Two families go to a resort in the woods. When one couple is murdered and their teenaged daughter goes missing the police (and the other mother) try to find the missing girl and the killer.
The first part was kind of dull, but it picked up at the end.
4 stars.
Former FBI agent, Elinor Gilbert, is recruited by her former boss to go undercover as a nanny for a suspected money launderer.
Quick read. Very little gore.
4 stars.
Camille appears to have a perfect life, but when she starts suspecting her husband of being involved in something shady, she hatches a plan to discover what it is.
Meanwhile, Aubrey is contacted by the man convicted of killing her parents professing to have proof he is innocent of the crime.
The two women's lives intersect and old secrets are revealed.
The writing was good, but I didn't care about any of the characters.
3.5 stars.
I read this as part of a Goodreads challenge. I probably wouldn't have finished it otherwise.
Dolores and Jake meet at work and begin a tentative relationship partly based on the theory that there is a serial killer loose in their city.
2 stars.
Audio. 9 hours.
Read by Carrie Mulligan.
Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices...
Nora is depressed and takes an overdose of pills, but instead of dying, she finds herself in a library with all the books of the lives she could have lived had she made other choices. The librarian gives Nora the chance to live as many of those lives as she wants until she finds one she wants to stay in.
5 stars.
Audio. 14.5 hours.
Read by Jessie Mueller.
P.I. Holly Gibney is back, this time acting as a bodyguard to a women's rights activist. On the side, she's helping her detective friend, Izzy, work a serial killer case.
No supernatural stuff in this one, just plain old human evil.
4 stars.
Picked this to fulfill a Goodreads challenge even though I'm pretty sure I read it once upon a time.
Bridget is a 30-something single woman navigating life.
This felt pretty dated. I probably enjoyed it more when I was younger.
2.5 stars.
Missing for over two years, teenager Ellie Black reappears in the Washington woods, but cannot, or will not, say where she's been.
4.5 stars.
Disgraced and stripped of her medical license, Maggie McCabe, grieving the murder of her husband, agrees to fly to Russia to perform surgery on an oligarch and his mistress.
4 stars.
A mother's disappearance has lasting effects on a family. When the youngest child gets involved with drug dealers, his older brother must return home to Virginia from his prosperous life in Atlanta.
I was surprised at how unflatteringly Black characters are portrayed by this Black author: drug dealing, drug using, adultery, murder, securities fraud.
4 stars.
Audio. 9 hours.
Read by Alexa Elmy.
After finally getting out of witness protection, Anna finds herself back in trouble when an assassin starts looking for her.
I didn't like this as much as the first book mostly because it was hard to believe that these three kids could escape from their situation.
3.5 stars.
Latest story features Chief Kate Burkholder investigating the deaths of three Amish young adults.
3.5
Corby goes to prison for the accidental death of his son because he was under the influence of drugs and alcohol.
I liked the beginning of the book, but didn't like that so much of it was about his time in prison. The animal cruelty was also unnecessary. Also, the abrupt death of the protagonist was too jarring. This could have been a 5 star book for me with some changes.
3 stars.
