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“You made a severed finger into a feckin’ snow globe.” “It was almost Christmas,” she says with a shrug. “It felt … festive.”

Leather & Lark by Brynne Weaver

July 25, 2024 by Malin Leave a Comment

3.5 stars CBR16 Bingo: Bananas Lark Montague and Lachlan Kane have an unfortunate first meeting, when Lark during Halloween has had an “accident” and needs a car and a body fished out of a lake. Lachlan is the man forced by his employer to come help her do this. Lachlan is in scuba gear, Lark is heavily made up in a Halloween costume. Lachlan chooses to force Lark into the car of his trunk to transport her unseen away from the incident site, not […]

The Value in Horrible Things is What You Make of Them

There Are No Saints by Sophie Lark

There is No Devil by Sophie Lark

March 25, 2024 by katie71483 Leave a Comment

Sophie Lark has written herself a duology that is seriously dark and twisted with There Are No Saints and There is No Devil. Go ahead and insert a blanket trigger warning here. If you are easily offended or triggered by any thing, this is not the set of books for you. In fact, I almost didn’t start them when I realized that Cole, the male lead, is a serial killer, and that the female lead, Mara, is his latest obsession. Because that is messed up on […]

What It Says on the Label

Identity by Nora Roberts

January 20, 2024 by Pooja 3 Comments

Morgan’s life is destroyed when a serial killer murders her best friend and steals her identity. She moves back in with her family and starts rebuilding her life as well as she can. But she’s not out of danger yet – for it was she who Rozwell had intended to be his victim, and he’s not done with her yet. Of Nora Roberts’s many author hats, I like her romantic suspense books best. They are quite formulaic, I will admit. There is a heroine whose […]

Retracing the Past

Deception at Dixon Pass by Cindi Myers

December 14, 2023 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Left for dead in a snowstorm, Declan can’t remember what’s brought him there when he’s rescued by scientist Grace. But he knows he’ll have to be quick if he’s going to be able to catch a serial killer who’s slipped through his fingers once already. Harlequin romances are my comfort reads, but I haven’t explored much of the Intrigue imprint, which publishes romantic suspense. This seemed like a fun book to try out due to the central mystery – a nameless man who looms out […]

Gilgo Beach

Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery by Robert Kolker

August 2, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of CBR15Bingo: on air. This true crime story is rocking the news right now because the police believe they have apprehended the killer of the girls written about in this book, among others. When it comes to the evils of non-consensual sexual abuse by men, I tend to avoid stories that are mainstream. The vast majority of abusers are your next door neighbor who have opportunity and privilege to get away with it. Needless to say, I haven’t read a ton on […]

“As much as I want to make things right, some chasms are simply too treacherous to traverse.”

Sworn to Silence by Linda Castillo

April 5, 2023 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Though Kate long ago left the Amish community, her background lends her unique qualifications for her role as the Chief of Police of the mixed culture community of Painters Mill, Ohio – and throws up an obstacle when it seems like a serial killer has resurfaced after sixteen years. I don’t usually read hard-boiled procedurals, as I find they often end up bogged down in technical detail, but I was intrigued by this series’ unusual lead and setting. I thought the writing was fluid and […]

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