Join Top Ten Tuesday at That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week  a new Top Ten list theme is posted and all bloggers are welcome to participate! This week Top Ten Tuesday Turns 10 (wow, already!?), and one of the options it to pick a past TTT topic you wish you’d done. Since I didn’t do my “best of” for 2019, I decided there couldn’t be a better time to do it (better late than never… right?) The Raven Tower...

The Chestnut Man by Soren SveistrupGenre : MysteryStand alone About the Book  : A psychopath is terrorizing Copenhagen. His calling card is a “chestnut man”—a handmade doll made of matchsticks and two chestnuts—which he leaves at each bloody crime scene. Examining the dolls, forensics makes a shocking discovery—a fingerprint belonging to a young girl, a government minister’s daughter who had been kidnapped and murdered a year ago....

Someone We Know by Shari LapenaGenre : MysteryStand alone About the Book  : “This is a very difficult letter to write. I hope you will not hate us too much. . . My son broke into your home recently while you were out.”   In a quiet, leafy suburb in upstate New York, a teenager has been sneaking into houses–and into the owners’ computers as well–learning their secrets, and maybe sharing some of them, too.   Who...

Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret RogersonGenre : YA, FantasyStand Alone About the Book  : All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer’s Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery—magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. She hopes to...

The Last Namsara by Kristen CiccarelliGenre : YA, FantasySeries : Iskari, book 1 About the Book  : In the beginning, there was the Namsara: the child of sky and spirit, who carried love and laughter wherever he went. But where there is light, there must be darkness—and so there was also the Iskari. The child of blood and moonlight. The destroyer. The death-bringer.   These are the legends that Asha, daughter of the king of Firgaard, has...

The Silent Companions by Laura PurcellGenre : Horror, Historical FictionStand Alone About the Book  : When Elsie married handsome young heir Rupert Bainbridge, she believed she was destined for a life of luxury.   But with her husband dead just weeks after their marriage, her new servants resentful, and the local villagers actively hostile, Elsie has only her husband’s awkward cousin for company. Or so she thinks.   Inside her new home...

House of Salt & Sorrows by Erin A. CraigGenre : YA, FantasyStand Alone About the Book  : In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed.   Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor, a manor by the sea, with her sisters, their father, and stepmother. Once they were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls’ lives have been cut short. Each death was more tragic than the last—the plague, a...

The Echo Killing by Christi DaughertyNarration : Sophie AmossGenre : MysterySeries : Harper McClain, book 1 About the Book  : When a murder echoing a fifteen-year-old cold case rocks the Southern town of Savannah, crime reporter Harper McClain risks everything to find the identity of this calculated killer.   Not even finding her mother brutally murdered in their home when she was twelve has made her love Savannah any less. Her mother’s...