Category: Mystery
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First Lie Wins
Book: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 💫 Audiobook: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 💫 Spice: Closed Door By Ashley Elston (@ashleyelston) What an unexpected delight to have this book be my last read of 2023! It is a unique psychological thriller! Evie Porter is a sweet southern girl who, after a whirlwind romance, has fallen in love with Ryan Sumner, and they are…
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The Fury
Book: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Audiobook: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 💫 by Alex Michaelides Books by Michaelides always feel like, and I mean this as a huge compliment, a throwback to classic British mystery shows on BBC. They take me back to my youth, just discovering a passion for mysteries. The Fury is a murder mystery on the private island of…
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Argylle
Book: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Audiobook: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Spice: N/A by Elly Conway It has been a long time since I’ve read a rip-roaring, action-packed espionage thriller, and this one was an excellent read. This book takes you on a global journey with the CIA to find a missing treasure. Starting with a downed CIA plane, the action is…
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The Daughters of Block Island
Book: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Audiobook: 🌟🌟🌟 🌟💫 by Christa Carmen I love books integrate characters acknowledging when plot elements are typical for the genre. This thrilling book, full of classic gothic novel references and elements, goes so far as to have two characters laughing while discussing their rules for navigating a gothic novel – many of which…
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The Professor
Book: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Audiobook: 🌟🌟🌟🌟 💫 by Lauren Nossett When I read The Resemblance earlier this year, I knew I had found one of my new favorite mystery protagonists in Marlitt Kaplan, so I was incredibly excited for the arrival of The Professor, which follows Kaplan in her next investigation. It did not disappoint! Ethan, a…
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The Lighthouse Witches
Book: 🌟🌟🌟 Audiobook: 🌟🌟🌟 by CJ Cooke This was a bold, ambitious book with multiple narrators and timelines. It is a dramatic story with lots of characters and sub-stories. Two sisters and their mother go missing from a remote Scottish island after their mother is commissioned to paint the island lighthouse. The remaining sister, Luna,…
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