What do you get when you combine 1930s New York, Macy’s, a death threat and Santa Claus? A really fun holiday mystery! I received the audiobook ALC (advanced listener copy) of Murder on 34th Street by Mariah Fredericks from Minotaur Books in exchange for an honest review. First and foremost, thank you so much for sending this my way! Set in 1932, this book takes us behind the scenes at Macy’s, where Grace works to keep the famous department store running smoothly. Just days

Imagine losing the love of your life, marrying a near stranger, moving completely off-grid… and then having a dead man show up at your door. My rating of Call Off the Dark: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 My thoughts: Call Off the Dark by Hallie Shepherd is definitely a twisty genre-bender. I was lucky enough to receive the audiobook early from William Morrow and Harper Audio in exchange for my honest review, so thank you so much to them for letting me listen ahead of its September 22 publication

Adam and Amelia Wright, a married couple, had their lives going wrong for quite a while—despite what their last name may suggest. The couple wins a weekend getaway in Scotland, but it’s not the romantic getaway they thought it would be. Someone is determined to ruin this entire weekend and change their lives forever. Oh, and just to add some more weirdness to the story, Adam Wright has face blindness, which he has had his entire life, which means he can’t recognize family and

It’s January in the 1800s, and the people of a tiny Canadian town are learning that the forest doesn’t just take what it’s owed… it takes whatever it wants. **For future readers, there’s a potential spoiler in my review video on socials, but it’s also something that is revealed in the first chapter… so, maybe not really? I was given an ARC of Mere Joyce’s As The Snow Gathers by Poisoned Pen Press in exchange for my honest review, so first, thank you to all involved for making

Riley Sager, I officially reached the beginning 👀 My rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My thoughts on Final Girls: I'll be honest: I didn't head-over-heels love this one quite as much as some of Sager's later books. Survive the Night, Home Before Dark, Lock Every Door, and The Only One Left all had me more invested. But there were some moments in this psychological thriller that absolutely worked for me, and the ending? SO GOOD. I genuinely didn't see everything coming, and I love when a thr

“If my sister hadn’t been beautiful, none of it would have happened.” Well… THAT got my attention. Ruby Cooper is 16 when something horrible happens — something that ultimately tears her family apart. And the further Ruby and her sister Erin travel down their own paths, the more impossible it seems that their family will ever be put back together. And let me tell you… the things some of these characters DO. My jaw literally dropped several times while reading this. The sheer

With the authorities closing in and more lives on the line, there’s only one way out, for himself and the people he cares about: revenge. In Hollywood Payback by Jon Lindstrom, Jake Ferguson threw his life away more than two decades ago, and he’s done his time behind bars. Now, as he re-enters society, he realizes the world has changed vastly since he was last free. And now, all he wants to do is settle into a quiet life. It’s just too bad that other people have alternate pla

In Max Doty’s The House That Eats The Dead, a family moves into their dream home under almost too-good-to-be-true circumstances, only to find out that the house itself has an insatiable hunger. And what it’s craving isn’t ice cream or carbs. And as the hunger intensifies, the family starts to lose control. I was lucky to be sent this ARC by Bantam, which is an imprint of Penguin Random House, in exchange for my honest review. But first, I want to say a big thank you to Max Do

“And if her parents had ever given her a proper dollhouse, she would probably have turned it into a crime scene, and it would’ve been great.” Ooooh, doesn’t that quote just make you so happy? When six struggling, “mid-list” authors are invited to spend the weekend at an author’s private island, they arrive to discover a shocking twist: this famous author is dead! And he died before finishing his final book. These authors have been invited in to ghostwrite the ending of the bo

Kate married Max for one reason only: to protect his daughter, Holly, from him. And one day, in self-defence, Holly kills him. But they can’t call the cops—they’d never believe them! So what do they do? Hide the body, plan to dispose of it. But when an accidental run-in with the neighbour turns into way too many questions being asked, Kate can feel that her time is running out to fix this mess. So what’s she to do? I was given the audiobook of Don't Say A Word as an ALC (adva

