Friday, March 27, 2026

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

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  Considered one of the great American novels, Blood Meridian tells the story of the Old West, not the one of John Wayne fame, but the one o...
Thursday, March 26, 2026

The Rising Tide by Ann Cleeves

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  A group of school mates meet up every five years on the island where they first connected at a school workshop.  Now in their late sixties...
Tuesday, March 24, 2026

The Unspeakable Acts Of Zina Pavlou by Eleni Kyriacou

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  Eva Georgiou is a Cypriot interpreter for the police in London, a side job she does to supplement her work as the hatcheck girl at a local...
Monday, March 23, 2026

Heart The Lover by Lily King

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  She meets them in a college class when the professor picks her essay to read.  Sam and Yash are best friends and living in a professor...
Sunday, March 22, 2026

The Wrong Mother by Sophie Hannah

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  The news is brutal; a mother and young daughter had been found dead, each in a separate bathtub.  Worse, it appears as if the mother kille...
Friday, March 20, 2026

The Testament Of Mary by Colm Toibin

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  In this short novel, Mary is nearing the end of her life.  She is hidden away from the enemies of Jesus although she wonders if her overse...
Thursday, March 19, 2026

The Loneliness Of Sonia And Sunny

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  Sonia and Sunny are both Indian but living in the United States on a visa.  Sunny is working as an entry level journalist and living with ...
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...