Books that are coming out in February and have Peaked My Interest #neverenoughtime #nevertoomanybooks ~ Big Thanks to Goodreads’ Book Blurbs and Early Reviews!!
In the South during the Vietnam War, brothers must believe in each other, and look beyond their murky pasts to prove none committed murder. Complete with prison bus riot, convicts, war crimes, and innocent suspects on the run.
Had me at quoting one of my favorite phrases and being described as “witty” and “laugh out loud funny”. Murder She Wrote meets Bad Moms…I’m here for it.
On the banks of the river Ganges there are death hostels promising faithful practitioners of Hindu release from the cycle of reincarnation. But one soul comes back, and the dying won’t die anymore…
A lapsed Jew, calorie-obsessed and overlooked in her work at a talent agency in LA, wants more. She meets it in an Orthodox Jewish woman, who encourages her to enjoy both milk and honey, calories be damned.
A documentary of a real-life, all -girl Fight Club, as seen by a disgraced up and coming Broadway writer. The first rule is that we won’t talk about this until I have read it.
Epic fantasy…violent death…cold cases…arson…a book about threats to libraries…Hell’s Gate…Purgatory – sounds like a perfect Tuesday to me!
Best friends at an all-girls school witness something horrific – but then can’t agree on what they saw. And then one of them goes missing, and the town errupts – dun dun DUHNNNNN!
An amazing scientist creates a genetic clone of herself that has all the traits she wishes she did. Including her husband apparently, as he and the clone begin an affair. Until he ends up dead and the ladies have a mess on their hands.
Half Zimbabwean, half Scottish, and all detective, our heroine patrols the streets of Edinburgh. Her main calling is to carry messages for the dead. But then magic starts sacrificing children, and it will take all her skills to solve the mystery.
A retelling of Norse myth. A witch is burned and banished for not obeying Odin. She falls in love with a man in the forest whom she discovers is Loki. They have three children with unique powers. Her clairvoyance begins to return, and she only sees a bleak future.
In a remote town known for atypical deaths, a vicar relocates with his fourteen year-old daughter. They are welcomed with an exorcism kit. Strange things keep getting stranger – ghosts, fear of outsiders, and violence.
Former rock star-turned-soccer dad tries to raise his precocious daughter in the suburbs. At a neighborhood mixer with too much alcohol secrets are revealed. A sinkhole (YES, an actual sinkhole!) opens and takes a child with it. Accusations fly – court of public opinion is vicious – it had me at sinkhole.
Point. Roberts. Slayer. A serial killer of fifteen people over three years, always in the month of February, forces a month-long lockdown of the town each year. But of course that’s not the only reason – and I can’t wait to see why else!
A woman dealing with all the tiredness and soreness of post childbirth is suddenly haunted by the ghost of Margaret Wise Brown – yes, Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown. Adapting to being a mother while her husband is constantly traveling for work is understandably difficult. And then Brown’s former lover ghost also joins the haunting.
A mail-order bride arrives at her new home in San Francisco with definite Jane Eyre vibes. As she starts connecting the dots to previous women inhabitants, a disastrous earthquake rocks the 1906 landscape around her.
This is supposed to be evocative of the awful Turpin family and the House of Horrors they created. “Girl A” escaped, and was able to get to law enforcement, who ultimately rescued her siblings. Now, after their matriarch’s death, they are trying to piece together what happened, and how they move forward.
The “perfect” teen flees suburbia the night before being crowned Homecoming Queen to join a cult of enlightenment. As cults will, events start to spiral out of control quickly. Includes a housewife chorus narration like the Greek plays of old.