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  • Walk the Wire by David Baldacci

    Walk the Wire by David Baldacci

    David Baldacci’s latest book, Walk the Wire, continues the story of Amos Decker, a former football player whose injuries have rewired his brain so that he has some very strange abilities, including remembering everything, even stuff he wants to forget. Oh, and he sees the recently dead in electrifying shades of blue.

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    April 24, 2020
    Fiction, mystery, Thriller
    Amos Decker, David Baldcacci, Fracking, Mystery-Thriller, Walk the Wire
  • Pretty as a Picture

    Pretty as a Picture

    An isolated island, two unsolved murders two decades apart, and a megalomaniacal director are all part of the job for Marissa Dahl, a talented film director who finds herself in the middle of it all.

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    April 22, 2020
    Fiction, mystery, Psychological Suspense
    #netgallery, #prettyasapicture, Elizabeth Little, mystery, Pretty as a Picture, Psychological Suspense
  • Darling Rose Gold

    Darling Rose Gold

             Poor Patty Watts. She did everything she could for her daughter Rose Gold who was confined to a wheelchair, allergic to everything and struggled with an unbelievable number of health issues beginning at birth. Patty couldn’t work because she devoted herself to her daughter’s care. Luckily neighbors were kind, holding fundraisers and helping Patty…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    April 21, 2020
    Fiction, Psychological Suspense, Psychology
    Child abuse, Darling Rose Gold, MSBP, Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, Psychological thriller, Stephanie Wrobel
  • My Lovely Wife

    My Lovely Wife

    “It didn’t start off as a murder,” says Samantha Downing, whose bestselling first novel My Lovely Wife (Berkley Trade 2020, $16) was recently released in paperback. “The first death was accidental but not the second.”

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    April 3, 2020
    Fiction, Humor, mystery, Thriller
    Dark humor, My Lovely Wife, mystery, Psychological thriller, Samantha Downing, Satire
  • Follow Me: An Instagram Influencer Discovers the Dark and Dangerous Side of the Internet

    Follow Me: An Instagram Influencer Discovers the Dark and Dangerous Side of the Internet

    Being a social media influencer with over a million followers means never feeling alone but it also means opening your life to a stalker as Audrey Miller soon finds out.

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    March 20, 2020
    mystery, Thriller
    influencer, internet, Mystery-Thriller, RAT, Remote administration tool, Social media, stalker, Washington D.C., web, webcams
  • The Splendid and the Vile. A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

    The Splendid and the Vile. A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

              When New York Times bestselling author Erik Larson (Devil in the White City; Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania) moved to New York five years ago, he had what he describes as a revelation. He had watched, horrified, as 911 unfolded on CNN.           “But I wondered what was it like for…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    March 11, 2020
    American History, Authors, History, New York Times Best Seller
    Blitz, Erik Larson, London, Luftwaffe, Nazis, Royal Air Force, Winston Churchill, World War II
  • The Girl in White Gloves: A Novel of Grace Kelly

    The Girl in White Gloves: A Novel of Grace Kelly

    A beautiful Hollywood star; a handsome rich prince. It should have been perfect. But, of course, it wasn’t.

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    March 6, 2020
    Berkley, Fiction
    Actress, Cinderella story, Grace Kelly, Hollywood, Monaco, Movie star, Prince Rainier of Monaco, Princess Grace
  • The Other Mrs.

    The Other Mrs.

             After staying up late reading The Other Mrs. by Chicago author Mary Kubica, I have a word of advice for women out there. If you’re husband’s sister commits suicide and her home on a remote island off the coast of Maine is yours if you agree to live there and take care of her…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    March 6, 2020
    Chicago, Fiction, Hauntings, mystery, Psychological Suspense, Thriller
    drama, family dynamics, isolated island, Maine, Mary Kubica, Mystery-Thriller, Suspense
  • Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

    Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

    Tightrope tells the tale of an America that is still in the process of losing well-paying jobs, where people work two or more jobs just to make ends meet, where one illness can turn into a bankruptcy for those who are uninsured or underinsured and where opioids and other drugs lead to incarceration, early death…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    March 2, 2020
    Authors, Culture, Knopf, New York Times Best Seller, New York Times bestseller, Politics
    columnist, East Chicago Indiana, Knopf, Kristoff, New York Times bestseller, NYT columnist, Opioid crisis, Pulitzer Prize winner, Tightrope, WuDunn
  • How Quickly She Disappears

    How Quickly She Disappears

                Intrigued by the tales his grandparents told of living in Tanacross, a small Alaskan village back in the late 1930s, Indiana author Raymond Fleischmann has woven a mystery set in that time frame and location.             “I grew up hearing their stories about Alaska, the cold, the isolation, the long days and the long…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    February 15, 2020
    Audiobooks, Fiction, Indiana, mystery, Penguin Random House, Suspense, Thriller
    Alaska, Disappearance, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Kidnapping, Murder, mystery, Secrets, Suspense, Thriller
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