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When the Wolf Comes Home

“Love is a shape-shifting monster . . .a werewolf with a bottomless stomach.” Author: Nat Cassidy At the end of her work shift, Jess accidentally stabs her hand with a needle left in a vomit spattered bathroom. Now, her mind is calculating all the horrifying possibilities, frantically searching through Google, trying to find out if it’s too late to see a doctor. In the middle of her panic, she meets a young boy, hiding outside her apartment in the woods. She saves the boy from his naked, malevolent father and then, shortly thereafter, from a powerful attack on the complex by a [...]

2025-11-24T13:16:28-07:00November 24th, 2025|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Truly Madly Guilty

“Life was all about consequences.” Author: Liane Moriarty Clementine and Sam seem to have it all: a happy family, cute children, impressive careers. It’s suburban bliss. At least, it is to Clementine’s best friend/pseudo enemy, Erika. Erika and Oliver pretend to have it all together. Erika is precise, all-business, and yet vampiric in her neediness. The untold, not-so-surprising secret is that Erika wants Clemetine’s messy suburban life. She and Oliver have been trying for years to unsuccessfully have children, endless rounds of painful IVF leaving the couple hopeless and forlorn. On the outside, however, all is well. Clementine and Sam and [...]

2025-11-22T19:46:51-07:00November 22nd, 2025|Tags: , , , , , |

Butcher and the Wren, The

“Nothing is worse than being forgotten.” Author: Alaina Urquhart After starting the Dr. Wren Muller series out of order, reading and falling hard for The Butcher Game, I went back to the inception of a killer. The Butcher and the Wren is the first in the series, and it follows Jeremy Rose’s rise to fame as the Bayou Butcher and his entanglement with Dr. Wren, a forensic pathologist who is hot on his trail and has a personal vendetta against him. Jeremy started his tendency towards violence young, dragging a friend into his escalating schemes and cover-ups. As author Alaina Urquhart [...]

2025-11-21T21:33:24-07:00November 21st, 2025|Tags: , , , , , |
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