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Night She Disappeared, The

Dead and Gone or Alive and Hidden? Author: Lisa Jewell It’s 2017. A troubled girl leaves her infant daughter with her mother, going for a celebratory dinner with her boyfriend. The couple met at a fancy restaurant. Everything was going well. Then they left to attend a sumptuous party hosted by local cool-girl, Scarlett Jacques, at her family’s secluded mansion. They were never seen again. Two years later, the mother, Kim, is raising her grandchild, still searching for her daughter, still wondering how two people can disappear without a trace. Wondering if they got into a fight. Wondering if they are [...]

Frances Carden2023-02-26T15:30:04-07:00February 26th, 2023|Tags: book, book review, botm, mystery, read, reading, thriller|

Snowbound

Soccer Dads, Clever Kids, and Logical Loops Author: Blake Crouch When planning for a thirty+ hour plane flight with limited baggage space, I knew I had to choose the perfect reading material. After Dark Matter and Recursion I wanted (no, correction, needed) to read more of Blake Crouch’s fantastical, twisty, dark sci-fi. I picked Snowbound because it was available on Kindle, I didn’t want to start a series, and I liked the write-up. After a few chapters in, I realized that I had made a mistake. Snowbound is not the typical above-and-beyond Crouch fair recent readers have come to expect. It’s [...]

Frances Carden2023-02-26T11:29:47-07:00February 26th, 2023|Tags: Blake Crouch, book review, read, reading|

From a Buick 8

A Car, A Mystery, A Dark Legacy Author: Stephen King An odd man brings an old car into a gas station, asks for a fill-up, and disappears. The car sits there with a new tank of gas and no owner until the members of Troop D from the Pennsylvania State Police barracks in Western Pennsylvania arrive to impound it. What they discover is unutterable, horrible, beautiful, and inexplicable, all in one. A mystery that will keep on taking for decades. The car – a beautiful Buick 8 – isn’t quite right. It’s a near perfect mimic of a car, but there [...]

Frances Carden2023-02-13T20:50:54-07:00February 13th, 2023|Tags: book review, Buick, Buick 8, horror, read, reading, stephen king|