The Phantom Paragrapher

Review: Missing Mom - Lynn Slaughter - January 2025 Noelle's life was on track, she had three loving parents - her dad, stepdad, and mum, she had her younger sister Whitney and her ballet. Everything was going well until one day, her mum didn't come home. Noelle knows something is off as her mum just wouldn't disappear on them, she also wasn't suicidal as the police believe she killed herself. With the help of her friend and ballet partner Ravi, Noelle goes on a journey to discover what happened to her mother. In doing so though Noelle will discover that her mum who never talked about her past, had a good reason not to as her mum's name isn't even her real name. What happened to her mother and why did her mum change her name? The book then jumps back to 20 years ago when we meet teenage Savannah. Savannah has gotten into a relationship with Mack. A relationship that will start to become an abusive one and it can only end two ways - either she can escape or in a ...

Review: Vengeful Sins - Book#2 Wicked Falls Elite Series - C. Hallman - December 2024 We saw at the end of Book #1 that Wren and Briggs got together as Wren moved in with him and Briggs's dad went on the run after trying to kill Wren. Now for Book #2, we have Wren's friend Maya and Briggs's mate Tucker. These two have had a strong love/hate relationship and we are about to discover why as years ago when Maya was sixteen she heard her Dad trying to sell her off. So she went out and got drunk and slept with Tucker. After some nasty words, the pair went their separate ways, but for Tucker -Maya is the girl that broke his heart as he had liked her and since then the hurt turned into hardened hatred. Now though as Maya turns 18, her father is more than determined to sell her to the highest bidder which in this case is Chase, and this time not for sex but for marriage. Can Tucker save the woman he loves to hate? Maya though has another dark secret, one that keeps her from showing...

Review: Girl Taken - Book #2 Ella Dark Mystery - Blake Pierce - June 2021 Ella Dark is an upcoming FBI agent at 29 years old. She is great at her job as a profiler due to her eidetic memory and extensive knowledge of serial killers. The problem though is that she is a bit too gungho and can ignore some of the rules put in place as she wants to rush out for the thrill and action of putting a serial killer behind bars. In Book #2 Ella has been paired with Agent Mia who has been around for a long time and knows just what it's like to work in what was once a male-dominated field. The pair are sent to Seattle after a few bodies turn up and the police are stumped to find a connection. It is soon discovered that the killer and victims are all related to the indie art world that is Seattle hipsters - the freaks and the weirdos. When the pair get close to the killer and think they have him, danger strikes again with another murder. Have they got the right person or is there a copycat at p...

Review: To Die For - Lisa Gray - August 2023 I had enjoyed Lisa Gray's Jessica Shaw series, so I was looking forward to reading To Die For. This book is set in the world of real estate and how much of a cutthroat business it can be. The book starts with Andi Hart who is looking to go out on her own after her boss David tried to hit on her. She just finds now she can't trust him and the best idea for her is to strike out on her own as she is a good seller, which is probably inherited from her parents as her mother was a real estate agent and her father an investor. Andi left home when she was a teen after her mother died as she always blamed her father. Now years later, it looks like he is back in LA and wants a connection with Andi, but she's not willing to give him one. When a new house comes on the market and the commission for selling is One Million Dollars, it becomes every man and woman for themselves as we are about to read just how dirty people can play to get thei...