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Murder on the Christmas Express

Murder on the Christmas Express, by Alexandra Benedict, was a really wild ride, with Quality Street chocolates and a Christmas-themed pub…

10 months ago

Olivia Worley’s “People to Follow”

You guys, I knew I was going to love People to Follow, by Olivia Worley. I love reality TV novels,…

2 years ago

Unique Scifi Suspense in “We Have Always Been Here”

We Have Always Been Here, by Lena Nguyen, is a thoughtful scifi mystery about a colonization ship on a planet…

3 years ago

Reckless Girls

Reckless Girls is a new novel by Rachel Hawkins, the author of The Wife Upstairs. I'd really enjoyed the Southern…

3 years ago

The Dark: A Locked-Door Mystery in Antarctica

I saw The Dark reviewed over on Hair Past A Freckle, and immediately had to read it. A locked-door mystery?…

3 years ago

The Hunting Party

I heard about Lucy Foley's new novel The Hunting Party on the BritLit Podcast, and I just loved the two…

3 years ago

The Best Suspense Novels This Spring

This has been a pretty great season for page turners, hasn't it? It's almost hard to choose my favorites, but…

4 years ago

Five Best Campus Crime Novels

In All The Beautiful Lies, bookseller Bill keeps a list of the five best campus crime novels. I'd only read…

4 years ago

“The Wedding Night” is Not a Thriller

The Wedding Night, by Harriet Walker, was not at all what I was expecting, but held some lovely scenes about…

4 years ago

One By One

Ruth Ware's upcoming novel, One By One, is set in a luxe ski lodge where feuding tech founders combine a…

5 years ago

CLUE Revisited: In The Hall With The Knife

In The Hall With The Knife, by Diana Peterfreund, is a young adult CLUE remake. During a freakish storm at…

5 years ago