Review: The Wrong Victim by Allison Brennan

The Wrong Victim

by Allison Brenna

Publisher: MIRA

Pages: 453

Format: eARC

Buy the Book: Amazon

Goodreads:  A bomb explodes on a sunset charter cruise out of Friday Harbor at the height of tourist season and kills everyone on board. Now this fishing and boating community is in shock and asking who would commit such a heinous crime—the largest act of mass murder in the history of the San Juan Islands.

Forensic profilers know there are two types of domestic terrorists: those who use violence to instill fear for political purposes but stop at murder because it detracts from the cause, and those who crave attention and are willing to maim and murder for their own agenda.

Accused of putting profits before people after leaking fuel that caused a massive fish kill, the West End Charter company may itself have been the target. But as special agent Matt Costa, detective Kara Quinn and the rest of the FBI team begin their investigation, they discover that plenty of people might have wanted someone dead on that yacht. Now they must track down who is responsible and stop them before they strike again.

Kritters Thoughts:  Allison Brennan is my kind of mystery writer.  From page one, I am invested in finding out all the answers and the pacing is highway speed from beginning to end!  In the first chapter a sunset charter cruise explodes and from the passengers to the operating company, there are many people who could be positively impacted by this tragedy.  Brennan sets up a few culprits and the FBI and team spend the book trying to figure out who is involved and who is guilty.  

While I may not have figured out all the details early, I could at least rule out a few people early in the book and it didn't ruin anything for me and my reading experience.  I judge a mystery book by my ability to find out all the things and the speed at which I do and if it is too early, I have major judgie eyes!  

The third in a series, this is a mystery series where each mystery is self contained, but there is some definite character development for the characters that are in each book and I highly suggest starting at book one to get the foundational knowledge and then be able to build as you read each book.  

I am hoping for more from Allison Brennan, especially in this series and wouldn't mind more from her in general!

Rating: absolutely loved it and want a sequel

Ebook 2022 Challenge: 34 out of 100

Disclosure of Material Connection:  I received one copy of this book free of charge from HarperCollins.  I was not required to write a positive review in exchange for receipt of the book; rather, the opinions expressed in this review are my own.

Review: Marrying the Ketchups by Jennifer Close

Marrying the Ketchups

by Jennifer Close

Publisher: Knopf Publishing

Pages: 320

Format: eARC

Buy the Book: Amazon

Goodreads:  Here are the three things the Sullivan family knows to be true: the Chicago Cubs will always be the underdogs; historical progress is inevitable; and their grandfather, Bud, founder of JP Sullivan's, will always make the best burgers in Oak Park. But when, over the course of three strange months, the Cubs win the World Series, Trump is elected president, and Bud drops dead, suddenly everyone in the family finds themselves doubting all they hold dear.

Take Gretchen for example, lead singer for a '90s cover band who has been flirting with fame for a decade but is beginning to wonder if she's too old to be chasing a childish dream. Or Jane, Gretchen's older sister, who is starting to suspect that her fitness-obsessed husband who hides the screen of his phone isn't always "working late." And then there's Teddy, their steadfast, unfailingly good cousin, nursing heartbreak and confusion because the guy who dumped him keeps showing up for lunch at JP Sullivan's where Teddy is the manager. How can any of them be expected to make the right decisions when the world feels sideways--and the bartender at JP Sullivan's makes such strong cocktails?

Kritters Thoughts:  Before I started this one, I was already a Jennifer Close fan and was excited to see a new release from her.  

A family in Chicago loses its patriarch at a hard time and must decide what the future of both the family and their restaurant will look like.  There are three main characters that are all from one generation, a set of sisters - Jane and Gretchen and their cousin Teddy, all have drama of their own going on as the story begins and through the support of each other and their family will figure out what is next for each of them.  

I loved the characters, the plot, the setting and the storyline, but the way this book was put together made for a confusing and difficult read.  Within each chapter, all of the characters are given the chance to move their story along, but I just wish it had been more labeled and easier to read.  I love when characters get their own chapters and it is sweetly labeled and I wished that for this book.  With such a large cast, the family chart at the beginning was helpful, but it took awhile for me to get everyone figured out.  

Again, I love Jennifer Close and the characters she creates are full and human, I just had a hard time at the beginning getting into the groove of this one and that isn't typical when I read her backlist.  I hope we won't have to wait as long for her next!

