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I Am Half-Sick of Shadows (Flavia De Luce #4) by Alan Bradley

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jun 2, 2018 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: It’s Christmastime, and the precocious Flavia de Luce – an eleven-year-old sleuth with a passion for chemistry and a penchant for crime-solving – is tucked away in her laboratory, whipping up a concoction to ensnare Saint Nick. But she is...

I Am Not a Serial Killer by Dan Wells

by Bubbly Bibbly | Aug 5, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller, YA

Summary: John Wayne Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it. He’s spent his life doing his best not to live up to his potential. He’s obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn’t want to become one. So for his own sake, and the safety of those...

I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 3, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: In this deeply suspenseful and irresistibly unnerving debut novel, a man and his girlfriend are on their way to a secluded farm. When the two take an unexpected detour, she is left stranded in a deserted high school, wondering if there is any escape at all....

In the Company of Cheerful Ladies by Alexander McCall Smith

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 3, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: In the newest addition to the universally beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, the charming and ever-resourceful Precious Ramotswe finds herself overly beset by problems. She is already busier than usual at the detective agency when added to her...

Into the Water by Paula Hawkins

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 12, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history,...

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

by Bubbly Bibbly | Aug 7, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller, SciFi

Summary: A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children , an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading...