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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 26, 2023


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 22, 2023


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 18, 2023


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 13, 2023


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 11, 2023


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 7, 2023


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
Sep 5, 2023


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 31, 2023


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 28, 2023


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 23, 2023


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 21, 2023


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 18, 2023


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
Aug 8, 2023


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 31, 2023


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 27, 2023


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 24, 2023


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 21, 2023


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 19, 2023


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...

MicheleReader
Jul 17, 2023


Thicker Than Water - a domestic thriller filled with secrets and lies.
Julia Larkin is married to Jason, brother of Sienna Larkin. The two women are best friends and business partners. Their personalities...

MicheleReader
Jul 14, 2023
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