How to Get Away with Murder is a clever debut thriller that blends a traditional murder investigation with a chilling meta twist. After six months away from work recovering from a breakdown, Scotland Yard detective Samantha Hansen returns to duty when a fourteen-year-old girl is found murdered in a local park. The only clue is…
She Fell Away
She Fell Away is a gripping international thriller set against the stunning backdrop of New Zealand. State Department diplomat Lake Harlowe is used to moving from country to country, both for her job and to stay ahead of the ghosts of her past. Hoping for a quieter assignment after a difficult posting in Cambodia, she…
The Ghost Women
The Ghost Women blends mystery, history, and the supernatural into an atmospheric story set at a secluded art academy with a dark past. When a student at St. Luke’s Institute of the Arts is found hanging in the woods, his body posed exactly like the Hanged Man tarot card. Detective Lola Germany is called to…
Muscles & Monsters
Tegan literally runs into Atlas (a wolven who owns a gym) and ends up enlisting his help moving a cake, after a wedding cake disaster leaves her scrambling for her backup cake. After their chaotic meet-cute, she ends up joining his gym, Leviathan Fitness, where training sessions, lingering glances, and growing attraction quickly turn into…
The Anniversary
On May 1, 1992, Jules Delaney and Quinn Riley are strangers whose lives collide in ways neither could imagine. Jules, the high school queen bee in a small Midwestern town, survives a brutal attack by the elusive May Day Killer; a predator who strikes every May 1st and then disappears without a trace. That same…
April 2026 BOTM Predictions
It’s time to start guessing what might be in the April 2026 Book of the Month box! One of my favorite parts of each month is trying to predict which new releases BOTM might choose, and April has a lot of interesting possibilities which are heavy on the fiction and mystery genres. There are plenty…
April 2026 | Aardvark Predictions
Even though Aardvark is great about giving us hints each month so we know what the picks will be before they ‘go live’, I thought it would be fun to start putting together my own predictions based on my reading and experience with Aardvark. This will be my third month doing predictions for Aardvark and…
April 2026 Most Anticipated
April is coming up fast, and it’s bringing some awesome books with it. I cannot contain my excitement for so many of the books listed below and it was a struggle to narrow my list down to my top 12. A ton of some of my favorite authors have April releases and I’ve been lucky…
The Caretaker
Macy Mullins has taken a strange but well-paid three-day caretaking job she finds on Craigslist, hoping it will help her stay afloat while supporting her younger sister. Isolated in a remote house along the Oregon Coast, what begins as a simple gig quickly turns into something far more sinister as Macy discovers the property may…
Mad Mabel
Eighty-one-year-old Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick has lived on her quiet street for sixty years and knows absolutely everything about her neighbors. Known as a meddling curmudgeon, she’s also hiding a past she’s worked very hard to burybecause throughout her life, people around Elsie have had a strange habit of turning up dead. After all, no one…