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In 1956, a teenage girl working on a small island off the coast of Reykjavík goes missing. The investigation leads nowhere, and the case eventually goes cold. Thirty years later, during the city’s 200th anniversary celebrations, a journalist reopens the case in the hopes of finally uncovering what Read the Post
Brie Careful What You Wish For is the latest installment in the Grilled Cheese Mysteries, a cozy mystery series centered on grilled cheese restaurant owner Carly Hale, and the alarming number of dead bodies that keep turning up in her small town of Balsam Dell. This time around, Ross Baxter, a local Read the Post
The Martini Club, a group of retired ex-spies, is back, this time helping to solve the mystery around a missing girl in their lakeside town. When Zoe, a visiting teenager, disappears and the last person to see her is Maggie’s gruff neighbor, Maggie and her friends set out to help solve the Read the Post
New mom Camilla was living the idyllic life with her husband, Luke, and their baby girl. Until one morning, Luke isn't at home, and in his place is a cryptic note. And then the police show up to tell her that Luke has taken three people hostage in a warehouse in London. By the end of the day, the Read the Post
Billie, Helen, Natalie, and Mary Alice have worked for the Museum, an elite agency of assassins, for forty years. Now in their sixties, the Museum has asked them to retire and sends them on a luxurious cruise to celebrate. However, when they are targeted on board by one of their fellow assassins, Read the Post
Barbara Van Laar has gone missing from the summer camp run by her family. Has she run away or been kidnapped? And is her disappearance connected to the disappearance of Bear, Barbara's brother, who went missing 14 years ago? This book was my book club's latest pick. I thought it was a quick and Read the Post
When Francis Adams was a teenager, a fortune teller told her that one day, Francis would be murdered. Francis spends the rest of her life trying to figure out how she will die. Years later, she invites her great-niece Annie to her estate in the country to discuss her will. But when Annie arrives, Read the Post
Kathy Valence is a grim reaper employed by S.C.Y.T.H.E. (Secure Collection, Yielding, and Transportation of Human Essences). Her job is to collect and deliver the souls of people who have died to processing for the afterlife. When Connor, her latest client, claims he was murdered and refuses to go Read the Post
After losing her family to World War I, Ivy Radcliffe inherits an estate on the Yorkshire moors. With nothing left for her in London, Ivy travels to Blackwood Abbey to make it her new home. However, the servants are less than welcoming, give cryptic warnings, and seem to keep secrets about the Read the Post
A deadly fog has covered the Earth and killed anyone it touched. The only survivors are a group of scientists and villagers who live on an island surrounded by the fog. No one can enter or leave the island as the fog hovers at the water's edge, kept at bay by a security system. When one of the Read the Post
