Lorna has lot on her plate as she is looking forward to closing an important sales deal on behalf of her employer. This sales deal is not only critical from her employment perspective but also essential from her personal point of view. Since so much is riding on back of this deal, Lorna is ignoring […]
The novel opens with the murder of Luke Whitney who has been stabbed to death by his wife Anna. She herself confesses the crime as soon as she gets arrested and she is ready to go to jail for the unplanned murder of her husband. She gets arrested by the police on the spot as […]
If you are a fan of Freida McFadden’s writing or even if you have read any of her earlier works, you know that she is the master of locked-room-mystery genre. She is one of the few authors who likes to build a nail-biting suspense with a limited number of characters based in and around one […]
This was such a breezy and fresh reading experience. Agreed that the main characters and story deal with dark themes like domestic violence, substance abuse issues, and homelessness, but it doesn’t become too overwhelming thanks to the author’s writing style. She displays her understanding about such serious issues and experiences. The story revolves around two […]
Poppy Wright has cracked the code of conquering ambitions and living the life of her dreams. Her passion for traveling, combined with skilled storytelling, has made her blog a tremendous success. Thus, it paved the way to establish herself as a staff writer with one of the leading publications in the travel and tourism industry. […]
Kathy Watson’s debut novel, Orphans of the Living, is a poignant and expansive historical fiction that traces the fractured journey of the Stovall family across early 20th-century America. Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, Jim Crow-era Mississippi, and the evolving landscape of California, the novel explores themes of poverty, racial injustice, familial estrangement, and […]
What happens when you combine a romantic fiction with a political non-fiction? The answer is The Parisian by Isabella Hammad. It’s a vivid combination of romantic saga, historical fiction, domestic thriller, and political non-fiction. At times it works, but other times it doesn’t; thus, the author’s seminal work fails to present a cohesive picture. At […]
This is my second book in as many months that presents same narrative from two narrators’ perspectives. As they try to piece together the same puzzle in their own unique ways, somewhere in the story both narratives collide so that a wholesome coherent truth can emerge. The Water Lies is no exception to this and […]
A closed door (attic??!!) mystery revolving around two families- one past, another present, connected to a house with a sinister secret- this is the central premise of this novel. Like so many other novels having a similar storyline, you can guess the basic premise along with the characters and the final whodunit. What differentiates these […]
In a seemingly laid-back community of Sycamore Glen, two women-Sloane Thompson and Clara Gartner, tell a story. A story about a teenager called Margaret who is connected to both of them through their children. Margaret works as a part time babysitter for Sloane’s daughter Daisy who is suffering from poor health since childhood and requires […]
