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Just the Nicest Couple by Mary Kubica

Just the Nicest Couple by Mary Kubica

August 31, 2026 by Classic Leave a Comment

Going to keep this one short and sweet. This was not a great mystery. I found myself realizing what was going on and who probably did it a good 15 percent into the book. I hoped I was wrong, was not, and felt aggravated by that and the lackluster characters too. I soothed myself by re-reading A Pocket Full of Rye. Just the Nicest Couple follows two married couples, Jake and Nina Hayes and Lily and Christian Scott. Christian comes home one evening and finds […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: cbr18bingo, Just the Nicest Couple, Mary Kubica

Classic's CBR18 Review No:101 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: cbr18bingo, Just the Nicest Couple, Mary Kubica ·
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It’s Not Her by Mary Kubica

It's Not Her by Mary Kubica

August 10, 2026 by Classic Leave a Comment

I don’t know what to say. I found the overall resolution to this one to not just be implausible, but when we get the reveal about who took/killed a missing girl it just had me going what in the world. It was very much out of left field and it just didn’t even make sense. I did laugh at this character going, well there’s no DNA that will tie me to this. Really? Considering the person in question, I had to wonder at that myself. […]

Filed Under: Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: cbr18bingo, It's Not Her, Mary Kubica

Classic's CBR18 Review No:90 · Genres: Mystery, Suspense · Tags: cbr18bingo, It's Not Her, Mary Kubica ·
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A Tale as Old as Patty Hearst

The Good Girl by Mary Kubica

August 24, 2021 by Zirza Leave a Comment

Oh boy, where to begin with this one.  On a crisp autumn evening, art teacher Mia is kidnapped by Colin, a low level criminal. He is supposed to hand her over to a notorious gangster who plans on using Mia to demand ransom from her influential lawyer dad. But Colin knows the gangster, knows what’ll happen to Mia, and impulsively decides to take Mia away himself. He takes her to an abandoned cabin in the woods where they settle in for the winter. As Colin […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: crime thriller, female-centric thrillers, Mary Kubica, Stockholm Syndrome, The Good Girl

Zirza's CBR13 Review No:14 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: crime thriller, female-centric thrillers, Mary Kubica, Stockholm Syndrome, The Good Girl ·
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Good Writin’, Bad Thrillin’

Every Last Lie by Mary Kubica

July 16, 2021 by Zirza Leave a Comment

Clara Solberg’s infant son is only four days old when the police come to her door to tell her that her husband Nick and her daughter Maisie have in a serious car accident. Maisie is unharmed but Nick soon dies, leaving Clara alone with two young children and no income. To make matters worse, Maisie keeps having nightmares about being chased off the road by a ‘bad man’. Clara initially chalks it up to trauma and Maisie being a four year old, but soon other […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Every Last Lie, loss, Mary Kubica, mourning, thriller

Zirza's CBR13 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Every Last Lie, loss, Mary Kubica, mourning, thriller ·
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Just don’t read the last chapter

When the Lights Go Out by Mary Kubica

June 1, 2019 by Caitlin_D Leave a Comment

“I remembered the way it is with dreams sometimes, how they have a habit of being less literal and more metaphoric, and I thought that sometimes with dreams like this, it’s not about who’s chasing you, but what you’re running from.” Jessie Sloan’s mother, Eden, has recently passed away after a lengthy battle with cancer; Jessie is overcome with grief and is unable to sleep. When Jessie goes to apply for college, something her mother suggested she do, she is told her social security number […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: Mary Kubica, When the Lights Go Out

Caitlin_D's CBR11 Review No:57 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: Mary Kubica, When the Lights Go Out ·
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Every Last Lie

February 5, 2018 by SConn 3 Comments

So this is my very first review. Hopefully it’s not so terrible that I get kicked out. I read Mary Kubica’s suspense novel Every Last Lie. The novel revolves around a women named Clara who has a 4 year old daughter and a newborn son and who loses her husband in an automobile accident just days after her sons birth. Even though there is absolutely nothing suspicious about her husband’s death Clara comes to suspect literally EVERYONE of having murdered her husband. She bases this […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Mary Kubica

SConn's CBR10 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Mary Kubica ·
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