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Actress turned author Krysten Ritter’s second thriller, “The Retreat,” offers a fun, if common premise: a young conwoman flees a pear-shaped situation and finds herself the prey to someone with an axe to grind. The rapidly moving plot finds Liz Dawson preparing to leave Chicago in a hurry after defrauding a wealthy family and accumulating…
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Drawing from the grand dame of mysteries, Agatha Christie, American debut novelist Ande Pliego crafts a puzzle box novel with “You Are Fatally Invited.” Six acclaimed authors are invited to a weeklong writers retreat with the esteemed J.R. Alastor to play games and work on their newest novels. However, they arrive on the foggy and…
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Don’t be put off by the size of Liz Moore’s “The God of the Woods.” The door stopper of a literary mystery abounds with well-drawn characters across class and age. “The God of the Woods” focuses mostly on the lives of women and girls between the 1950s and 1975 in New York. Moore gives these…
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Short story collections are often difficult to rate, and “She’s Always Hungry” by Eliza Clark is no exception. The 11 stories include stories about relationships, beauty culture, science fiction, environmental devastation, and regret. With so many subjects briefly addressed in barely over 200 pages, “She’s Always Hungry” doesn’t feel like Clark’s previous published works, “Boy…
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Wow, 2024 brought so many stories of women reclaiming space and seeking vengeance for perceived wrongs! In nearly every genre, Heroine Chic Reviews discovered a variety of new novels to appeal to readers of all interests. Each features a complicated woman facing life-changing conflicts that lead to new paths taken. Please see below for the…
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