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May 29, 2023

REVIEW: I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai

JennieA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsdark academia / Literary fiction / mystery / thrillerNo Comments

Recommended Read

Dear Rebecca Makkai: Janine brought this book to my attention, knowing my fondness for thrillers and dark academia. I wouldn’t say this book is a thriller, exactly; a mystery would be a more accurate categorization, or rather literary fiction with a mystery at its heart. (My dividing line between thriller ... more >

May 4, 2023

REVIEW: The Midnight News by Jo Baker

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsclass differences / Historical / Historical fiction / London / mental illness / mystery / War / Military / World War II1 Comments

It is 1940 and twenty-year-old Charlotte Richmond watches from her attic window as enemy planes fly over London. Still grieving her beloved brother, who never returned from France, she is trying to keep herself out of trouble: holding down a typist job at the Ministry of Information, sharing gin and ... more >

April 24, 2023

Review: Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders #1) by Mur Lafferty

SiriusBook Reviews / C Reviews / C Reviews Categorymystery / SF3 Comments

From idyllic small towns to claustrophobic urban landscapes, Mallory Viridian is constantly embroiled in murder cases that only she has the insight to solve. But outside of a classic mystery novel, being surrounded by death doesn’t make you a charming amateur detective, it makes you a suspect and a social ... more >

April 17, 2023

REVIEW: Honey for Tea by Elizabeth Cadell

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviewschildhood friends / England / English countryside / family relationships / fatphobia / Historical / mystery / village19 Comments

Jendy Marsh was worried about her sister Nancy. Six weeks before her wedding day, Nancy had broken off her engagement to Allen Harvey and gone away to Spain. Nancy and Allen were the two people Jendy loved most in the world, and there was so little she could do to ... more >

March 24, 2023

Review: Liar City: A Novel (Sugar and Vice # 1) by Allie Therin

SiriusB Reviews / B Reviews Category / Book Reviewsempaths / Fantasy / mystery / Suspense1 Comments

A murder has Seattle on edge, and it falls to a pacifist empath—and a notorious empath hunter—to find the killer before it’s too late It’s the middle of the night when part-time police consultant and full-time empath Reece gets an anonymous call warning him that his detective sister needs his ... more >

Jennie
March 13, 2023

Reading List by Jennie for October through December 2022

JennieBook Reviewsmystery / Reading lists / Suspense / thriller7 Comments

All suspense this time, and I didn’t read much. Janine and I reviewed Moira’s Pen together. The Break by Katie Sise This was another “new mother in New York” thriller; this feels like a little sub-sub-genre I’ve stumbled upon (I really like Mother of All Secrets which I read a bit ... more >

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