The Furies
I was so excited to receive a copy of The Furies! The story summary, about four private-school girls and the occult reminded me of The Craft, and when I got the novel, even the cover art reminded me of...
View ArticleA Hundred Suns
I was already interested A Hundred Suns by Karin Tanabe after reading her wonderful previous novel, The Gilded Years. In A Hundred Suns, American Jessie Holland Lasage moves to Vietnam, or French...
View ArticlePast Imperfect
I really enjoyed Julian Fellowes’ Snobs, a drily observational manners novel in which a marchioness sticks to her childhood nickname of Googie as a power move to keep social inferiors calling her by...
View ArticleYou Are Not Alone
I just loved An Anonymous Girl, so I was delighted to read Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen’s newest novel, You Are Not Alone. This is another psychological suspense, and continues to explore the...
View ArticleThe Wartime Sisters
As girls growing up in Brooklyn, Ruth and Millie Kaplan were taught to see Ruth as The Smart One and Millie as The Pretty One, implying, of course, that Ruth isn’t much to look at and Millie isn’t all...
View ArticleAll Girls
All Girls, by Emily Layden, is an ensemble novel set in a girls boarding school in Connecticut. It’s more a series of interesting vignettes over an academic year than a plot with a resolution. The...
View ArticleModern Southern Gothic/Jane Eyre in “The Wife Upstairs”
In The Wife Upstairs, by Rachel Hawkins, Jane, a former foster kid, is a dog-walker for several families in the gated community of Thornfield Estates. Jane’s not exactly a klepto, but sometimes the...
View ArticleThe Good Sister
The Good Sister is another amazing domestic suspense by Sally Hepworth. Twin sisters, Rose and Fern, are particularly close after a troubled childhood. The story is told in alternating perspective,...
View ArticleThe Golden Couple
I didn’t love The Golden Couple quite as much as I loved Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen’s previous novels, You Are Not Alone and An Anonymous Girl, but it’s still a tense, twisty thriller. I think...
View ArticleThe Matchmaker’s Gift
The Matchmaker’s Gift, by Lynda Cohen Loigman, tells the story of a grandmother and granddaughter who share a special ability. I’ve really enjoyed Lynda Cohen Loigman’s other novels, The Wartime...
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