Lies She Told by Cate Holahan Published September 2017 Crooked Lane Books Liza is a somewhat accomplished author in the middle of an unhappy marriage in Lies She Told. She’s on a tight deadline …
Book Review: Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan
Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan Published January 2018 Atria/Emily Bestler Books Anatomy of a Scandal is a look at a conflicted barrister, a golden boy, and a wife in denial. Kate is a barrister…
Book Review: Bonfire by Krysten Ritter
Bonfire by Krysten Ritter Published November 2017 Hutchinson One-sentence summary: Attorney Abby returns to a hometown fraught with bad childhood memories (and bonfires) to work on a case. When resolv…
Book Review: American Fire by Monica Hesse
American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse Published July 2017 Liveright One-sentence summary: Someone is setting dozens of fires in this true-crime account. Over the cou…
Book Review: The Blinds by Adam Sternbergh
The Blinds by Adam Sternbergh Published August 2017 Ecco One-sentence summary: Calvin Cooper is the sheriff of a small, secluded Texas town, dubbed The Blinds, where people who are exceptionally bad o…
Book Review: What You Don’t Know by JoAnn Chaney
One-sentence summary: Years after a serial killer took victims and traumatized everyone involved in the case, a copycat begins murdering again. There’s a lot we don’t know in What You Don&…
Book Review: The Whistler by John Grisham
One-sentence summary: Lucy and her partner, Hugo, are judicial investigators, looking into their biggest and most dangerous case of misconduct yet. Perhaps I’m in a John Grisham slump. Or perhaps John…
Book Review: IQ by Joe Ide
One-sentence summary: Isaiah Quintabe (IQ) is a detective for people who can’t afford detectives, and remembers how it all began with the search for his brother’s killer. As much as it’s a crime thril…
Book Review: The Never-Open Desert Diner by James Anderson
One sentence summary: Ben runs a small-time truck delivery service in a desolate corner of the desert. Wow, my description does not do this book any justice! But really, it’s in keeping with the spiri…
Book Review: Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben
One-sentence summary: Maya is grieving for her husband, who recently died…or did he? (bum bum buuuuuuuum) I love Harlan Coben books, generally. The constant twisting of a seemingly normal life t…
Book Review: Sting by Sandra Brown
One-sentence summary: A mysterious (and handsome) man kidnaps a woman in this book by Sandra Brown, but are either of these characters who they seem? DNF, and I’m not happy about it. Usually, I&…
Book Review: Good Behavior by Blake Crouch
One sentence summary: Three short stories/novellas centered around Letty Dobesh, a recovering meth addict with a sharp wit, fast improvisational skills, and dangerously sticky fingers. I’m a big fan o…