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Beautiful Ugly

“Fear can make something beautiful appear ugly.” Author: Alice Feeney Author Grady Green is a ruined man. He can’t write anymore. He can’t think of anything anymore except his disappeared, presumed dead wife, and the night that everything happened. He was on the phone with her, elated to tell her his good news, when she slammed on the breaks, got out of the car, and then exited his life forever. Her coat was found in the waves below the cliff she was driving up. Now, at the behest of his agent, Grady is going to a reclusive cabin on a Scottish [...]

Frances Carden2025-10-16T10:53:02-07:00October 16th, 2025|Tags: Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly, book review, botm, mystery, read, reading, thriller|

Wild Dark Shore

“Here is the nature of life, we must love things with our whole selves knowing they will die.” Author: Charlotte McConaghy Shearwater, a tiny island near Antarctica, has a brutal shoreline. This is a place only fit for seals and penguins, a place slowly being reclaimed by the choppy ocean, a place that is gradually being drowned. It’s a space haunted by bad memories, bitter weather, and one doomed family who are trying desperately to move the world’s largest seed bank before it is swallowed by the uncaring tide. This family – the Salts – consists of a grieving father and [...]

Frances Carden2025-10-12T10:16:39-07:00October 12th, 2025|Tags: book review, botm, literary, read, reading|

Clue of the Tapping Heels, The

Tap Dancing and Cat Burglars Author: Carolyn Keene In The Clue of the Tapping Heels, Nancy is back, hot on the trail of a twisting mystery. This time, she’s embroiled with a retired actress, Miss Carter, who is haunted at night by a strange tapping sound throughout her house. While it may sound ghostly, Miss Carter thinks the intruder is very human, because her purebred Persian kittens keep going missing. Can Nancy stop the cat burglar, and perhaps bring the sweet old woman a happily-ever-after with her long-forgotten beau at the same time? It’s Nancy, so of course she can. Not [...]

Frances Carden2025-10-09T13:10:23-07:00October 9th, 2025|Tags: book review, cozy mystery, mystery, Nancy Drew, read, reading|