Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (book review)
Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the [...]
The Austen Escape by Katherine Reay (book review)
Mary Davies lives and works in Austin, Texas, as an industrial engineer. She has an orderly and productive life, a job and colleagues that she enjoys—particularly a certain adorable, intelligent, and hilarious consultant. But something is missing for Mary. When her estranged and emotionally fragile childhood friend Isabel Dwyer offers [...]
Book Reviews: DNF
Twenty years ago Claire Scott's eldest sister, Julia, went missing. No one knew where she went - no note, no body. It was a mystery that was never solved and it tore her family apart. Now another girl has disappeared, with chilling echoes of the past. And it seems that [...]
Can I Tell Your Story?
Happy New Year! I love getting back to work after Christmas and New Year’s celebrations because I love getting back to normal. As much as I love normal, however, I’m ready to change it up a bit this year by adding a new element to my blog: YOU! It’s true [...]
2019: Here’s What I Read
If you follow this blog even distantly, you can see that it’s mostly book reviews. That’s a change I made this year to focus on what we all have in common—a love of reading! To help me refocus my own reading efforts, I joined two reading challenges this year. The [...]