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With A Vengeance by Riley Sager
One train, no stops. We’re headed for a deadly game of survival and revenge, all set in motion by the young and beautiful Anna Matheson. This has been a plan 12 years in the making, and her only goal is to get the small group of people she’s gathered on this historic train to confess to the crimes they committed against her family. But things will quickly derail in this story. My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My thoughts This is definitely a locked room (locked train?) mystery, but I don’

Brittani
May 71 min read


The Parisian Chapter by Janet Skeslien Charles
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

Brittani
May 52 min read


The Chambermaid's Key by Genevieve Graham 🔑
Welcome to “The Dominion”, where secrets lurk behind every door. It’s 1929, and The Dominion Hotel has opened on Front Street in Toronto (does that sound familiar?). Rosie Ryan has her heart set on becoming a chambermaid, and when she’s just trying make enough money to get out of her current living situation, things start to go awry. Then we have Bridget in Toronto 2024, a building inspector overseeing renovations happening at The Dominion. When she finds mysterious boxes, se

Brittani
Apr 202 min read


City of the Muse by Kate Hilton
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,

Brittani
Apr 132 min read
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