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Dirty Laundry by Disha Bose
mystery / review

Dirty Laundry by Disha Bose

Posted on April 13, 2023 by Rachel • 1 Comment

I liked the idea of Dirty Laundry—Irish small town drama, yes please!—but it was really shallow. We were told a lot about what the characters had done but there was little to no reflection or depth to the story. I also found the ending a little confusing. There was a scene when Parth (spoiler ahead) … Continue reading →

A Stolen Child by Sarah Stewart Taylor
mystery / review

A Stolen Child by Sarah Stewart Taylor

Posted on April 10, 2023 by Rachel • 1 Comment

A Stolen Child was a little different than the previous three Maggie D’Arcy books. There is a big time jump between the last one and this one so Maggie is now completed training to be an Irish police officer, living with her boyfriend, his son and her daughter after spending much of the training apart. … Continue reading →

The Drowning Sea (Maggie D’arcy, #3) by Sarah Stewart Taylor
fiction / mystery / review

The Drowning Sea (Maggie D’arcy, #3) by Sarah Stewart Taylor

Posted on April 8, 2023 by Rachel • 3 Comments

I have been wanting to find some easy-to-read but not childlike mystery series to get into and stumbled across the Maggie D’arcy book four on Netgalley. I requested the first three from various library systems and have been working my way through them. I like the settings of each one and the mysteries are fairly … Continue reading →

The Temple House Vanishing by Rachel Donohue
fiction / mystery

The Temple House Vanishing by Rachel Donohue

Posted on July 5, 2021 by Rachel • Leave a comment

I had some high hopes and mixed feelings about The Temple House Vanishing by Rachel Donohue. On the surface it ticked all of my “summer reading” boxes: A book set the late 1990s where a sixteen-year-old girl and her teacher disappeared from a remote Catholic girls’ boarding-school housed in a cliffside old mansion in Ireland? … Continue reading →

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