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  • 3 stars out of 5

The Lost Coast by Amy Rose Capetta

When Danny and her mother move to Tempest, California, Danny thinks this move was to get away from her old life. But in Tempest, Danny finds the Grays: a group...

  • 5 stars out of 5

The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett

Dashiell Hammett is the godfather of hard-boiled detective fiction. A former real-life Pinkerton detective, he wrote Red Harvest, The Maltese Falcon, and The Thin Man over a span of 5...

Posted by on January 30, 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

  • 5 stars out of 5

We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia

Daniela Vargas is a top student at the Medio School for Girls, where young women are trained to be prestigious wives to young rich men of high social status. Dani,...

Posted by on January 16, 2020

  • 4 stars out of 5

The Shape of Night by Tess Gerritsen

Ava Collete is a food writer from Boston, looking to get away for the summer to finish her new book of historical New England recipes. It might be more fitting...

Posted by on January 14, 2020

  • 4 stars out of 5

Snapshot by Brandon Sanderson

In the near future, the police of New Clipperton have new tool for fighting crime: they can recreate a facsimile of the entire city for a given 24 hour block...

Posted by on January 7, 2020

  • 4 stars out of 5

A Lady’s Guide to Etiquette and Murder by Diane Freeman

After a year spent “mourning” the sudden death of her philandering husband (who died in bed with his mistress no less) American born countess Francis Wynn is ready to move...

Posted by on November 12, 2019

  • 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

  • 4 stars out of 5

D.O.A. by Rudolph Mate

After a night on the town in San Francisco, account Frank Bigelow wakes up to discover he’s been poisoned. There’s no cure, he has no idea who did it, and...

Posted by on September 9, 2019

  • 4 stars out of 5

White Cat by Holly Black

White Cat is the first novel in a suspenseful, action-packed trilogy about Cassel Sharpe’s plots and exploits as he dodges both curse workers and the feds.

Posted by on April 10, 2019

  • 5 stars out of 5

Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick

Containing elements of mystery, horror, romance, history, and the paranormal, Midwinterblood is difficult to describe without giving too much away or just listing more descriptors like “sweeping” and “mystical.”

  • 4 stars out of 5

The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware

Hal is a young woman hard on her luck. The debt collectors come knocking with threats of violence if she doesn’t pay off her mounting loan and she surely isn’t...

Posted by on March 11, 2019

  • 5 stars out of 5

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Think Ocean’s Eleven, if the Ocean’s Eleven crew contained six teenage misfits living in medieval, high-fantasy Amsterdam. Presented with the opportunity of a lifetime (read: more money than he could’ve...

Posted by on November 20, 2018

  • 4 stars out of 5

The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls by Claire Legrand

Victoria Wright's best friend Lawrence has disappeared and no one is talking about it. Victoria must decide to keep up with her perfect routine or start investigating. With more children...

  • 4 stars out of 5

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

Dr. James Shepard had an unusual day. It began with the suicide of Mrs. Farrows, a patient of his whom he suspects murdered her husband a year prior, and ended with...

Posted by on October 29, 2018

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