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The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill

The scream that brought them together

The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill

December 28, 2025 by teresaelectro Leave a Comment

I’m completing my quarter cannonball with The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill. The novel is a book within a book. Hannah is writing a mystery focused on Freddie, an Australian woman on a writing fellowship in Boston. She meets three strangers in the Boston library reading room: Cain, a fellow writer and handsome, Walt, a rich law student with no work ethic, and Marigold, a goth-esque psychology student. They hear a blood-curdling scream like someone being murdered…but no body is found. That is, […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: book within a book, Boston, mystery, romantic suspense, Sulari Gentill, suspense/thriller, Writers

teresaelectro's CBR17 Review No:13 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: book within a book, Boston, mystery, romantic suspense, Sulari Gentill, suspense/thriller, Writers ·
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Mixing it up with gentrification, magic, and Mothman

When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole

Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews

I'm in Love with Mothman by Paige Lavoie

December 30, 2023 by teresaelectro 1 Comment

CBR15 Passport Challenge: Different genres – suspense thriller, urban fantasy, and monster romance When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole has been in my audible library for way too long. When it was picked for my Lawless book club, it was a sign. I do like to read mystery and thrillers to mix it up between the glut of romances I read. Dubbed by the author as a gentrification thriller, Sydney Green is having a bad time. After a disastrous divorce, she’s moved back in […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Suspense Tagged With: Alyssa Cole, book one, Brooklyn, CBR15Passport, fairies, gentrification, ilona andrews, Kate Daniels, magic, mothman, mothman in love, new york, paige lavoie, paranormal romance, Series, Suspense, suspense/thriller, Urban Fantasy

teresaelectro's CBR15 Review No:9 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Suspense · Tags: Alyssa Cole, book one, Brooklyn, CBR15Passport, fairies, gentrification, ilona andrews, Kate Daniels, magic, mothman, mothman in love, new york, paige lavoie, paranormal romance, Series, Suspense, suspense/thriller, Urban Fantasy ·
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“Now, turn down the lights, flip the page, take my hand, and start the dance…”

Turn Down the Lights by Edited by Richard Chizmar

November 12, 2022 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

I continue my efforts to read through the books that have been sitting on my shelves for years. Turn Down the Lights is a collection of short horror and thriller/suspense/crime stories from the long-running magazine Cemetery Dance. Chizmar started the magazine in college and also runs a small press that publishes a variety of genre novels. I got this due to the fact that Stephen King and Chizmar have a long-standing relationship, and the first story in this collection is by King. Then it sat […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Edited by Richard Chizmar, horror, short story collection, suspense/thriller

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:128 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Edited by Richard Chizmar, horror, short story collection, suspense/thriller ·
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Monsters know when they are recognized..

Cari Mora by Thomas Harris

July 1, 2019 by Leedock Leave a Comment

The psychological profiling and tracking of serial killers in books, television and film is extremely interesting to me. The first book that I encountered along those lines was “Silence of the Lambs” and I devoured all of the prequels and sequels to that book as they came out. FBI agents’ freaky ability to get into a serial killer’s head and predict what, where, when and how is FASCINATING. Walking that very thin line between having a healthy mind and one that can process the mind […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr11, Fiction, suspense/thriller, Thomas Harris

Leedock's CBR11 Review No:16 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr11, Fiction, suspense/thriller, Thomas Harris ·
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I’ll never look at a snowman the same way again!

January 8, 2018 by KB Leave a Comment

Wow! I have just read “The Snowman” by Jo Nesbo and what a read it was! I basically read the whole thing in one night because I could not put the book down. It took me a little bit of time to get into the book, as it required some concentration at the start with the Norwegian names and a variety of characters. However I quickly got my head around that and enjoyed the thrill of the ride. Firstly, I loved the characters. Harry Hole […]

Filed Under: Horror, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: #CBR10, Fiction, Jo Nesbo, suspense/thriller, The Snowman

KB's CBR10 Review No:1 · Genres: Horror, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: #CBR10, Fiction, Jo Nesbo, suspense/thriller, The Snowman ·
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Falling towards a violent end

December 19, 2017 by Mikki Blu Leave a Comment

If Detective Frank Bennett tries hard enough, he can sometimes forget that Eden Archer, his partner in the Homicide Department, is also a moonlighting serial killer . . . So this book has that intriguing premise – after all, how often is the cop also the killer?  As this is book three in the Archer & Bennett series, I was lost on some of the backstory on both characters and frustrated by the style the book was written in.  It’s set in Sydney, Australia, which […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: Archer & Bennet #3, Candice Fox, cbr9, serial killer, suspense/thriller

Mikki Blu's CBR9 Review No:100 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: Archer & Bennet #3, Candice Fox, cbr9, serial killer, suspense/thriller ·
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