Category Archives: Mystery

The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell

Posted on May 9, 2025 by bseat

It is so satisfying to read a book by an author who is clever in their plotting! This book was quite intricately and deftly written with three or four different plot lines, depending on how you count them, interwoven in … Continue reading →

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Throne of Glass Series by Sarah J. Maas

Posted on May 2, 2025 by bseat

It is always a delight to find a series, especially a a fantasy series, that you really enjoy! Recently, I am finding that I am getting more picky, or just not willing to commit to a fantasy series unless I … Continue reading →

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Presumed Guilty by Scott Turow

Posted on April 18, 2025 by bseat

Turow has written a superb novel about the complicated process of defending someone accused of murder. How much do we really know about another person? How much do our past experiences of betrayal, or misjudgments about someone color the way … Continue reading →

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The Seventh Floor by David McCloskey

Posted on April 11, 2025 by bseat

A good spy novel makes me very happy! It’s even better is when a former CIA agent is the author because you get a sense of truth and reality in the writing. But when the former CIA agent has a … Continue reading →

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Nemesis by Gregg Hurwitz

Posted on March 21, 2025 by bseat

Every year in late February, early March I look forward to Hurwitz’s latest release in the Orphan X series. I have been following Evan Smoak, otherwise known as Orphan X, since the beginning and have loved to see the development … Continue reading →

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Every Time I Go On Vacation, Someone Dies by Catherine Mack

Posted on February 14, 2025 by bseat

This was a fun book! The characters were quirky, the dialogue was snarky and crisp and there was a crazy twisty plot!  I just hope it is not a harbinger of what might happen while I am on vacation, since … Continue reading →

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The Last Trial by Scott Turow

Posted on February 7, 2025 by bseat

This is the 11th book in Scott Turow’s Kindle County series. It features a now 85 year old Alejandro “Sandy” Stern, who back in the day was a brilliant defense lawyer. We first met Sandy in Presumed Innocent, the first … Continue reading →

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The Eyes of the Queen by Oliver Clements

Posted on December 13, 2024 by bseat

I have to say that I tend to like historical fiction and novels about spies. So if you combine the two? Well let’s just say I was all over this series as soon as I found about it! John Dee … Continue reading →

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Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell

Posted on December 6, 2024 by bseat

I almost didn’t read this book because it seemed like it was one of those “young girl gets kidnapped” books which I find too gut wrenching and impossible to read. But this has a very different twist to that genre … Continue reading →

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Conclave by Robert Harris

Posted on November 22, 2024 by bseat

While looking through all the books that Harris has written about Italy and Rome, I came across this book about the Vatican and the process for choosing a new Pope. I was intrigued because it was set not in the … Continue reading →

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