. The atmosphere is picturesque and immediately ominous. Writing - I found Brendan Duffy's writing style to be straightforward and easy to read. It was smart without being pretentious and very descriptive without being flowery. Pacing - For ...
Review: The Last Equation of Isaac Severy by Nova Jacobs
The Last Equation of Isaac Severy is a delightfully fresh literary mystery. It was just the thing to get me out of a the little slump I'd been in. I wasn't in the mood for something terribly heavy or terribly morbid. I'm always up for quirky characters. No matter that the quirkiest character was deceased prior to Chapter One. (Of an apparent suicide. In a hot tub. With a string of Christmas ...
Blog Tour and Giveaway: The French Girl by Lexie Elliott
Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for The French Girl by Lexie Elliott! I love an unreliable narrator and one that come with a whole host of suspect friends is even better! Add an old missing persons case and a newly found body and we have the makings of an engaging read, indeed! This book is somewhat unique in that there are several suspects and they all know one another. They're Oxford ...
Review: The Naturalist by Andrew Mayne
There are so many things I loved about The Naturalist! First, there's our main man, Professor Theo Cray. He's a computational biologist. So basically he's a little nerdy, very smart, and, because he's now been drawn in to a murder investigation, a bit of a rogue Magnum, P.I. I'm not one for bookish crushes but if I were, he'd be a candidate. Next, there's the plot. What starts out as one dead ...
