Category: mystery
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Book Review: Alcatraz: The Last Escape by Ken Widner and Mike Lynch
For years, I’ve been fascinated by both Alcatraz as an institution as well as the famous escape. Although this book focuses far more on the escape, I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of history about the jail and some of the better-known inmates included as well…
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Book Review: The Ingenue by Rachel Kapelke-Dale
I bought this book years ago but I couldn’t remember why I was drawn to it, so I went in blindly. I don’t think I would have picked this up had I taken a deeper look into the content. Alas, it held my attention to finish it…
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Book Review: Six Days in Bombay by Alka Joshi
At first, I thought this was going to be an intriguing read. Painfully slow to start, but surely worth it… I’d hoped…
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Book Review: The First Time I Saw Him by Laura Dave
I loved The Last Thing He Told Me. It’s one that I still think about from time to time, despite having read it back in 2021 when it was published. I had no idea that a sequel was in the works, so when I was invited to read an ARC copy, I was ecstatic!…
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Book Review: The Vienna Writers Circle by J.C. Maetis
When I picked up this book, I had been expecting something more cerebral. Instead, it has more of a thriller tone. However, I didn’t find this all too thrilling, personally…
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Book Review: Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao
In a magical Tokyo pawnshop, people who find it are given the choice to pawn their regrets. Hana inherits the shop from her father, and on her first day, she wakes to the shop ransacked and her father missing…
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Book Review: The Engraver’s Secret by Lisa Medved
I’m a sucker for art history, and I haven’t read many (if any) books set in this time period and setting. How could I not pick up this book?!…
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Book Review: The Secret War by Stacy Lynn Miller
For once, I was aware that I would be starting in the middle of a series. The synopsis was too intriguing to pass up. Unfortunately, within a couple of chapters, I realized that this is a series that absolutely needs to be read from the beginning. I was missing a lot of the backstory, and…
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Book Review: The Clinic by Cate Quinn
I feel like it’s been a long time since I’ve read a true thriller. This was a good book to reintroduce me to the genre. It ran long, but at least it was a page-turner…
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Book Review: The Guest in Room 120 by Sara Ackerman
Inspired by the true story of Jane Stanford, The Guest in Room 120 follows two timelines. In 1905, Iliahi Baldwin, a hotel employee, kept journal entries discussing Jane Stanford’s time at the Moana. In 2005, Zoe Finch attends a writing conference at the same hotel and ends up in the same room in which Jane Stanford had…