Rating: definitely a good read, but can't read two in a row

Ebook 2022 Challenge: 33 out of 100

Disclosure of Material Connection:  I received one copy of this book free of charge from Knopf.  I was not required to write a positive review in exchange for receipt of the book; rather, the opinions expressed in this review are my own.

Review: An Honest Lie by Tarryn Fisher

An Honest Lie

by Tarryn Fisher

Publisher: Graydon House

Pages: 320

Format: ARC

Buy the Book: Amazon

Goodreads:  “I’m going to kill her. You’d better come if you want to save her.”

 
Lorraine—“Rainy”—lives at the top of Tiger Mountain. Remote, moody, cloistered in pine trees and fog, it’s a sanctuary, a new life. She can hide from the disturbing past she wants to forget.
 
If she’s allowed to.
 
When Rainy reluctantly agrees to a girls’ weekend in Vegas, she’s prepared for an exhausting parade of shots and slot machines. But after a wild night, her friend Braithe doesn’t come back to the hotel room.
 
And then Rainy gets the text message, sent from Braithe’s phone: someone has her. But Rainy is who they really want, and Rainy knows why.
 
What follows is a twisted, shocking journey on the knife-edge of life and death. If she wants to save Braithe—and herself—the only way is to step back into the past.
 

Kritters Thoughts:  Rainy has a past that she hopes has been put to rest, but while on a girls' weekend in Vegas, things start coming out of the woodworks and she must confront it head on whether she likes it or not.  Told through chapters labeled then and now, Rainy's past will collide with the present and she will have to make a few big choices.  

I love a dual narrative and I especially love it when the reader knows the connections between the two storylines early on and can just sit back and enjoy as each storyline develops.  With a little bit of a cult situation, I weirdly enjoyed the storyline from the past as we watched Rainy and her mom join a group and hope for a better future, I wanted more about what they joined and the consequences of this group.  

While the solution to the perpetrator was interesting, it felt like a bit of a let down after the big rise to the end.  I didn't have a guess early on, but I was surprised by the character she chose and wished for more.  

My first Tarryn Fisher read and I definitely have a few from her backlist that I am intrigued to read and see about how I feel about their conclusions.  

Rating: definitely a good read, but can't read two in a row

Disclosure of Material Connection:  I received one copy of this book free of charge from HarperCollins.  I was not required to write a positive review in exchange for receipt of the book; rather, the opinions expressed in this review are my own.

It's Monday, What are you Reading?

A week in New York City of adventuring took away a lot of my reading time!

A meme hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date. 

Finished this past week:

Marrying the Ketchups by Jennifer Close

Fired Up About Capitalism by Tom Malleson (audio)

The Wrong Victim by Allison Brennan

Currently Reading:

The Damage Done by Michael Landweber

Next on the TBR pile:

The Homewreckers by Mary Kay Andrews 

Review: The Paris Showroom by Juliet Blackwell

The Paris Showroom

by Juliet Blackwell

Publisher: Berkley

Pages: 416

Format: eARC

Buy the Book: Amazon

Goodreads:  In Nazi-occupied Paris, a talented artisan must fight for her life by designing for her enemies. From New York Times bestselling author Juliet Blackwell comes an extraordinary story about holding on to hope when all seems lost.

Capucine Benoit works alongside her father to produce fans of rare feathers, beads, and intricate pleating for the haute couture fashion houses. But after the Germans invade Paris in June 1940, Capucine and her father must focus on mere survival—until they are betrayed to the secret police and arrested for his political beliefs. When Capucine saves herself from deportation to Auschwitz by highlighting her connections to Parisian design houses, she is sent to a little-known prison camp located in the heart of Paris, within the Lévitan department store.

There, hundreds of prisoners work to sort through, repair, and put on display the massive quantities of art, furniture, and household goods looted from Jewish homes and businesses. Forced to wait on German officials and their wives and mistresses, Capucine struggles to hold her tongue in order to survive, remembering happier days spent in the art salons, ateliers, and jazz clubs of Montmartre in the 1920s.

Capucine’s estranged daughter, Mathilde, remains in the care of her conservative paternal grandparents, who are prospering under the Nazi occupation. But after her mother is arrested and then a childhood friend goes missing, the usually obedient Mathilde finds herself drawn into the shadowy world of Paris’s Résistance fighters. As her mind opens to new ways of looking at the world, Mathilde also begins to see her unconventional mother in a different light.

