Chances Are, by Richard Russo, is one of those great summer reads for Boomers: set on an island, with reminiscences galore, back to the late 60s-early 70s, with references to Vietnam, college adventures and relationships, and then the counterpoint of the kind of wistfulness that people in their mid-sixties get when they look back at …
I love Laura Lippman (particularly her Tess Monaghan mystery series), so I was happy to receive a copy of her latest book, Lady in the Lake, thanks to Harper Collins/William Morrow and NetGalley in exchange for my honest review. Lippman has taken her Baltimore roots and her experience as a newspaper journalist and based her …
My true crime interest in general and the fact that I have family members living in north San Diego County ensured that I REALLY wanted to read She’s So Cold by Donald McInnis, and thanks to J&E Publications and NetGalley, I received a copy in exchange for this honest review. Back in 1998, a 12-year-old …
The Missing Wife by Sam Carrington sounded like another woman-in-danger-psychological-thriller novel. It has an interesting premise: Louisa is turning forty, living with her husband and their teenage daughter, and her newborn son (surprise!) She is exhausted, having trouble remembering and focusing (including on important things, like “did I feed the baby?” And “where did I …