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It's Been How Long?

Ugh. I suck. I was going great guns, and then the pandemic hit and suddenly, my days were no longer my own. In addition to having a suddenly working-f ...

What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright.

- Gustave Flaubert

Three Sisters

Kiwi 10/07/21 Read The Review »

The third and final book in Heather Morris' Tattooist Of Auschwitz series, Three Sisters is a haunting, bittersweet, lovely finale. In 1942, having ma ...

The Words I Never Wrote

Kiwi 01/21/20 Read The Review »

In 2016, Juno Lambert, recovering from a break-up and the loss of a pregnancy, purchases an antique Underwood typewriter, which contains an unreleased ...

Damaged

Kiwi 01/19/20 Read The Review »

Twenty-five years after Emily Blake's best friend Alice disappeared from her home across the street, another missing child case draws Emily back to he ...

Bitter Falls

Kiwi 01/12/20 Read The Review »

I was beyond happy to discover that Rachel Caine had carried on with her amazing Stillhouse Lake series, and in Bitter Falls, we once again peek into ...

Big Lies In A Small Town

Kiwi 01/08/20 Read The Review »

In 1940, artist Anna Dale enters a competition and is given the opportunity to create a mural for a post-office in a small North Carolina town. Having ...

The Operation

Kiwi 01/02/20 Read The Review »

When a young nurse is abducted from an after-hours social gathering, surgeon Jake Thorn is suddenly in the spotlight. Vilified by the press and hounde ...

Spitfire

Kiwi 12/24/19 Read The Review »

A former British spy known as Spitfire, working behind the scenes in France, Livy Nash is now a hard-drinking woman working as a lowly proof-reader fo ...

I Will Make You Pay

Kiwi 12/16/19 Read The Review »

It started on a Wednesday. A threatening phone call received at work. Journalist Alice dismisses it as a prank. Until the following Wednesday. As the ...