Liked by goodnightpetergraham and others pheebsinwonderland Hi everyone! I’m Phoebe and I’m a travel addict and vanlifer about to take me, myself and I off on an adventure of a lifetime: THE BIG LAP OF AUSTRALIA! Only two more sleeps to go. And before you ask: no, I’m not scared. The first thing people say…
Preorder Pitch Dark by Paul Doiron 3 When I got Charley on the phone and told him what Brandon had told me and what Stacey and I had subsequently learned—or not learned—about Mark Redmond and Hammond Pratt, and after I had explained my plan to ask Josie to fly us to Prentiss Pond, his response…
The Last Note of Warning by Katharine Schellman The third in the luscious, mysterious, and queer Nightingale mystery series by Katharine Schellman, set in 1920s New York. Dead Tired by Kat Ailes MacmillanAudio · Dead Tired by Kat Ailes, audiobook excerpt The second in a charming and hilarious mystery series by Kat Ailes, Dead Tired follows…
The advertisements are hard to miss. If you live in North Jersey, in Paterson or quite a few other cities, you are familiar with the phrase CALL JIM! It’s on billboards, benches, bus stops, and everywhere else that can contain an ad. The all-caps bold type, as well as the exclamation point, unsubtly convey the…
Nest of Vipers by Harini Nagendra The latest novel in the award-winning Bangalore Detectives Club series finds amateur sleuth Kaveri Murthy involved in a dangerous plot that endangers the life of the visiting Prince of Wales. Disturbing the Dead by Kelley Armstrong MacmillanAudio · Disturbing the Dead by Kelley Armstrong, audiobook excerpt Disturbing the Dead is…
On a bitingly cold February morning, thirty-one years ago, my wife woke me with an urgent request. “Get this kid outside. He’s been driving me nuts all night.” We were young parents with a one-year-old son. Out I went onto Broadway with a stroller. It was the winter of 1993. Crime, drug abuse and homelessness…
Seven DOROTHY The first Dorothy knew of the events in flat one was the sound of the siren. Initially, she gave little thought to its distant wail. Her grocery delivery had arrived this afternoon, and she was enjoying a particularly delicious cream eclair while she wrote a sternly worded letter to the council about a…
Prologue Leavenworth, Kansas “We don’t have to . . . ,” Ryan says in a whisper. Alison doesn’t reply as she drives her father’s pristine BMW sedan down the dirt road, rocks kicking under the tires. She just gives Ryan a half smile and pulls into a secluded opening in the trees that the kids…
An Inconvenient Wife by Karen E. Olson This astonishing crime novel—inspired by the Tudor era—takes the reader into the world of Kate Parker, who has just married billionaire Hank Tudor when a headless body is discovered near their summer home… Nosy Neighbors by Freya Sampson Nothing brings neighbors together like someone else’s secrets… At Shelley…
ONE July 13, 1987 Eau Claire, Wisconsin Monday I remember everything. This isn’t an exaggeration. As the few who know me would confirm, I’m not prone to hyperbole. And when I say I remember everything, I’m not talking about the events of this morning. Or yesterday. Or the whole of last week. I remember everything…
