Review: Photograph - Brian Freeman - October 2025 There’s something quietly haunting about Photograph, the kind of story that settles into your bones and lingers long after you’ve turned the final page. As I curled up with this one, I felt like I was stepping into a storm - one that begins softly but builds into something deeply emotional and utterly consuming. At the heart of the novel is Shannon Wells, a private investigator with a compassionate streak for helping women who feel like they’ve run out of options. I instantly warmed to Shannon. She’s not just solving cases ,she’s carrying people’s burdens, and that gives her character a grounded, human quality that makes you root for her from the very beginning. The mystery surrounding Faith Selby pulled me in straight away. A woman asking, “Find out who I really am” is such a simple yet loaded request, and it sets the tone for everything that follows. When Faith turns up dead, leaving behind nothing but a photograph of a little girl s...

Review: The Girl in the Photo - Book #2 Jensen Thriller - Heidi Amsinck - July 2022 This thriller drew me in with the title, the book starts with a handful of elderly murders. They all seem random except, for one thing, each crime scene has a photograph of a young girl. The same girl but different scenes. Meanwhile, Jensen is back living in Copenhagen and determined to make a career as a freelance journalist, even if it means running into Detective Henrik - someone who she had this weird relationship with. It felt like they had an affair but some moments felt like all he did was save her from a serial killer. As the book goes on, Henrik and Jensen both discover that the three victims came into money back in 1996. The identity of the girl is finally revealed and how each person played their part. I hadn't read a Nordic Noir for a while and so this was a refreshing read. The only downside was that it was a bit slow-paced and the ending frustrated me as I felt that we were let down w...

Review: The Dollhouse - Sara Ennis - June 2021  Not in the mood to do much but read, I decided after watching a movie called Red Notice which by the way was a fun action-comedy flick with Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot, and The Rock to sit out in the sun with my kindle. I scrolled through and came to The Dollhouse which had been on my mind for a couple of days.  This book starts with a story about a photograph which during the book, there are several photoshoot recreations and stories of the original photographs. The book then jumps to Sunshine leaving her kids for a couple of days - 14-year-old twins Bud and Angel. The two end up getting abducted by a woman named Jennifer and delivered to a place called "The Dollhouse". The twins met Olivia who was also abducted and the three of them are now Alfred's dolls. They are subjected to torture and his playthings, especially Bud and Angel. The book is told in three viewpoints - we have the view of the Dollhouse and what happens with...

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The Run Around Bernadette Franklin Publication date: April 28th 2020 Genres: Adult, Comedy, Contemporary, Romance Arranging a wedding for her brother and a five-time thoroughbride tests Hope’s skills and patience. She’d believed the vows would be the most dangerous part of the ceremony, but a baseball to the head during the photography session proves her wrong and lands her in the sights of her brother’s best friend, Fredrick. He wants her to plan his wedding. She wants to be his bride. Diving into the treacherous world of wedding planning, Hope keeps her word and arranges the vows for the one man she believes she could love. He doesn’t know how much she cherishes him and his friendship. What she doesn’t know lands her in the heart of a royal mess. Goodreads / Amazon / Barnes & Noble / iBooks / Kobo / Google Play — EXCERPT: A sensible woman would’ve been delighted to be her future sister-in-law’s maid of honor, as it implied cordial relationships or some so...

Review: The Photograph - Book #1 Eastbrook Series - Kristen Otte - June 2014 Rachel Brandt is sixteen years old and looking forward to her life as she has a perfect boyfriend of six months that loves her, she has just gotten her driver's license and her basketball career is going well. All that though starts to falter and drift away when one day she is getting the Halloween decorations down from the attic and stumbles upon a photo of her dad and a woman. Rachel asks her grandparents who have raised her and they shrug it off saying that it was just a random girlfriend. Later Rachel learns that it was, in fact, her birth mother Julia. Then starts a search for her mother and during this time will start to drift away from her boyfriend and make a few mistakes in her basketball game. During this time Rachel will also learn secrets about her birth that will leave her questioning herself and wondering if everything she has done or been told for the past sixteen yea...