The Housemaid Is Watching (The Housemaids #3) Every day I clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor. I try to ignore how Nina…
Tag: Suspense Fiction
Book Review | The Housemaid’s Wedding | Freida McFadden
The Housemaid’s Wedding (The Housemaids #2.5) The Housemaid’s Wedding is a winter-themed short story meant to fill in the long gap between Book 2 of the Housemaid series (The Housemaid’s Secret) and Book 3 (The Housemaid is Watching). It can be read either between Book 2 and Book 3, or after Book 3. Today is supposed to be the…
Book Review | The Housemaid | Freida McFadden
The Housemaid (The Housemaids #1) by Freida McFadden Every day I clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor. I try to ignore how…
Book Review | The Housemaid’s Secret | Freida McFadden
The Housemaid’s Secret (The Housemaid #2) As he continues showing me their incredible penthouse apartment, I have a terrible feeling about the woman behind closed doors. But I can’t risk losing this job – not if I want to keep my darkest secret safe . . . It’s hard to find an employer who…
Book Review | Abscond | Abraham Verghese
Abscond by Abraham Verghese Fate challenges a boy to find his place in the world in a powerful short story from Abraham Verghese, the New York Times bestselling author of The Covenant of Water. It’s a New Jersey summer in 1967, and thirteen-year-old Ravi Ramanathan has the makings of a tennis prodigy. His surgeon father encourages his…
Book Review | Eleven Numbers | Lee Child
Eleven Numbers An American mathematician’s assignment in Russia spirals into a high-stakes maze of shifting loyalties and intrigue in a propulsive short thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child. Nathan Tyler is an unassuming professor at a middling American university with a rather obscure specialty in mathematics—in short, a nobody from nowhere. So…
Book Review | Nothing To Lose | Lee Child
Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher 12) Two lonely towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher never turns back. It’s not in his nature. All he wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets is big trouble. So in Lee Child’s electrifying new novel, Reacher—a man…
Book Review | Merry and Bright | Debbie Macomber
Merry and Bright by Debbie Macomber Merry Knight is pretty busy these days. She’s taking care of her family, baking cookies, decorating for the holidays, and hoping to stay out of the crosshairs of her stressed and by-the-book boss at the consulting firm where she temps. Her own social life is the last thing…
Book Review | Die Trying | Lee Child
Die Trying (Jack Reacher #2) In a Chicago suburb, a dentist is met in his office parking lot by three men and ordered into the trunk of his Lexus. On a downtown sidewalk, Jack Reacher and an unknown woman are abducted in broad daylight by two men – practiced and confident – who stop…
Book Review | Life on the Refrigerator Door | Alice Kuipers
Life on the Refrigerator Door Mom, I went to the store. See inside the fridge. I watered the plants. I cleaned out Peter’s cage. I tidied the sitting room. And the kitchen. And I did the washing up. I’m going to bed. Your live-in servant, Claire Life on the Refrigerator Door is told exclusively…