Emily came to the small town of Mullaby, North Carolina hoping to learn more about her mother. Why did Dulcie leave, and why did she refuse to tell her daughter anything about her life? Emily wants answers, but everywhere she turns she just runs into more questions. Next door, Julia spends her nights dreaming about…
Tag: mystery/thriller
Review: The Count of Monte Cristo
Edmond Dantès’ return to Marseilles in early 1815 is a happy one. He’s just become captain of the merchant ship on which he’s been sailing, and his good fortune has provided him the means to better care for his father and finally marry Mercèdés, the women he has loved for many years. But there are…
Review: Her Royal Spyness
Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie—known to her friends as Georgie—is 34th in line for the throne of England, and is heartily sick of royal life. Her Season didn’t end with a wedding, and at 21 she finds herself living in the family drafty Scottish castle with her brother and sister-in-law; the prospect of death by…
Review: The First Rule of Ten
(I read this book as part of the Pay it Sideways Challenge. Join in anytime, we’d love to have you!) Tenzing Norbu—Ten for for short—is feeling restless. A recent encounter with a .45 automatic means the final nail in the coffin that was his career as an LAPD detective, and he’s in no mood to…
Review: The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Grad student Connie Goodwin should be spending the summer working on her dissertation; instead she’s spending it near Salem digging through her deceased grandmother’s moldering home that her mother has suddenly decided is important to sell. The home has been unoccupied for 20 years, and is full of books and bottles with handwritten labels, rotting…