Cal Hooper has retired from the police force in Chicago after 25 years. His marriage has broken up as well. He decides to start over in Ireland, in a small village, having bought a run down house. He is hard at work on the house, meeting his neighbors and the cast of...
Book Review: ‘Burn You Twice: A Novel’ By Mary Burton
In Missoula, Montana in 2010 a house fire nearly killed Joan Mason and her best friend Ann Bailey. Elijah Weston was tried and found guilty of setting the fire. Now 10 years later he's getting out of prison and returning to Missoula. Joan today is a detective in...
Book Review: ‘The Wrong Kind Of Woman: A Novel’ By Sarah McCraw Crow
The year is 1970 and in New Hampshire it's almost time for the Christmas Holidays. Professor Oliver Desmarais is putting up decorations with his daughter Rebecca and his wife Virginia, when he suddenly dies. This sudden death is the nucleus of the novel as both...
Book Review: ‘Leave The World Behind: A Novel’ By Rumaan Alam
Clay, his wife Amanda and their two children Archie who is 15 and Rose who is 13 are on their annual summer vacation to the Hamptons. This time they're going a little further out and to a more remote place. Things are going okay until there's a knock on the door late...
Book Review: ‘A Little Bit Of Karma’ By ReShonda Tate Billingsley
Shannon and Jay Lovejoy have built an empire out of giving out relationship advice. Radio shows, books and tours to adoring fans. But what everyone doesn't know is that Shannon caught Jay having an affair and now she wants a divorce. But a big event scheduled at a...
Book Review: ‘The Midnight Library: A Novel’ By Matt Haig
Nora Seed is 35 years old and her life is not going well. Her cat was hit by a car and died and she lost her job. She decides to end it all. But the ending she expected is not what she got. She ends up in a Library full of books, the point before actual death. It's a...
Book Review: ‘Santa Monica: A Novel’ By Cassidy Lucas
The debut novel from author Cassidy Lucas is an average thriller with some twists and turns that keep the reader engaged throughout. The characters are well-written and the setting of Santa Monica plays nicely into the story. It's a good look at the lives of the rich...
Book Review: ‘Snow’ By John Banville
It's 1957 in Ireland and on this snowy night Father Tom Lawless is found dead in a grisly way at the home of the Osbornes. Detective Inspector St. John Strafford arrives on the scene to start the investigation. He interviews everyone that was in the house and other...
Book Review: ‘Elsewhere’ By Dean Koontz
Jeffy Coltrane and his eleven year old daughter Amity live a quiet life in Suavidad Beach (her mother Michelle left seven years ago and hasn't been seen since) Well they did until the night a man they nicknamed Spooky Ed shows up again on their porch. He's a local guy...
Book Review: ‘In A Holidaze’ Is A Delightful Christmas Novel From Christina Lauren
It's Christmas time and that means one thing. It's time to go the cabin in Utah with her family and their close friends. For Maelyn Jones is the happiest time. She looks forward to this every year. And it also means seeing Andrew, the man she has loved since she was...





