First Sign Of Danger
Gripping, tense, chilling, thrilling and pulse pounding!!!!!! Kelley Armstrong had delivered yet another riveting and addictive book in her Haven’s Rock series!!!!!!First Sign of Danger grabbed my attention from the very first page and never let go! This is the fourth book in this wonderful series and while it could be read as a stand-alone, I highly encourage readers to begin with the first book in the series to get backstories, history, and to learn more about the off the grid community of Haven’s Rock in the Canadian Yukon. Detective Casey Duncan and her husband, Sheriff Eric Dalton, have a six-month-old baby now and are still adjusting to life as new parents while doing their best to keep their community safe. While out in the woods, they come across hikers close to the border of their private community. It raises some red flags and the next day when one of the hikers is found dead, they know something is terribly wrong and work diligently to get to the bottom of who killed the one hiker and what they were really doing in the Yukon so far from civilization. Whew! Kelley Armstrong put me and her characters through the ringer. Safety and secrecy are highly important to the residents of Haven’s Rock. They have joined this secretive community to get away from things and to live a simpler life. This is a tight knit community, and I have enjoyed getting to know many of the characters through reading the first three books in this series. I have enjoyed the character development and the ways the characters have become more like a found family to each other than just residents in the same community. Casey and Eric have their hands full in this book and then some. They have more than one mystery to solve while doing their best to keep themselves, their baby, and the residents safe. I enjoyed the tension, the chilling moments, the pulse pounding moments, and the moments spent investigating the case. I love how they work as a team and bounce ideas off each other as to who may be a suspect and why. I enjoy the dynamics of the town and the desire of the residents to live a quieter life. This book is not only full of amazing characters, but also of secrets, deceptions, and some scary encounters. I loved the setting and could feel the chill in the air as the snow fell. This book is brimming with atmosphere, intriguing characters, a well thought out plot, wonderful writing, intense scenes, and a great mystery. I look forward to the next book in the series. The author made mention of the next book in the series, and I was left with my mouth hanging open. Thank you to St. Martin’s Press | Minotaur Books and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.
The Quiet Neighbor
What a tangled web we weave! Gripping, shocking, twist filled, dark, and deadly! J.D. Barker, along with Adam Roach, has delivered once again with The Quiet Neighbor! As the saying goes “It’s always the quiet ones” but which quiet ones??? I enjoyed the premise of a mother trying to save her child but had no idea what I was getting into when I picked up this book. Secrets, lies, trauma, and family secrets are the name of the game in The Quiet Neighbor! How well do we know those in our lives? hmmmm…… Cynthia Burrows has a picture-perfect life. She has a job she loves, a wonderful husband and daughter, but everything is shattered in her life when her eighteen-year-old daughter, Tori, vanishes. Her school shows her as being excused but by who? Who was the older man she was seen leaving with? When Cynthia hears the name, Alexander Beaufort, the chills go up and down her spine. She knows that name. It is the name of a serial killer who killed her best friend years ago!!!!! This book proved to be a fast and intriguing read. I enjoyed the tension, the mounting sense of dread, danger, and suspense. I loved how J.D. Barker slowly unraveled the events of the past while unfolding the chilling events of the present. It becomes a race against time as Cynthia tries to locate her daughter before it’s too late! This book kept me on my toes with many twists and reveals. Cynthia learns some hard truths about her daughter while searching for her. Her husband also learned some hard truths about Cynthia as well. Again, there are a lot of secrets and lies jumping from the pages! There were sometimes I shook my head at some of the things that Cynthia did while searching for her daughter. Thrilling, chilling, gripping, dark, and full of twists! Thank you to J.D. Barker and Hampton Creek Press and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.
The Wind Witch Murders
Secrets are blowing in the wind in The Wind Witch Murders! Raven’s mother, Deanne, was imprisoned for the murder of two boys. She denied she killed the boys, but no one believed Deanne who was believed to be a witch. Raven was raised by her maternal grandmother and remembers very little of her time with her mother on the mountain. When her mother dies, someone leaves a feather on her casket and Raven decides it’s time to learn more about her mother. This book was full of secrets and lies. The premise was intriguing. A woman with the ability to heal, a cult living on a mountain, and a young woman searching for answers about not only her past but her mother’s past as well. I thought the author did a great job showing Raven’s desire to learn about her mother while grappling with her grandmother’s rules. Raven is walking the tightrope between being a teenager and an adult. She wants the truth but where the truth takes her may be darker than the claims made against her mother. While this book was intriguing and had very interesting elements, it also felt slow at times. While Raven was one of the main characters, I wanted to know more about her and feel that we were only told what was going on around her. I also wanted to know why she did not retain her memory of the time with her mother. The Wind Witch Murders also left me wanting to know more about Deanne and the cult. I was hoping this book would be darker and more menacing. That is not the author’s fault as it was my expectation going into this book. There were a few twists and a reveal at the end. They were all okay but missed the mark a little for me. There was just a little bit of oomph missing which would have pushed my rating higher. Thank you to Severn House and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.
