Breeda Looney Steps Forth by Oliver Sands

The story is of Breeda who has spent the last few months caring for her dying mother and then grieving for the loss. She is adrift, and this is a sort of coming of age story for Breeda because she may finally be able to shake off the weight on her heart. The setting is…

You Let Me In by Camilla Bruce

Once again, I am faced with a mildly contradicting review. The writing from the very beginning of this strange book was atmospheric, and it had me on tenterhooks wondering what might happen. I was to be disappointed, but I will get to that part shortly. The tale begins with the introduction of an enigmatic and…

Confessions About Colton by Olivia Harvard

This book had a very promising start. The narration was well done, and it was really fast-paced. It built up to a crescendo and then just fizzled into a bizarre ending. I will step back and explain from the beginning. Our narrator Elliot is an intriguing person. He is very realistically portrayed, and it is…

Nine Elms (Kate Marshall #1) by Robert Bryndza

I am in the minority once again. I heard so much about the author that when I saw a new series starting, I wanted to get in on it from the very beginning. This (once again) was not for me. I will talk about the story and then point out the reasons it did not…

The Missing Letters of Mrs Bright by Beth Miller

I scheduled a load of reviews for the last week, and suddenly, once again, I am at the beginning of another week, and January is already half gone! I picked this book up because I had read and liked another by the author: The Two Hearts of Eliza Bloom. This, however, was not exactly my…

Lost Girl by Holly Kammier

I read another book about a former investigative reporter just a few days before getting to this one. I usually do not compare books but considering both women have agendas for furthering their career, I had to draw one! Shelby was not a nice person, whenever I started to feel for her character, she goes…

The Lying Room by Nicci French

The book begins in an innocuous manner, the scene is set in an average household which is starting their day. There seems to be some underlying tension but all is revealed very shortly. We plunge headlong into the chaos that is now Neve Connelly's life. She is an ordinary woman who has made few mistakes…

Murder in the Corn Maze by G. A. McKevett

This was another cozy mystery that did not work for me, but I think it might for other people. Our leading lady is a grandmother to seven grandkids and has sole custody. This is a pretty chaotic situation to land into directly without prior information which might have been present in the first book (this…