Charlie's Donlea's Guess Again takes readers on a breakneck cat and mouse chase throughout Wisconsin, from Milwaukee to the northern tip. An insidious plan, concocted by unhinged people with haunting connections to each other, unfolds in this well-told thrilling novel. Ethan Hall is a former detective with the Wisconsin Division of Criminal Investigation turned ER doctor. Burnt out by the barrage of grieving families inevitable in his line of work, Ethan left his

Shari Lapena wows with She Didn't See it Coming . With the on-point unfolding of details and Lapena's clear, concise writing, this reader was hooked on this whodunit from page one all the way to the surprising end. Brydon Frost doesn't pick up her three-year-old from daycare one day. Her husband Sam is called, and when he gets home with the girl, he sees that Brydon's computer, phone, and wallet are still inside of their apartment, but Brydon has disappeared. Nat

Wow, be prepared for a terrific page-turner with Jessie Garcia's The Business Trip . This psychological thriller from a first-time novelist and Wisconsin-based writer was top-notch. Two women prepare for a trip. One, Jasmine, has every reason to be frightened as she makes her stealthy escape from her controlling and abusive boyfriend. Having saved and scraped together money for months for her one-way airplane ticket, Jasmine doesn't know what she's going to do when sh

It's rare when a book is so good I finish it in one day. With Claire Lynch's A Family Matter , I sat right down at the library and devoured about a quarter of it right then and there. By 8:30 that night I was done but didn't want to be. In 2022, Heron (nicknamed from Henry) is dealing with a terminal cancer diagnosis. His daughter, Maggie, and family don't know yet because Heron feels as if telling her will make it real. Maggie is everything to Heron because he raised

Everyone tries to imagine a future with AI taking more and more of a role in our society. The Family Experiment by John Marrs is a...

Freida McFadden can always be counted on for a quick-paced, easy to read page-turner. The Crash delivers just that as long as you're...

Mary Weber is a beloved high school teacher in Appleton, Wisconsin, respected by students for her no-nonsense approach to managing her...

I love a good wedding mystery and Ally Condie's The Unwedding was fun to hunker down with. Set in a remote, beautiful location where a...

Starting this book, something just told me that it was going to be uplifting. Maybe it was the humor Anna Johnston infuses throughout...

James by Percival Everett is a retelling of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn story, but through the eyes of Jim, a black slave. Riveting,...

Lisa Jewell has done it again with an unputdownable psychological thriller in Don't Let Him In . Stellar character development and a...

Alice McDermott's Absolution is a viewpoint of 1963 Vietnam from the officer's wives amidst the elevating conflict between North and...

Peter Swanson's Kill Your Darlings is a study in narcissism. Married for thirty plus years, the book opens with Wendy plotting to kill...

Leave it to Freida McFadden to bring a fast-paced, easy to read novel that's bound to have a twist. One By One is a compelling mystery...

It probably goes without saying that the villain in this novel made me mad. But the women in this novel also made me mad. The plot made...

Sometimes I want a book that's just pure entertainment and I don't have to think too hard. The Wife Stalker by the author team that...

An on-going illicit love affair. A luxury Manhattan hotel. A couple, each married to other people and with children, takes a whole...

To call Matt Haig's The Life Impossible magical realism is to reduce it to one thing. This novel is more than just one thing. It is a...

Jessica Anya Blau's Shopgirls is a feel-good, light-hearted breeze of a novel. So fun to read! Zippy Tremblay is a...

Liz Moore's The God of the Woods is a brilliant, unforgettable story. Set at a summer camp in upstate New York in 1975,...