The Confession
Gripping and captivating, The Confession proved to be a fast and shocking read! Thirty years ago, Abbey’s thirteen-year-old sister was murdered. Since she wasn’t able to help her sister, Abbey has dedicated her life, working as a criminologist to help those who have been wrongly convicted to appeal their sentences. Abbey provided the testimony that put her sister’s killer behind bars. When Abbey beings receiving messages threatening to expose her and her secrets and lies, Abbey is caught in a cat-and-mouse search for the truth! Abbey will need to come face to face with the ghosts of the past to find out who is behind the taunts and to uncover their motive. But Abbey will the truth set her free, or will it be her downfall. You will need to read it to find out. I enjoyed the pacing of this book and the mounting sense of danger and dread. This is also a fair amount of tension and twists which kept me turning the pages. I enjoyed the Abbey prided herself on being able to read people but wasn’t a fan of others reading her. I enjoyed the search for the truth and how the author got readers to the final reveal. The Confession is a well thought out psychological thriller which was equal parts riveting and chilling. This is the eighth book I have read by M.A. Hunter, and I look forward to reading more of this author’s work. Thank you to Boldwood Books and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.
Where the Dawn Finds Us
The dawn has come for Kate Hewitt’s harrowing and gripping series, Lost Lake. This has been a harrowing, gripping, moving, thought provoking, and raw series about one family’s life and fight for survival after the worst thing imaginable happens. There are not many survivors left after a nuclear apocalypse. Alex and her family are still struggling to adapt to their new normal and adjust to their new way of living. The promise of a new life in North Dakota sounds like a dream to Alex, Sam, and Ruby. Alex is also wrestling with the fact that she left her teenage daughter, Mattie, behind in Canada where Mattie hopes to build a new life with the community there. As with the other books in this series, this book will pull on your heartstrings. I found myself putting myself in Alex’s shoes. This family has lost so much, can they bear to lose more? How strong is a mother’s love for her children? How far will a person go in order to survive? What danger lies when all is lost? This book is told through the POV of Alex and Mattie. I felt for them both. Alex being the mother and Mattie, her teenage daughter. Alex has more life experience, while Mattie has young optimism and faith. Both will face challenges, and both will need to rely on themselves and others to begin again. Whew! As with the other books in this series, this book was wonderfully written, well thought out, heart wrenching and moving. I kept wondering throughout this series what I would do if I were in a similar situation(s). This book is raw, powerful, and moving. As this is the third and final book, I do highly recommend reading this series from the beginning to fully appreciate the plight of the characters and the new world and all it’s challenges. Thank you to Storm Publishing and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.
People Don’t Just Disappear
Gripping, tense, mysterious, and shocking! People Don’t Just Disappear is the first book which I have read by Claire Allan, and I will be reading more of this author’s books in the future! I enjoyed the mystery, the tension, the characters, and the plot. Bronagh answered her door to find a little boy crying on her doorstep. He wants his mother and Bronagh goes with him to help him find her. Her boyfriend Mal returns from a business trip Twenty-four hours later and can’t find her. A neighbor informs him that she saw their front door open and she went over to close it for them but has not seen his girlfriend. Where is she? Who was the lost little boy??? Mal is beyond worried and freaked out. It is not like Bronagh to leave without saying anything. Their relationship is solid. She is not ghosting him. The police don’t take him seriously until a journalist decides to investigate Bronagh’s disappearance. Then things get interesting. People Don’t Just Disappear proved to be a fast read which kept me on the edge of my seat and turning the pages!!!! I enjoyed the tension, suspense, and dread in this book. There is danger lurking around every other corner, and I had my fingers crossed and hoped that someone – anyone would find Bronagh before it was too late!!!!!! I thought that Claire Allan did a great job of taking readers into the heads of her characters. I felt their reactions were believable, and I felt their fear, anxiety, and worry jumping off the pages. Wonderfully written, well thought out, shocking, and tense! Thank you to Boldwood Books and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.
First Sign Of Danger
Gripping, tense, chilling, thrilling and pulse pounding!!!!!! Kelley Armstrong had delivered yet another riveting and addictive book in her Haven’s Rock series!!!!!!First Sign of Danger grabbed my attention from the very first page and never let go! This is the fourth book in this wonderful series and while it could be read as a stand-alone, I highly encourage readers to begin with the first book in the series to get backstories, history, and to learn more about the off the grid community of Haven’s Rock in the Canadian Yukon. Detective Casey Duncan and her husband, Sheriff Eric Dalton, have a six-month-old baby now and are still adjusting to life as new parents while doing their best to keep their community safe. While out in the woods, they come across hikers close to the border of their private community. It raises some red flags and the next day when one of the hikers is found dead, they know something is terribly wrong and work diligently to get to the bottom of who killed the one hiker and what they were really doing in the Yukon so far from civilization. Whew! Kelley Armstrong put me and her characters through the ringer. Safety and secrecy are highly important to the residents of Haven’s Rock. They have joined this secretive community to get away from things and to live a simpler life. This is a tight knit community, and I have enjoyed getting to know many of the characters through reading the first three books in this series. I have enjoyed the character development and the ways the characters have become more like a found family to each other than just residents in the same community. Casey and Eric have their hands full in this book and then some. They have more than one mystery to solve while doing their best to keep themselves, their baby, and the residents safe. I enjoyed the tension, the chilling moments, the pulse pounding moments, and the moments spent investigating the case. I love how they work as a team and bounce ideas off each other as to who may be a suspect and why. I enjoy the dynamics of the town and the desire of the residents to live a quieter life. This book is not only full of amazing characters, but also of secrets, deceptions, and some scary encounters. I loved the setting and could feel the chill in the air as the snow fell. This book is brimming with atmosphere, intriguing characters, a well thought out plot, wonderful writing, intense scenes, and a great mystery. I look forward to the next book in the series. The author made mention of the next book in the series, and I was left with my mouth hanging open. Thank you to St. Martin’s Press | Minotaur Books and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.
The Quiet Neighbor
What a tangled web we weave! Gripping, shocking, twist filled, dark, and deadly! J.D. Barker, along with Adam Roach, has delivered once again with The Quiet Neighbor! As the saying goes “It’s always the quiet ones” but which quiet ones??? I enjoyed the premise of a mother trying to save her child but had no idea what I was getting into when I picked up this book. Secrets, lies, trauma, and family secrets are the name of the game in The Quiet Neighbor! How well do we know those in our lives? hmmmm…… Cynthia Burrows has a picture-perfect life. She has a job she loves, a wonderful husband and daughter, but everything is shattered in her life when her eighteen-year-old daughter, Tori, vanishes. Her school shows her as being excused but by who? Who was the older man she was seen leaving with? When Cynthia hears the name, Alexander Beaufort, the chills go up and down her spine. She knows that name. It is the name of a serial killer who killed her best friend years ago!!!!! This book proved to be a fast and intriguing read. I enjoyed the tension, the mounting sense of dread, danger, and suspense. I loved how J.D. Barker slowly unraveled the events of the past while unfolding the chilling events of the present. It becomes a race against time as Cynthia tries to locate her daughter before it’s too late! This book kept me on my toes with many twists and reveals. Cynthia learns some hard truths about her daughter while searching for her. Her husband also learned some hard truths about Cynthia as well. Again, there are a lot of secrets and lies jumping from the pages! There were sometimes I shook my head at some of the things that Cynthia did while searching for her daughter. Thrilling, chilling, gripping, dark, and full of twists! Thank you to J.D. Barker and Hampton Creek Press and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.
The Wind Witch Murders
Secrets are blowing in the wind in The Wind Witch Murders! Raven’s mother, Deanne, was imprisoned for the murder of two boys. She denied she killed the boys, but no one believed Deanne who was believed to be a witch. Raven was raised by her maternal grandmother and remembers very little of her time with her mother on the mountain. When her mother dies, someone leaves a feather on her casket and Raven decides it’s time to learn more about her mother. This book was full of secrets and lies. The premise was intriguing. A woman with the ability to heal, a cult living on a mountain, and a young woman searching for answers about not only her past but her mother’s past as well. I thought the author did a great job showing Raven’s desire to learn about her mother while grappling with her grandmother’s rules. Raven is walking the tightrope between being a teenager and an adult. She wants the truth but where the truth takes her may be darker than the claims made against her mother. While this book was intriguing and had very interesting elements, it also felt slow at times. While Raven was one of the main characters, I wanted to know more about her and feel that we were only told what was going on around her. I also wanted to know why she did not retain her memory of the time with her mother. The Wind Witch Murders also left me wanting to know more about Deanne and the cult. I was hoping this book would be darker and more menacing. That is not the author’s fault as it was my expectation going into this book. There were a few twists and a reveal at the end. They were all okay but missed the mark a little for me. There was just a little bit of oomph missing which would have pushed my rating higher. Thank you to Severn House and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.
