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The Night of the Fire
The Night of the Fire: Ann Lindell Mysteries #8
by Kjell Eriksson
Well written, but not my cup of tea (11/18/2020)
Who started the fire that killed three people?

Someone knows but isn’t telling. Then there is another fire.

??Ann Lindell a retired policewoman who moved to the country for some peace and quiet finds out that it isn’t all that peaceful in the country.

Even though she isn’t a …more
Confessions on the 7:45
Confessions on the 7:45
by Lisa Unger
Be sure it is in your TBR (10/7/2020)
Strangers telling each other their deepest secrets starts the ball rolling as we find many characters with secrets, characters who tell lies, characters who are manipulative, and characters who aren’t who they seem.

Martha and Selena meet by chance on the train coming home, …more
The Talented Miss Farwell
The Talented Miss Farwell
by Emily Gray Tedrowe
ENJOYABLE (9/29/2020)
Becky Farwell was brilliant in math and made money during high school tutoring friends either for money, clothes, or shoes.

Her life wasn't easy, though. Her mother had died, and she was left taking care of her ill father so she felt she couldn't go to college.

What she did …more
The Exiles
The Exiles
by Christina Baker Kline
ELIZABETH @ SILVER'S REVIEWS - FANTASTIC (9/28/2020)
What a wonderful history lesson and beautifully written book.

I have never heard of these ships that took female prisoners from England to Australia to work off their sentences and who were charged with crimes of no consequence such as stealing a spoon.

We meet Evangeline who …more
All Is Not Forgotten
All Is Not Forgotten
by Wendy Walker
ELIZABETH @ SILVER'S REVIEWS - TENSE (9/18/2020)
A small town, a perfect town, a town with secrets, and a town with the not so perfect residents they think they are.

The night Jenny Kramer is attacked is the night that the town gets turned upside down along with her family. Jenny's father is obsessed with finding her …more
The Lost and Found Bookshop
The Lost and Found Bookshop
by Susan Wiggs
LOVED IT - ELIZABETH @SILVER'S REVIEWS (7/7/2020)
Who wouldn’t want to own a bookshop? That is a dream job.

Natalie, Blythe’s mother, did follow her dream, but at times her dream was at the expense of her daughter.

A tragedy left Natalie with her mother gone, her beloved grandfather to care for, and a bookshop that her …more
The Prisoner's Wife
The Prisoner's Wife
by Maggie Brookes
Excellent - Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews (5/26/2020)
Izabela and Bill were destined to meet, but did Izabela realize what she was getting herself and Bill into when she rushed the marriage and escaped the farm she had known for her entire life?

Izabela immediately fell in love with Bill when she saw him in a group of British …more
A Good Marriage
A Good Marriage
by Kimberly McCreight
Twists, turns, and surprises - Elizabeth @Silver's Reviews (5/5/2020)
Dealing with problems in her own marriage and now having to deal with defending a friend for a murder that Lizzie knew he didn't commit was not what Lizzie was looking forward to.

Lizzie was friends with Zach in college and knew he wasn't capable of murder, but did you …more
The Lost Orphan
The Lost Orphan: A Novel
by Stacey Halls
LOVED IT - THE LOST ORPHAN (4/9/2020)
Having to leave your newborn at a Foundling until you could afford to keep the child seemed to be the norm in the 1700's for poor families.

Going back to get your child after you saved half a year's wages to pay for the child’s keep for six years and find out someone else …more
Darling Rose Gold
Darling Rose Gold
by Stephanie Wrobel
Tense, chilling - Elizabeth @Silver's Reviews (3/17/2020)
For eighteen years Rose Gold was told by her mother that she was ill with some disease that no one could figure out.

Her mother, Patty, took her to many doctors and actually told the doctors what tests to try.

When a doctor got suspicious, she took Rose Gold to a different …more
The Sun Down Motel
The Sun Down Motel
by Simone St. James
Excellent - don't miss reading this book (2/18/2020)
Carly left college for a "few" days so she could head to Fell, New York, to see if she could find anything out about how her Aunt Viv died or where she might be.

Viv disappeared from The Sun Down Motel where she worked in 1982 and was never found.

When Carly arrived and …more
News of the World
News of the World
by Paulette Jiles
Heartwarming and enjoyablen - Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews (1/14/2020)
Captain Kidd had experience traveling uncharted lands as he read his newspapers in different towns to spread the news of the world, but traveling with a ten-year-old girl who couldn't speak English was quite a different task for him.

Johanna had been kidnapped by the Kiowa …more
Cartier's Hope
Cartier's Hope: A Novel
by M. J. Rose
All-around "gem" of a read - Elizabeth Of Silver's Reviews (1/13/2020)
The story of the Hope Diamond, women journalists, hidden identities, locked bookcases, and family secrets greet the reader of Cartier’s Hope.

Vera was the daughter of a wealthy businessman, but she needed to hide this fact so she could work at being a journalist for the …more
The Secrets of Love Story Bridge
The Secrets of Love Story Bridge
by Phaedra Patrick
Another heartwarming, sweet read - Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews (1/12/2020)
Mitchell went from his job as an engineer to the job of removing padlocks placed by lovers on bridge railings and padlocks that were starting to weigh down the bridges.

Mitchell lived alone with his daughter since his wife died, and he had a difficult time making ends meet, …more
The Girls with No Names
The Girls with No Names
by Serena Burdick
You Won't Be Able To Put The Book Down - Elizabeth @Silver's Reviews (1/6/2020)
Effie and Luella lived a privileged life and had to conform to all the strict rules set upon women in the 1910's including being sent away.

Effie was the sister who had a health problem, and Luella was the sister who was beautiful. Both behaved, but were bored with their …more
Tiffany Blues
Tiffany Blues: A Novel
by M.J. Rose
Excellent - Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews (1/2/2020)
What had happened in Jenny’s past that kept haunting her and kept her shrinking into the background instead of taking all that New York could offer her?

Was it bad enough to have to sidestep questions about it and fear that others were looking into her past?

Jenny moved to …more
Recipe for a Perfect Wife
Recipe for a Perfect Wife
by Karma Brown
LOVED RECIPE FOR A PERFECT WIFE (12/31/2019)
An old house, an old cookbook, notes in the cookbook that reveal the life of Nellie, and Alice who has some secrets of her own is what the reader finds in this lovely read.

We meet Alice who was fired from her job because of something she leaked and we learn of a box she …more
A Bookshop in Berlin
A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis
by Francoise Frenkel
Do Not Miss Reading This Book (12/10/2019)
Françoise Frenkel always loved books, libraries, and especially bookstores.

Her dream was to open a bookstore, but would her dream about opening a French bookstore in Berlin in 1920 be a good idea?

She was successful until 1935 when the police started showing up and …more
Reputation
Reputation
by Sara Shepard
Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews (12/4/2019)
An e-mail hack at a prestigious college reeked havoc on the campus of Aldrich University.

The hack exposed every single e-mail that administrators, doctors, faculty, and students had written.

The e-mails revealed secret affairs, unsavory situations, and other juicy details.

…more
The Family Upstairs
The Family Upstairs
by Lisa Jewell
Creepy, Bizarre, and Disturbing (11/5/2019)
Libby was looking forward to her 25th birthday because she knew she would be coming into an inheritance.

What she didn’t know was what she had inherited.

Libby finds out she has inherited her family’s million-dollar home that was haunted by horrible events the family endured.

…more

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