Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Murderland by Caroline Fraser

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  This intensely researched book has a theory: the time in the 1970's-1980's that saw many serial killers in the Northwest states wa...
Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Special Topics In Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl

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  Blue van Meer has had an unusual upbringing.  Her mother died in an auto accident when Blue was five.  She grew up moving from town to tow...
Monday, March 16, 2026

The Turn Of The Key by Ruth Ware

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  Rowan Caine is dissatisfied with her life.  Working as an assistant in a childcare facility in London, she doesn't have a boyfriend, h...
Sunday, March 15, 2026

Departures by Julian Barnes

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  This book is a mix of memoir and novel.  Julian Barnes was approaching eighty as he wrote this and endings are on his mind.  He talks abou...
Friday, March 13, 2026

My Friends by Fredrik Backman

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  One of the world's most famous artists, J KAT, is dying and his most famous painting, of the sea, a pier and three figures sitting at ...
Thursday, March 12, 2026

Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith

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  Leo Demidov is a war hero in the Soviet Union.  After the war, he joined the security office where he tracks down traitors for the state. ...
Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Eclipse by John Banville

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 After famous actor Alexander Cleave has a nervous breakdown on stage, he returns to his childhood home to recover.  His wife is not in favo...
Tuesday, March 10, 2026

A Strange And Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows

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  Velasin vin Aaro grows up in Ralia where he has to hide his real self.  He has known since he was a child that he was attracted to men rat...
Monday, March 9, 2026

Train Dreams by Denis Johnson

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  This novella tells the story of Robert Grainger, a man who is one of those who settle the West.  He marries but there is no work where he ...
Sunday, March 8, 2026

The Dying Hours by Mark Billingham

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  After the disastrous way his last case ended, DI Tom Thorne has been removed from the Murder Squad and reassigned to a different police st...
Saturday, March 7, 2026

The Nature Of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner

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  Sophie Whalen left Ireland to come to the United States.  She expected to live with her brother but he fell in love, married and moved to ...
Sunday, March 1, 2026

Fatal Friends, Deadly Neighbors by Ann Rule

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 In this anthology, Ann Rule writes about cases where friends or neighbors were the agents of violence.  The book starts with two longer nov...
Saturday, February 28, 2026

Lost Souls Meet Under A Full Moon by Mizuki Tsujimura

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  The rules are simple.  A person, if they can find and contact the go-between, can request to see one person who has passed.  The go-betwee...
Friday, February 27, 2026

Playground by Richard Powers

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  It starts with a friendship.  Rafi is a young black boy, scarred by a family tragedy and growing up in poverty.  Todd is a white rich kid ...
Tuesday, February 24, 2026

The Pink Hotel by Liska Jacobs

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  Kit and Keith Collins have just gotten married.  Keith has arranged a stay at a luxury resort hotel in Los Angeles, right out of downtown....
Sunday, February 22, 2026

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

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 Marcellus is a Pacific octopus.  After a run-in with a wolf eel, he was captured and brought to the aquarium, where he has lived out his li...
Saturday, February 21, 2026

Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner

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  The time is the 1950's, the place London.  Bloomsbury Book Shop has been in existence for one hundred years but it is on the cusp of f...
Friday, February 20, 2026

Dragonfly Falling by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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 In this second book of the series Shadows Of The Apt, there is lots of action.  The Wasps of the Empire Of Black And Gold have decided to a...
Thursday, February 19, 2026

Wizard And Glass by Stephen King

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  In this fourth volume of the Dark Tower series, Roland, Jake, Eddie and Susannah have escaped the deadly living train.  Now they wander th...
Wednesday, February 18, 2026

The Outcast by Sadie Jones

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  Lewis has a happy childhood in a small town a little outside London.  In his earliest years, his father is still away, fighting in World W...
Tuesday, February 17, 2026

The Darkness by Ragnar Jonasson

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  Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdottir arrives at work in Reykjavik to discover that her supervisor is pushing her into early retirement...
Monday, February 16, 2026

The White Crow by Michael Robotham

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  Philomena McCarthy is a part of the Metropolitan Police and has a new marriage with Henry, a city firefighter.  Being a policewoman is not...
Sunday, February 15, 2026

Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood

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  One weekend a woman comes to a convent in the rural Australia outback.  She is middle-aged and her marriage is dissolving.  A wildlife con...
Saturday, February 14, 2026

The Other Side Of Silence by Bill Pronzini

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  Rick Fallon is taking his two week vacation in the desert.  Every so often he just has to get away from everything and listen to the silen...
Friday, February 13, 2026

The Spy Coast by Tess Gerritsen

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  Maggie Bird is a former spy as strange as that may seem.  She left the Agency almost two decades ago after her marriage collapsed.  For ye...
Thursday, February 12, 2026

Women And Other Animals by Bonnie Jo Campbell

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  In this anthology of sixteen stories, Bonnie Jo Campbell explores the lives of those in poverty.  Some work jobs that grind them down or p...
Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Question 7 by Richard Flanagan

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  Richard Flanagan is one of my favorite authors and this latest novel is one I'll think about for a long time.  It is a mix of memoir, ...
Tuesday, February 10, 2026

The Stepson by Jane Renshaw

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  Lulu and Nick are newlyweds.  They met on a Greek island while on vacation and after a whirlwind romance married.  Lulu is a counselor whi...
Monday, February 9, 2026

Trespass by Rose Tremain

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  This is the story of two brother-sister relationships, set in the South of France.  The first set of siblings are French.  Aramon is the b...
Sunday, February 8, 2026

Bad Bad Girl by Gish Jen

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  This is a story of the relationship between the author and her mother.  It is a memoir and a biography and a history of China as the old w...