EVERYONE IN THE GROUP CHAT DIES by L. M. Chilton is a very unusual British murder mystery with a very likable murder solver. Kirby, a 30-something small town journalist, finds herself and her friends involved with a 30 year old spree killer who is, apparently, killing again. The story, told in the first person streams off conscious style, is laugh out loud funny and bone chilling by turns. I did not guess the killer and would have enjoyed a few more bodies to pop up to keep me reading longer ...

Three women meet at a dog park, seemingly by accident, but two of them have ulterior motives for befriending the third. Interesting book about friendship, trust, loneliness with a bit of mystery thrown in.

In the book WHISPER SISTER by Jennifer S. Brown I learned that the term Whisper Sister was used in the Prohibition era for a female bartender- when legally there were no bars or the need to tend them. The main character arrived from Eastern Europe as a young child, not happily I might add. Her father secretly runs an illegal bar. As luck would have it, her father is arrested and sent to prison. Someone had to keep the family afloat and she steps in to do just that ... This coming of age in American story is set against the backdrop of the Jewish immigrants of the lower East Side in New York. An interesting story with lots of local color and interesting historical fiction thrown in. The end was somewhat predictable, but an enjoyable story non the less.

Colette Marceau is a young teen living in World War II era France at the start of the novel THE STOLEN LIFE OF COLETTE MARCEAU by Kristen Harmel. She lives with her mother, father and younger sister and is managing to live as well as can be expected in troubling times. One terrible night everything changes. The story follows Colette through the next eight decades of her life with many flashbacks and an equal number of secrets hidden and revealed. With a large cast of characters in both the United States and France, both upstanding and criminal, the plot is somewhat unbelievable, but readable non the less. The background and atmosphere were truly interesting.

This book was fun to read with it's history and the spicy chapters. A good read.

Is there anything Viola Davis cannot do? A brilliant actress and author. She doesn’t need James Patterson. It is easy to see that Ms. Davis wants to play the part of Judge Mary Stone in an adaption of the novel. I would gladly buy tickets. I hope there is a sequel to Judge Stone.

Battles, hardships, failures and triumphs frought the fight for independence. After a while one battle bled into another but I did learn a few things I never knew.

Unfortunately, I would not recommend this psychological thriller. It was slow and dull. I almost did not finish.

A delightful rom-com reminiscent of Pretty Woman. Dolly is from a working class family, visiting home in Rhode Island for the summer. Stewart is from a rich family in the town that's named for his family. They meet, he asks her to be his fake date, there's an arrangement. Do they end up having feelings for each other?

Historical fiction that begins in 1870 telling the story of young Chinese women who were sold to men in southern California, either as wives or sex slaves.