When an old acquaintance arrives to go “shopping” at the Lévitan department store on the arm of a Nazi officer and secretly offers to help Capucine get in touch with Mathilde, this seeming act of kindness could have dangerous consequences.

Kritters Thoughts:  A mother daughter duo are in two different places in the same city during World War II.  A daughter who has been raised by her grand parents and has blindly followed their lead is starting to question their response to the war and the Nazi way and this book is almost a coming out story as she forges her own path.  A mother who has had great love and great sacrifice and has found herself in a department store in custody of the Nazis, but has found a way to make it bearable for herself and those around her.  

When I choose a World War II book at this point, I want something that will feel and read differently than the many I have read that take place in this time.  This book did that.  Staying in Paris and showing two different sides of the same war made this book so interesting and I really enjoyed Mathilde's story as she goes from naive to informed and maybe even active in fighting the Nazi party.    

If reading a book set inside a concentration camp during World War II is too much for you, this is a read for you.  While Capucine is in a jail, it isn't as hard to read as some of those other books, but gives you a glimpse of this horrible moment in time and that there were experiences in between the extremes that were still hard for humans.  

Rating: definitely a good read, but can't read two in a row

Ebook 2022 Challenge: 32 out of 100

Disclosure of Material Connection:  I received one copy of this book free of charge from Berkley.  I was not required to write a positive review in exchange for receipt of the book; rather, the opinions expressed in this review are my own.

Review: Shadows in the Mind's Eye by Janyre Tromp

Shadows in the Mind's Eye

by Janyre Tromp

Publisher: Kregel

Pages: 288

Format: eARC

Buy the Book: Amazon

Goodreads:  Charlotte Anne Mattas longs to turn back the clock. Before her husband, Sam, went to serve his country in the war, he was the man everyone could rely on--responsible, intelligent, and loving. But the person who's come back to their family farm is very different from the protector Annie remembers. Sam's experience in the Pacific theater has left him broken in ways no one can understand--but that everyone is learning to fear.

Tongues start wagging after Sam nearly kills his own brother. Now when he claims to have seen men on the mountain when no one else has seen them, Annie isn't the only one questioning his sanity and her safety. If there were criminals haunting the hills, there should be evidence beyond his claims. Is he really seeing what he says, or is his war-tortured mind conjuring ghosts?

Annie desperately wants to believe her husband. But between his irrational choices and his nightmares leaking into the daytime, she's terrified he's going mad. Can she trust God to heal Sam's mental wounds--or will sticking by him mean keeping her marriage at the cost of her own life?

Kritters Thoughts:  Sam has just come home from war and while he came home with minimal physical injuries, he definitely came home with PTSD, but this is a time before PTSD was diagnosable and your friends and family just thought you were crazy.  Charlotte his wife is not sure what to do with the man who came home and this book is their post war story.  

I appreciated this story for showing what injuries you can come home with from a war and the battle that lives on in the brain after someone comes home from war.  The subject is needed in literature and I am glad the author wrote it.  For me, the story was jumpy and the flow didn't completely work.  While Sam's chapters flowed well, I thought Charlotte's didn't match in the beginning - she got a little too worried or reacted out of sync as I thought she would have, but in the end I felt as though they matched.  

The mystery kept me reading in this book.  Sam's story got me hooked and I wanted to figure out what he was truly experiencing and figure out if he was unreliable or if maybe there was a kernel of truth in what he was encountering.  I loved Sam's chapters way more than Charlotte's and that was interesting for me as a wife, I thought I would connect and love her side of the story more!

This was my first Janyre Tromp and while not my favorite book of the year, by far not my least favorite.  I would love to read more from this author and don't know where to go from here, have you read Janyre Tromp?  What should I try next?

Rating: enjoyable, but didn't leave me wanting more

Ebook 2022 Challenge: 31 out of 100

Disclosure of Material Connection:  I received one copy of this book free of charge from Audra Jennings PR.  I was not required to write a positive review in exchange for receipt of the book; rather, the opinions expressed in this review are my own.

It's Monday, What are you Reading?

A week and weekend full of gardens, dogs, and to do listing! 


A meme hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date. 

