Book reviews

  • Older, Jennifer Hartmann

    Older, Jennifer Hartmann

    Popping my Jennifer Hartmann cherry because all I’ve heard lately is about this book. I saved Older as a winter read, mostly because the author captures that season so beautifully that posting about it in autumn would feel like a crime. Before he discovered her age, he uncovered her heart. Seventeen-year-old Halley, bruised by a…

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  • Too Old for This, Samantha Downing

    Once upon a time, Lottie Jones was the nightmare under the bed. Now she’s just trying to win bingo without throwing her back out and keep her past buried deeper than her victims. Retirement was going so well — a fake name, a quiet town, and the most dangerous thing in her life being weak…

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  • Somebody else, Guillaume Musso

    Somebody else, Guillaume Musso

    Gosh, I wish they would translate Musso’s books into English, but if you know Romanian or French, this one’s for you. Musso is such a brilliant thriller author—sometimes I feel like he’s secretly the real-life Dexter Morgan. “There are three versions of the truth: mine, yours, and the truth itself.” Côte d’Azur, spring 2023. A…

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  • You Belong Here, Megan Miranda

    Welcome back to Wyatt Valley — where the air is crisp, the traditions are ancient, and the skeletons in the closet are practically family heirlooms. In You Belong Here, Megan Miranda delivers what she does best: small-town paranoia, buried secrets, and women who know far too much for their own good. This time, it’s Beckett…

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  • The Ghostwriter, Julie Clark

    In The Ghostwriter, Julie Clark cracks open a decades-old murder, a fractured family legacy, and the kind of secrets that don’t just haunt you—they define you. When infamous horror author Vincent Taylor finally decides to reveal what really happened the night his siblings were killed in 1975, he turns to the one person he’s never…

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