Synopsis (Amazon link): Ten years ago, Izzy Stone’s mother fatally shot her father while he slept. Devastated by her mother’s apparent insanity, Izzy, now seventeen, […]
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Ward D by Freida McFadden
Synopsis: Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward. Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital’s […]
Read moreThe Ex by Freida McFadden
Scenario: Cassie thinks she has met the perfect man. Joel is sweet, handsome, romantic, and best of all, he’s crazy about Cassie. She thinks she’s […]
Read moreThe House Across the Lake by Riley Sager
Scenario: Be careful what you watch for . . .Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has retreated […]
Read moreMad Honey by Jody Picoult
Synopsis: (Amazon link) Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life—living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising […]
Read moreThe It Girl by Ruth Ware
I have not written as much about Ruth Ware as I have Freida McFadden. However, if you love Freida’s books, I think you will really […]
Read moreThe Surrogate Mother by Freida McFadden
Synopsis: Abby wants a baby more than anything. But after years of failed infertility treatments and adoptions that have fallen through, it seems like motherhood is not […]
Read moreThe Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
What’s the irony on the day I finally decide to write about this book that it would be announced that this story is being created […]
Read moreThe Family Remains by Lisa Jewell
Synopsis: (Amazon link) Early one morning on the shore of the Thames, DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene of a gruesome discovery. When […]
Read moreThe Housemaid’s Secret by Freida McFadden
Synopsis: It’s hard to find an employer who doesn’t ask too many questions about my past. So I thank my lucky stars that the Garricks […]
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