https://youtu.be/SjFelZPJBRA The Lake of Lost Girls by Katherine Greene BUY Using suspenseful podcast clips to weave a twisty tale of a missing student and her sister who is desperate for answers, The Lake of Lost Girls is perfect for fans of I Have Some Questions for You. It’s 1998, and female students are going missing… Continue reading BOTM Predictions: November 2024
https://youtu.be/JsLMPPlEcek When the World Tips Over by Jandy Nelson BUY An explosive new novel brimming with love, secrets, and enchantment The Fall siblings live in hot Northern California wine country, where the sun pours out of the sky, and the devil winds blow so hard they whip the sense right out of your head. Years… Continue reading Aardvark Predictions: October 2024
https://youtu.be/QIVztvevYOc?si=yyUND79N8g9Vhul7 The Wedding People by Alison Espach It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she’s actually the… Continue reading BOTM Predictions: August 2024
https://youtu.be/7FRm0g807uI Swan Song by Elin Hilderbrand BUY It's her last book, so they have to have it, right? The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley BUY The deliciously twisty new locked room murder mystery from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Guest List and The Paris Apartment. The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center BUY The New York Times bestselling… Continue reading BOTM Predictions: June 2024
★★★★ Genre: Mystery/ThrillerFormat: AudiobookLength: 2hrs 47minsBuy: The House on the Water: A Novella Summary: Every year, Caroline Reed takes a trip with her best friend, Esme Lamont. They’re usually accompanied by their spouses—but this year, everything’s changed. Esme has just gone through a bitter divorce, and Caroline is wondering if her own marriage is reaching… Continue reading Kayla reviews HOUSE ON THE WATER
It’s time for another list of #SaturdayBookSales! Each Saturday I hunt down the best book deals I can find and share them in a new post! If you want to participate you can do so by sharing a link to a good deal you’ve found in the comments of our weekly post or… create your… Continue reading Saturday Book Sales: March 27, 2021
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
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…
★★★★ Summary: On December 13, 2001, Tracey Richter Pittman Roberts claimed to be an innocent housewife who was thrown into an terrifying situation when a couple of men broke into her home and tried to attack her and her three children, but once a couple of investigators noticed some inconsistencies in her story, they had… Continue reading Freaky Friday: Kayla Reviews BEAUTIFULLY CRUEL
★★★★★ One of my favorite mystery novels that I've read recently is Susan M. Boyer's Lowcountry Bombshell. It is the second novel in her Liz Talbot Mystery series, and this is a series that Becky and I definitely agree is wonderful! Liz Talbot is a private investigator who occasionally sees ghosts--well, at least one ghost.… Continue reading Mystery Monday: Kayla’s Mystery pick this week is LOWCOUNTRY BOMBSHELL
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