fiction
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The Friday Review: The Bell Tolls at Traeger Hall
By Jaime Jo Wright 1890 The will states that her aunt and uncle’s bodies must be laid out for a week while she keeps vigil. Two days after the funeral, their mansion will be bricked up with everything inside and… Continue reading
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The Friday Review: Living Lies
By Natalie Walters Recently widowed, Lane Kent is trying to get a fresh start with her five-year-old son. Taking over a restaurant in the small town of Walton, Georgia seems the perfect place to get away from her controlling father’s… Continue reading
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The Girl From the Papers
By Jennifer L. Wright “My mama always told me I would live and die as a nobody. Here at the end… I couldn’t help but wish she’d been right.” And with that opening line, I was completely hooked. Beatrice Carraway… Continue reading
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Specters in the Glass House
By Jaime Jo Wright Knives Out meets The Great Gatsby! Rhemy Crenshaw had been in the foster system since an arsonist took the lives of her family. Determined not to be another statistic, she shoves aside her past trauma and… Continue reading
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The Broken Weathervane
By Laura DeNooyer This story started out straight-forward enough, but turned into an absolute tangled knot – to the point where I wasn’t even sure how it was going to end! 1950s: The Buckwalter Brothers Grocery Store is a Wisconsin… Continue reading
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The Friday Review: A Fierce Devotion
By Laura Frantz One of the few things that made the end of my vacation tolerable was the knowledge that this novella was waiting for me back home. I binge read almost all of it in one afternoon! Gabrielle Farrow… Continue reading
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The Friday Review: The Other Sister
By Jessica R. Patch When I read the premise, it brought me back to one of my favorite childhood movies, The Parent Trap (Haley Mills or Lindsey Lohan, both are good). The added ingredient of suspense and I was all… Continue reading
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The Friday Review: The Lacemaker
By Laura Frantz To celebrate the start of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, I decided to reread this gem in (almost) real time. This was the first Laura Frantz book I read. Quite a few years ago, my… Continue reading
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The Friday Review: Finding Lady Enderly
By Joanna Davidson Politano Cinderella meets My Fair Lady in this stunning Gilded Age mystery novel! Raina practically lives on the streets of London where she works as a rag woman and mourns the loss of the sailor she loved.… Continue reading
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The Friday Review: The Tempest at Annabel’s Lighthouse
By Jaime Jo Wright I couldn’t sleep after finishing this book. Not because it was scary (though it was), but because it was SO GOOD! The twist at the end was… just phenomenal. Set in the Porcupine Mountains on Lake… Continue reading
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