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Next to Heaven

Can AI Write Junk-Food Fiction? Author: James Frey In New Bethlehem, Connecticut, the richest of the rich live and play. And they’re bored. They’re ready to spice things up, but when the party gets out of hand, the police are left with a body and endless motives. Was it the married girlfriend, her gangster/killer husband, the betrayed wife, the former boss, or any of a number of other potential killers? Because when the rich get bored, things go very bad very quickly. When I first bought Next to Heaven from Book of the Month, I admit I wasn’t paying attention. I [...]

Frances Carden2026-02-08T11:23:32-07:00February 8th, 2026|Tags: AI, book review, botm, James Frey, mystery, read, reading, thriller|

Resort, The

The Return of Yet Another Tedious Thriller Author: Sara Ochs Koh Sang is Thailand’s famous party island. It’s also the place you go to lose yourself – literally. The few “permanents” on the island are all running from something, recreating themselves and hiding their pasts. When the tourists start showing up dead though, an Instagram influencer known for her bikini pictures takes the darker side of the island viral. I really need to stop reading thrillers. I, along with everyone else, fell in love with Gone Girl and spent years chasing the experience, reading every thriller I could find. A good [...]

Frances Carden2026-02-07T21:27:10-07:00February 7th, 2026|Tags: book of the month, book review, botm, read, reading, thriller|

Man No One Believed, The

A Historically Important But Boring Reading Author: Joshua Sharpe True crime has been my guilty pleasure for the last several years. I started with the classic: the formidable Ann Rule. From there, I grew to read any and everything and even branched out into the world of podcasts with Bailey Sariaen’s addicting Murder, Mystery, and Makeup. When Book of the Month listed The Man No One Believed as one of its August picks, highlighting the explosive nature of true crime researching in freeing a man unjustly held for 15 years, I knew I had to read it. The surprisingly slim Man [...]

Frances Carden2026-01-26T20:11:16-07:00January 26th, 2026|Tags: book review, botm, Georgia church murders, Joshua Sharpe, read, reading, Swain, true crime|