23+ hour, 37+ min ago  (392+ words) When their brother Pete went missing two years ago on Mount Mercy, officials shook their heads. "He never should have been here; he was warned. Mount Mercy takes things." After a disastrous first attempt to locate him, they called off…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago  (226+ words) The South of France is stunning, though not without its imperfections, from pickpockets to burglars to the occasional cold-blooded killer. But in his twenty-five years of service, Baxter'with a spotless reputation as a polished, well-mannered butler'has never run into any…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (223+ words) After a violent confrontation with the man next door, Dove paints a daring question on the front wall of her Sunshine Coast hinterland farm: "What would you do if you had a whole day on earth free of men?" When…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (127+ words) Either side of the road was red earth, yellow grass, and scattered low trees and shrubs, a magnificent expanse as potentially hostile as it was beguiling. 2% through novel Never did she acknowledge the fact that the thing she'd been running…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (341+ words) As an infant, Kit Mc Kittrick's foster sister Akiko was abandoned at a firehouse. Now 32, Akiko has received an unsettling phone call from a woman who says that she knew her birth mother but refuses to divulge any details except…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (400+ words) Click by Sarah Bailey is a sequel to her 2021 book The Housemate where we first met Olive (Oli) Groves. Apparently I wasn't alone in wanting to see more of the tenacious but likeable journalist as Bailey has resurrected that character…...

3+ mon, 1+ day ago  (362+ words) Kate and Matt Crowther are finally moving out of London, in search of a better life for their young family. Trade Cottage seems to be the house of their dreams - and they immediately hit it off with the sellers, Rosemary…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (204+ words) Cold case reporter Sloane Grayson has come to a small mountain town in Virginia to solve a mystery. Thirty years ago, her mother was one of four women who vanished during a music festival. The event's promoter was eventually convicted…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (351+ words) When I Kill You by BA Paris is a twisty thriller featuring a woman who believes her past has come back to haunt her. For Nell has not always been Nell, and over a dozen years earlier 19-year old Elle…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago  (255+ words) Two problems: A tech-billionaire whose psychological crisis could have catastrophic implications for the global order. And the abduction of vulnerable young woman, Anca, seized from the New York City Subway, held, hurt, then discarded like trash. One solution: Evan Smoak,…...