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4.5-STAR REVIEW: WHAT A WAY TO GO by Bella Mackie

Mystery Amy Wilson - 6 October 2025

Publication Date: October 7, 2025 With the bite of The White Lotus and the family dynamics of Succession, What a Way to Go is an uproarious and satirical whodunnit about people behaving badly—and perhaps finally getting their just...

4-STAR REVIEW: LAURYN HARPER FALLS APART by Shauna Robinson

Dark Humor JoAnne - 11 September 2025

Publication Date: September 9, 2025 For fans of Elyssa Friedland comes a rollicking fall novel from beloved author Shauna Robinson, where the friend who left and the friend who stayed must reunite to...

4-STAR REVIEW: I BET YOU’D LOOK GOOD IN A COFFIN By Katy Brent

Dark Humor Amy Wilson - 10 June 2025

Kitty Collins Series: Book 2 Publication Date: January 30, 2025 My name is Kitty Collins and I’m a serial killer. I don’t want to kill. It’s just so hard to resist. Some men really, really deserve it. Men...

5-STAR REVIEW: THE MARRIAGE VENDETTA by Caroline Madden

Dark Humor Amy Wilson - 10 June 2025

Publication Date: June 10, 2025 A darkly funny feminist debut about a resentful stay-at-home wife and her vindictive marriage therapist Revenge is in session. Eliza Sheridan is at her wits' end with her husband, Richard....

5-STAR REVIEW: THE RETIREMENT PLAN by Sue Hincenbergs

Mystery Tierney Linton - 6 May 2025

Publication Date: May 6, 2025 THEY'D KILL TO BE WIDOWS. Three best friends turn to murder to collect on their husbands’ life insurance policies… But the husbands have a plan of their own in...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: YONAH AND DEVORAH’S TRAVELING MUSIC THEATER by Suze Leonie

Literary Fiction Amy Wilson - 23 April 2025

Publication Date: October 1, 2024 When famous new media artist Eli Schmidt inherits a mysterious chest from his emotionally detached grandmother that he is instructed not to open, he can't curb his curiosity....

3.5-STAR REVIEW: GROOMED by Jody Paschal

Fiction Amy Wilson - 7 April 2025

Publication Date: November 29, 2024 Groomed is a dark comedy coming-of-age story about Myles "Mylo" Gunn, a middle-aged man turning 50 during the 2020 global pandemic and #MeToo Movement. With nothing but downtime with...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: I SEE YOU’VE CALLED IN DEAD by John Kenney

Comedy/Humor Amy Wilson - 3 April 2025

Publication Date: April 1, 2025 The Office meets Six Feet Under meets About a Boy in this coming-of-middle-age tale about having a second chance to write your life’s story. Bud Stanley is an obituary writer who is afraid to live....

5-STAR REVIEW: HOW TO KILL MEN AND GET AWAY WITH IT by Katy Brent

Mystery Amy Wilson - 13 June 2023

Publication Date: October 12, 2022 Meet Kitty Collins. FRIEND. LOVER. KILLER. He was following me. That guy from the nightclub who wouldn’t leave me alone. I hadn’t intended to kill him of course. But I wasn’t...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: THE CONNECTION GAME by S.S Turner

Fiction Amy Wilson - 6 April 2023

Publication Date: March 21, 2023 Benny Basilworth makes connections. A rare intellect, he sees things that others don't see and draws conclusions that others completely fail to grasp. He has the kind of...

4.5 STAR REVIEW: MERMAID CONFIDENTIAL by Tim Dorsey

Book Reviews Amy Wilson - 6 January 2022

Serge Storms: Book 25 Publication Date: January 25, 2022 Serge A. Storms gives condo living a try in this latest acid-splashed Florida crime caper from the “insanely funny” (New York Times Book Review) Tim Dorsey. Serge A. Storms...

5-STAR REVIEW: THE LAST SPEAKER OF SKALWEGIAN by David Gardner

Dark Humor Amy Wilson - 10 November 2021

Publication Date: September 8, 2021 Professor Lenny Thorson lives in a defunct revolving restaurant, obsesses over word derivations, and teaches linguistics at a fourth-rate college with a gerbil for a mascot. Lenny's thirty-four...