Bark At The Ghouls

Haunting and well-paced and great on audio. Finally, a book that lived up to its blurb! My 2 Cents for Free! Arrowood by Laura McHugh Released June 2016 Source: Library Borrow See more @ Goodreads This was a great atmospheric, slow burn story about a family that is destroyed when their twin toddlers are kidnapped. Arden was only a child when her sisters disappeared and were never found and her family became forever fractured. She left them alone only for a moment and was a child herself and swears she saw a gold car drive away with them. But memories are tricky things. She returns to the childhood estate she's inherited and tries to rebuild a new life while reconnecting with old friends (and new) but finds herself digging further into the past and ends up unearthing devastating secrets. Everything is done so well here. The pacing, the messy complicated characters, the mystery, the trauma. It's definitely a good book to dig into on a hot summer day. I don't know how I missed...

That ending though . . .  My 2 Cents for Free! Little Girls Sleeping by Jennifer Chase Released May 2019 Source: Purchased See more @  Goodreads This was a decent enough start to a series featuring an army veteran named Katie and her service dog Cisco. It's too bad it blew the ending. Katie's given an office job by her uncle at a police station and is soon snooping into a cold case of a missing child. The snooping leads to her and Cisco stumbling on to the graves of two little dead girls. Katie seems to stumble her way into a lot of things in this book and if I ever decide to continue with the series I hope this changes. I loved Cisco and am glad he wasn't injured in any way, but I'll be forever perplexed about why he wasn't on the cover instead of the generic thing we get instead. There's a little flirtation but no romance and there's a bunch of resentment with the men on the force who think she doesn't belong there and isn't qualified to do what sh...

If anyone has some patience to spare, I am in desperate need. My 2 Cents for Free! The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark Released June 2025 Source: Purchased @ Gibson's Bookstore Get it at your local library or see more @  Goodreads The Ghost Writer is a book for people who have endless patience. I’ve discovered that person is not me. This story is about Olivia who is a ghost writer who has changed her name because her father is a famous writer with murder accusations from the past that surround him like a haze. She doesn’t want anything to do with him because he was a terrible father. Can’t say as I blame her really. Anyhow, now he is penning his last book, suffering from Lewy Body Dementia and needs her assistance to bring it all together. She accepts because she needs money. Can’t blame her for that either. The book then bounces back and forth between the present day and the past as she attempts to make sense of his scribblings and clues that may or may not reveal the murderer of the u...

I read this a little bit ago and it was such an addictive read! A Good Marriage by Kimberly McCreight  Released May 2020 Thriller   |   Goodreads   |   Amazon   Source: Library Loan Big Little Lies meets Presumed Innocent in this riveting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia, in which a woman’s brutal murder reveals the perilous compromises some couples make—and the secrets they keep—in order to stay together. Lizzie Kitsakis is working late when she gets the call. Grueling hours are standard at elite law firms like Young & Crane, but they’d be easier to swallow if Lizzie was there voluntarily. Until recently, she’d been a happily underpaid federal prosecutor. That job and her brilliant, devoted husband Sam—she had everything she’d ever wanted. And then, suddenly, it all fell apart. No. That’s a lie. It wasn’t sudden, was it? Long ago the cracks in Lizzie’s marriage had started to show. She was...

A woman's life is turned upside down when a stranger tells her she is not who she thinks she is. What?! You know I love this stuff and this is a great secrets book! The Nowhere Child by Christian White Released February 2018 Thriller  |   Goodreads   |   Amazon   Source: Library Borrow Kimberly Leamy is a photography teacher in Melbourne, Australia. Twenty-six years earlier, Sammy Went, a two-year old girl vanished from her home in Manson, Kentucky. An American accountant who contacts Kim is convinced she was that child, kidnapped just after her birthday. She cannot believe the woman who raised her, a loving social worker who died of cancer four years ago, crossed international lines to steal a toddler. On April 3rd, 1990, Jack and Molly Went’s daughter Sammy disappeared from the inside their Kentucky home. Already estranged since the girl’s birth, the couple drifted further apart as time passed. Jack did his best to raise and prot...

Ugh, this heroine! She must be read to be believed, lol. The Stranger Inside by Laura Benedict Released February 2018 Thriller  |   Goodreads  | Amazon   Source: Library Borrow A chilling, suspenseful psychological drama in the tradition of Shari Lapena and Liane Moriarty, by the Edgar and ITW Thriller Award nominated author Laura Benedict. What if you came home to find a stranger living in your house? Kimber Hannon imagines she has complete control over her life, until she comes home to find that her house key no longer opens her front door. A man is living in her house. A stranger, who presents a lease bearing Kimber's own signature. When she confronts him, he gets close enough to whisper, I was there. I saw what you did. Those words reveal a connection to Kimber's distant past, before her sister's sudden death more than twenty years ago. Her fear abruptly shifts. This trespasser knows her somehow. He isn't after anything as simple as her mo...