By Kerri Maniscalco This is the second installment from Maniscalco in her Stalking Jack the Ripper series. And it is great! Audrey Rose Wadsworth and Thomas Cresswell return as late 19th Century forensic scientists – that’s right, forensics. In the 1800’s. The startling photographs and images that accompany some of the chapters serve as a…
Dear Edward
By Ann Napolitano This book has so many great things going for it, and is a fresh topic in our current flood of historical fiction from World War II and psychological thrillers. There is tragedy from a plane crash, and things keep getting more complicated from there. Edward is the sole survivor from a plane…
The Bookshop of Yesterdays
By Amy Meyerson This book is a family drama that has some great literary references. A woman, Miranda Brooks, is sent on a scavenger hunt by her recently deceased, long estranged Uncle Billy. There is a dash of mystery, a bookstore, and a smoldering, Heathcliff-like ogre guarding it. I enjoyed the exploration of relationships within…
Children of Virtue and Vengeance
By Tomi Adeyemi Magic is back in Orisha thanks to Zelie and Amari (apologies, I don’t know how to put all of Adeyemi’s essential accents over letters). But now there is a vacuum of power with the King deceased, and understandable civil unrest over previous genocide. On the brink of war, though some would argue…
Reverie
By Ryan La Sala What It’s About Kane seems to have ran away from home, stolen a car, and blown up his town’s precious historical site, the mill. The police are trying to press charges. His sister, Sophia, is trying to aid his fragile mental health. And he is trying to figure out what the…
The Silent Patient
By Alex Michaelides What It’s About: This book starts with a woman, Alicia Berenson, allegedly killing her husband by shooting him five times in the face. You know, like you do… After the crime is committed, she refuses to speak at all. Not when she is discovered, not while under arrest, and absolutely not at…