Review: You're Not Safe - Book #3 Texas Rangers - Mary Burton - January 2014 Here we are at the end of January, and honestly, it feels a bit different this year. Last January I was flying through books : 42 of them! but this time around? Life had other plans. Work has been hectic, and I've found myself in one of those reading slumps where you stare at your TBR pile but nothing quite clicks. I managed 20 books this month, which isn't terrible, but it's definitely a slower pace than I'm used to. The silver lining? I've been gravitating toward thrillers lately. Romances just aren't holding my attention right now, so when I picked up You're Not Safe by Mary Burton from the depths of my Kindle (you know, that digital graveyard where books go to be forgotten), I was hoping for something to pull me out of my funk. The premise immediately grabbed me: a man is found hanging from a tree with a photograph pinned nearby. Staged to look like suicide, but the poli...

Review: Another Girl Lost - Mary Burton - September 2024 You know that feeling when you're scrolling through your Kindle, completely over romance novels that just aren't hitting the mark anymore? That's exactly where I found myself recently, desperately hunting for something with more edge and suspense. That's when I stumbled across Mary Burton's "Another Girl Lost," and honestly, it had a couple of my absolute favorite thriller tropes right there in the description – I was sold before I even cracked it open. The book kicks off with one of those classic "Ten Years Later" moments that immediately hooks you. Construction workers are renovating a house when they make a grisly discovery: a body hidden in the walls. The remains belong to a young girl who vanished a decade ago, presumed to be another victim of a predator named Tanner. Here's where it gets interesting – Tanner's been dead for ten years, killed by Detective Kevin Dawson during a...