Wellness - a love story for our times.
In the early 1990s, Jack Baker, a budding photographer, left Kansas and moved to Chicago to go to school and prove his parents wrong,...
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- 4 days ago
Bright Lights, Big Christmas - get in the mood for the holidays with this sweet book.
The Tolliver Family Farms of North Carolina had been selling Christmas trees every year in the West Village of New York City while the...
MicheleReader
- Sep 22
Traitors Gate - enjoy book #6 in Jeffrey Archer's action-packed William Warwick series.
I became a Jeffrey Archer fan after reading his seven-book series The Clifton Chronicles where the character of William Warwick was...
MicheleReader
- Sep 18
The Golden Gate - an entertaining combination of mystery thriller & historical fiction.
The setting is Berkley, California. In 1944, in the Claremont Hotel, wealthy industrialist and presidential hopeful William Wilkinson was...
MicheleReader
- Sep 13
After That Night (Will Trent, #11) - a terrific thriller in a series that keeps going strong.
Karin Slaughter has treated us to another excellent book in the Will Trent series. Set in Atlanta, GBI Special Agent Will Trent and...
MicheleReader
- Sep 11
Perfectly Nice Neighbors - a tense, thought-provoking thriller.
Salma and Bilal have just moved to Blenheim, a suburb of London, which they hope will offer a new start for the Khatun family as they...
MicheleReader
- Sep 7
Don't Forget to Write - a delightful, humorous and heartwarming story set in 1960.
It's 1960 and 20-year-old Marilyn Kleinman might as well be a teenager based on the way her parents treat her. She's been allowed to go...
MicheleReader
- Sep 5
Hotel Cuba - two sisters' moving journey from the Polish shtetls to Cuba and ultimately America.
In 1922, as the borders of Russia and Poland continued to shift and deadly pogroms were on the rise, life in the Jewish shtetls grew...
MicheleReader
- Aug 31
Just Another Missing Person - a clever police procedural thriller.
DCI Julia Day's latest case is a report of a missing person. Twenty-two-year-old Olivia Johnson has just moved into a new apartment and...
MicheleReader
- Aug 28
Good Bad Girl - the bonds between mothers and daughters are the center of this compelling thriller.
It's Mother's Day and a six-month old baby is stolen from her carriage during a trip to the store. The mother is suffering from...
MicheleReader
- Aug 23
The Collector (Gabriel Allon, #23) - this engaging series keeps going strong and remains relevant.
Gabriel Allon, the world's most famous ex-spy and former head of the Israeli Intelligence Agency is trying to live a more peaceful life...
MicheleReader
- Aug 21
The Secret Life of Carolyn Russell - a missing woman's unsolved case is explored in a podcast.
The story opens in 2014 in the small village of Belmont in Lancashire, England. Journalist Stephanie Brett has lost her job writing for...
MicheleReader
- Aug 18
Everyone Here is Lying - the search for a missing child reveals a community filled with deceit.
Welcome to Stanhope. It's a nice, safe neighborhood in upstate New York. One where everyone thinks they know their neighbors - but of...
MicheleReader
- Aug 8
None of This Is True - a can't put down, twisted psychological thriller.
It's 2019. Josie Fair is celebrating her 45th birthday with her much-older husband Walter at a nice restaurant. A departure from their...
MicheleReader
- Jul 31
Gone Tonight - a mother-daughter thriller filled with secrets and lies.
Twenty-four-year-old Catherine Sterling and her mother Ruth have an unusually dependent relationship. They have trackers on each other's...
MicheleReader
- Jul 27
The Paris Agent - a powerful and suspenseful story inspired by two WWII female spies.
This riveting story begins in 1944 as four women are being transported by German guards to an unknown destination. They are spies....
MicheleReader
- Jul 24
Night Candy (Colleen Hayes #5): an enjoyable adventure in this strong series, set in the late 1970s.
As 1979 is about to draw to a close, Colleen Hayes has a lot to deal with. She's an unlicensed Private Investigator living in San...
MicheleReader
- Jul 21
The Bones of the Story - a twisty locked-room mystery set in the world of academia.
The setting is Briarwood College, a small, elite college in upstate New York. Dean of Liberal Arts, Nell Portman, had also been a student...
MicheleReader
- Jul 19
The Beach at Summerly - a New England island is the stage for mid-century suspense and intrigue.
On New England's Winthrop Island, there are two types of people, the wealthy owners of large homes who visit during the summers and the...
MicheleReader
- Jul 17
Crook Manifesto - book two of the tale of antihero Ray Carney and life in Harlem is another winner.
Ray Carney, the furniture store owner and part-time fence for stolen goods who we met in Harlem Shuffle (2021), is back for part two of...
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