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Turn of the Key, The

“People do go mad, you know, if you stop them from sleeping for long enough...” Author: Ruth Ware It looks like she murdered the child. She had the opportunity and motive, but she swore in her novel length letter to her lawyer that she didn’t do it. Yes, she treated the children badly. Yes, she lied. Yes, she was there under false pretenses. But no, no, she never hurt them. That’s how The Turn of the Key begins, and, as Rowan Caine writes from prison, begging this famous lawyer to take her case, she slowly unravels the strange tale of Heatherbrae [...]

Frances Carden2025-12-15T12:27:38-07:00December 15th, 2025|Tags: book of the month, book review, botm, mystery, read, reading, thriller|

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 [...]

Frances Carden2025-11-21T21:33:24-07:00November 21st, 2025|Tags: book review, Butcher and the Wren, mystery, read, reading, thriller|

Sleep Tight

“Your future depends on your dreams, so go to sleep.” ― Mesut Barazany Author: J.H. Markert Father Silence has finally been executed. In his killing heyday, he posed as a priest to capture his victims, whom he tortured and killed. Post-execution, a new serial killer is in town, supposedly killing in Father Silence’s honor. This new killer, The Outcast, has started with the original policeman (and his family) who unlocked the case and arrested the fake priest. Now, the Outcast has kidnapped that man’s granddaughter, and the distraught mother is on the case, trying to rescue her child and unravel her [...]

Frances Carden2025-11-19T11:27:13-07:00November 19th, 2025|Tags: book review, botm, read, reading, thriller|