Charles Martin's Unwritten starts with a man named Sunday, who has disappeared from the life he once knew and likes it that way. A recluse living deep in the Thousand Islands off of Florida, he fishes and lives quietly. A good life, most would say....

Charlie Huston's Skinner is a specialized tool to the CIA. His job is to guard assets..people who are valued by a worth based on their impact on "the market." He has killed many in the line of his work and there are many more who...

Always on My Mind is the eighth book in the Lucky Harbor series by Jill Shalvis. This novel features Leah Sullivan, who has just appeared on a reality baking show. She has returned to Lucky Harbor to help out her grandmother who has been taken...

Against the picturesque backdrop of Cornwall, Judy Finnigan in Eloise allows this mystery to play out, beginning with the tragically premature death of Eloise from breast cancer. Deeply affected by her best friend's death, Cathy struggles to cope with her loss in an already fragile...

This is one book that I never wanted to end; from the beginning to the end, it was great. The story is based on a romance lasting over 60 years, and another just beginning. You will wonder what they had in common, although I thoroughly...

Sandra Brown's Deadline is a realistic, fast-paced thriller, true to her writing style. Dawson Scott is a journalist who will do anything, go anywhere to get a cutting edge story. He has just returned from a lengthy stay in Afghanistan where he sees first hand...

Joanna Philbin's Rules of Summer is a story that could happen anywhere and her cast of characters might be found in your own community. Maybe. Rory McShane is given the opportunity to live with the very well-to-do Rule family in East Hampton. Her aunt has...

Childless Dr James Dobson/Kurt Bruner In Childless, Dobson and Bruner have created a futuristic world based in the 2040's, which our 2014 world is frighteningly on its way towards emulating. Life has no significance or value in the future and people fall into two distinct categories, credits...

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai is the inspirational story of the author's bravery, courage, self-worth, and perseverance while living in Swat Valley in Pakistan. This book introduces readers to the life...

The October List by bestselling author Jeffery Deaver is written in a most unique manner. Deaver has written this novel backward. It starts at the ending and ends at the beginning. Gabriela McKenzie’s daughter is being held for ransom. The six-year-old child was kidnapped by...

The Immortal Empire series by Kate Locke is such an imaginative series! Xandra Varden, half goblin queen, thought that her troubles would be over once she accepted the Goblin Throne, and suddenly had the most vicious army in the known world at her beck and...

Ketchup Clouds was written by Annabel Pitcher and read by Julie Maisey. Zoe’s family members are each trying to deal with their own problems. Both of her parents are lawyers, although her mother has not practiced law in several years. Her dad recently lost his...

I have to admit that I am a LONG time Gail Carriger fan. I have three copies of her Parasol Protectorate series, and was thrilled to get a chance to review the latest in her young adult series, Curtsies and Conspiracies. We re-join Sophronia on...

Night of Cakes & Puppets by Laini Taylor is a lovely story and one that stays in your mind long after it's finished. It's magical, romantic, funny, and endearing. The characters are so well developed that they seem real and as if they are in...

Sean King and Michelle Maxwell return in David Baldacci’s King and Maxwell. Tyler Wingo hires King and Maxwell to solve the mystery surrounding his father, a soldier in Afghanistan, who was reported as a fatality. The teen and his father had a secret code that...

It's the most intense Alex Cross thriller yet. In this latest novel by James Patterson, Cross is up to his eyeballs in murder and kidnapping and kitchen remodeling. Somebody is on a murder spree and the victims are massage parlor employees and patrons. Cross and...

What could be better than spending a snowy day cuddled up by a fire with a cup of hot tea and a Pendergast novel? White Fire by Preston Douglas and Lincoln Child reunites my favorite detective Pendergast and his protégée Corrie Swanson. We first met...

Mara has never had much of a plan for her life. She’s always thought of herself as nobody important, nothing special. But all of a sudden, things are beginning to change in Law Man It all begins with a broken sink, but that’s definitely not...

This is a review of the audio version of The Visionist: A Novel written by Rachel Urquhart. Polly Kimball’s father was cruel and violent. While her father slept, fifteen-year-old Polly loaded her mother and brother into the wagon. Polly took the lantern and went back...

When Emily, the civilian 'sorter' for calls relating to cold cases, brings Detective Harry Bosch the latest round of possibles to investigate, she mentions a mysterious caller had identified the killer of a homosexual teenager back in 1992. This starts Bosch looking into the case...