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Summary: Olivia’s son has admitted to sneaking into neighbors’ homes and accessing their home computers for thrills. Olivia feels guilty and wants to leave an anonymous note in their mailboxes. In the meantime, another fellow neighbor is found dead and everyone begins to become a suspect. The reader won't know who to believe …
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Summary: Kimber Hannon arrives home from a weekend trip to find that her front door lock has been changed and her key will not work. There is a stranger living in her house. When the police arrive, he informs her quietly that he saw what she did. Kimber begins to investigate on her own how …
Continue reading "Book Review: The Stranger Inside by Laura Benedict"
Summary: Lila Bennett is a ruthless lawyer whose life is basically spinning out of control due to personal problems in her marriage and at work. This novel mimics the pattern of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Maybe in Another Life as it switches from two different plots of what would happen in Lila’s life if one …
Continue reading "Book Review: Two Lila Bennetts by by Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke"
Summary: What happens after friends in college move onto the “real world” after graduation? This novel explores three best friends and their life from college to adulthood. Evvie, Maggie, and Topher were the best of friends in college and swore it would never change. The secrets that were kept many years ago creep …
Continue reading "Book Review: The Friends We Keep by Jane Green"
Summary: College student, Darby Thorne, travels home to visit her dying mother. Guilty thoughts run through her head regarding their complex relationship as she heads through a treacherous snow storm. She must stop at a rest stop where there are just a four strangers. As she heads back out to her car to …
Summary: As an English teacher, I enjoyed reading the perspective of another English teacher, Clare Cassidy, who has a special interest in Gothic novelist R.M. Holland. One of Clare's closest friends, who is a fellow English teacher at their school, is murdered, and Clare is devastated. Clare begins to receive small notes in her diary …
Continue reading "Book Review: The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths"
Summary: Emily is in a serious relationship with Adam. Adam seems to be the perfect guy, except for his mother. Pammie seems to want to do anything to get Emily out of Adam's life. Emily is not ready to back down easy. This is a suspenseful read that totally threw me off with a twisted …
Continue reading "Book review: The Other Woman by Sandie Jones"
Summary: Aimee Sinclair is a famous actress who comes home to find her husband is missing and his wallet and cell phone is on the table. She realizes the next day that her bank accounts are emptied. This story runs parallel to a story about a young girl who was kidnapped and raised in a …
Continue reading "Book review: I Know Who You Are by Alice Feeney"
Summary: What husband wouldn't want to have the perfect wife? Tim is a wealthy genius running a tech company with a perfect wife named Abbie. Abbie wakes up lacking these memories of their perfect life. She is told that she is a wonderful mother and a talented artist. Abbie is told she had a …
Continue reading "Book Review: The Perfect Wife by JP Delaney"
Summary: Millicent and Tobias seem like a normal married couple with children that live in the suburbs. The secrets that lie within this twisted couple are crazier than your wildest dreams! The twists and turns will leave you completely speechless! My Thoughts: I can't really say much because the book has so many twists and …
Continue reading "Book Review: My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing"
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