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  • 5 stars out of 5

Mad Honey by Jennifer Finney Boylan and Jodi Picoult

This is one of those stories that stays with you long after you finish reading the book.

Posted by on October 1, 2023

  • 4 stars out of 5

The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill

It’s a fine day like any other at the Boston Public Library. Until a scream breaks the silence of the library and irrevocably changes the lives of four people sharing...

Posted by on September 1, 2022

  • 4 stars out of 5

Balthazar Series 1 by Clelia Constantine and Clothilde Jamin

Rapheal Balthazar is a gifted but eccentric forensic pathologist who is constantly smiling and joking and eating, but underneath that is a deep pain stemming from his wife’s murder fifteen...

Posted by on November 15, 2021

  • 5 stars out of 5

Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala

Lila Macapagal has just moved back home to Shady Palms, IL to recover from a breakup with her boyfriend and to help save her Tita Rosie’s failing Filipino restaurant. When...

Posted by on November 9, 2021

  • 4 stars out of 5

Hyouka by Yasuhiro Takemoto

Oreki is a first year high school student who does his best to conserve his energy. His motto is “If I don’t have to do it, I won’t. If I...

Posted by on September 15, 2021

  • 5 stars out of 5

Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds by Brandon Sanderson

Stephen Leeds is not insane. How do you know that? Well, he tells you that repeatedly. It’s his hallucinations that are crazy. Stephen Leeds is a genius, but his genius...

Posted by on November 24, 2020

  • 3 stars out of 5

Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran

Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead is an odd book. On the one hand, it’s grounded in a grimy, desperate post-Katrina New Orleans. Almost every character in the...

Posted by on January 28, 2020

  • 4 stars out of 5

I Am Princess X by Cherie Priest

Libby died when she was fourteen.  Her mom fell asleep at the wheel and drove into a river, where they both drowned.  …Didn’t they?

Posted by on October 17, 2019

  • 3 stars out of 5

York: The Shadow Cipher by Laura Ruby

New York has always been a city shrouded in mystery but there is no mystery greater than the York Cipher, a puzzle consisting of a series of clues left by...

Posted by on March 8, 2018

  • 4 stars out of 5

Death on Nantucket by Francine Matthews

With summer not far away, it’s nice to think about selecting a few good books for your “to-read pile” that you can take the time to enjoy, especially if it...

Posted by on June 12, 2017

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