Finished this past week:

An Almost Zero Waste Life by Megean Weldon

The Paris Showroom by Juliet Blackwell

An Honest Lie by Tarryn Fisher

Currently Reading:

Marrying the Ketchups by Jennifer Close

Next on the TBR pile:

The Wrong Victim by Allison Brennan

Review Summer at the Cape by RaeAnne Thayne

Summer at the Cape

by RaeAnne Thayne

Publisher: HQN

Pages: 336

Format: eARC

Buy the Book: Amazon

Goodreads:  As the older sibling to identical twins Violet and Lily, Cami Porter was always the odd sister out. The divide grew even wider when their parents split up—while the twins stayed in Cape Sanctuary with their free-spirited mother, Rosemary, fourteen-year-old Cami moved to LA with her attorney father. Nearly twenty years later, when Cami gets the terrible news that Lily has drowned saving a child’s life, her mother begs her to return home to help untangle the complicated estate issues her sister left behind.

Navigating their own strained relationship, Cami readjusts to the family and community she hasn’t known for decades, including the neighbor who stands in the way of her late sister’s dream, while Violet grieves the loss of her twin and struggles to figure out who she is now, without her other half, as the little girl Lily saved pulls her back into the orbit of the man she once loved.

Kritters Thoughts:  A set of twins and an older sister survived their parents divorce and being split between their mom and dad and now many many years later two of the three girls are reunited with their mom as the mourn the loss of one and try to fight for their right to stay on the land they have lived on for years.  

While I love a good romance, I love when the romance is a side story to a family drama.  Cami the eldest of the sister trio went to live with their dad when the divorce happened and moved away from her mom and twin sisters and she has all sorts of feelings from that.  Violet is the surviving twin and she has returned to her mom's house with guilt that Lily's death is her fault and she must confront those feelings in order to heal and pass through her grief.  

What I loved most about this book was Violet and Cami and their relationship arc through this book.  I loved that both women had issues from what they thought the other sibling had and the perception of how different their lives were then how they truly were.  

I love RaeAnn Thayne's stand alone books and this one is up there with the other ones that I have loved.  

Rating: absolutely loved it and want a sequel

Ebook 2022 Challenge: 28 out of 100

Disclosure of Material Connection:  I received one copy of this book free of charge from HarperCollins.  I was not required to write a positive review in exchange for receipt of the book; rather, the opinions expressed in this review are my own.

Review: The Patron Saint of Second Chances by Christine Simon

The Patron Saint of Second Chances

by Christine Simon

Publisher: Atria Books

Pages: 304

Format: eARC

Buy the Book: Amazon

Goodreads:  The self-appointed mayor of a tiny Italian village is determined to save his hometown no matter the cost in this charming, hilarious, and heartwarming debut novel.

Vacuum repairman and self-appointed mayor of Prometto, Italy (population 212) Signor Speranza has a problem: unless he can come up with 70,000 euros to fix the town’s pipes, the water commission will shut off the water to the village and all its residents will be forced to disperse. So in a bid to boost tourism—and revenue—he spreads a harmless rumor that movie star Dante Rinaldi will be filming his next project nearby.

Unfortunately, the plan works a little too well, and soon everyone in town wants to be a part of the fictional film—the village butcher will throw in some money if Speranza can find roles for his fifteen enormous sons, Speranza’s wistfully adrift daughter reveals an unexpected interest in stage makeup, and his hapless assistant Smilzo volunteers a screenplay that’s not so secretly based on his undying love for the film’s leading lady. To his surprise—and considerable consternation, Speranza realizes that the only way to keep up the ruse is to make the movie for real.

As the entire town becomes involved (even the village priest invests!) Signor Speranza starts to think he might be able to pull this off. But what happens when Dante Rinaldi doesn’t show up? Or worse, what if he does?

Kritters Thoughts:  What a fun story to dip into for an afternoon!  Signor Speranza is a vacuum repairman and the self-appointed mayor of Prometto, Italy.  After a visit from the water commission, he is advised that the town needs to find 70,000 euros to fix the town's pipes or water will be shut off to the village.  Signor Speranza doesn't want to burden the towns people with this news and through a few miscommunication mishaps, word gets round that a celebrity wants to film a movie in their small town and the money starts coming in!  

This book reminded me of those fun slapstick comedy movies where one might roll their eyes at the antics that the characters get into, but love the story so much they just keep watching - at least thats how I felt while reading this book!  It was a fun reprieve from the serious books that I tend to read and I fell in love with the town and the quirky characters and was hoping they would find the money in time!

