Summary The Lost Apothecary begins with a forgotten history. Nestled deep within the maw of eighteenth-century London is a clandestine apothecary that serves a peculiar kind of customer. Stories of a shadowy Nella circulate among the city’s women, who purchase carefully crafted poisons from her to use against the domineering men in their life. However,…
Summary The Things We Cannot Say begins in1942 with Europe still engulfed in the never-ending conflict. A young woman exchanges vows during her wedding, just beyond the tents of the camp she calls home for refugees. The choice she makes will change her fate…. it’s a deception that won’t come to light for another century….
Nightwork by Nora Roberts is a typical love story about a man who, due to circumstances, goes astray but ultimately finds forgiveness and makes changes for the better. Harry Booth began thieving at an early age. His nimble hands had proven to be magical enough to help keep the debt collectors at bay as his…
Identity by Nora Roberts is a romance-cum-mystery as it has elements of both genres. Why does a person become a monster? Or is it something they choose to be? Is it possible for it to be both? Morgan Albright, a former Army brat, works hard at two jobs as a barman in order to save…
Shelter in Place by Nora Roberts is a single story that deviates from her customary style by spanning fourteen years. The horrific tragedy of a mall shooting serves as the book’s opening scene. Simone Knox, a teenager, and her pals are watching a movie at the mall theater. Her survival after the incident is due…
In The Devil’s Star, Jo Nesbo spins a complicated and wonderfully engrossing narrative of a serial killer prowling the streets of Oslo in another extraordinary Harry Hole book. The Criminal Division is called in to conduct an investigation after a woman is discovered slain in his apartment. The team, led by Tom Waaler, soon finds…
Synopsis of Never Lie by Freida McFadden Tricia and Ethan, newlyweds, are on the hunt for their ideal home. But a terrible winter blizzard strands them at the estate when they visit the isolated house that had belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a famous psychiatrist who disappeared without a trace four years before. Having no…
Synopsis of Next to Last Stand In 1946, Custer’s Last Fight, one of the most famous paintings in American history, was lost in a fire at the 7th Cavalry Headquarters in Fort Bliss, Texas. Anheuser-Busch had been copying and distributing it at a rate of more than two million copies per year. Maybe not. Walt…
Synopsis of Land of Wolves A Longmire Mystery Recovering from his harrowing experiences in Mexico, Sheriff Walt Longmire returns to Absaroka County, Wyoming, to lick his wounds and try once again to maintain justice in a place with grudges that go back generations. When a shepherd is found dead, Longmire suspects it could be suicide….
Synopsis of Hell and Back A Longmire Mystery What would you do if you woke up in the middle of the street in Fort Pratt, Montana, where 30 Native American boys perished in a boarding school fire in 1896? Imagine if, during the night, you ran into nothing but corpses. What would you do if…