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Tall Poppy Review: An Investigation at a Boston College Turns Deadly

If you’ve read one Hank Phillippi Ryan book, you know to clear your schedule for the day because you won’t be able to put the book down until you get to the twisted, unpredictable, often socially timely conclusion. Say No More (Forge Books) was no different. Say No More is…

Kate MorettiApril 25, 2019

Fiction Romance

Lucinda Riley’s “The Missing Sister” Powerfully Concludes Family Saga Series

In the much-anticipated final installment of her Seven Sisters Series, Irish author Lucinda Riley takes readers on an epic journey to uncover the truth behind Pa Salt’s seventh adopted daughter. Like many of the books in the series, The Missing Sister (Blue Box Press) is a story of love, sacrifice,…

BookTribMay 27, 2021

Fiction Miscellany Pop Culture Thrillers

The Ruinous Sweep: From “Fraggle Rock” to Twisting Thriller

Tim Wynne-Jones is an author with projects spanning across a diverse array of entertainment, from writing songs for the children's program Fraggle Rock to writing mind boggling thrillers for adults and young adults. The Ruinous Sweep is a twisting tale split between two perspectives and two worlds. The protagonist Donovan…

Rebecca ProulxJune 28, 2018

Children's Books Children's Books - Featured

Children’s Book Full of Artful Adventure Leads to a Real-Life Treasure

There’s so much to like about the new children’s book Xavier Marx and the Missing Masterpieces by Hilary Genga and Sean Cronin. At its heart, it’s a fun mystery, told in rhyme, about a group of schoolchildren on a field trip to an art museum. As they take their guided…

BookTribNovember 9, 2021

Children's Books

Tween Detectives Chase After Swift and Mystical Creature in “Swampfire”

In Patricia Cecil Hass’s Swampfire: A Shockoe Slip Gang Adventure (Windsong Press), siblings Sally and Andrew — amateur tween detectives known as “The Shockoe Slip Gang,” a name dubbed by the press after their last successful case — are excited to return to Cousin Anne’s peanut farm in Virginia this…

Daniela RamrasSeptember 1, 2020

Book Club Network Thrillers

Labyrinth of Lies, Secrets and Apprehension in “The Other Mrs.”

“There’s something off about the house,” begins Mary Kubica’s spine-chilling The Other Mrs. (Park Row Books). Maybe there’s something off about the novel, too, because it’s unnervingly difficult to put down. Kubica’s meticulous writing draws the reader into a labyrinth of lies, secrets and apprehension, with a more than a…

Judy MorenoFebruary 18, 2020

Book Club Network Fiction Thrillers Thrillers - Featured

A Decades-Old Mystery Taints One Man’s Entire Life in “Lake Roland”

Tom O’Malley is a pretty normal American high schooler. Readers get the sense that this story starts out in that not-so-long-ago past when the neighborhood boys would gather in the streets or any empty space to toss the football around until the streetlights came on. Tom’s no all-star on the…

Paige VigliaroloJune 15, 2021

Book Club Network Fiction

For Novak: Romance, Mystery, Cookies & Greek Goddess

Having written more than 50 novels, Brenda Novak is an expert at pulling our romantic heartstrings. But in addition, a mysterious disappearance forms the backdrop in Before We Were Strangers (MIRA). Inspired by a segment from a true-crime television show, her latest novel is a story of intrigue, mystery, and…

K.L. RomoOctober 19, 2018

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: “The Tiger in the House”

The Tiger in the House (Kensington Publishing) by Jacqueline Sheehan introduces Delia Lamont, who is wrapping up the last month of work at Portland, Maine’s child services agency. She’s ready to open a seaside bakery with her younger sister and start a quieter life. But first, she has one last case…

Orly KonigSeptember 20, 2018

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: The Tearjerker “You Were Always Mine”

