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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 was born to be a star. But when her father dies and she ages out…
The Friday Review: Glass Onion

Starring Daniel Craig After a month of mystery author books, it is only fitting that we end September with a mystery movie. Glass Onion has been out for a few years now and is the sequel to the wildly successful Knives Out movie. (If you don’t know what I’m talking about, think modern day Agatha…
The Friday Review: Buried Wilderness Secrets

By Jaime Jo Wright Aaliyah Terrence is a Montana Park Ranger. With her black lab, Peaches, she patrols the wilderness, keeping campers safe and reveling in the beauty of the mountains. But her haven is shattered when she stumbles across a serial killer’s remote burial ground – and he stumbles across her. Wade Marlowe is…
The Friday Review: Hosannas Forever

By David and Barbara Leeman When I saw that David and Barbara Leeman were releasing another hymn devotional, I immediately pre-ordered it. Wow! It was so worth it! Hymns about heaven sound great, but how often do we sing them? How many can you list off the top of your head? While churches in the…
9/10 9/11

I thought I might say something or write some profound post, but it looks like most of the words have been said already . . . so I wrote anyway, if only to pin down the turmoil of my thoughts. Our enemy, the devil, prowls about like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.…
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 pours her energy into her new job: research assistant to the famed biographer Elton Floyd.…