Still Life
The first in a series set in a small Canadian town where a local artist is found shot by an arrow in the woods.
The Expectation Gap
“Peace is found where expectations meet grace.”
The Curse of Penryth Hall
“The past was no good to anyone, and digging about in it only brought about unpleasantness. It was best to leave it where it was. Past.”
The Rosewood Hunt
“When you’re the matriarch of the richest family in southern Massachusetts, everybody wants a piece of you.”
Spare
“If they didn’t know why I’d left, maybe they just didn’t know me. At all. And maybe they never really did.”
The Maid
“This is the problem with friendships. Sometimes you know things you shouldn’t know; sometimes you carry other people’s secrets for them. And sometimes, that burden takes its toll.”
Lessons in Chemistry
“Chemistry is change. Courage is the root of change— and change is what we’re chemically designed to do.”
The Madness of the Faithful
This book was madness of its own kind. I didn’t like it.
Firekeeper’s Daughter
“I never thought about secrets being like a bull’s eye. The smaller the circle, the bigger the secret.”
The Whalebone Theatre
“For a fortunate few, war allows us to rise in ways that would otherwise be impossible.”
Death and the Conjuror
A great locked-room mystery!
Heir of Blood and Secrets
“The Castle might be home to the wealthiest and most powerful people in Devovea, but it’s also home to the nosiest. Secrets are the currency here, where nothing is as simple as it seems.”
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
“There are scars on my heart, just as thick, as disfiguring as those on my face. I know they’re there. I hope some undamaged tissue remains, a patch through which love can come in and flow out. I hope.”
The Lost Apothecary
“This is my work, my grief to bottle up and dispense.”
All the Lights Above Us
D-Day as experienced by five women across Europe.
The Bletchley Women
“The times are changing and we don’t know where it will toss us. All that we know is that it’s time to take matters in our own manicured hands and handle them.”
The Push
“A mother’s heart breaks a million ways in her lifetime.”
A Test of Wills
“There was no such thing as a perfect English gentleman.”
Immoral
Ironically, I was shocked by the immorality in this book.
A Beautiful Blue Death
Don’t let this lame book cover deter you- this is a great Sherlock-esque mystery!