If Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die. In Slough House, the London outpost for disgraced MI5 spies, memories are stirring, all of them bad. Catherine Standish is buying booze again, Louisa Guy is raking over the ashes of lost love, and new ... more >
I’ve read and enjoyed several of Ruth Ware’s books, and while she’s not quite an auto-buy I am happy to see a new release from her and had no qualms about picking this one up based on the blurb: A high-tension and ingenious thriller following five couples trapped on a ... more >
A long-held secret, and a beautiful heart hoping to be understood. Cressida Tarbet loves her job at an animal rescue centre, even if it means she’s resigned herself to scrimping to make ends meet – a lifestyle far removed from her best friend Ivo’s, in his ancestral gatehouse stuffed with ... more >
I read Sise’s The Break about a year and a half ago and gave it a B; I don’t remember loving it but I liked it enough that when The Vacation Rental came to my attention I checked out the blurb: A summer getaway triggers a psychological game of cat ... more >
The humans are fighting again. Go figure. As a free A.I., Mal finds the war between the modded and augmented Federals and the puritanical Humanists about as interesting as a battle between rival anthills. He’s not above scouting the battlefield for salvage, though, and when the Humanists abruptly cut off ... more >
Dear Ms. Unger: I requested this from Netgalley and then sort of sat on it for a bit; what I remembered of the blurb hadn’t really resonated. Said blurb: Rosie and Chad Lowan are barely making ends meet in New York City when they receive life-changing news: Chad’s late uncle ... more >