One Puzzling Afternoon - Emily Critchley

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One Puzzling Afternoon - Emily Critchley

Mystery

Rating: 7/10

Imagine that you happened upon a mystery that you tasked yourself with solving, only to realize that the clues to its being pieced together were buried within a mind muddled by forgetfulness. Your own mind. Edie is an eighty something year old widow who is showing signs of dementia. While in town one afternoon she spots Lucy, her childhood friend. The problem is that Lucy has been missing since they were fifteen.

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Holiday Story's...

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Mystery, Romance & Fantasy, Oh My…

The Christmas Guest - Peter Swanson

The Kingdom Of Sweets - Erika Johansen

The Christmas Appeal - Janice Hallett

Christmas Orphans Club - Becca Freeman

Christmas Murder Game - Alexandra Benedict

I Am Half-Sick Of Shadows - Alan Bradley

Christmas Presents - Lisa Unger

Secret Santa - Andrew Shaffer

Sherlock Holmes & The Christmas Demon - James Lovegrove

The Usual Santas - Peter Lovesy

Always, In December - Emily Stone

Christmas By The Book - Anne Marie Ryan

Bright Lights, Big Christmas - Mary Kay Andrews

The Christmas Bookshop - Jenny Colgan

Silent Night - R.L. Stine

When Christmas Comes - Andrew Klavan

The Santa Klaus Murder - Mavis Doriel Hay

Murder On The Christmas Express - Alexandra Benedict

Hercule Poirot's Silent Night - Sophie Hannah

Guilty Pleasures...

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Read Shamelessly, Always…

Slay - Laurell K. Hamilton

The Watchmakers Hand - Jeffrey Deaver

Darius - JR Ward

Exit - Belinda Bauer

The Taker - Alma Katsu

The Rich - Rachel Lynch

House At The End Of The World - Dean Koontz

From Blood & Ash - Jennifer L. Armentrout

The Beautiful - Renee Ahdieh

Thank You For Listening - Julie Whelan

A Discovery Of Witches - Deborah Harkness

Hit List - Lawrence Block

Mortal Sins - Penn Williamson

Deal Breaker - Harlan Coben

Warriors Hope - Rebecca Zanetti

Last Time You Called - Carmi Heyman

Ascend - Amanda Hocking

Identity - Nora Roberts

You - Caroline Kepnes

Storytime Books...

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Picture Books That Rock…

The Very Best Hug - Smriti Prasadam Halls

The Tragically Hip ABC - The Tragically Hip

The Umbrella - Beth Ferry

Oh, Olive - Lian Cho

A Bad Case Of The Stripes - David Shannon

A Child Of Books - Oliver Jeffers

The Night Frolic - Julie Berry

The Stinky Cheese Man & Other Fairly Stupid Tales - Jon Sciezska

The Most Serious Fart - Mike Bender

D Is For Drool - Amanda Noll

The Day The Crayons Quit - Drew Daywait

Attack Of The Underwear Dragon - Scott Rothman

It's Only Stanley - Jon Agee

Lift - Minh Li

The Barnabus Project - Terry Fan

The Liszits - Kyo Maclear

Big - Vashti Harrison

5 More Sleeps 'til Christmas - Jimmy Fallon

Do Not Open This Book - Andy Lee

Check Out More…

Once Upon A Time

Detective Wannabe's...

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Whodunit’s In The Hands Of Amateurs…

West Heart Kill - Dann McDorman

The Mystery Guest - Nita Prose

The Last Devil To Die - Richard Osman

Glory Be - Danielle Arceneaux

The Busy Body - Kemper Donovan

Everybody On This Train Is A Suspect - Benjamin Stevenson

Close To Death - Anthony Horowitz

A Most Agreeable Murder - Julia Seales

Murder In The Bookship - Anita Davison

The Postscript Murders - Elly Griffiths

How To Solve Your Own Murder - Kirsten Perrin

Nosy Parker - Lesley Crewe

Golden Spoon - Jessa Maxwell

The Bingo Hall Detectives - Jonathan Whitelaw

I Only Read Murder - Ian & Will Ferguson

Death Comes To Marlow - Robert Thorogood

The Columbo Collection - William Link

The Cleaner - Samantha Beal

22 Murders Of Madison May - Max Barry

So Many Books...

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If You Could Only Read A Few…

11/22/63 - Stephen King

A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles

Bright Young Women - Jessica Knoll

Dead Silence - S.A. Barnes

Eight Detectives - Alex Pavesi

Happiness Falls - Angie Kim

Heart-Shaped Box - Joe Hill

Heartless - Marissa Meyer

Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore - Robin Sloan

No One Will Miss Her - Kat Rosenfield

Recursion - Blake Crouch

The Carnivale of Curiosities - Amiee Gibbs

The Final Girl Support Group - Grady Hendrix

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield

The Woman in the Library - Sulari Gentill

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

We Begin at the End - Chris Whitaker

Tea Time...

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Books Set In Diners, Cafes & More…

Coffee Shop Of Curiousities - Heather Webber

Last Diner Standing - Terri Austin

Together Tea - Marjan Kamali

Marrying The Ketchups - Jennifer Close

The Supremes At Earls All You Can Eat - Edward Kesley Moore

A Magic Steeped In Poison - Judy Lin

Tempest In A Teapot - Kate Valent

Recipes Of Love & Murder - Sally Andrew

Little Coffee Shop Of Kabul - Deborah Rodriguez

Gil's All Fright Diner - A. Lee Martinez

The Devine Doughnut Shop - Carolyn Brown

Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant - Anne Tyler

Traveling Tea Shop - Belinda Jones

Vintage tea Cup Club - Vanessa Greene

Glazed Murder: Donut Shop Mystery - Jessica Beck

Midnight At The Blackbird Café - Heather Webber

Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Café - Fannie Flag

Little French Bistro - Nina George

Before The Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Hidden Gems...

