book review | Murder At The Breakers by Alyssa Maxwell 🏰 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ setting: Newport, Rhode Island, August 1895 Emma Cross, a distant and less wealthy cousin to Cornelius Vanderbilt, works as a society page reporter. While attending a grand ball at the iconic Vanderbilt summer mans

book review | The Business Trip by Jessie Garcia 👔 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️✨ setting: Madison, WI 🛬 San Diego, CA Two women, Stephanie and Jasmine, are on the same flight. One is traveling for business and the other is fleeing an abusive relationship. Both women send the same odd text messages

book review | A Dark and Stormy Murder by Julia Buckley 🍂 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: Blue Lake, Indiana 🌊 Aspiring novelist, Lena London, lands her dream job when she becomes an assistant to her idol, mystery writer Camilla Graham. Lena stumbles upon a real murder on Camilla’s property and

book review | What We Did To Survive by Megan Lally ⚓️ my rating: ⭐️ setting: Puerto Vallarta, Mexico 🇲🇽 Two high school senior girls are on a spring break trip in Mexico when a sailing trip goes horribly wrong. What was supposed to be a fun and carefree trip turns into a deadly fight for

book review | A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley 🐟🧫🔮 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ setting: Bishop’s Lacey, 1950s English countryside Eleven-year-old chemistry loving and amateur sleuth Flavia de Luce visits a local Gypsy fortune teller. Shortly after, Flavia finds her nearly bludgeoned

book review | Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth 💃🏽 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ setting: Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺 Eighty-one-year-old Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick is hiding a massive secret. Decades ago, she was Australia’s youngest convicted murder. Infamously known as Mad Mabel. Now, she is a grouchy old

book review | Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty 🍔 my rating: ⭐️⭐️✨ setting: Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺 This story follows three couples who attend a backyard barbecue that goes horribly wrong. Clementine & Sam: A busy couple with two daughters. Clementine is a cellist and preparing f

book review | Murder On Cape Cod by Maddie Day 🚲 my rating: ⭐️⭐️✨ setting: Westham, Cape Cod, MA 🦞 Bike shop owner, Mac Almeida, stumbles upon the dead body of a local handyman, Jake. Mac becomes the main suspect because she and Jake had an argument shortly before he died. To make matters

book review | No Place Left To Hide by Megan Lally🚦 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ setting: Salem, Oregon 🌲 Brooke Goodwin is a Yale bound high-achieving prep school senior from a very wealthy family. Brooke begins receiving threats and being terrorized by an anonymous harasser about a past tragic secr

book review | It’s Not Her by Mary Kubica 🌊 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨ setting: Northwoods of Wisconsin 🌻 A family summer lake vacation turns into a nightmare. Courtney Grey finds her brother and sister-in-law murdered in the cabin next door. While her nephew, Wyatt, is soundly sleeping and her

book review | Murder At The Lobstah Shack by Maddie Day 🩸 my rating: ⭐️⭐️ setting: Cape Cod, MA ⚓️ Restaurant owner, Tulia Peters, becomes the prime murder suspect when a body is found in her walk-in freezer. Mac Almeida and her cozy book club friends work together to solve the crime and c

book review | Swan Song by Elin Hilderbrand 🌊 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ setting: Nantucket, MA ⚓️ Police chief, Ed Kapenash, is on the brink of retirement, this summer will be his last. Although his last summer as chief won’t be without crisis. A very wealthy and mysterious couple moves to the i

book review | Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano 💨 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ setting: Virginia 🌻 Finlay Donovan is a stressed out single mother and a struggling author. While meeting with her literary agent at Panera Bread, someone overhears their conversation and mistakes Finlay for

book review | Not A Happy Family by Shari Lapena 🐇 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ setting: Brecken Hill, upstate New York 🌳 A very wealthy couple, Fred and Sheila Merton, are found murdered in their home following a tense family dinner. Leaving behind three adult children who stand to inherit a lot o

book review | The Last Housewife by Ashley Winstead ⛓️ my rating: ⭐️ Setting: upstate New York 🌳 Shay returns to the cult-like college she escaped to investigate the death of her best friend. Which she finds out has uncanny similarities to another past tragedy. Shay uncovers a world of pat

book review | Forests, Fishing, & Forgery by Tonya Kappes ☀️ my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: Normal, Kentucky 🌳 It’s Labor Day weekend, one of the busiest times of the year for RV park owner, Mae West. Daniel Boone National Park is in danger of closure due to drought which would be devastat

book review | The Summer Nanny by Audrey J. Cole 💰 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: Seattle, Washington ☁️ A nanny’s worst nightmare turns into reality when the little boy she is caring for is kidnapped. Leading to a hostage situation, suspenseful fight for survival, and discovery of a deeper co

book review | Three Days In June by Anne Tyler 🌸 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: Baltimore, Maryland 🌷 This story follows Gail Banes, a socially awkward mother of the bride, during a chaotic three day period as she navigates her daughter’s wedding weekend. While at the same time dealing with

book review | Her Last Summer by Nina Manning 🏊🏼‍♀️ my rating: ⭐️⭐️ Setting: UK 🇬🇧 Actress Rey Levine takes a role that requires her to swim in the ocean, something she hasn’t done in 15 years. She is forced to confront a traumatic past involving a childhood tragedy. Specifically the dis

book review | The Storm by Rachel Hawkins 🌺 my rating: ⭐️⭐️✨ setting: St. Medard’s Bay, Alabama 🏖️ Set in a small hurricane prone town in coastal Alabama, a decades-old cold case resurfaces when journalist, August Fletcher, arrives in town to write a book about the murder of the governor’s