This gorgeous little novel was transcendent. Life: A Love Story by Elizabeth Berg was just not long enough because I didn't want it to end. Ninety-two-year-old Flo has been told that she is going to die in the next few weeks. Having no children and her husband being dead, she decides she will leave everything (which isn't much) to her old neighbor Ruthie. The novel becomes one long letter to Ruthie about the trinkets and treasures Ruthie might find in the inherited ho

Apocalyptic story? Sign me up! Takes place in Wisconsin and written by a Sconnie writer? Yes, please! Dating After the End of the World by Jeneva Rose was a fun read that delivered the thrills. Casey grew up in Wisconsin with a doomsday prepper father. She was bullied because of that as a child and always felt frustrated and embarrassed by her dad. In present day, Casey is working as a doctor at a Chicago hospital when a virus breaks out. And you guessed it, it's sp

Every time I read a Sally Hepworth novel I'm struck with how intensely readable it is. Mad Mabel is no different and as per Hepworth fiction, hard to categorize. Part thriller, part mystery, part comedy and every bit a study in human nature, Mad Mabel was superb. Both in the prologue and again towards the end of the book, protagonist Mabel says "It's interesting to note that there are two groups of people who are rarely, if ever, suspected of murder. These groups are

Find Me by Alafair Burke starts off with a bang. A woman is found after a major car accident, injured but alive and with zero identification. She has a rare and complete amnesia, called dissociative fugue, where she remembers nothing. Nothing about the accident and nothing about her entire life preceding the accident. The story picks up fifteen years later, where she has adopted the name of the town where she crashed (Hope, after Hopewell, New Jersey) and lives the li