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Illustrated cover with an orange background featuring a hot, white, brunette couple. He is on the left and wears a blue suit and white shirt and sunglasses, his body facing left, face to the front. She is wearing a slinky red sleeveless dress and her long hair is blowing across her eyes almost like a burglar's mask. She is facing right and looking back over her shoulder toward him with her eyes but face to the front
July 10, 2026

REVIEW: Spies, Lies, and Alibis by Natalie Walters

KaetrinB Reviews / Book ReviewsNetGalley / romantic adventure / romantic-suspense / second chance / spiesNo Comments

Dear Natalie Walters, Cybil Langford is working as a spy/informant for a private secret organisation, trying to get information about her employer, Earl Edmond. Bennett Bradley works for the FBI and is undercover as “Craig Miller” a shady financial expert who helps criminals move and launder money. He is after ... more >

Dark green cover with twining red roses, yellow titles over the top
May 27, 2026

REVIEW: The Final Target by Nora Roberts

KaetrinA Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsNetGalley / romantic-suspense6 Comments

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Content Note: Violence, sexual violence Dear Nora Roberts, Arden Bowie is a young, debut author from Columbus, Ohio, having her first book signing. The last person to request she sign her book is Dustin Dubecki. Dustin wants to write as well, he tells her, and is hoping she’ll have a ... more >

cartoon style illustrated cover with a yellow/orange sunray style background featuring the faces of two attractive white people, a woman on the left and a man on the right, both looking very cool and wearing sunglasses - hers have red frames and blue lenses, his are black on black. The title is in red.
May 22, 2026

REVIEW: The Alias Agenda by Holly James

KaetrinBook Reviews / C ReviewsNetGalley / romantic-suspense / spiesNo Comments

When confidential informant Erin Daniels is abruptly pulled off an insider trading investigation and sent across the country with just a few hours’ notice, she’s definitely not expecting her new assignment to involve infiltrating a smuggling ring in a . . . suburban mommy group? She’s also not expecting to ... more >

Off-white background with lots of little light green alligators and the title in a darker green in large font. There are 3 large bullet holes in the picture, going from left to right in a kind of arc.
June 11, 2025

AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: Don’t Look Down by Jennifer Crusie & Bob Mayer, narrated by Patrick Lawlor & Renee Raudman

KaetrinAudiobooks / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsComedy / Movies / NetGalley / romantic-suspense5 Comments

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Dear Everyone, Don’t Look Down was originally released in 2006 and was the first book in what has become a longstanding writing partnership between Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer. I read the book (in print) back in the day but didn’t listen to it at the time. Now, it’s being ... more >

Photo realistic image of dark green foliage and white, purple and yellow flowers, overlaid by a spider web (thankfully unoccupied).
May 27, 2025

REVIEW: Hidden Nature by Nora Roberts

KaetrinB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsNatural Resources Police / renovating / romantic-suspense / serial killers5 Comments

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Dear Nora Roberts, Sloan Cooper is an officer with the Natural Resources Police (which I’d never heard of before but I have a lot in common with quite a few characters in the book there so I don’t feel bad). The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) looks after public land, ... more >

Cover in bluey purple, showing a woman runing toward an old house similar to one you'd find in the French Quarter of New Orleans, with iron scrollwork
August 26, 2024

REVIEW: Buried Too Deep by Karen Rose

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Dear Karen Rose, Cora Jane Winslow’s father disappeared when she was nearly five years old, 23 years ago. She, her brother and her mother, believed that he had run off with another woman. Cora had been receiving letters from her dad on and off for years. But two weeks before ... more >

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