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…
Category: 5 Star Reads
This Story Might Save Your Life
This Story Might Save Your Life by Tiffany Crum, podcast hosts Benny Abbott and Joy Moore have built a massive following by sharing incredible “against all odds” survival stories with humor and heart. When Benny shows up to record their next episode and finds Joy and her husband Xander missing and their home in disarray, the situation…
Her Last Breath
Her Last Breath by Taylor Adams is a relentless, claustrophobic thriller that completely had me in its grip. The story follows best friends Tess and Allie as they embark on a long-delayed caving expedition that quickly turns into a nightmare. After a violent encounter deep underground leaves Tess trapped in a narrow crawl space, the narrative…
Scythe & Sparrow
Fionn Kane, a heartbroken small-town doctor hiding out in Nebraska, just wants a quiet life after his career and almost-fiancé imploded. Rose Evans, a motorcycle-riding circus performer who moonlights as an assassin, literally crashes into his world after a job goes wrong. What follows is a messy, hilarious, and emotionally charged entanglement full of secrets,…
Adrift
Peggy and Drew, two struggling writers, move with their teenage son onto a narrow canal boat hoping for a simpler, more peaceful life. But when Peggy’s writing career takes off and Drew’s doesn’t, jealousy festers, and he begins isolating their family deeper into the waterways. As Drew’s control tightens and his behavior turns manipulative and…
Where He Left Me
Sadie Sheridan and her husband Felix have just settled into Felix’s childhood home in the North Cascades mountains, for their year-long sabbatical. But when Felix leaves for a quick work trip and never comes back, Sadie finds herself completely isolated. She has no car, no phone service, and a storm is rolling in. As she…
Brigands & Breadknives
Returning once again to the world of Legends & Lattes, Brigands & Breadknives follows Fern, everyone’s favorite foul-mouthed bookseller, as she searches for meaning (and maybe a little adventure) after years of quiet routine. Hoping to rekindle some joy, Fern relocates to Thune to open her bookshop next to a certain orc’s café. But when…
Such Quiet Girls
Ten children vanish in broad daylight when their school bus is hijacked and their nightmare is only beginning. New driver Jessa is already haunted by the loss of her own daughter three years earlier, and now she’s trapped underground in a buried shipping container with the children she was meant to protect. The kidnappers claim…
The Vanishing Place
A shocking murder in the New Zealand bush draws Effie back to the place she swore she’d never return. Once a child who escaped her parents’ terrifying obsession with nature, she now faces the wild forest again when the only witness to the crime is a little girl who looks just like her. Effie must…
Behind Every Good Man
It’s 1962, and Beverly Diamond’s picture-perfect suburban life crumbles when she discovers her husband, Larry, in a compromising position with his secretary. Left with two kids, no degree, and little financial support, Bev refuses to play the victim. Instead, she dives headfirst into politics, joining the campaign of Larry’s underdog rival, Michael Landau. With grit,…