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Thursday, March 20, 2025

Husband Missing: A completely unputdownable and heart-pounding mystery and suspense thriller (Detective Josie Quinn Book 22)

 by Lisa Regan



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Josie arrives home to her home trashed! Where is her husband and dog. I like despite her fear she was in cop mode searching her home and noticing changes of missing items.

Evidence has this crime connected to her case so she's on forced leave. Hunting for clues herself it appears to be connected to her life long ago.

I loved watching all these pieces fit together, connections from long ago and crime in the present day. Evil never dies it appears in the offspring.

The days tick by, is Noah gone for good? That was the scary part for the continuation of this series. I just raced through this book, the final chapters...chef's kiss I loved it.


Fear prickles her skin. “Noah?” Photos and trinkets from their simple but perfect life together litter the carpet. The coffee table is cracked, blood along its edges. She should be taking in details, but her heart is racing too fast. A strangled cry works its way from Josie’s chest. Where is her husband?

Detective Josie Quinn’s world shatters when she returns home to find her house ransacked, and her husband, Noah, missing. When she kissed him goodbye hours earlier, called to the discovery of a woman’s body at a protest, they were putting the finishing touches to a nursery for their first adopted child. But now the house is empty, Noah’s bloodied handprints trailing the walls.

Every fiber of Josie’s being screams to investigate. But her team warn her to keep her distance as they follow a connection to a recent robbery in Denton. But Josie can’t quiet the voice telling her the handprints Noah left are leading her somewhere, and the trail ends at an upturned box of her long-dead abusive mother’s possessions: faded photos, jewelry, a lock of hair, and a few old newspaper clippings.

Beside herself with worry for Noah, and unexpectedly confronted by the trauma of her past, Josie throws herself into work. The woman’s body found during a demonstration outside a children’s hospital belongs to 
Gina Phelan, daughter of the powerful and influential Phelan family. Trawling the CCTV is a welcome distraction, but everything changes the moment fingerprints from the knife that wounded Gina match to prints found in Josie’s own home.

Her head spinning as the two cases collide, Josie’s only option is to delve into the life of the monster who terrorized her as a child. 
The key to everything is hidden in the box of her mother’s mementoes. But is Josie strong enough and fast enough to find it in time? And at what devastating cost to those she loves most?

Saturday, February 1, 2025

Their Dying Embrace: A completely gripping and heart-stopping crime thriller (Detective Morgan Brookes Book 14)

 by Helen Phifer 

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Oh my goodness this story started with a bang, I won't go into the gory details.

I love a good crime story watching the police put the pieces together to solve the crime. A lot of it being gut instinct and experience.

This is a neighbour of the police and too close to home. A brutal murder that leaves the police baffled. Why, just why were the bodies positioned like that and who's next?

More people are hurt, are they close to discovering the crime and being silenced?

Such an engaging read, I couldn't put it down.


Morgan kneels beside the fluttering crime scene tape. Their hands clasped, the couple’s embrace looks loving and warm, but an icy chill grips the air. Their lips are blue, and blood is dripping on the floor. They have been silenced forever…

When sweet-natured teaching assistant Rosie Waite, and her boyfriend Matt, are found dead in their quaint family home in the Lake District, 
Detective Morgan Brookes is horrified. Sleeping just two doors down, she heard no screams for help, no slamming doors, or alarms in the night. A twisted killer nailed the couple’s lips shut, and Morgan vows to keep watch over every innocent family in Rydal Falls until this monster is brought to justice.

Climbing the narrow attic staircase as she searches every inch of the property, Morgan finds a mattress on the floor, empty food wrappers, and a letter that reads: 
if you’ve found this, you’re next to die. Fear washes over Morgan’s team; the killer was watching his victims, and now her life is at risk.

Ignoring pleas that she take a step back, Morgan throws herself harder at the case discovering that the nails used to bind the victims’ lips were pierced with expert equipment. And Matt had been asking questions at a local tattoo parlour. Everyone thought he and Rosie were a quiet, kind-hearted couple, but was Matt hiding a dangerous secret? Did he betray the woman he loved?

