A great historical novel based on reporter Nellie Bly and her efforts to get a job in New York as a reporter, something women of 1887 have a hard time doing in a male dominated society. Nellie has come to the big city from Pittsburgh, where she had a succesful career...
Five years ago six people were partying and by morning only five remained. Now this tragic night is coming back to haunt the people involved and before it's revealed what really happened another will be dead and one will have their life in danger. For Frankie Barrera...
I love Juliet Blackwell's novels and she's back with another great historical fiction novel. Everytime I read one of her novels I learn something new and this book is no exception. It's 1944 in Nazi occupied Paris and Capucine Benoit has been taken hostage, along with...
I am a fan of author Alm Katsu and enjoyed her previous books The Hunger and The Deep and now she's written something completly different from those two. This is a page-turning horror thriller that you won't want to put down. Mysterious parachutes are being dropped at...
Grace, Felicity, Alice and Hannah use to be best friends in London and were known as the Wild Girls. About two years ago there was a dust-up among them and they stopped speaking for the most part. Now out of the blue Felicity has sent the other three invitations to...
New Year's Eve 1952 and Archer is in the city of Lights, Los Angeles, with his friend and aspiring actress Liberty Callahan. They're out for the evening for dinner and a party. Archer meets a screenwriter named Eleanor Lamb, who claims she's in trouble, that someone...
Two Grandas force their grandchildren to marry in order to save their respective businesses in Chicago. Kamilah Vega works at her families Puerto Rican Restaurant with her parents. She wants to update and modernize the place but her parents refuse. She also wants to...
Twenty crime writers contribute to this really good set of 20 crime story short stories, in one anthology set. My favorite one is the second story from author David Bart titled The World's Oldest Living Detective. An ex Police Detective and P.I. is now in a retirement...
Evelyn Varney has tried to put her past behind in and in 1948 she has met a new man and seems to be happy. Then she runs into an old friend Julia she hasn't seen in years and it brings her past back into focus. In 1939 after graduating Oxford and being able to speak...
Four people go away for a weekend and it turns out to be a lot more complicated than anyone would have thought. Lets look at the players...Joy and Malcolm, who have been best friends for years and Joy works for him. She's also been in love with him since the first...