★★★★ Hi everyone! So I recently finished reading this hard-hitting mystery/thriller, and it was quite an adventure. I didn't really know what the book was about when I ordered it (I thought it was about a murder, but there's a lot more to it than that). Had I been more aware of the subject matter,… Continue reading Mystery Monday #7: NIGHT SWIM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-eSOOF7XMk The new movie looks so good. I'm not sure they can outdo the performances of David Suchet and Emily Blunt, but I'll take it. In honor of the fact that I've just watched this trailer (and because Death on the Nile is my favorite Poirot mystery), I will be spending this Mystery Monday reviewing… Continue reading Kayla’s Mystery Monday #6: Death on the Nile
Okay, gang, I might be preaching to the choir here, but I'm going to assume that not everyone knows what a "trope" is. Let me explain. According to tvtropes.org, a trope "is a storytelling device or convention, a shortcut for describing situations the storyteller can reasonably assume the audience will recognize. Tropes are the means by which… Continue reading Kayla’s Tuesday Talk #3: Favorite Mystery Tropes
★★★★★ I'm back with another Britney King review! Can you tell I love this author? She has a tendency to write the most twisted, pulse-pounding, edge-of-your seat action packed novels I've ever read. Summary Sadie married a sadist, and now her life is falling apart. She's going through a rough divorce, meanwhile her neither Ann… Continue reading Kayla’s Mystery Monday #5: HER
★★★★ Summary Private Investigator Jessica Shaw is an expert at finding lost people. Then one day she gets an anonymous email featuring a photo of a three-year-old kidnapping victim from 25 years ago. For this special case, however, Jessica doesn't need to find the girl in the photo because the girl in the photo is… Continue reading Kayla’s Mystery Monday #4: THIN AIR
This is a meme created by Reading Marie, and I am so excited to participate! I first discovered it on Kristin Kraves Books, and you should really follow her blog if you don't already. It is so easy to join in and here are the rules: Take your current read and compare it to what… Continue reading Last Year I was Reading…
After reading McMahon's Promise Not to Tell and (my personal favorite) Don't Breathe a Word, I just had to request a copy of her newest book from #netgalley, and to my great surprise, I was approved! McMahon has a way of writing that is hauntingly beautiful. She can take a story of pain and triumph,… Continue reading Kayla’s Tantalizing Thursday: THE DROWNING KIND
Photo by Bradley Wilson ★★★★★ Summary #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner creates a mystery so complex that it will take three of her most beloved characters to solve it. The discovery of several old graves in the woods outside a small town in Georgia give the FBI reason to order a task… Continue reading Kayla’s Mystery Monday #3: WHEN YOU SEE ME
★★★★ Summary Izzy Lewis is a social media stalker. Her latest prey: the Dunns. They are the picture-perfect couple. Grant is handsome, successful, and a power-hitter. Josie is the flawless stay at home wife with a social media empire on “instalook.” But there is a darkness that lurks in the Dunn household, and Izzy finds… Continue reading Mystery Monday: Kayla read Britney King’s THE SOCIAL AFFAIR and it is Twisted
★★★★ Book Summary Mercy Kilpatrick is an FBI agent who has been estranged from her Oregon-based, "prepper" family since a secret tragedy tore them apart her senior year in high school. She tends to keep to herself, both in her professional and personal life, and she never talks about her past. That is, until she… Continue reading Mystery Monday: Kayla read A MERCIFUL DEATH
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