• Unmasked: My Life Solving America’s Cold Cases by Paul Holes

    Lindsay’s thoughts It’s official — I am adding true-crime to my ‘favourite genres’ list! I loved this true-crime memoir! I was quite literally hanging on every word, feeling both frightened and fascinated as I turned each page. Paul Holes spent the majority of his highly successful career as a cold case criminalist investigator. He started

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  • Five Tuesdays In Winter by Lily King

    Hello, Friends! I struggle with writing reviews and often try new ways to motivate myself. So this review, I am trying something new, and I am posting in the form of Q &A with myself. What were some of the theme’s explored in the stories? King writes about ordinary people with messy lives as she

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  • Watch Her Disappear (Detective Josie Quinn #14) by Lisa Regan

    Brenda’s thoughts Denton is one violent little town!!! Detective Josie Quinn is called to the scene of the murder of another girl. I am just starting to realize Lisa Regan loves to use tropes around murdered or missing girls. However, after fourteen books, she still creates exciting, fresh, unpredictable twisty plots around those tropes. The

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  • False Witness by Karin Slaughter

    Howdy friends!! I did that thing again where I decided to change the blog theme and then everything disappears and I have no idea how to get it back. So our blog in under maintenance while I wait for a reply from my own personal computer support tech. LOL In the mean time I wanted

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  • The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

    Brenda’s thoughts The Bluest Eye is so much more than what I thought it would be. It is a deeply affecting story that I will not forget. It’s not just a book to be read; it’s one to be savoured, studied, and thought about. Each sentence has a purpose and meaning, and I analyzed it

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  • The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf

    Brenda’s thoughts What the book is about To finish her latest book, crime writer Wylie is holed up in an isolated farmhouse with some deadly history. The tension and suspense increase with every page when a snowstorm and an overnight guest bring danger to Wylie’s door. Told through two timelines and a narrator that feels

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