Equal parts tear-jerker and page-turner, Nicole Baart's You Were Always Mine (Atria Books) entwines the heartbreak of a mother's struggle with the urgency of a mystery that won't let her (or you) go. At the start of You Were Always Mine, we meet mother and teacher Jessica Chamberlain on the brink of…

Jessica StrawserOctober 25, 2018

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: “Sleeping in Eden:” Love and Mystery

Nicole Baart is a master of weaving stories about the complexity, beauty and heartache of human relationships with delicious prose. Her ninth novel, Sleeping in Eden (Howard Books) is no exception. It’s a story of two seemingly unconnected storylines told in alternating chapters that are destined for collision. The moment…

Susan MeissnerJanuary 31, 2019

Fiction

Strange World, Faithful Friends — and Monsters Await “Beneath the Ruins”

It’s getting dark. Residents of Arkdale soon will shelter for long weeks behind their town’s locked gates until the weak sun begins to shine again. Even in the light time of year, only the brave — or foolhardy — venture out to explore the nearby ruins of an unknown civilization,…

Joanna PoncavageJuly 19, 2021

Fiction

Review: Dive Into Psychological Mystery on Peregrine Island

Tolstoy said that every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Diane B. Saxton, the debut author of Peregrine Island (She Writes Press, August 2, 2016), would probably agree. Her new novel dives into a memorably dysfunctional family, the Peregrines, living on the titular private island on Long Island…

Katie HiresAugust 9, 2016

Fiction

Review: Fall in Love with Emma Donoghue’s ‘The Wonder’

“Lib wrote down, 1:13 p.m., 1 tsp. water. Not that quantity mattered, she supposed, except that she wanted to be able to give a full account of anything the child ingested on her watch.” For fans of historic classics such as The Kite Runner and Angela’s Ashes, The Wonder (Little, Brown & Company,…

Mercedes ReinerOctober 4, 2016

Fiction

Prison Break Creator Paul T. Scheuring Talks New Book ‘The Far Shore’ and Rebooting a Fan Favorite TV Show

The insanely talented Paul T. Scheuring is adding another title to his repertoire: author. The Prison Break writer and creator has penned a new novel, The Far Shore, releasing on March 7 and BookTrib was granted inside access to find out more. Read on to see what Scheuring has to say…

Beth WaskoFebruary 16, 2017

Fiction

“Ohio” by Stephen Markley Introduces New Voice(s) in American Fiction

Ohio by Stephen Markley (Simon & Schuster) deserves to be only the first of a series because its characters are worth more than one book, and the story of their America is worth more than one look. This sprawling, spiraling novel begins one summer night in 2013, as four former…

Joanna PoncavageJune 13, 2018

Tall Poppy Review: An Investigation at a Boston College Turns Deadly

Lucinda Riley’s “The Missing Sister” Powerfully Concludes Family Saga Series

The Ruinous Sweep: From “Fraggle Rock” to Twisting Thriller

Children’s Book Full of Artful Adventure Leads to a Real-Life Treasure

Tween Detectives Chase After Swift and Mystical Creature in “Swampfire”

Labyrinth of Lies, Secrets and Apprehension in “The Other Mrs.”

A Decades-Old Mystery Taints One Man’s Entire Life in “Lake Roland”

For Novak: Romance, Mystery, Cookies & Greek Goddess

Tall Poppy Review: “The Tiger in the House”

Tall Poppy Review: The Tearjerker “You Were Always Mine”

Tall Poppy Review: “Sleeping in Eden:” Love and Mystery

Strange World, Faithful Friends — and Monsters Await “Beneath the Ruins”

Review: Dive Into Psychological Mystery on Peregrine Island

Review: Fall in Love with Emma Donoghue’s ‘The Wonder’

Prison Break Creator Paul T. Scheuring Talks New Book ‘The Far Shore’ and Rebooting a Fan Favorite TV Show

“Ohio” by Stephen Markley Introduces New Voice(s) in American Fiction

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