Out of the Blue
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End of Faith
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Ninety-five percent of the world’s population perishes in the worst pandemic since the Black...
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Morrigan's Cross
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The Circle Trilogy begins with an epic tale that breaks down the boundaries between reality and the...
It Takes Two to Tumble (Seducing the Sedgwicks, #1)
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"A mother's psyche edges toward madness as she tries to solve the puzzle of her daughter's...
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The Museum of Broken Promises
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The stunning new novel from bestselling Elizabeth Buchan. The Museum of Broken Promises is a...
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The Bite of Winter (Love Bites #1)
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She is theirs to claim. They are hers to save. Zoey Blake is about as far down on her luck as she...
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Hazel (2934 KP) rated The Collective in Books
Jul 31, 2022
Unfortunately, we have all heard of cases where a child is abused or found dead, murdered or killed by someone else and the person thought to have committed that atrocity walks free. We all feel for the parents but what would you do if that parent was you? Would you want revenge and how far would you go?
Camille is that parent; her only child is gone and her marriage has ended.
Grief has no time scale and after five years, the pain is still as raw, if not more so as the person she believed murdered her beautiful daughter is walking free and getting on with their lives. She has to do something but what?
Enter the collective ... a secret online group of mainly mothers who will help you get the justice you feel you deserve by working together.
Camille now has purpose but how far will she go?
With a great plot and interesting characters written at a pace that was quite slow at first but increased as the story developed, this book is a great thriller and certainly had me gripped from the start waiting to see how it all turned out.
Thank you must go to The Orion Publishing Group and NetGalley for enabling me to read The Collective and share my views.
Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2165 KP) rated Christmas Dessert Murder in Books
Dec 9, 2023
In the first, Christmas Caramel Murder, Hannah gets involved when her business partner is accused of killing her husband’s new secretary, who just happened to be playing Mrs. Claus to Herb’s Santa in the community theater. This book borrows a bit from A Christmas Carol, and that makes it a little weird for fans of the series, but it is still enjoyable, with a good wrap up and cameos if not large parts for the regular characters.
The second story is Christmas Cake Murder, which flashes back to Hannah’s first Christmas after her father passed away. In an effort to get her mother out of her grief, Hannah agrees to help put on a Christmas ball filled with cakes. The mystery doesn’t really kick in until late in the story, although there are bread crumbs early on. What is most fun for fans of the series is watching Hannah build the life we are already familiar with.
Between the two stories, there are lots of recipes for you to try at Christmas.
Obviously, if you already have the two books, you’ll be fine skipping this collection. But if you’ve missed them, you might want to consider this way to get the stories.
Bad at Being Good
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No one is good all of the time. Especially me. Six years ago, I promised my friend Kellan that...
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