• New Books Everywhere | What to look out for in 2025!

    Hi, dear book lovers; how has your reading been this year? Mine was occupied with some of the best in the genres that I enjoy reading the most and it couldn’t get better. The year is ending soon, and it just means one thing – New year, New books!!! How exciting is that?! While there are so MANY new books that will be coming into the world in the first half of 2025, I will be focusing on some of my early reads that I am super curious to get started. The Other People by C. B. Everett About the Book: A group of strangers gathered at a mysterious country house…

  • Most Anticipated Books of 2023 – JUST ANOTHER MISSING PERSON by Gillian McAllister

    Mystery novelist, Gillian McAllister is back with her next highly anticipated book, JUST ANOTHER MISSING PERSON: A Novel (William Morrow, On-sale 8/1/23). Her newest book follows on the heels of the popular Wrong Place Wrong Time, which was a New York Times bestseller and a Reece’s Book Club pick. McAllister is a rising star in the suspense space and fans of her previous books as well as fans of Liane Moriarty, Gilly Macmillan, and Rebecca Serle are sure to enjoy her latest this summer!

  • Book Recommendation – Unmissing – Minka Kent

    A return from the past knocks a family dangerously off-balance in a novel of spiraling suspense by Washington Post and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Minka Kent. Merritt Coletto and her husband, Luca, have the life they dreamed of: a coastal home, a promising future, and a growing family. That dream ends with a late-night knock on the door. Weak, broken, and emaciated, it’s Luca’s first wife, Lydia. Missing for ten years, presumed dead, and very much alive, she has quite a story. Her kidnapping. A torturous confinement that should’ve ended with her dead. And finally, escape. Racked with guilt over the beautiful life they’ve built, Merritt and Luca agree…

  • Book Recommendation – Why She Left by Leah Mercer

    When I open the door and see her, my mind starts churning. Why are they here? What do they want? And why did my daughter leave in the first place? Am I finally, after all of these years, going to find out? I take a deep breath and usher them in… Ruth has spent every day of the last fifteen years wondering why her daughter Isobel left. Walking around the school to which she has given her life, every child she sees reminds her of her family’s bright future which vanished in an instant. So when Ruth opens the door to find Isobel and a teenage grandson she never knew…

  • Book Recommendation | When I Was Ten by Fiona Cummins

    Twenty-one years ago, Dr Richard Carter and his wife Pamela were murdered in what has become the most infamous double murder of the modern age. Ten-year-old Sara Carter – nicknamed the Angel of Death - spent eight years in a children’s secure unit and is living quietly under an assumed name with a family of her own. Now, on the anniversary of the trial, a documentary team has tracked down her older sister Shannon Carter, compelling her to break two decades of silence. Her explosive interview sparks national headlines and journalist Brinley Booth, a childhood friend of the Carter sisters, is tasked with covering the news story. For the first…

  • Book Recommendation | The Catch – T. M. Logan

    he says he's perfect. I know he's lying . . . Ed finally meets his daughter's boyfriend for the first time. Smart, successful and handsome, Ryan appears to be a real catch. Then Abbie announces their plan to get married. There's just one problem. Ed thinks there's something off about Ryan. Something hidden in the shadows behind his eyes. And it seems that only he can see it. Terrified that his daughter is about to marry a man who is not as he appears, Ed sets out to uncover Ryan's secrets. But the more he digs, the more he alienates Abbie and his wife Claire, who are convinced that Ryan…

  • Book Recommendation | Summer Island – Natalie Normann

    He never meant to stay. He certainly never meant to fall in love… Summer Island off the coast of Norway was the place London chef Jack Greene should have been from. He’s an outsider in the community that should have been his family, and now he’s setting foot on the strange land he has inherited for the first time. Ninni Toft, his nearest neighbour, has come to the island to mend her broken heart. With her wild spirit and irrepressible enthusiasm, she shows city-boy Jack the simple pleasures of island life – and what it means to belong. To a place. To a people. To one person in particular… Home…

  • Book Recommendation | Night Falls, Still Missing – Helen Callaghan

    On a cold, windswept night, Fiona arrives on a tiny, isolated island in Orkney. She accepted her old friend's invitation with some trepidation - her relationship with Madison has never been plain sailing. But as she approaches Madison's cottage, she sees that the windows are dark. The place has been stripped bare. No one knows where Madison has gone. As Fiona tries to find out where Madison has vanished to, she begins to unravel a web of lies. Madison didn't live the life she claimed to, and now Fiona's own life is in danger . . .

  • Book Recommendation | Logging Off – Nick Spalding

    Andy Bellows is in a right state. Plagued with insomnia, anxiety and neckache, he’s convinced there’s something seriously wrong with him. And the worst thing is that his doctor agrees. The diagnosis: Andy is in the grip of a self-destructive addiction to technology—he just cannot put that bloody mobile phone down. Texting, tweeting, gaming and online dating—technology rules Andy’s life. His phone even monitors his bowel movements. So how will he cope when he’s forced to follow doctor’s orders and step away from all of his beloved screens? From having to leave the flat in search of food like some kind of Neanderthal to engaging in conversations with actual people, Andy’s…