Review: The Sorority Murder - Allison Brennan - December 2021 Are you a fan of podcasts and true crime tales? Allison Brennan's upcoming novel combines not only crime and murder but also the world of podcasts and how technology these days and crowdsourcing can help solve crimes that would otherwise have gone cold forever. Lucas Vega is obsessed with the disappearance of Candace Swain who vanished three years ago and then a week later her body washed up in a lake at the local golf course. Lucas was connected in a couple of ways to Candace including that at the time of her disappearance a few weeks before, she had been tutoring him in creative writing/ English. Somebody in the sorority or the school has to know what happened to Candace as along with her vanishing is a couple more and as we read The Sorority Murder by Allison Brennan - the various cases will start to intertwine and overlap and if Lucas is lucky, he won't solve just one murder but help close two disappearances as w...

Review: Kiss Me With Lies - Book #1 Twin Lies - S.M Soto - December 2019 I had been waiting for this book ever since I saw the cover reveal and read the blurb as it sounded amazing and when it arrived on my device, I couldn't wait to hurry up and read it. OMG it did not disappoint as it had an amazing cliffhanger ending that blew me away and now I cannot wait for Book #2 to hurry up and be released. Kiss Me With Lies starts with two twins at a party - one beautiful but evil Madison and the other a bit more plain but with a heart of gold Mackenzie. Madison was her family's favorite and Mackenzie was like the spare twin they got lumped with. It is the end of year Senior party and Mackenzie has gone along with her friend Winnie. There she sees the five hottest guys of the school and one Trent has his eyes sit on her. Just as they are about to kiss though, Madison interrupts which causes Mackenzie to flee. Not before Trent whispers to her to meet him at the Ki...

Two sisters. One unsolved murder. A sickening plot for revenge. Kiss Me With Lies, an all-new sexy, edge-of-your-seat romance from S.M. Soto, is coming December 3rd and we have the beautiful cover! When Mackenzie Wright attends her first real high school party, held somewhere deep in the woods of her small California town, no one expects to wake up the next morning to news of a gruesome murder. Especially not her own sister’s. No suspects. No motive. No convictions. Just one unsolved murder and whatever’s left of the now deserted town. Mackenzie has spent years with her sister’s death weighing heavily on her shoulders, but it isn’t until she stumbles across a photograph that changes everything for her. The memories, everything from that night, come flashing back in high-speed technicolor and Mackenzie soon finds herself obsessed with the truth. Determined to find out what really happened to her sister, Mackenzie relies on that one photograph to give her the answ...

Review: Nancy Drew and the Palace of Wisdom - Kelly Thompson and Jenn St.Onge - April 2019 One of my favorite teen detectives is Nancy Drew and with the upcoming TV series coming, I have been on a Nancy Drew kick. So when I saw this graphic novel at work, I knew I had to read it. Nancy Drew and the Palace of Wisdom starts off with Nancy Drew in her new school and hanging with her new friends and then she arrives home and finds a letter regarding her mother's death and threatening her. The letter is postmarked Bayport - her old hometown where she moved away three years ago when her mother died. Booking a ticket she heads home and is met by her old friends whom they had lost contact. We have George and Bess and the Hardy Boys. As Nancy goes on her adventures, she will realize that her old crew is more hands-on than her new friends and that there is a bit of resentment hanging around. Can the group reunite and solve their own problems before they find themselves ...

Lost Girl Holly Kammier (A Shelby Day Novel) Published by: Acorn Publishing Publication date: January 5th 2020 Genres: Romance, Suspense, Young Adult “Lost Girl is a compulsive thrill-ride that reads as if it’s been pulled straight from the headlines. Kammier’s journalism background brings undeniable authenticity to a novel that has it all – a love story, a murder mystery, and a real-life introduction into the distinctive world of television news.” —CAROLINE MITCHELL, NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR An appalling act of violence and an unsolved double murder. Small-town investigative reporter, Shelby Day, is determined to hunt a killer. As her search draws closer to uncovering the twisted truth, she begins receiving ominous warnings to stay quiet and drop the story. The young journalist is in danger. Her cameraman and best friend, a person with his own secret past, says he wants to protect her. But Shelby is headstrong and dodging anything that could lead to love. She ...

Title:  Wicked Games Authors: Vivian Wood & Amelia Wilde Genre: New Adult Romantic Suspense Release Date: June 4, 2019 Blurb A secret society. A forbidden crush. And an unsolved murder... Emily Danes expected the tough classes at Campbell College, one of the most exclusive and prestigious universities in the world. She expected the ivy-covered halls. She expected the  money. She didn’t see Wolf Astor coming. Obscenely wealthy, socially connected, and heart-stoppingly gorgeous, he’s everything she ever dreamed of in a man. He’s also a total prick. But at a place like Campbell College, there’s no escape. Not from Wolf, and not from the secrets hidden behind the graceful facades of the campus. With every day that passes, she’s drawn deeper into the underbelly of the wealthy and privileged at Campbell: a secret society known as the Skulls & Thorns. And with a murderer loose on campus, she’s running out of time to...