We’re seeing Kirby Cornell in two different parts of her life: when she’s 29 and a reporter for a small, local newspaper and living with roommates in a crappy flat with a crappy landlord in a town known for some horrific murders that happened in the 90s, and suddenly, a new roommate shows up one day. Then, we also have her a year later, and she’s now 30, she hasn’t been back to the small town of Crowhurst in 12 months because of the events that happened back then. The story l

A much beloved mother/wife/sister disappears, and the entire condo building turns into a potential crime scene. What happened to her? Is she still alive? Is she actually dead? If so, where is she? How could a potential murderer get her out of the building without anyone seeing it? How could her perfect life end in such an imperfect way? That’s what we need to figure out! My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 My Thoughts I have mixed feelings about this one. But regardless, I’m always going to

It’s been 5 years since Lily and her best friend Mary Louise moved from Montana to Paris. Both women moved with the goal of becoming great artists, but these five years have not been kind to them or their friendship. When Mary Louise decides to move out of their shared apartment, leaving Lily on her own, Lily realizes she needs to get her act together. Lily is hired on at the American Library in Paris (ALP), a place she’s heard about all her life from an elderly neighbour in

In City of the Muse by Kate Hilton, a female researcher/papyrologist named Helen arrives in Egypt to join an excavation crew in the early 1900s, and though she is thrilled to be a part of the team, she learns that the only reason she is there is because her predecessor disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Then, in Toronto in 2019, a different female researcher named Maddie is feeling like her whole career has hit a dead end/stalled out, you name it. But in a weird way,

One day, Selena finds herself working late in the city and she must suddenly run for the late train back home to her husband and children. She takes a seat beside a beautiful stranger in the busy train car, and they strike up a conversation as they wait for a track delay to clear. In this weird situation they’re in, both ladies start spilling secrets - let's call it spilling confessions - about their lives, and a kind of bond forms. When the train starts moving again, it’s li

This is a family’s descent into utter darkness. When Peggy, Drew and their teenage son move to a small canal boat, they think all their family problems will be solved, but it’s really just the beginning. Both Peggy and Drew are writers, and when Peggy finds sudden success, Drew’s jealousy knows no bounds. He moves their boat further and further away from the rest of civilization, just adrift in the middle of nowhere, and where Peggy was once the glue that held this family tog