Official Synopsis from Goodreads: Elizabeth Fremantle’s THE POISON BED is a chilling, noirish thriller ripped straight from the headlines. A king, his lover and his lover’s wife. One is a killer. In the autumn of 1615 scandal rocks the Jacobean court when a celebrated couple are imprisoned on suspicion of murder. She is young, captivating … More ARC Review: The Poison Bed by Elizabeth Fremantle
Official Synopsis from Goodreads: A smart, haunting tale of psychological suspense from the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of Turn of Mind. Jane loses everything when her teenage daughter is killed in a senseless accident. Jane is devastated, but sometime later, she makes one tiny stab at a new life: she moves from … More ARC Review: Half Moon Bay by Alice LaPlante
Official Synopsis from Goodreads: Mariah Fredericks’ compelling adult debut novel follows Jane Prescott, a ladies’ maid in an upper-crust 1910 NYC household, after her mistress’s playboy fiancé is gruesomely murdered. Jane Prescott has perfected the art of serving as a ladies’ maid in the upper-most echelons of 1910 New York City society. Invisible until … More ARC Review: A Death of No Importance by Mariah Fredericks
Official Synopsis from Goodreads: In Tracee de Hahn’s magnetic debut, Swiss police detective Agnes Luthi finds herself trapped in a chateau during the blizzard of the century when she’s called out on her first homicide. Detective Agnes Luthi, a Swiss-American police officer in Lausanne, Switzerland, has just switched over to the Violent Crimes unit from … More ARC Review: Swiss Vendetta by Tracee de Hahn (Agnes Luthi Mysteries #1)
Official Synopsis from Amazon: A murder in a garden turns the four new owners of Yon Bonnie Books into amateur detectives, in a captivating new cozy mystery novel from Molly MacRae. Set in the weeks before the annual Inversgail Literature Festival in Scotland, Plaid and Plagiarism begins on a morning shortly after the four women … More ARC Review: Plaid and Plagiarism (The Highland Bookshop Mystery Series: Book 1) by Molly MacRae
Official Synopsis: With seasonal crowds flocking to its sandy beaches, lively downtown shops, and the Berry Basket, a berry emporium with something for everyone, the lakeshore village of Oriole Point is ripe for summer fun—and murder. Much has changed for Marlee Jacob since she returned to Oriole Point, Michigan, three years ago. Between running … More ARC Review: Dying for Strawberries by Sharon Farrow (A Berry Basket Mystery #1)
Synopsis from Amazon: At the request of Her Majesty’s government, private enquiry agent Cyrus Barker agrees to take on his least favorite kind of assignment—he’s to provide security for a secret conference with the French government. The conference is to take place on the private estate of Lord Hargrave on a remote island off the … More ARC Review: Hell Bay by Will Thomas (Barker & Llewelyn Book 8)
Here’s another trio of mini reviews! Today’s trio are a romance, a fantasy, and a mystery. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes: This is a sad, thought-provoking story about love and loss. Louisa “Lou” Clark desperately needs a job, and ends up working for the Traynors, whose son, Will, is now a quadriplegic. Will is … More Three Reviews: Me Before You, Crown of Midnight, & Poirot Investigates
Here’s another From Page to Screen entry! Don’t worry, I don’t plan on doing every Hercule Poirot book and show this way, but after I watched the episode for this book I realized I was going to be a bit more wordy than I planned on this one. So, here we are, one more addition … More From Page to Screen: The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie
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