Category: Spoiler-Free Reviews
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The Heiress ⎼ Rachel Hawkins
I think Rachel Hawkins has mastered the uneasy. Things always turn weird quickly, but her main characters are always ready to plunge ahead with an ambitious (but wary) attitude. The Heiress is no different. The main characters are the recently deceased Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore (4 husbands), her adopted son Camden, and his…
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The Engagement Party ⎼ Darby Kane
The only thing better than a locked room mystery is a locked island mystery. Add in a terrible storm, power outages, and a twenty-year-old murder, and you have a perfect thriller. Three couples are staying together on an island to celebrate an engagement. Will is engaged to Ruthie, and has invited his college friends Alex,…
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Just Another Missing Person ⎼ Gillian McAllister
My book club read Wrong Place, Wrong Time last year, and I was enthralled. Then I read The Good Sister, and I knew I was going to read everything Gillian McAllister writes. Just Another Missing Person has all the hallmarks of a McAllister thriller: concerned parents, morally gray decisions, and emotional intensity. The three narrators…
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