book review | Swan Song by Elin Hilderbrand 🌊 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ setting: Nantucket, MA ⚓️ Police chief, Ed Kapenash, is on the brink of retirement, this summer will be his last. Although his last summer as chief won’t be without crisis. A very wealthy and mysterious couple moves to the i

book review | Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano 💨 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ setting: Virginia 🌻 Finlay Donovan is a stressed out single mother and a struggling author. While meeting with her literary agent at Panera Bread, someone overhears their conversation and mistakes Finlay for

book review | Not A Happy Family by Shari Lapena 🐇 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ setting: Brecken Hill, upstate New York 🌳 A very wealthy couple, Fred and Sheila Merton, are found murdered in their home following a tense family dinner. Leaving behind three adult children who stand to inherit a lot o

book review | The Last Housewife by Ashley Winstead ⛓️ my rating: ⭐️ Setting: upstate New York 🌳 Shay returns to the cult-like college she escaped to investigate the death of her best friend. Which she finds out has uncanny similarities to another past tragedy. Shay uncovers a world of pat

book review | Forests, Fishing, & Forgery by Tonya Kappes ☀️ my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: Normal, Kentucky 🌳 It’s Labor Day weekend, one of the busiest times of the year for RV park owner, Mae West. Daniel Boone National Park is in danger of closure due to drought which would be devastat

book review | The Summer Nanny by Audrey J. Cole 💰 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: Seattle, Washington ☁️ A nanny’s worst nightmare turns into reality when the little boy she is caring for is kidnapped. Leading to a hostage situation, suspenseful fight for survival, and discovery of a deeper co

book review | Three Days In June by Anne Tyler 🌸 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: Baltimore, Maryland 🌷 This story follows Gail Banes, a socially awkward mother of the bride, during a chaotic three day period as she navigates her daughter’s wedding weekend. While at the same time dealing with

book review | Her Last Summer by Nina Manning 🏊🏼‍♀️ my rating: ⭐️⭐️ Setting: UK 🇬🇧 Actress Rey Levine takes a role that requires her to swim in the ocean, something she hasn’t done in 15 years. She is forced to confront a traumatic past involving a childhood tragedy. Specifically the dis

book review | The Storm by Rachel Hawkins 🌺 my rating: ⭐️⭐️✨ setting: St. Medard’s Bay, Alabama 🏖️ Set in a small hurricane prone town in coastal Alabama, a decades-old cold case resurfaces when journalist, August Fletcher, arrives in town to write a book about the murder of the governor’s

book review | Death By Chocolate Marshmallow Pie by Sarah Graves🧁🍰 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: Eastport, Maine ⚓️ Bakery owners, Jake and Ellie, investigate the murder of a rival shop owner. With Ellie’s gun as the murder weapon, making her the prime suspect. Jake and Ellie must solve this

book review | The Passengers by John Marrs 💥 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: UK 🇬🇧 Eight strangers are each trapped in a self-driving car, which have been hijacked and broadcast live to the world. They are each forced onto a collision course and the public must decide who lives and dies whil

book review | The Lost Letters From Martha’s Vineyard by Michael Callahan 👠 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ setting: Martha’s Vineyard 🍇 This is a dual-timeline story about a 1950s actress named Mercy Welles. Decades later her granddaughter, Kit, uncovers her secret past which leads her to Martha’s Vine

book review | The House Across The Lake by Riley Sager🔪 my rating: ⭐️✨ setting: Vermont 🌳 This is the type of story where an outsider is looking into someone’s life from afar and thinks they know what is going on. But instead they have it all wrong. A widowed actress, Casey Fletcher, e

book review | Every Time I Go On Vacation, Someone Dies by Catherine Mack ✈️ my rating: ⭐️⭐️ Setting: Italy 🇮🇹 Bestselling mystery author, Eleanor Dash, is on a book tour in Italy when a real-life mystery unfolds. This story follows Eleanor as she navigates literary rivals, crazy fans, an

book review | Summers At The Saint by Mary Kay Andrews 🎀🎉 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: coastal Georgia 🌴 Traci Eddings is the widowed owner of the historic St. Cecelia hotel in coastal Georgia. She must save the hotel from financial ruin while dealing with family drama, a mysterious drowni

book review | The Last One at the Wedding by Jason Rekulak 🌹 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: Osprey Cove, coastal New Hampshire ⚓️ Frank is set to attend his estranged daughter Maggie’s lavish wedding to a tech billionaire’s son. When Frank arrives the luxurious private estate where the three

book review | This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune 👒 my rating: ⭐️⭐️ Setting: Prince Edward Island, Canada 🇨🇦 Lucy has a one-night stand with a man on Prince Edward Island. Only to find out that said man is her best friend’s brother. Leading to a years long on and off secret si

book review | That’s Not My Name by Megan Lally 🪪🩸 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: rural Oregon 🌲 This book consists of two stories told concurrently. A teenage girl wakes up, bruised and bloody, with amnesia. She is taken in by a man claiming to be her father but she has no recollection of t

book review | The Chain by Adrian McKinty ☎️ my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: Plum Island, MA 🦞 This story follows a mother, Rachel Klein, whose daughter is kidnapped. The kidnappers force Rachel to kidnap another child in order to get hers back. Perpetuating a chain of kidnapping schemes and

book review | The Tenant by Freida McFadden 🍎 my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Setting: New York City 🌆 Blake Porter unexpectedly looses his job. To try to help with the financial trouble, he and his fiancée, Krista, rent out a room in their home to a woman named Whitney. Strange and unsettling events