books

  • Man with a Pan by Lucy Lyons

    A True Crime Podcast-style Book Review A widowed father takes up cooking, and in the process learns more about himself and his marriage than he expected. A surgeon makes a chilling discovery after his patients tell him things that completely change his beliefs. A journalist becomes a part of the story she’s writing after discovering…

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  • When someone loves you properly, dear, they don’t try to improve you. They just try to see you. Emma Winters loves her job as a physical therapist at Boston Memorial, treating her patients with kindness, humour and empathy. She is spirited, easy-going and vivacious, traits that are appreciated by her friends, family and colleagues, but…

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  • A True Crime Podcast-style Book Review Karston, Ohio, 1900. Jenny Jenkins is surprised by the sound of an automobile. She hurries out on the porch, and sees her husband, Constable Richard Jenkins in the passenger seat with his right arm in a sling. Welcome to Mostlymurders, the bookstagram account where we look at fictional murders…

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  • Whoever killed Clayton Davenport did the world a favor. When the rich, flashy, and thoroughly unpleasant investor Clayton Davenport arrives in New Bison days before the annual spring festival, he manages to antagonise almost everyone in town, including infuriating Maddy Montgomery and her friend April to the point where both of them become prime suspects…

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  • The magnanimous patriarch, the gracious widow, the glittering professional, the glamorous vamp, the girlish ingénue… Colonel Hadrian Russell is an institution in the Britannia, keeping court in the London club where he is presiding as acting club president. Almost as famous as the Colonel are his four sons’ widows, Lady Alice, forever in widow’s black,…

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  • A True Crime Podcast-style Book Review The year is 1952. The location is Broadhinny, England, and it is early in the morning. Mrs. McGinty gets up from her chair, rising slowly as her rheumatism is beginning to catch up with her knees now that she is 65 years old. She finishes the last of her…

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  • “Romance is overrated,” Brooke declared. “Give me a couch, snacks, and women who know my trauma.” Hannah is single and happy to spend Valentine’s Day with friends, but as the drinks flow and the ladies begin to exchange stories about their ex-boyfriends, the idea that someone else’s ex might have been wrong for them but…

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  • It was the first cost of ownership: being seen. In this county, visibility wasn’t a compliment, it was a target marked in daylight. A Reconstruction-era historical novel set in Alabama, and a testament to quiet but persistent resistance and resilience. Angie Sterling inherits an old abandoned house and quickly learns just how many of her…

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  • Two months ago, her life had been safe. Simple. Maybe even dull. She’d thought kale smoothies were daring. Gabriella Heart, known as Gabby, is busy sending her daughter off to graduate school when her mother is hospitalised after a bad fall. Rushing back home, Gabby is shocked to find her mother’s health is much worse…

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  • “Did you ever threaten Rose Martin?” “Yes,” Laura whispered. Sam swore. Emma Stewart and her best friend Laura couldn’t be more different. Emma is an introverted, single, no-nonsense sports fan, dog lover, while Laura is an outgoing, married, frills-and-flowers, prim-and-neat HOA president living in a very attractive neighbourhood in Harbor Shores, Florida. When a house…

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