What Alice Forgot Book Review Synopsis. Alice Love is twenty-nine, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child. So imagine Alice’s surprise when she comes to on the floor of a gym (a gym! She HATES the gym) and is whisked off to the hospital where she discovers the honeymoon is truly over…
Play Dead Book Review – Tea Cakes with a Childhood Friend
Synopsis. The dead don’t tell secrets… unless you listen. The girl’s smashed-in face stared unseeing up to the blue sky, soil spilling out of her mouth. A hundred flies hovered above the bloodied mess. Westerley research facility is not for the faint-hearted. A ‘body farm’ investigating human decomposition, its inhabitants are corpses in various states…
The Husband’s Secret Book Review – Salmon and Secrets
The Husband’s Secret Book Review Synopsis. At the heart of The Husband’s Secret is a letter that’s not meant to be read My darling Cecilia, if you’re reading this, then I’ve died… Imagine that your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest…
The Girl In the Ice Book Review – Donuts with a DCI
Synopsis. Her eyes are wide open. Her lips parted as if to speak. Her dead body frozen in the ice…She is not the only one. When a young boy discovers the body of a woman beneath a thick sheet of ice in a South London park, Detective Erika Foster is called in to lead the…
If You Dare Book Review – Snickers Bars from Behind Bars
Synopsis. Equal parts Dexter and 50 Shades, this is the eagerly awaited new novel from A. R. Torre, author of the award winning erotic thriller, The Girl in 6E. The rules are the same. I can’t open the door. I can’t leave. I can’t kill anyone. The only difference is, I don’t set the rules…
Do Not Disturb Book Review – Danger and Dr. Pepper
Synopsis. Equal parts Dexter and 50 Shades, this is the eagerly awaited follow-up to the daring erotic thriller, The Girl in 6E, by A.R. Torre. 1. Don’t leave the apartment. 2. Never let anyone in. 3. Don’t kill anyone. The rules were simple and I broke them. Now I must face the consequences. Everyone else…
The Girl in 6E Book Review – Eating In with a Sexy Psychopath
Synopsis. I haven’t touched a human in three years. That seems like it would be a difficult task, but it’s not. Not anymore, thanks to the internet. I am, quite possibly, the most popular recluse ever. Not many shut-ins have a 200-member fan club, a bank account in the seven-figure range, and hundreds of men…
The Widow Book Review – Wine with Wives
Synopsis. When the police started asking questions, Jean Taylor turned into a different woman. One who enabled her and her husband to carry on, when more bad things began to happen… But that woman’s husband died last week. And Jean doesn’t have to be her anymore. There’s a lot Jean hasn’t said over…
Retribution Review – Slicing Potatoes with a Prosecutor
First of all, I will admit that I did not read the summary for this book. I started with a Good Reads search for “female detective”. This lead me to a series of books named after CJ Townsend. After I confirmed that CJ was female and there was a murder involved, I immediately loaded it…
Furiously Happy Review – Radishes with Furiously Happy Raccoons
With a bright gold sparkling cover featuring a deranged looking raccoon, Furiously Happy drew me in. When I was younger I had a phase which included David Sedaris and a plethora of Augusten Burroughs memoirs. So when I saw this book, another comedic life tale, I figured I couldn’t go wrong. Furiously Happy is a…