The VANISHED by Bill Pronzini, written over 50 years ago, is a classic old time detective novel in the style of Sam Spade or The Maltese Falcon. "A dame walked into the office...." kind of story. This book is the second entry into a long running series that features the "nameless detective". The private detective is hired to find a women's missing fiance. The hunt is wonderful to follow in the pre cell phone, pre internet world that nameless inhabits. I thoroughly enjoyed it and plan to read more of Pronzini's work.

Unlikable characters, a ridiculous amount of Taylor Swift mentions, absolutely no plausibility and the most outrageous sense of ‘justice’- this book was not for me

This is a dual time line story -- the present and Poland during the Nazi takeover. I am a fan of Kelly Rimmer's books and liked this one, too.

The lies of four teenagers 15 years ago haunts them, and must be revisited as a body is found.

Molly Jong-Fast created a “can’t look away from this vessel careening rapidly toward a cliff kind of memoir.” I would never have guessed that life with Erica Jong, the author of The Fear of Flying, and lovely celebrity of the 70’s could have been such a mess . What’s even more unbelievable is that the author and celebrity is still alive in 2025. There is so much name dropping in this Memoir of a Daughter, one might suspect that the work is actually fiction. I remember reading novels by Molly’s grandfather, Howard Fast, in the 70’s. Molly wails that she could never get enough time with her mother who is still raging alcoholic. Molly also identifies as an alcoholic and talks about her drug use in the past but says she has been sober for some 20 years. She works as a journalist and political pundit, has a wonderful husband and three terrific kids and actually acknowledges that her life is a form of normal. There is love on every page of this book or I might have simply put it down with all the sadness that also occupies almost every page.

Great sequel to another great book, The Woman in Cabin 10 which I read when it first came out. I had to find a synopsis of the book to remember the plot. The Woman in Suite 11 picks up 10 years later. I'm a big fan of Ruth Ware. If you like mysteries/thrillers, you'll most likely love her books as well.

This is the sequel to The Woman in Cabin 10. It starts out with you thinking you made a mistake and are reading the same book again. Then it goes on with some twists and turns but it takes forever to get to those. Very slow and by the time you get to the end, you don't even really care anymore. Disappointing.

This is a simple and heart-warming story.

I loved the ending to this major story arc!

Five high school friends make a forever pact to protect each other called the covenant. One night out in the woods a mysterious staircase appears and one friend walks up it never to be seen again. Years later, the friends are brought together to see another staircase in the woods and they all walk up it this time in hopes of finding their friend. What lies at the top of the staircase is a haunted house of sorts with a changing labyrinth of rooms and horrors and replays of their traumas that they must overcome to get out. Will they get out of this nightmare? Do they find their long gone friend? Read and find out.