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What Are You Waiting For…

Secret Identity - Alex Segura

The Serialist - David Gordon

A Kiss Before Dying - Ira Levin

The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Verifiers - Jane Pek

Miss Cecily’s Recipes For Exceptional Ladies- Vicky Zimmerman

Sourdough - Robin Sloan

The Hundred,Foot Journey - Richard C. Morais

The Music Shop - Rachel Joyce

Out Of Sight - Elmore Leonard

Thursday Murder Club - Richard Osman

See Jane Run - Joy Fielding

I Let You Go - Clare MacKintosh

Larry’s Party - Carol Shields

My Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Picoult

Olive, Again - Elizabeth Strout

The Help - Kathryn Stockett

Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirarsky

Winter Garden - Kristin Hannah

Books For The Bookish...

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Well, Obviously…

The Woman In The Library - Sulari Gentill

Ex Libris - Ross King

The Librarianist - Patrick deWitt

Last Chance Library - Freya Sampson

Ink Blood Sister Scribe - Emma Torzs

Babel - R.F. Kuang

Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore - Robin Sloan

The Binding - Bridget Collins

Lexicon - Max Barry

No Two Persons - Erica Bauermeister

The Book Eaters - Sunyi Dean

The Midnight Library - Matt Haig

Liar's Dictionary-Ellery Williams

The Wishing Game - Meg Shaffer

The Girl Who Reads On The Metro - Christine Feret-Fleury

The Dictionary Of Lost Words - Pip Williams

The Borrower - Rebecca Makkai

Door To Door Bookstore - Carsten Henn

The Storied Life Of A. J. Fikry - Gabrielle Zevin

Mind Blowing Fiction...

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Novel Narratives…

Dark Matter - Blake Crouch

Maybe In Another Life - Taylor Jenkins Reid

An Instance Of The Fingerpost - Iain Pears

3:59 - Gretchen McNeil

The Midnight Library - Matt Haig

The Two Lila Bennetts - Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke

The Hundred-Year House - Rebecca Makkai

Frankenstein - Mary Shelly

If We Were Villians - M.L. Rio

The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield

The Night Watch - Sarah Waters

The Secret History - Donna Tartt

The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemisin

Eight Detectives - Alex Pavesi

A Kiss Before Dying - Ira Levin

The Word Is Murder - Anthony Horowitz

Security - Gina Wohlsdorf

Thirteen Storeys - Jonathan Sims

S. - J.J. Abrams & Doug Dorset

This Is How We End Things - R.J. Jacobs

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This Is How We End Things - R.J. Jacobs

Thriller

Rating: 8/10

We find ourselves at a tension filled gothic university where duplicity seeps into the place as much as the people. Where the art of the lie knows no bounds. While most students have fled campus for some spring break fun in the sun, a group of graduate students studying the psychology of deception are otherwise engaged. When one of them ends up dead during a harsh wintery storm, it turns out they may be as skilled in telling the lies they study as they are in detecting them.

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The Beautiful & The Wild - Peggy Townsend

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The Beautiful & The Wild - Peggy Townsend

Thriller

Rating: 8/10

She missed the red flags. Like how after they were married he casually said to her that she would never feel more alive than when she didn’t know what was coming next. Now her life has fallen apart in spectacular fashion, with her husband keeping her locked in a shipping container until she can accept his doctrine. That however, isn’t really going to work for her.

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What Have We Done - Alex Finlay

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What Have We Done - Alex Finlay

Thriller

Rating: 8/10

A stay-at-home mom with a past she can’t escape, no matter how hard she tries. A has been rock star with a drinking problem prone to making poor decisions. A reality TV producer who owes a lot of money to the wrong sort of people, for all the wrong reasons. They have been keeping a secret for twenty five years, one someone is threatening to reveal to the world and now they must come together, no matter how much they don’t want to!

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Congratulations, The Best Is Over - R. Eric Thomas

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Congratulations, The Best Is Over - R. Eric Thomas

Humorous Essays

Rating: 7.5/10

I have news for you. Are you sitting down? Maybe grab a cocktail. If you are in your forties, you have reached middle age. It’s a mathematical fact that cannot be disputed. You can smooth out the edges by adding the word “early” in front of it, but facts are facts my friends. This hilarious book brings it all front and centre in the best possible way!

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The Fake - Zoe Whittall

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The Fake - Zoe Whittall

Fiction

Rating: 7.5/10

When Shelby and Gibson join two separate therapy groups, they instantly connect with the same woman, Cammie. She’s perfect, giving them both exactly what they need at this point in their lives. Only she is not what she appears to be, seemingly not the same woman at all. A brilliant and irresistible novel that bravely casts a morally bereft character and upends the expected scammer narrative.

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To Catch A Storm - Mindy Mejia

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To Catch A Storm - Mindy Mejia

Thriller

Rating: 8.5/10

An immersive, outstanding thriller that will sweep you away from its action packed first page to its last. When her husband’s car is found abandoned and burned out, physicist Eve becomes suspect number one. When Jonah, a psychic, appears on her doorstep with an offer to help, she is just desperate enough to accept. I loved the dichotomy of these two characters, not to mention their chemistry!

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Just Another Missing Person - Gillian McAllister

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Just Another Missing Person - Gillian McAllister

Thriller

Rating: 7/10

Olivia has been missing for one day and counting. Last seen entering a dead-end alley and not coming out again. Julia, a veteran investigator, expects the pressure of the ticking clock she is up against. What she doesn’t expect is to find a masked man in her backseat, threatening to expose a secret that could blow up her entire life unless she plants evidence. And not just her own life either.

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