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There were lots of details I wasn’t aware of in this horrid murder spree. It was a little hard to follow because I kept on reading other books in between.

Great book that keeps you guessing. Kit is a maid who likes to snoop. What she finds out is more than could ever imagine.

Harmel again writes a sweeping historical novel taking place in the 1940s in Paris and 70 years later. Collete and her mother have been stealing jewels from cruel people to give to those in need. The story is about some stolen diamond bracelets and what happened to them. I wasn’t into the book for quite awhile, but it again it grabbed my attention and was very good.

This book as so hard to read because of the horrific thins that happened at Willowbrook. Sage goes to look for her missing twin sister who was placed in willowbrook 6 years ago. Sage is mistaken for Rosemary and kept there. Willowbrook State School was a state-supported institution for children with intellectual disabilities in Staten Island in New York City, which truly operated from 1947 until 1987.

This is an easy, somewhat predictable book. Newly divorced Phoebe decides to go to Newport, RI to kill’s herself. She finds herself in the middle of a wedding party made up of a privileged bride and an older groom. Fun plot.

After reading Becoming Madame Secretary about Franklin Roosevelt and Francis Perkins, I was excited to read another book about the Roosevelt by the authors of The Personal Librarian, which I, also,loved. Eleanor Roosevelt and Mary Bethune, a black woman, become close friends and work together for civil rights. Mary is an activist and educator. Many events in the book are true with some fiction added when needed.

Another beach read and another love story. Gus and January are both writers with writers’ block because of recent losses. They strike a challenge; each will write a novel from the other’s genre. Each will help the other with background of how to do this. I loved reading it!

I loved this work of historical fiction set in 1935 and the main character Leah. When her lumberjack father dies, she’s forced to go and live with another strangers and be their housemate. It reminded me of Where the Crawdads Sing as Leah had lived with her father on the North Carolina coast:and loved the ocean and nature. I listened to this gripping novel.

Bennie takes on the case of Jason, accused of murder. She defended him first in a school fight when he was 12. Fun book to listen to.

This book had lots of surprises and secrets. It begins with Estella Bisette, a gifted seamstress in France, who flees to New York in 1940. It also goes to present day with Estelle’s granddaughter Fabienne Bisette. It talks about fashion, love, and the war. Kept my interest throughout.

I was disappointed when I picked this book up from the library and saw it was fantasy. The storyline and characters were good as it jumped from Althea in 1619 to Violet in 1402 to Kate in 2019, all Weyward women with secret powers. I tried to concentrate on their lives and ignore the spiders and birds.

This was the first Rosato & DiNunzio novel, and I enjoyed listening to it. DiNunzio, who has just been promoted to partner in her law firm, and Rosato took on a case from a 13 year old client who thinks the wrong person is in prison for the murder of her sister six years ago. I did get a little tired of DiNunzio‘s Italian family.

What a great book. A 4 year old Ruthie from a family of berry pickers is snatched by an affluent lady who cannot have children. The story covers decades of both families.

Another book I couldn’t put down. Sylvia, who’s on her last dollar, suddenly gets a job offer to take care the disabled wife of a man she just met in a restaurant. Victoria has fallen down the stairs in a house located in a remote area. Sylvia soon finds Victoria’s diary, which shows everything might not be as it seems. McFadden again throws in many surprises. Great mystery.

What a fun book to read! Nora’s younger sister, Libby, talks her into a month long sister’s trip to Sunshine Falls, NC, setting of a novel written by one of her book clients. While there she keeps running into Charlie Lastra, an editor she’d met in New York City. The sarcasm between the two made me often laugh out loud. A nice change after some rather heavy books.

I loved this book about two American friends living in France during WW 2. Elise must leave her daughter with Juliette as she escapes France, but tragedy strikes Juliette’s family too. Years later they meet again in New York. Has their friendship,survived? I could not put this book down.

Loved listening to this book about two mysteries. Rachel does a podcast that solves mysteries freeing a man who was innocent. She is Joe covering a trial involving the town’s golden boy accused of raping a high school student. As Rachel covers the trial, she receives letters wanting her to a death 25 years ago. Both stories are gripping. I’ve never read Goldin, but really enjoyed this one!

I could not get into this book and found it quite boring.

This book was a three star until I got to the end. I could hardly put it down, but it was a little too graphic at times. The ending was fabulous. When Lowen takes a job finishing the remaining books of a bestselling author who is in a coma, she discovers an autobiography written by Verity that has startling news. Meanwhile she becomes attracted to Verity’s husband.

I would never have picked up this book if it wasn’t for book club! And I loved it. It was so fun to read, and I laughed out loud throughout. Alex and Poppy met in college and have been going on a week vacation together for ten years. They are the opposites in every way, but their relationship is so close. The author uses figurative language for comparisons. It’s feel good book!

Ruth is an archeologist and college professor living alone in a bleak remote area. Bones are found, and Nelson, a police detective, calls her in hoping they are bones of a girl missing 10 ago. There are many men acquaintances in Ruth’s live, and I wondered if one would be Ruth’s soulmate: Peter, Eric, Nelson, David. Had to keep reading to find what would happen in this book.

I really liked this book! The Bennett family is a happy family when tragedy strikes. They are attacked by contract killers, and there are two deaths. Protected by the FBI, they are put in witness protection. Many problems come up, and the book keeps one wondering and reading. It was good to the very end.

This was a book one could pick up at any time and be into it. Claire and Eva change tickets for their plane trips as each was trying to escape her present dangerous life. I love the suspense.

This book wasn’t nearly as good as most of Moriarty’s books. It was about the Delaney family. Joy Delaney disappears, and her husband is thought to have murdered her. It shows the relationship of Joy and Savannah, a girl who just knocks on the door and then lives with them. It did get better towards the end with quite a few surprises, but then it went on and on when it should have ended.

I listened to this book and really liked it. Hannah’s husband and Bailey’s father goes missing, and they try to find out what happened to him, while avoiding people who want to help not sure if they can be trusted.

This book was different than most books I’ve read, but I really liked it. The story takes place in 1739 when 16 year old Eliza is our in charge of her family’s three plantations in South Carolina. She decides to raise indigo which goes for a high price in France. It tells of her trials and tribulations, her relationships, and how her mother thinks she needs to be wed. This is based on history.

I read this when I was in college and loved it again now. What’s funny is the one thing I remembered in the book didn’t even happen. Beautifully written story about Francie Nolan’s coming of age as a Brooklyn girl In the slums, the relationship with her fat milky, and her love of learning.