Category: Mystery
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Never Look Away by Linwood Barclay
Linwood Barclay writes amazing thrillers, they’re so fun. Never Look Away opens with newspaper reporter David Harwood visiting a local amusement park with his wife Jan and their 4-year-old son Ethan. Shortly after arriving at the park, Jan goes missing and David immediately calls the local police to report her…
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Pearls and Poison by Duffy Brown
Pearls and Poison is the 3rd book in the Consignment Shop cozy mystery series by Duffy Brown. It takes place in Savannah, Georgia where Reagan Summerside—the owner of the Prissy Fox consignment shop—moonlights as an amateur sleuth. In Pearls and Poison, Reagan’s mother Judge “Guillotine” Gloria is running for city…
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Too Close to Home by Linwood Barclay
Linwood Barclay is my new favorite suspense novelist, and Too Close to Home is the spookiest, most disturbing Barclay book I’ve read so far. In Too Close to Home, teenager Derek Cutter is at his best friend Adam Langley’s house telling the family goodbye before they go on a week-long…
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No Time for Goodbye by Linwood Barclay
The synopsis of No Time for Goodbye is simply irresistible (and I love Linwood Barclay). In short, a 14-year-old girl wakes up one day to find that her parents and older brother have vanished forever without saying good-bye. In May 1983, 14-year-old Cynthia Bigge goes out with her boyfriend on…
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Circus of the Damned by Laurell K. Hamilton
Circus of the Damned is the 3rd book in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. Hamilton. Anita Blake is an animator who raises zombies for a living, but she can also kill vampires as long as they are legally considered criminals. I first read this series when…
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Fear the Worst by Linwood Barclay
I was browsing “best of” book lists on Pinterest when I saw Linwood Barclay’s name for the first time. Trust Your Eyes was recommended as one of the “best thrillers that you can’t stop reading.” Trust Your Eyes wasn’t in stock at my local bookstore, but Fear the Worst was,…
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The Laughing Corpse by Laurell K. Hamilton
The Laughing Corpse is the 2nd book in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. Hamilton. I first read this book about 15 years ago, but I quit reading the series around books #4 or #5. I’ve decided to start over with the series. Just for fun. To…
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Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich
Explosive Eighteen is the 18th book in the Stephanie Plum bounty hunter series by Janet Evanovich. I loved this series when it first came out, but now it’s stupid. I won’t read any more of these. In Explosive Eighteen, Stephanie Plum is finally returning home to New Jersey after vacationing…
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Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton
Guilty Pleasures is the 1st book in the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. Hamilton. It was okay, but not great. A little outdated. In a parallel universe, vampires have the same rights as humans. Twenty-something Anita Blake is a professional vampire hunter and necromancer who goes after…