All Good People Here
by Ashley Flowers Overall: All Good People here is a solid thriller written by the host of a very popular true crime podcast. I do enjoy the occasional foray into true crime, and I was curious about how the author’s experience podcasting might inform the story. Margot Davies a successful journalist, has returned to her…
Play the Fool
by Lina Chern Overall: In this entertaining contemporary mystery, we meet Katie True. Katie’s currently working in a failing mall outside Chicago, the latest in a string of jobs headed nowhere. She didn’t like college and has never found her passion – except for reading tarot cards. She can’t stand her parents and older sister;…
The Locked Room
by Elly Griffiths Overall: This is entry 14 in Griffiths’ Ruth Galloway mystery series, and I am pleased to report that I enjoyed it. As series lengthen, it can be difficult to maintain interest in familiar characters and come up with new storylines, and this book succeeds. This entry takes on the pandemic, which we…
Winter Counts
by David Heska Wanbli Weiden Overall: Let’s not beat around the bush: I loved this book. Virgil Wounded Horse, like many a classic noir narrator, lives and works in the gray area between serving justice and being a criminal. He’s the guy folks on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota turn to when they…
Wrong Place Wrong Time
by Gillian McAllister Overall: OK, this is definitely a book where too much information will spoil the story, so I’m going to try not to give too much away. We meet Jen on the night when she sees her teenage son murder a stranger on the street in front of their house and immediately get…
The Mom Group
by Jennifer A. Jones Overall: Although it’s called The Mom Group, this novel is mostly about one woman who identifies primarily as a wife and mother. After years as a stay-at-home mom, Erika Thompson has reached a bumpy patch in her life. Both her kids are away at college and her husband barely sees her,…
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