Review : Valley of Evil - Book #6 Bridget Bishop Series - Melinda Woodhall - May 2023 When all else fails for books, I find that going to read thrillers keeps my attention, and what better author to do that than one of my favorites Melinda Woodhall? Bridget Bishop is back with Book #6 in her series and it takes her to Wilde Valley when her father Bob's Private Investigation business is hired to find Kendra's missing parents. While in Wilde Valley, a dead body is found - a girl who went missing the night before. Soon Bridget realizes that they are standing over a sunflower meadow of graves and that the missing parents might be here among the four bodies buried.  During this time, a letter is sent to the press and police from someone called The Wilde Reaper who is determined to rid Wilde Valley of those who have sinned and it's time to reap what they have sown or in this case stolen. It looks like it stems back to the Wilde family and dark family secrets that were swept under...

Review: Road to Evil - Book #4 Bridget Bishop FBI Series - Melinda Woodhall - September 2022 One of my favorite authors is Melinda Woodhall as I have loved all her different series and how one way or another they just interconnect and flow together. The Bridget Bishop Series is the fourth series of her's that I am going through and after this, there are two more - the Bailey Flynn and Frankie Dawson. In Road to Evil, the Backwoods Butcher who Bridget Bishop put away after catching him when no one else could have escaped from the courthouse. What will he do, now that he is free? Will he chase down the people who put him behind bars or is he just wanting to be free and start over? The thing is though that there is another killer known as Max Bender and he is determined that he will never be caught as he almost got away with it once before with Tammy Vickers, but new DNA has come to light. This causes Max to come up with a plan and kill a few more in the style of Grady if the police a...

Review: Christmas Off Script - Book #5 Foxbrooke Academy Series - Evie Alexander - November 2024 If you’re looking for Christmas cheer, a dose of chaotic family fun, and a swoon-worthy best friends-to-lovers romance, Evie Alexander delivers it all in this unmissable holiday romcom!”* Set against the backdrop of the charming and whimsical Foxbrooke Manor, *Christmas off Script* introduces us to Ella Chamberlain and Leo Foxbrooke—a duo whose friendship has stood the test of time, but whose hearts might just be ready for more. Ella’s life takes a spectacular nose-dive right before the holidays. Dumped, homeless, and in desperate need of a reset, she finds herself whisked into the safety of Leo’s world. Living at Foxbrooke Manor might seem like the perfect escape, but between her crush on her best friend and the unexpected role of Cinderella in the town’s annual Christmas pantomime, Ella’s life is anything but simple. Leo Foxbrooke is the dream package: kind, supportive, and d...

Review: The Clients - Bonny Fawn - August 2022 This book had been catching my interest and so I finally cracked it open and was captivated from the first page as we are back on a date that everyone in the world will never forget, it doesn't matter what country you were in and where you were. It is a date that you will always remember where you were when you heard the news. The date was September 11th, 2001. The day that the terrorists hijacked the planes and crashed them into the Twin Towers/ World Trade towers in New York. This date and incident held that moment Mel Green decided to finally leave her abusive husband and start new as she realized if she didn't go now, he would eventually kill her. For twenty years, Mel changed her name and lived as a teacher named Mandy Gates in Idaho, and then she fell in love with a substitute teacher called Riley Brown. Life was perfect and then she did something that would thrust her back into her old life. She went to her stepdaughter Is...

      Review: Where Evil Hides - Book #3 Dr Bridget Bishop Series - Melinda Woodhall - July 2022 Bridget never means to get involved and reeled back into the world of profiling and the FBI's unit of the BAU.  Every time she says this is the last time, she finds herself being pulled back into the limelight and drama of the FBI. In her current workload, she was writing a report about the Montclairs and their daughter Cassidy. Monty Montclair and his second wife Scarlet are getting a divorce and with a child in the mix, Bridget must write a report to see who gets custody. Unfortunately for Bridget - the dad has NPD and the mum has BPD. What happens though when Monty's latest mistress Harmony is found murdered and it looks like Monty is the main suspect? The thing though is he has an alibi, as he was in a session with Bridget Bishop. Her involvement with the family will have Bridget reeled back in and profiling who the real killer is. This was quite a twisted read as I h...

Review: Taken By Evil - Book #2 Bridget Bishop FBI Series - Melinda Woodhall - April 2022 As readers, we all have authors that we see as our must-reads whenever they release a new book. One of them for me is Melinda Woodhall. I have always enjoyed her thrillers and I love how over all her series; she connects the characters. In this particular series, our crossover characters are our FBI agents Tristan Hale and Charlie Day, along with Opal - our ME and Viv - all of these characters we have seen in other series by Melinda Woodhall. Taken by Evil has a couple of wonderful storylines our main one being the guest motivational speaker Tate Evans. Tate is all about leaving the past in the past, which makes sense after what he went through as a child but someone from his past who people assumed was dead is back with a vengeance. Back when Tate was young, he was sent to live on a boy's ranch, and here he met Champ who also suffered abuse at the hands of the ranch leaders. Champ sees Tate a...

Review: Bardo by the Sea - Book #1 Izzy and Elton Series - Chad Alan Gibbs - May 2022 I wasn't 100% sure whether I would enjoy this book but the idea of a new elite school and mystery/ cold case intrigued me and so I thought to give it a go and I enjoyed it. Bardo by the Sea is the dark underbelly of the lengths that money works as an incentive and that blackmail really does get you where you want to be and then on the other side, how easily one person can unravel the house of cards that has been years in the making. Also, it shows readers that honestly, it is hard to get away with murder so don't think about it as a secret and the truth always rises eventually to the surface. The book starts in the year 1983 when Ricky - a star QB on a scholarship entered Bardo, everyone liked Ricky and soon he became the King of the school. He had everyone wrapped around his finger and dated the head cheerleader known as Her Majesty and the Princess as she was a spoiled brat and he hung aro...