Book: Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead

 Book: Everyone Who Can Forgive Me is Dead

Author: Jenny Hollander

Pages: 304

This is my 185th read for the year

What Amazon Says:

9 years ago, with the world's eyes on her, Charlie Colbert fled.  The press and the police called Charlie a "witness" to the nighmarish events at her elite graduate school on Christmas Eve - events known to the public as Scarlet Christmas - though Charlie knows she was much more than that.  Now, Charlie has meticulously rebuilt her life.  She' the editor-in-chief of a major magazine, engaged to the golden child of the publishing industry, and hell-bent on never, ever letting her guard down again.  But when a buzzy film made by one of Charlie's former classmates threatens to shatter everthing she's worked for, Charlie realizes how much she's changed in 9 years.  Now, she's not going to let anything - not even the people she once loved most - get in her way.

Stars: 3

Book: 3 Days, 9 months, 27 years The Time Traveler's Passport

 Book: 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years The Time Traveler's Passport

Author: John Scalzi

Pages: 38

This is m 184th read for the year

What Amazon Says:

A time travel technician must step away from the controls and take action in  twisty short story where timing is everything.  Time travel is real - and used for high-end tourism.  Every moment of the past is open to visitors, and no matter what they do then, everything now waits for them, thanks to the sure hand of an experienced time travel technician.  Come spend a day behind the controls of the time machine, and discover why, this day of all days, it's time for this technician to make a change.  Because sometimes, time travel is more than just an adventure.  Sometimes, its a moral imperative.

Stars: 4

Book: Paper Ghosts

 Book: Paper Ghosts

Author: Julia Heaberlin

Pages: 368

This is my 183rd read for the year

What Amazon Says:

Years ago, her sister Rachel vanished.  Now she is almost certain the man who took Rachel sits in he passenger seat beside her.  He claims to have dementia and no memory of murdering girls across Texas in a string of places where he shot eerie pictures.  To find the truth, she proposes a dangerous idea: a 10 day road trip with a possible serial killer to examine cold cases linked to her haunting photographs.  Is he a liar or a broken old man?  Is he a pathological con artist - or is she?  You won't see the final, terrifying twist spinning your way until the very last mile.

Stars: 3

Book: When The Stars Go Dark

 Book: When The Stars Go Dark

Author: Paula McClain

Pages: 384

This is my 182nd read for the year

What Amazon Says:

Anna Hart is a seasoned missing persons detective in San Francisco with far too much knowledge of the darkest side of human nature.  When tragedy strikes her personal life, Anna desperate and numb, flees to the Northern California village of Mendocino to grieve.  She lived there as a child with her beloved foster parents, and now she believes it might be the only place left for her.  Yet the day she arrives, she learns that a local teenage girl has gone missing.  The crime feels frighteningly reminiscent of the most crucial time in Anna's childhood, when the unsolved murder of a young girl touched Mendocino and changed the community forever.  As past and present collide, Anna realizes that she has been led to this moment.  The most difficult lessons of her life have given her insight into how victims come into contact with violent predators.  As Anna becomes obsessed with saving the missing girl, she must accept that true courage means getting out of her own way and learning to let others in. 

Stars: 4