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The Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman

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

3Summary: For more than thirteen years, devoted father and husband Ethan Ford has been running from his past. But one day the police show up at his door-and his life as an irreproachable family man and heroic volunteer fireman begins to come apart. My take: 4 looks ...

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

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

Summary: ‘What are you thinking, Amy? The question I’ve asked most often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I suppose these questions storm cloud over every marriage: What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who...

Paper Ghosts by Julia Heaberlin

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

Summary: An obsessive young woman has been waiting half her life—since she was twelve years old—for this moment. She has planned. Researched. Trained. Imagined every scenario. Now she is almost certain the man who kidnapped and murdered her sister sits in the...

NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 2, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: Charlie Manx burned a man to death in his black 1938 Rolls Royce Wraith, but that’s not the worst of it. Rumor has it that he kidnapped dozens of children, taking them to a place he calls “Christmasland.” The only child ever to escape was a very lucky girl...

The Passenger by Lisa Lutz

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 2, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: Forty-eight hours after leaving her husband’s body at the base of the stairs, Tanya Dubois cashes in her credit cards, dyes her hair brown, demands a new name from a shadowy voice over the phone, and flees town. It’s not the first time. She meets Blue, a...