The Confession
Gripping and captivating, The Confession proved to be a fast and shocking read! Thirty years ago, Abbey’s thirteen-year-old sister was murdered. Since she wasn’t able to help her sister, Abbey has dedicated her life, working as a criminologist to help those who have been wrongly convicted to appeal their sentences. Abbey provided the testimony that put her sister’s killer behind bars. When Abbey beings receiving messages threatening to expose her and her secrets and lies, Abbey is caught in a cat-and-mouse search for the truth! Abbey will need to come face to face with the ghosts of the past to find out who is behind the taunts and to uncover their motive. But Abbey will the truth set her free, or will it be her downfall. You will need to read it to find out. I enjoyed the pacing of this book and the mounting sense of danger and dread. This is also a fair amount of tension and twists which kept me turning the pages. I enjoyed the Abbey prided herself on being able to read people but wasn’t a fan of others reading her. I enjoyed the search for the truth and how the author got readers to the final reveal. The Confession is a well thought out psychological thriller which was equal parts riveting and chilling. This is the eighth book I have read by M.A. Hunter, and I look forward to reading more of this author’s work. Thank you to Boldwood Books and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.
Where the Dawn Finds Us
The dawn has come for Kate Hewitt’s harrowing and gripping series, Lost Lake. This has been a harrowing, gripping, moving, thought provoking, and raw series about one family’s life and fight for survival after the worst thing imaginable happens. There are not many survivors left after a nuclear apocalypse. Alex and her family are still struggling to adapt to their new normal and adjust to their new way of living. The promise of a new life in North Dakota sounds like a dream to Alex, Sam, and Ruby. Alex is also wrestling with the fact that she left her teenage daughter, Mattie, behind in Canada where Mattie hopes to build a new life with the community there. As with the other books in this series, this book will pull on your heartstrings. I found myself putting myself in Alex’s shoes. This family has lost so much, can they bear to lose more? How strong is a mother’s love for her children? How far will a person go in order to survive? What danger lies when all is lost? This book is told through the POV of Alex and Mattie. I felt for them both. Alex being the mother and Mattie, her teenage daughter. Alex has more life experience, while Mattie has young optimism and faith. Both will face challenges, and both will need to rely on themselves and others to begin again. Whew! As with the other books in this series, this book was wonderfully written, well thought out, heart wrenching and moving. I kept wondering throughout this series what I would do if I were in a similar situation(s). This book is raw, powerful, and moving. As this is the third and final book, I do highly recommend reading this series from the beginning to fully appreciate the plight of the characters and the new world and all it’s challenges. Thank you to Storm Publishing and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.
People Don’t Just Disappear
Gripping, tense, mysterious, and shocking! People Don’t Just Disappear is the first book which I have read by Claire Allan, and I will be reading more of this author’s books in the future! I enjoyed the mystery, the tension, the characters, and the plot. Bronagh answered her door to find a little boy crying on her doorstep. He wants his mother and Bronagh goes with him to help him find her. Her boyfriend Mal returns from a business trip Twenty-four hours later and can’t find her. A neighbor informs him that she saw their front door open and she went over to close it for them but has not seen his girlfriend. Where is she? Who was the lost little boy??? Mal is beyond worried and freaked out. It is not like Bronagh to leave without saying anything. Their relationship is solid. She is not ghosting him. The police don’t take him seriously until a journalist decides to investigate Bronagh’s disappearance. Then things get interesting. People Don’t Just Disappear proved to be a fast read which kept me on the edge of my seat and turning the pages!!!! I enjoyed the tension, suspense, and dread in this book. There is danger lurking around every other corner, and I had my fingers crossed and hoped that someone – anyone would find Bronagh before it was too late!!!!!! I thought that Claire Allan did a great job of taking readers into the heads of her characters. I felt their reactions were believable, and I felt their fear, anxiety, and worry jumping off the pages. Wonderfully written, well thought out, shocking, and tense! Thank you to Boldwood Books and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.
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