It’s the break Morgan desperately needs, until one of her closest friends is attacked. His lifeless body abandoned, crimson with blood, and Morgan believes the chilling crime scene is linked to Matt and Rosie. The killer has been watching from the shadows again. 
Morgan’s used to putting her life on the line to protect the innocent, but what must she sacrifice to save the people she loves most? And how many precious lives will be lost before she can stop this killer?

Thursday, January 23, 2025

Better Than Friends (The Sunrise Cove Series, 7)

 by Jill Shalvis 

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Olive and Noah had a connection as teens, the timing was wrong. An incident changed their lives and she fled overseas.
Forward in time they find themselves in the same house. She's come home to help her best friend and sparks are flying.
Can these two work through their insecurities and get a second chance at love?
What a gorgeous setting this story was set in, though I had better than my imagination as I've seen this authors pics on her social media.
The story was easy to read, I settled in and laughed with the characters. They were real, flaws and all and you want them all to have their happy endings.
Fantastic story, I highly recommend it.

Old flames reignite in Sunrise Cove in this charming enemies-to-lovers, second-chance, small-town, forced-proximity love story about family, friendships, and true love from New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis.

When Olive Porter’s off-the-grid parents go missing, she reluctantly seeks out Noah Turner, her ex and the only person she both trusts implicitly and not at all.

As a special investigative agent for the National Park Service, Noah’s used to living under intense pressure. Or he was until he got injured on the job. Now unhappily recuperating at home while being smothered by his loving but nosy family, he’d love nothing more than a good distraction.

So when Olive shows up looking like a million bucks, he has to do a gut and heart check. Because nope, no matter what, he can’t fall for her again, the woman who once blew up his entire life and never looked back. How ironic then that his own personal hell (Olive) is also his ticket out of town. The question is, will the risk be worth the reward?

Sunday, January 19, 2025

Bad Seed

 by Sharon Sala

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I really love this series, it's town and mountain folk. All great characters making a very intriguing story.
Harley is new to town as an employee to the Inn, she's so much more than an auditor. Her PI license has her finding crime in the numbers game.
Human trafficking, what a disgusting crime seems to be prevalent across her locations of work.
This is hers and Brandon Pope's story.
Truth doesn't come without danger when solving crimes.
This story is certainly not all dark as love finds a way and I enjoyed the blossoming romance between the main characters.
I highly recommend this series.


Can she have the man of her dreams and the life she's always wanted?

It's love at first sight when head pastry chef Brendan Pope meets private investigator Harley Banks at the Serenity Inn in Jubilee, KY. Harley is staying there for her latest investigation. But unknown to them both, Harley has a hitman after her, courtesy of the wrong-doer she put behind bars on her last case. The FBI gets involved to clean up the loose ends so Harley can continue the investigation at the inn. But after nearly losing her, Brendan will stop at nothing to make sure Harley is safe and the criminals get their comeuppance.

Praise for New York Times bestseller Sharon Sala's thrilling romantic suspense:

"Emotionally wrenching, sensually appealing, edgy and suspenseful, and hopeful and endearing."—USA Today for Going Gone

"Vivid, gripping...this thriller keeps the pages turning."—Library Journal for Torn Apart

"Skillfully balancing suspense and romance, Sala gives readers a nonstop breath-holding adventure."—Publishers Weekly for Going Once

Thursday, January 9, 2025

Crossing the Line: A BRAND NEW brother's-best-friend Hockey Romance for 2025

 by Kelly Jamieson 

I absolutely loved it

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I haven't read this author before but when I checked my kindle there are 6 going back a decade...oops well I meant to. While I was reading I recognised a phrase and thought oh this author is Canadian. She even nailed her Aussies in the story.

I really enjoyed this hockey romance, the characters' honesty and vulnerabilities.
Off the ice this was a wonderful love story, two characters totally opposite in personalities. The introvert and the extrovert.
I will say I wanted a bit more at the end on Mabel and her new career.
All in all I truely enjoyed this read :)



Discover a BRAND NEW steamy, off-limits Ice hockey sports romance from USA Today bestselling author Kelly Jamieson

'No one does hockey romance like Kelly Jamieson!' Bestselling author, Kate Meader