A fun debut that I just giggled and laughed my way through.  I hope this author has many more up her sleeves!  

Rating: definitely a good read, but can't read two in a row

Ebook 2022 Challenge: 30 out of 100

Disclosure of Material Connection:  I received one copy of this book free of charge from Atria Books.  I was not required to write a positive review in exchange for receipt of the book; rather, the opinions expressed in this review are my own.

Review: The No-Show by Beth O'Leary

The No-Show

by Beth O'Leary

Publisher: Berkley

Pages: 352

Format: eARC

Buy the Book: Amazon

Goodreads:  Siobhan is a quick-tempered life coach with way too much on her plate. Miranda is a tree surgeon used to being treated as just one of the guys on the job. Jane is a soft-spoken volunteer for the local charity shop with zero sense of self-worth.

These three women are strangers who have only one thing in common: They've all been stood up on the same day, the very worst day to be stood up--Valentine's Day. And, unbeknownst to them, they've all been stood up by the same man.

Once they've each forgiven him for standing them up, they let him back into their lives and are in serious danger of falling in love with a man who seems to have not just one or two but three women on the go....

Is there more to him than meets the eye? And will they each untangle the truth before they all get their hearts broken?

Kritters Thoughts:  Three women are all ghosted on Valentine's Day and each must decide if they are going to forgive and forget.  Siobhan is a life coach, but while she may be able to help others get their lives together she is struggling to get hers in order.  Miranda is a tree surgeon - she spends her days climbing trees with her crew and cuts down trees that are diseased.  Finally, Jane is a volunteer at a charity shop and the reader quickly finds out that she has left London for a mysterious reason and is just trying to lay low.

It will be so hard to review this book without divulging the big things that happen.  These three women have a less than stellar Valentine's Day and all because of one man but as the story progresses you come to realize it may not be at all what you think.  I loved how I went into this story assuming one thing and everything got flipped upside down once a few details were revealed!  

My first Beth O'Leary book and will absolutely not be my last!  I loved how the typical romance pieces were in this book, but there was more!  

Rating: absolutely loved it and want a sequel

Ebook 2022 Challenge: 27 out of 100

Disclosure of Material Connection:  I received one copy of this book free of charge from Berkley.  I was not required to write a positive review in exchange for receipt of the book; rather, the opinions expressed in this review are my own.

Review: The Good Left Undone by Adriana Trigiani

The Good Left Undone

by Adriana Trigiani

Publisher: Dutton Books

Pages: 448

Format: eARC

Buy the Book: Amazon

Goodreads:  Matelda, the Cabrelli family's matriarch, has always been brusque and opinionated. Now, as she faces the end of her life, she is determined to share a long-held secret with her family about her own mother's great love story: with her childhood friend, Silvio, and with dashing Scottish sea captain John Lawrie McVicars, the father Matelda never knew. . . .

In the halcyon past, Domenica Cabrelli thrives in the coastal town of Viareggio until her beloved home becomes unsafe when Italy teeters on the brink of World War II. Her journey takes her from the rocky shores of Marseille to the mystical beauty of Scotland to the dangers of wartime Liverpool--where Italian Scots are imprisoned without cause--as Domenica experiences love, loss, and grief while she longs for home. A hundred years later, her daughter, Matelda, and her granddaughter, Anina, face the same big questions about life and their family's legacy, while Matelda contemplates what is worth fighting for. But Matelda is running out of time, and the two timelines intersect and weave together in unexpected and heartbreaking ways that lead the family to shocking revelations and, ultimately, redemption.

Kritters Thoughts:  Epic is the word I use for all Adriana Trigiani books.  They typically span many years and have these big stories that are just so much and I love them.

In this book, Matelda is sharing her mother's story as she had a great love, but the war tore them apart and in my opinion she never recovered from that epic love.  In one of the storylines in this book, Matelda is sharing her mother's story with her granddaughter and they will both learn that all families have secrets and sometimes the whole story is hard to share.  In the other storyline, Matelda's mother Domenica is thriving in the coastal town of Viareggio until she makes one decision that will change the course of her life.  As a nurse, during a time of war, Domenica will see things that not many women at this time will and it will change her life.  

