In Danielle Trussoni’s June release The Puzzle Master, a football injury left Mike Brink acquired savant syndrome. The injury left him able to solve puzzles differently than ordinary people and gained him fame around the world. When an author serving time for murder sends him a partially completed puzzle, Brink is too intrigued to refuse…
Category: Genres
The Wishing Game
Lucy is struggling. Her only wish is to foster and adopt one of her students, Christopher. But as a teacher’s aide, she’s barely making ends meet and with no permanent home she has to face giving up her dream of adopting him. When award winning and Lucy’s favorite childhood author, Jack Masterson puts on a…
The Last Word
Emma Carpenter is in self-prescribed isolation. House sitting on a remote beach in Washington State, she spends her days reading cheap Kindle ebook thrillers. She never posts reviews but when she reads a truly awful book, she can’t help but post a one-star review. When the author response demanding her to take her review down,…
The Secret Book of Flora Lea
I’ve been on an unintentional historical fiction hiatus lately but decided to dive back into it once I read the synopsis of Patii Callahan Henry’s upcoming release The Secret Book of Flora Lea. I’m so glad I decided to read this book because while it’s not actually a magical realism or fantasy story, it was pure…
Killing Me
Amber was born to drifter parents and she’s finally (almost) getting her life together. Except then she’s kidnapped by the Pikachu killer, saved by a random lady with a cattle prod, and then skips town when FBI agent Cabot starts sniffing around her apartment. All in all, starting a new life isn’t easy and definitely…
The Only Survivors
This was exactly what I needed! I finished the queen of crime’s Will Trent series, aka Karin Slaughter, and have been majorly slumping lately. I just couldn’t sit down with anything and get further than a page or two. But when I started Megan Miranda’s upcoming release, I was hooked! 10 years ago, an accident…
Romantic Comedy
Full transparency, I’ve never read a Curtis Sittenfeld book and I honestly thought this was a male author so when it seems to take a more feminist stance on topics, I was like ‘uhh wait a minute’. However, I think I’ll be adding the rest of Sittenfeld’s books to my TBR, because this was a…
Happy Place
Harriet’s Happy Place has always been at her best friend family lake house. Every year Harriet along with her 5 best friends have spent weeks whiling away eating lobster rolls and lounging by the lake. Nothing could possibly ruin this year’s trip, especially not having to pretend to still be engaged to her longtime boyfriend,…
Camp Zero
It’s 2049, due to climate change, the seasons are now extremes. The United States suffers with massive environmental catastrophes and people are flocking to the cold north. Camp Zero is soon to be a refuge for Americans to escape the heat of the south, the idealistic architect only needs to keep spurring the project on….
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
Widower Vera Wong is fine. She might be lonely in her failing tea shop but there is nothing she can’t handle with a bit of gumption. When she opens the shop one morning and find’s a dead man, she’s convinced there is a murderer afoot. She’s seen enough crime shows to know that the murderer…