reviews

A New Case, An Old Hurt Author: Dawn Lee McKenna I’m deeply missing my yearly family beach vacation time, so a return visit to the Forgotten Coast Series during this seemingly endless pandemic was a must. We left Maggie in Low Tide, down-and-out about her failure to save a needy woman and conflicted about the suspicious suicide of Gregory Bourdreaux, a man who once raped and nearly killed her when she was a teenager. The investigative buzz around Gregory, despite a strange apology letter, had started to slowly go away, but after a grisly new find Maggie is once again chasing a possible [...]

Murder, Romance, Chocolate, and Cats Author: Joanna Carl Infamous defense attorney Clementine Ripley is throwing an opulent party in her strange, minimalist mansion in the small Michigan town of Warner Pier. In preparation for the upper echelon only celebration, she’s contacted TenHuis Chocolade with a $2,000 plus order of fancy chocolates, including a few specialized feline shaped goodies to celebrate her expensive prized feline, Champion Yonkers. Aunt Nettie, the owner of TenHuis, can’t say no to the money, but she also cannot bear to set-foot in her enemy’s mansion. Enter new divorcee Lee McKinney, who has just returned home and [...]

Love, Revenge, Secrets Author: Tana French Stephen Moran has finally made it into the Murder Squad and is now partnered with the tough-as-nails pariah of the group, Detective Antoinette Conway. So far, it’s just working the off-hours and the usual domestic disputes, but this new case might be the key to the big time . . . unless one of the other murder detectives is secretly involved with the vic and has good reason to make sure that the case never sees the light of day. Aislinn Murray is your normal, pretty girl: naïve, sheltered, with a magazine-perfect house and [...]