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3 weeks ago | 
skjbollywoodnews.com | Gillian Flynn |Amy Tintera |Ruth Ware |Shari Lapena
It’s the job of any good thriller book to keep readers guessing, but not every addition to the genre manages this successfully. Some thrillers are frustratingly predictable, leaving little doubt about who’s behind their inciting incidents. Other thriller books boast off-the-rails endings that no one sees coming, but they don’t necessarily mislead readers or drop red herrings ahead of their big twists.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
readbyexample.substack.com | Amy Tintera |Ann Patchett |Matt Renwick
Today is Small Business Saturday. One of the best small businesses to support are independent book stores. If you are not lucky enough to have a book store in your city, you can buy books through Bookshop.org. A portion of the proceeds goes toward the book store of your choice. (All linked titles below go to my Bookshop affiliate page.)With that, here are my top five reads of 2024. Is this book horror, or historical fiction? Are the most frightening scenes also the most realistic parts of the story?
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
audible.com | Amy Tintera |Ashley Elston |Sarah A. Denzil |Freida McFadden
There was a lot of action this year in mysteries and thrillers, but not the cacophonous kind. We’re talking domestic thrillers. Some on this year’s list reside in the sweet life. Bucolic suburbs flush with dream homes, grass that’s almost too green to be true. Then comes that tap on your shoulder, that place in the story you couldn’t have seen coming. Characters unleash their rage not when you thought they should have or could have.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
saturdayeveningpost.com | Ross Perlin |Stephen King |Amy Tintera
When they’re not bringing you stories from around the nation, the editors at the Post are always reading. Here are some of the books they’re enjoying this summer:by Ross PerlinWith more than 700 languages spoken among its denizens, New York City is likely the most linguistically diverse area in the history of the world.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
audible.com | Joel Looper |Freida McFadden |Amy Tintera |Andy Weir
Christian Nationalism and the Crisis of Evangelical Identity Narrated by: Trevor Thompson Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Lucy Burdette |Kathy Reichs |Amy Tintera
Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival. Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. A week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Allison Montclair |Kathy Reichs |Amy Tintera
Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival. Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. A week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
appenmedia.com | Kathy Manos Penn |Elly Griffiths |Amy Tintera
I enjoy mystery series, but I also like standalone novels. There are series I return to time and time again, and rather than binge-read them, I space out the books to savor them. This week’s selection features both—a new entry in Elly Griffiths’s DI Harbinder Kaur series and a debut adult novel by an author known for her young adult books. This is book four in a loosely connected series by one of my favorite authors. You might ask how a series can be only loosely connected.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
audible.com | Arturo Casadevall |Freida McFadden |Amy Tintera |Sarah J. Maas
Could fungal pathogens outsmart us before we find ways to combat them? Humans and fungi share nearly 50 percent of the same DNA. Because we're related, designing drugs to combat the varieties that attack us is a challenge. Meanwhile, in an ever hotter, wetter world, fungi may be finding new ways to thrive, queueing up global outbreak potentials for which no vaccine and woefully few medications exist; some fungi are already beginning to resist treatment.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
audible.com | Rudyard Kipling |Freida McFadden |Amy Tintera |Sarah J. Maas
The collection of Kipling poetry, performed by Mark Redfield, with music by Jennifer Rouse, are taken mostly from “Barrack-Room Ballads”. The poems mostly dramatize the concerns, yearnings, emotions, and thoughts of British soldiers at war, stationed in India, or at home - now forgotten by their fellow countrymen. Popular favorites in this recording eloquently and powerfully read by Mark Redfield include “Gunga Din”, “The Last of the Light Brigade”, and “If”.