I love a dual storyline and I love it even more when the reader knows the connections between the two early on and the discovery of the life and the journey matter instead of the connection of the stories.  While I appreciated Matelda telling her story, for me it felt weird that it was skipping a generation and she was sharing this story with her granddaughter, maybe I like things in order too much!    

I also love a historical fiction that teaches me something.  I did not know of the story of the sinking of the Arandora Star and what a tragedy that was.  When a book urges me to go find and read more about a subject, I call that a good read!

I know when I am picking up a Adriana Trigiani that I am settling in to a few days with some characters that are going to share this grand story and I can't wait to immerse myself in their world, but am also sad when it ends!

Rating: absolutely loved it and want a sequel

Ebook 2022 Challenge: 29 out of 100

Disclosure of Material Connection:  I received one copy of this book free of charge from Penguin Random House.  I was not required to write a positive review in exchange for receipt of the book; rather, the opinions expressed in this review are my own.

It's Monday, What are you Reading?

Was able to squeeze in a lot of moments of reading!

A meme hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date. 

Finished this past week:

Summer at the Cape by RaeAnne Thayne

The Evolution of Alice by David Alexander Robertson (audio)

The Good Left Undone by Adriana Trigiani

The You I've Never Known by Ellen Hopkins

The Patron Saint of Second Changes by Christine Simon

Shadows in the Mind's Eye by Janyre Tromp

Currently Reading:

An Almost Zero Waste Life by Megean Weldon

The Paris Showroom by Juliet Blackwell

Next on the TBR pile:

Marrying the Ketchups by Jennifer Close

Review: At Any Cost by Andrea Kane

At Any Cost

by Andrea Kane

Publisher: Bonnie Meadow Publishing

Pages: 384

Format: eARC

Buy the Book: Amazon

Goodreads:  Aimee Bregman had the perfect life. She had an enviable job as head of marketing for an up-and-coming CBD-infused beer that was taking the tri-state area by storm. She had cultivated a massive social media following that showcased the beer at college campus parties and alumni events―and had fun doing it. She had an attentive, steady boyfriend and friends who believed in her. Everything was going right.

But when her long-time mentor, Rita, sets up a business meeting with an important influencer―her life crashes all around her. The casual meeting over drinks suddenly devolves into a shouting match between all parties, and any chance of a new business relationship is over before it begins. Hours later, when the NYPD shows up at Aimee's apartment, questioning her about Rita's abrupt disappearance―foul play suspected―Aimee realizes she's in way over her head.

Fearing that Rita has been murdered, and that she may be next, Aimee hires Forensic Instincts to keep her safe and figure out what's really going on.

Forensic Instincts, a brilliant investigative firm who walks the fine line between legal and illegal, solves challenging and high-profile cases when the bureaucratic restrictions imposed on law enforcement get in the way of achieving results. But neither Aimee nor Forensic Instincts realize how ruthless, how connected, their adversaries are. As dangerous and powerful people are threatened with exposure, anyone is fair game for elimination. And when multiple victims die at the hands of a sociopathic serial killer, it gets harder and harder to tell where the battle lines are drawn… and who might die next. 

Kritters Thoughts:  Another book in this series where the mystery itself is contained in the book, but I completely suggest starting at book one because the character development of the recurring cast definitely builds from book to book.  

Casey Woods is the head of this growing Forensics Instincts team and they have another mystery coming their way from a woman who feels threatened as her mentor has gone missing.  Aimee is the head of marketing for an up and coming beverage company and she knows that her life is in danger, so she asks the Forensics team to take her case on and they do, but it is more than just one woman being threatened.  

The twists and turns that Andrea Kane puts in a book are perfectly timed, but not overused.  She drops a clue or takes a turn at just the right point.  AND the characters are all interesting.  While the Forensics Instinct team has grown, they don't seem too big and they each bring something to the table.  I was definitely surprised by the outcome of this book, but not in a way that I would roll my eyes at the end!  

While I haven't read every book in this series, I have read half and I love each and every one of them.  I want to spend a week and complete the ones I haven't and get up to speed on this series.  If Andrea Kane ever completes this series, I hope she starts another because the way she builds the mystery is just right.  

Rating: absolutely loved it and want a sequel

Ebook 2022 Challenge: 26 out of 100

Disclosure of Material Connection:  I received one copy of this book free of charge from Partner in Crime Tours.  I was not required to write a positive review in exchange for receipt of the book; rather, the opinions expressed in this review are my own.