Category Archives: Mystery/Suspense

Frightful Friday: Precious Blood by Jonathan Hayes

Frightful Friday is a weekly meme in which I feature a particularly scary or chilling book that I’ve read that week. Feel free to grab the button & join in! Be sure to include a link to your post in … Continue reading

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Review: Storm Front by Jim Butcher (Audiobook)

Audible Audio Edition Listening Length: 8 hour(s) and 1 min. Program Type:Audiobook Version: Unabridged Narrator: James Marsters Publisher:Buzzy Multimedia Publishing Corp. (June 10, 2009) Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden is a wizard who works out of an office in Chicago. Harry doesn’t hide … Continue reading

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Review: Promise Not To Tell by Jennifer McMahon

Paperback: 250 pages Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (April 10, 2007) ISBN-10: 9780061143311 Source: Publisher   “One potato, two potato, three potato four She used to live here long ago She doesn’t anymore” Forty-one year old Kate has returned to her small … Continue reading

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Frightful Friday: So Close the Hand of Death by J.T. Ellison

Frightful Friday is a weekly meme in which I feature a particularly scary or chilling book that I’ve read that week. Feel free to grab the button & join in! Be sure to include a link to your post in … Continue reading

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Review: The Priest’s Graveyard by Ted Dekker

Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: Center Street (April 19, 2011) ISBN-10: 159995334X Source: Publisher Renee Gilmore, a heroin addict, was running from her pimp, Cyrus, a dangerous drug runner with plans to torture and kill her, when she was rescued by … Continue reading

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Frightful Friday: The Silenced by Brett Battles

Frightful Friday is a weekly meme in which I feature a particularly scary or chilling book that I’ve read that week. Feel free to grab the button & join in! Be sure to include a link to your post in … Continue reading

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Review: Grace Under Pressure by Julie Hyzy

Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Berkley (June 1, 2010) ISBN-10: 9780425235218 Source: Publicist Grace Wheaton is the assistant curator of Marshfield Manor, part hotel, part museum.  After dealing with a particularly unruly guest in the tea room, the entire staff is … Continue reading

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Review: Heads You Lose by Lisa Lutz and David Hayward

Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Putnam Adult (April 5, 2011) ISBN-10: 0399157409 Source: Publisher   Twenty-something siblings Lacy & Paul live together in a small rural town in Northern California.  They get by on a pretty substantial crop of marijuana growing … Continue reading

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Review: The Raising by Laura Kasischke

Paperback: 496 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial; Original edition (March 15, 2011) ISBN-10: 0062004786 Source: Publisher   One year earlier, a tragic car accident takes the life of Nicole, a beautiful, straight-A sorority student at a midwestern university.  Her boyfriend, Craig, … Continue reading

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Review: The Four Ms. Bradwells by Meg Waite Clayton

Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books (March 22, 2011) ISBN-10: 0345517083 Source: Publisher Mia, Lainey, Betts, and Ginger met and became best friends at law school in the late 70s at the high point of the women’s liberation movement. They earned their nicknames … Continue reading

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