Wow! If you're looking for a character driven domestic suspense that you'll want to devour in one sitting, look no further! ON A QUIET STREET is set in one of those communities where everything looks soooo good from the outside. But you know the saying — Looks can be deceiving. Add one bereft mother intent on discovering the truth about the death of her golden child with equal parts ...
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Blog Tour and Giveaway: The Passengers by John Marrs
Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for The Passengers by John Marrs. I'd been seeing this one getting a lot of attention for weeks prior to being asked to join the tour so how could I possibly say no? Aside from that, I also found myself drawn to the futuristic plot which may or may not have anything to do with my childhood fascination with The Jetsons. Have you ever been in your kitchen and ...
Blog Tour: Deserve to Die by Miranda Rijks
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 ...
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 ...
Review: Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage and Giveaway
Little girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice, right? Thats what Suzette thought too... If you're a fan of thrillers, you've undoubtedly seen BABY TEETH everywhere over the past couple of weeks. It certainly one of the most hyped of the summer. Ninety percent of Goodreads reviewers rate this book between three and five stars. It obviously has a lot going for it. I'm not ...
Book Review: The Sandman by Lars Kepler
Despite never having read Lars Kepler's previous novels, I had high hopes for The Sandman. In the end, it simply didn't live up to my expectations. That's not say it was all bad but the issues I had, which I hope I can articulate, were pretty weighty ones and really impacted my overall experience with the book. Perhaps one of the reasons that I was so disappointed is because this book had such ...
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 ...
First Chapter/First Paragraph: The Naturalist by Andrew Mayne
First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros is a weekly meme hosted by Diane at Bibliophile By the Sea. Each week, participants share a paragraph (or two) from a book they are currently reading or are planning to read soon. Today I'm going to share the first couple of chapters of The Naturalist by Andrew Mayne. I'll be starting this one soon and I'm really looking forward to it! Chapter ...
Blog Tour: Girl Unknown
Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Girl Unknown! This book is unique in many ways. The first is that Karen Perry is actually a pen name for two writers collaborating on this book. This is the first book, to the best of my knowledge, that I've read penned by two authors and it definitely worked here. Most of the book is told in the alternating first person points of view of Caroline and ...
Review: Grist Mill Road by Christopher J. Yates
If you're a friend or follower on Goodreads, you may have seen my status update at page 108: "The jury is still out on this one. I'm not a fan of omitting quotation marks and it's moving a little slowly." And this one at page 163: "Okay, now I'm hooked." A brief status update at the end of the book would have looked something like this: "Huh? What the heck?" And that pretty much sums ...
