One of my favorites books last year was the debut novel The Thursday Murder Club from author Richard Osman. Now he's back with the follow-up novel The Man Who Died Twice and it is as good or maybe better than the first novel, which isn't usually the case. These books...
Book Review: ‘Every Waking Hour: An Ellery Hathaway Novel’ By Joanna Schaffhausen
Ellery Hatahway is back for her fourth novel and this time it's a more personal book. She and FBI agent Reed Markham (who saved her from a serial killer when she was a teen) and still together and in love. He's visiting Boston with his daughter and Ellery has no idea...
Book Review: ‘The Mitford Trial: A Novel’ By Jessica Fellowes
Book four starts out in 1933 and Louisa and Guy are just getting married when Guy is called away because of the uprising of the Nazi party in Germany and the start of it in London, which includes members of the Mitford family. And then Louisa is approached by a...
Book Review: ‘A House At The Bottom Of A Lake: A Novel’ By Josh Malerman
James and Amelia, both 17, meet and decide to go on a date. It's not your typical date, they go canoeing on a lake that leads to a second lake, one that is not well known. They're having fun and then they see a third lake, one that James has never seen before....
Book Review: ‘Find Me In Havana: A Novel’ By Serena Burdick
A fantastic historical novel looking at the life of one of Hollywood's biggest Hispanic actresses and the daughter who never really knew her very well. Readers will be engaged throughout the story, with great looks at the situation in Cuba and how it affected one...
Book Review: ‘Faye, Faraway: A Novel’ By Helen Fisher
Faye lost her mother when she was 8 years old and ended up living with neighbors Em and Henry and had a good life. She never learned the cause of her mother's death and it has always haunted her. Now at age 36 she's married to Eddie, who is going into the church to be...
Book Review: ‘Prodigal Son: An Agent X Novel’ By Gregg Hurwitz Is The Next Thrilling Novel
I've loved the Agent X books from the very beginning and now in book number six author Gregg Hurwitz continues to top himself from the previous novel. This novel changes the series forever. We learn more about Evan's past with shocking twists and turns. In Prodigal...
Book Review: ‘Butterfly 3: A Novel’ By Ashley Antoinette
Author Ashley Antoinette is back with the next chapter in her series based around Morgan, her friends and family in Michigan. It's another well-written story that asks more questions than it answers. Morgan Atkins doesn't know what to do. She's in love with two men,...
Book Review: ‘The City Of Tears: Book 2 Of The Burning Chambers’ By Kate Mosse
The follow-up to last years The Burning Chambers finds Piet and Minou in the year 1572 living with their 7 year old daughter Marta and young son Jean-Jacques. The situation in Paris between the Huguenots and the Catholics has seemed to reach a peaceful accord for the...
Book Review: ‘The Lost Boys: A Decker/Lazarus Novel’ By Faye Kellerman
The 26th novel featuring Detective/Rabbi Peter Decker and his wife Rina Lazarus, finds two cases on Decker's plate and Rina helping out and also dealing with their foster son Gabe and his mom wanting to meet. 35 year-old Bertram Lanz, who is disabled, living in a home...



