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October 20, 2026

REVIEW: The Foreign Correspondent’s Wife by Jenna Helwig

JayneB- Reviews / Book ReviewsHistorical / Historical fiction / murder mystery / murder-investigation / Paris / Post WWII / secrets4 Comments

Set in post-WWII Paris, the wife of an American foreign correspondent stumbles on the body of her murdered classmate at culinary school and becomes tangled in a web that stretches from the halls of diplomacy to the city’s underworld. Paris, 1949. It’s been five years since the war ended. The ... more >

September 30, 2026

REVIEW: A Winter’s Trail by Jane Lovering

JayneB- Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / country-set / dog / fathers and daughters / friendship / grief / secrets / winter / Yorkshire3 Comments

A final request. A hidden past. A hope for the future. When Faith loses her beloved father, famous TV historian Richard Macintire, she is baffled to receive a final letter which sends her on an intriguing quest across the freezing Yorkshire moors. To help solve the puzzle, Faith enlists the ... more >

August 18, 2026

REVIEW: My Sister Is Going to Kill Me – A Whitewater Whodunnit of Murder, Secrets, and Danger on the Grand Canyon by Nina Simon

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsArizona / brothers and sisters / business / Contemporary / locked room mystery / murder mystery / opposites / secrets / self discovery / sisters5 Comments

What’s a family vacation without a little murder? Liv and Mandy Chisholm’s yearly sister trip is a sacred tradition, an attempt to bond as their lives increasingly diverge. Liv, the ever-practical older sister, packs the color-coded itineraries. Mandy, a bedazzled human tumbleweed, brings the spontaneity. This year, the sisters take ... more >

October 11, 2024

REVIEW: The Last One at the Wedding by Jason Rekulak

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsclass differences / crime thriller / dysfunctional family / fathers and daughters / Fiction / First-Person / secrets / wedding8 Comments

Frank Szatowski is shocked when his daughter, Maggie, calls him for the first time in three years. He was convinced that their estrangement would become permanent. He’s even more surprised when she invites him to her upcoming wedding in New Hampshire. Frank is ecstatic, and determined to finally make things ... more >

October 4, 2024

REVIEW: All We Thought We Knew by Michelle Shocklee

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ Reviews1940s / 1960s / disability / disabled character / Dual Timelines / family relationships / Germany / inspirational / prisoner of war / secrets / Tennessee / Vietnam / World War IIComments Off on REVIEW: All We Thought We Knew by Michelle Shocklee

She was so sure she knew her family’s story . . . Now she wonders if she was wrong about all of it. 1969. When Mattie Taylor’s twin brother was killed in Vietnam, she lost her best friend and the only person who really understood her. Now, news that her ... more >

August 24, 2024

REVIEW: The Thing About My Uncle by Peter J. Stavros

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ Reviewscoming-of-age / family relationships / found family / Kentucky / middle grade / secrets / self discovery / teenager / Young-Adult5 Comments

The thing about my uncle was that I hardly knew him. Uncle Theo kept to himself, some would say he was a recluse, and by all accounts, that was how he preferred it. I couldn’t precisely recall when I had seen him last in the flesh. I just had a ... more >

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