October is thriller season

I know that October/Halloween is horror season for most people, but I'm a scaredy cat and not a huge fan of horror. I do really enjoy psychological thrillers and mysteries though, and I've been reading and watching a bunch of those this month. Here are some thrillers I enjoyed, some I didn't, and some I'm…

Review: The Guest List

Title: The Guest List Author: Lucy Foley Rating: 4/5 stars Summary: On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. It’s a wedding for a magazine, or…

My Top Edge-of-your-seat Thrillers

It's taken a lot of mental gymnastics throughout quarantine to get back into the reading groove. At first it was just audiobooks (April, May), then fluffy, short books (June), and longer/more intense SFF books and ARCs (July, August). It's September, classes have resumed, and I have just enough structure back in my life that I'm…

Review: The Beekeeper’s Apprentice

Title: Beekeeper's Apprentice Author: Laurie R King Rating: 5/5 stars Summary: Long retired, Sherlock Holmes quietly pursues his study of honeybee behavior on the Sussex Downs. He never imagines he would encounter anyone whose intellect matched his own, much less an audacious teenage girl with a penchant for detection. Miss Mary Russell becomes Holmes' pupil…