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Book Review: “The Housekeeper” by Natalie Barelli

June 5, 2020 by Michele Pariza Wacek Leave a Comment

She’s a liar. She’s a stalker. She’s in your house. When Claire sees Hannah Wilson at an exclusive Manhattan hair salon, it’s like a knife slicing through barely healed scars. It may have been ten years since Claire last saw Hannah, but she has thought of her every day, and not in a good way. […]

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Book Review: “What You Did” by Claire McGowan

January 25, 2020 by Michele Pariza Wacek 2 Comments

It was supposed to be the perfect reunion: six university friends together again after twenty years. Host Ali finally has the life she always wanted, a career she can be proud of and a wonderful family with her college boyfriend, now husband. But that night her best friend makes an accusation so shocking that nothing […]

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Book Review: “Behind Her Eyes” by Sarah Pinborough

November 22, 2019 by Michele Pariza Wacek Leave a Comment

Louise is a single mom, a secretary, stuck in a modern-day rut. On a rare night out, she meets a man in a bar and sparks fly. Though he leaves after they kiss, she’s thrilled she finally connected with someone. When Louise arrives at work on Monday, she meets her new boss, David. The man […]

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Book Review: “Girls of Glass” by Brianna Labuskes

July 19, 2019 by Michele Pariza Wacek 1 Comment

When the granddaughter of one of Florida’s most powerful judges disappears, it triggers a personal trauma for Detective Alice Garner: the kidnapping and murder of her own child. As a flood of painful memories comes rushing back, Alice sees herself in the guilt-ridden and emotionally fragile mother Charlotte Burke, who has become the target of […]

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Book Review: “Then She Was Gone” by Lisa Jewell

June 1, 2019 by Michele Pariza Wacek Leave a Comment

Ellie Mack was the perfect daughter. She was fifteen, the youngest of three. She was beloved by her parents, friends, and teachers. She and her boyfriend made a teenaged golden couple. She was days away from an idyllic post-exams summer vacation, with her whole life ahead of her. And then she was gone. Now, her […]

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Book Review: “The Haunting of Hill House” by Shirley Jackson

May 10, 2019 by Michele Pariza Wacek 1 Comment

First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror.  It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a “haunting”; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, […]

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Book Review: “Cursed Tides” by Jade Kerrion

March 8, 2019 by Michele Pariza Wacek Leave a Comment

She no longer wants to be a part of his world. But he must convince her to save it … Ashe is one mission away from earning her soul. Nearly three centuries after her disastrous on-land escapade, the former mermaid has a final assignment: protect a marine biologist on his quest to save the oceans. […]

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Book Review: “A Banquet of Consequences” by Elizabeth George

March 1, 2019 by Michele Pariza Wacek 2 Comments

The suicide of William Goldacre is devastating to those left behind who will have to deal with its unintended consequences—could there be a link between the young man’s leap from a Dorset cliff and a horrific poisoning in Cambridge? After various issues with her department, Barbara Havers is desperate to redeem herself. So when a […]

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Book Review: “The Last Time I Lied” by Riley Sager

February 15, 2019 by Michele Pariza Wacek 1 Comment

Two Truths and a Lie. The girls played it all the time in their cabin at Camp Nightingale. Vivian, Natalie, Allison, and first-time camper Emma Davis, the youngest of the group. But the games ended the night Emma sleepily watched the others sneak out of the cabin into the darkness. The last she–or anyone–saw of […]

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Book Review: “A Great Reckoning” by Louise Penny, A Chief Inspector Gamache novel

January 11, 2019 by Michele Pariza Wacek Leave a Comment

When an intricate old map is found stuffed into the walls of the bistro in Three Pines, it at first seems no more than a curiosity. But the closer the villagers look, the stranger it becomes. Given to Armand Gamache as a gift the first day of his new job, the map eventually leads him […]

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