Written by Thelonia
Five strangers wake up in a room together. There's a body in the bathroom. One of them is the murderer, and now Morgan Sheppard has only three hours to figure out who it is, or they'll all die.
Showing posts with label mystery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mystery. Show all posts
Guess Who 🤦♀️ Book Review
Five strangers wake up in a room together. There's a body in the bathroom. One of them is the murderer, and now Morgan Sheppard has only three hours to figure out who it is, or they'll all die.
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle ⁉️ Book Review
Written by Thelonia
Aiden wakes up in the woods. He doesn't know where he is, who he is, or who it was he just saw being chased across the lawn. All he knows is he has to help someone. Someone called Anna.
Sold on a Monday 💰 Book Review
Written by Thelonia
Based on an iconic photo from 1948 with a disreputable reputation, Sold on a Monday takes the photo and the controversy behind it and creates an entire world for the family pictured, the journalist who took the photo, and everyone who gets embroiled in the affair, from mafiosos, orphanages, returns from the dead, and some light kidnapping.
Where the Crawdads Sing 🦐 Book Review
Written by Thelonia
Where the Crawdads Sing starts with abandonment. Kya's family, starting with her Mother, leave her one by one, making her more and more alone in family shack in the middle North Carolina marshland in search of bigger and brighter things. Eventually, only Kya, the youngest of the children, is left. But instead of giving up, she digs her heels in and more than survives, thrives, with the help of some of the folks in town and her own knowledge of the land (and water) that surrounds her.
A coming-of-age story that entwines romance, science, and a mystery, Where the Crawdads Sing is perhaps the best book of the year, and feels like an instant classic.
The Banker's Wife 👥 Book Review
Written by Thelonia
Plane crashes and twisting French roads collide in this financial thriller that pits two women against a Swiss Bank due to circumstances outside of their control. A page-turner through and through, check out The Banker's Wife if you want a quick fun read for the summer!
The Staircase 🤬 Series Review
Written by Thelonia
The Staircase is considered the granddaddy of all true crime documentaries. The original 2004 documentary (8 episodes long) centered around the murder of Kathleen Peterson and her husband Michael's defense strategy during his 2004 trial for her murder (on the title Staircase). The series came back for 2 episodes in 2012 to cover Michael's efforts at getting a retrial (minimal spoilers), and was recently picked up by Netflix, who also produced 3 new episodes (filmed in 2018) which brought the entire series of 13 episodes to Netflix, where it could be consumed in one go by a whole new market who perhaps missed the original series.
Really, if you like true crime documentaries, or know anything about this case, you will probably just wind up yelling at the tv screen for approximately 90% of The Staircase's run-time.
Undead Girl Gang 🧟♀️ Book Review
Written by Thelonia
When her best friend Riley is found dead in a brook, Mila Flores is heartbroken, but doesn't accept the official story that Riley killed herself. Suspecting something more nefarious, Mila turns to a mysterious grimoire that Riley ordered before her death, and the resurrection spell she finds within. But when she casts the spell in the graveyard at midnight, more than just Riley come back...and now she has three resurrected teenage girls to deal with, and only one week to catch their killer before they go back to being dead.
Bobbie Clearly 🌽 Theatre Review
Written by Thelonia
Bobby killed Casey in a cornfield in Milton, Nebraska ten years ago. Now he's being released, and no one in Milton knows how to feel about - or why he did it in the first place.
A Guide for Murdered Children 👼 Book Review
Written by Thelonia
In Sarah Sparrow's new debut novel, the souls of murdered children possess the bodies of the recently dead to find those who killed them and achieve a 'moment of balance'. But in periods when the children's 'Watcher' gets replaced, there comes a great imbalance which sees all the rules and normal circumstances become topsy-turvy.
🙋 Which TV Show Should You Binge Next, Based on Your Interests? 👀
Written by Thelonia & Tia
We know that in this age of "too much content" it can often be hard to find a new show to watch. So we figured, why not make it easy? Below is our list of recommendations for TV shows you can start watching right now, based on other shows (and sometimes books/films) you may already like. Let's simplify the recommendation process.
The Wicked Deep 🏊 Book Review
Written by Thelonia
Hocus Pocus meets Practical Magic with a bit of The Craft tossed in, The Wicked Deep is a fun, quick read that has enough twists and turns to keep you intrigued.
Murder on the Orient Express 😐 Movie Review
Written by Thelonia
The main question that comes to mind when seeing the trailer for Murder on the Orient Express is: how did so many talented actors say yes to this movie? But there are so many other questions, like: why is Imagine Dragons here (and who is making who a Believer?) Why is there Neon everywhere? What in God's name is on Kenneth Branagh's face? I do not have much of an explanation for the first two, apart from the desperate attempts of a marketing team to make the movie look more exciting than the final product wound up being, and I can only assume the last was the result of no oversight, but we can definitely dig in and try to figure out what the hell is happening in the rest of this train wreck of a movie.