Reviewer’s favorites 2024

Vicki Kondelik’s List

Better the Blood, Michael Bennett  (2022).

Night Flight to Paris, Cara Black  (2023).

What Time the Sexton’s Spade Doth Rust, Alan Bradley  (2024).

To Slip the Bonds of Earth, Amanda Flower (2024).

Moonflower Murders, Anthony Horowitz (2020).

A Fatal Reception, Kathleen Marple Kalb (2024).

Blood Sisters, Vanessa Lillie  (2023).

The Last Hope, Susan Elia MacNeal (2024).

Murder at the White Palace, Allison Montclair (2024).

The Grey Wolf, Louise Penny  (2024). read more

Sally Hepworth: Darling Girls

Standalone

Sally Hepworth’s latest standalone, Darling Girls, explores what it means to be a foster child put in a very bad situation. Three foster sisters, Jessica, Norah, and Alicia grew up in an idyllic looking farmhouse in rural Australia, with the kindly seeming Miss Fairchild. However, Miss Fairchild is manipulative and overbearing, causing her “daughters” to never want to see her again when they finally escape her questionable care. All three have gone have become adults with issues stemming from their often confusing, unpleasant upbringing. But all three have also come out as very close sisters. Family. read more