One isolated cabin. One cheating boyfriend. One plan to get even. But wait a minute, there are THREE leading ladies in this revenge story! Nora, Cham and Ruby all discover they’ve been dating the same man, and he’s done some dirty, dirty deeds. So, of course, they hatch a plan for some payback, and it goes horribly wrong. I mean, what do you expect to happen in an isolated mountain cabin during a horrible snowstorm? I was fortunate to receive this ARC from Poisoned Pen Pres

Some things run in the blood… especially when your parent is a serial killer. Now, plenty of people have lousy parents, but Nicola’s father was just convicted of killing five women, including her best friend. Then her life goes to shit, she loses her teaching job, she’s about to lose her house… it’s bad. But then she’s extended an invitation to join the Death Row Club, a club with membership exclusive to those who are the adult children of serial killers. This club is havin

A shocking murder in a woman’s pool forces her to face the many secrets from her past... Oooh, that is a great line to pull you into this book! Perfect Life by Meredith Lavender & Kendall Shores sees Este Walker, wife to billionaire Beau Walker, living in a dream neighbourhood in Florida. But nothing is dreamy about finding a dead body in your pool after a hurricane blows through town. As we go back in time, sometimes by a couple of years, sometimes just by a few days before

A smouldering psychological thriller with a singular, mind-bending last page… That sounds GOOD, doesn’t it? Well, here are some more details… Faye’s beloved former college professor has died suddenly, and she must return to her past to say her goodbyes. When she flies back for the funeral, she runs into her ex, Henry, whose heart she broke 12 years ago when she left for Hollywood. Now that Henry and Faye are near each other again, something dangerous is brewing inside. That’s

Slasher season has officially arrived with E. L. Chen’s new book! When small-town Cedar Lake Falls plans to tear down the infamous cabin where “Slasher” was filmed, a group of friends decides to rent it out for one last hurrah to soak in all the movie memories. At first, the friends take the creepy happenings as funny pranks. But when it becomes clear that the group is being stalked by an unknown assailant, maybe the group is getting a little too close to the events of the mo

This Story Might Save Your Life follows two podcasters, Joy and Benny, and their podcast that discusses “against all odds” survival stories from around the world and makes them funny. The pair have found great success in recent years and are now working on a memoir. But along with the success comes a lot of BS, and all of that is starting to unravel, especially when Joy and her husband go missing. My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My Thoughts Tiffany Crum has written an awesome story! I th

Now, what can I say about Wolf Hour that won’t give too much away? Let’s stick to five things: This is a story set in 2016 Minneapolis, but also in 2022. Gang violence, mysterious murderers, and a very clear suspect. Cops… some great, some not so great, and one who is suspended but doesn’t really listen to that. The murderer and another main character share a tragic past. Taxidermy. That’s all I’ll say on that. My rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My thoughts I thought the story was great! Th

“Because there’s nothing I wouldn’t do for Luke.” HOLD UP. I’m not talking as myself here or about my husband Luke. I’m just restating the thoughts running through Addison Lowe’s head in Chelsea Conradt’s The Secret Attic. Addison and Luke are sorting through Luke’s mother’s house after her passing, and it’s almost like a hoarder situation in there. But when Addison finds a secret room (you guessed it, it's a secret attic) and Luke gets weirder and weirder with every box they

Ernest Cunningham has never been held hostage before, but he’s getting the full real-life experience in this latest Ernest Cunningham book! And once the doors are chained shut and there’s a murder at the bank during the “heist”, we are officially in a locked-room mystery. And those are what Ernest is best at solving. But who could’ve done it? What is each person doing at the bank on this specific day? That’s what we, as readers, get to find out! My rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My thoug

When Rain Winter was 12, she and her friends experienced something horrific: she was nearly abducted by a deranged man, and when he couldn’t get her, he took her friends. Then, after the abductor is released from prison, someone murders him. Many years later, Rain is living a nice suburban life with her husband and daughter, when another man is murdered—a man who may or may not have “deserved” his ending. Rain, who is now a journalist, is drawn to the story for some unexplain