Rule #1 Do not cross the line with best friend’s sister

Ben

On the ice I’m formidable, relentless and I lead by example. Now my coach wants me to step up as Captain – and lead the team off the ice too. But this is my worst nightmare; I’d rather play hockey naked than do any kind of public speaking! To make matters worse, my best friend’s sister has shown up out of the blue to live with us temporarily. We have a history… it’s awkward, she’s starting to invade my fantasies and I can’t seem to escape her. But maybe she could be the answer to my problems…

Mabel

Moving in with my brother was not part of my life plan, but I have no choice at the moment. I need to get away and start my life over. I just wish I didn’t have to share the condo with Ben. I thought I’d buried my teenage crush, but seeing him all the time has me fascinated with him all over again! But now he’s asking for my help to be more outgoing and confident, and basically fake it until he makes it. Sure I can help, but that would mean a lot of time alone. I need to stay strong and resist the obvious temptation...

Thursday, October 24, 2024

The Ice Sisters : A completely pulse-pounding crime thriller packed with suspense (Detective Ellie Reeves Book 10)

 by Rita Herron

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5 star read


Detective Ellie and her team are on the hunt for a killer, young twin girls were found and it's only the beginning of this mystery.

I loved that I had no clue what was going on. The author connected quite a few players and possible suspects. Watching how they connected was a mystery in itself. 

Other bodies are in play keeping you guessing, then a complete hook turn showed the killer and why and my head was spinning.

I thoroughly enjoyed this story and can't wait for the next one.


Shock slammed into her as she spotted the two little girls lying on the cold hard ground, snow swirling round their fragile bodies. Twins with button noses and heart-shaped faces, their pretty green eyes closed forever…

As the snow falls and a bitter wind blows, 
Detective Ellie Reeves is devastated to discover the bodies of two little girls, alone and frozen on an icy lake, in the isolated town of Cold Mountain. The girls are holding hands, with matching bows in their blonde curls, and when Ellie realizes they are twin sisters, her heart breaks for their mother, who must be desperately wondering where her little darlings are.

But, back at the police station, she is horrified to discover that nobody has reported the sisters missing. Are their parents in danger too? When an abandoned car is found near the girls’ bodies, and Ellie learns that the female driver is in hospital, she prays that the injured woman will know something about the twins.

A DNA test shows that the woman in hospital is the twins’ mother Barbara, and Ellie rushes to interview her. But when Ellie arrives at the hospital she is faced with an empty bed. Barbara has fled and her house is abandoned too. As Ellie searches the family home, she is chilled to see there is no sign of any children. If Barbara is the twins’ mother, where are the toys and photos of her precious girls?

When another little girl disappears, Ellie knows that finding Barbara might well be the key to saving an innocent child. But who is Barbara running from? Or does she have something to hide? And with the clock ticking and a fearsome winter storm brewing, can Ellie find the truth before another innocent life is lost?

This pulse-pounding and utterly addictive crime thriller will have you staying up way past your bedtime and tearing through the pages! Perfect for fans of Melinda Leigh, Lisa Regan and Kendra Elliot.

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Text Appeal

 by Kylie Scott

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Small town life where everybody knows your business. Conner and his ex Ava had been on and off since they were teens. Only he'd had a enough and fell into a fake romance with the new girl in town.
This was their story trying to fool the town only they didn't expect reality. Would they fall apart or have a happy ending.
It's a light fun read.


Love enters the chat in this hilarious, heartfelt rom com by New York Times bestselling and Audie award-winning author Kylie Scott.

Romance author Riley Cooper always dreamed of living by the water. But within a day of landing in the charming seaside town of Port Stewart to work on her latest book, she's getting calls and texts for some dude on her new number. Weird ones. Sad ones. Sexy ones. Ones that make her want to meet him. For curiosity's sake...if nothing else.

After years of being on-again, off-again with his high school sweetheart, all Connor wants is to move on with his life. If only everyone in Port Stewart would let him. What he needs is to be seen with someone else. So when fate puts him in the path of the new girl in town who got his old number, faking it together seems like the perfect solution.

Spending time with the gorgeous former prom king might be great research for Riley’s romance writing…if only she can keep her feelings in check. But the more she gets to know him, the harder she’s falling. Can their serendipitous meeting turn into something real and true?

Her Last Kiss

  by Lisa Regan 💄💄💄💄💄 Amazon Detective Josie Quinn is back on a murder case, and the big question is whether the Last Kiss Killer has r...