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      Elin Warner is on vacation with her brother Isaac in a nation park in Portugal, the last place a missing woman has been seen. It's a time for the siblings to reconnect and strengthen their bond, but when the final map of the missing woman, Kier, is found, it seems that the clues are falling into place the deeper they get into the forest. After a huge discovery, Elin finds out that the disappearance is more personal to her. Always seeking the truth, she is trying to find out what else the wilderness is hiding.      Kier Templer lives life on the road simply trying to outrun her mother's infamous crimes. Kier has left her home and twin brother behind. Even with him behind she has always designed and drawn distinctive maps of everywhere she has been. When the maps stop, her brother Penn, knows something seriously must be wrong.      This book knocked the absolute wind out of me. Once again Sarah Pearse did it again, the third installment o...

  "Family is all you have, but it isn't found only in a blood connection. Family shows itself in the unlikeliest of moments: the split-second glances, a gesture, the hand next to yours when you need it the most."     A minimal eco-wellness retreat opened on a remote island off the English coast, that promises beautiful views, nature, and relaxation. The island itself has a different reputation, being known as Reaper's Rock, it was the home of a serial killer and now said to be cursed. Detective Elin Warner is called to the island when a woman's body is found on the rocks below the yoga pavilion, it seems foul play is at hand, especially because the woman wasn't a guest on the island. When body after body begin to appear one after another, it is made clear that nothing happening is an accident. Elin is hot on the case, making sure that the island's history won't repeat itself.      Once again Pearse knocks it out of the park with this novel, it is the p...

  "Grief is like a series of bombs exploding, one after another. Every house, a new detonation. Shock after shock after shock."           Le Sommet is a horrible place, surrounded by local legends and rumors, the once abandoned tuberculosis sanatorium has found its second life as a five-star hotel. It is as imposing as it is beautiful, and being high up in the Swiss Alps makes it a remote get away. It's also the last place Elin Warner wants to be stuck, having taken a leave of absence from her work as a detective, decides to brave the journey. Especially when her estranged brother and his fiancée reach out and invite her to celebrate their engagement. She arranges in the middle of a terrible storm with her boyfriend, already on edge when they wake the following morning to discover her brothers fiancée has gone missing. Elin is thrust into the case when everyone gets stormed in and the police aren't able to access the hotel, making the guests panic even...

Mexican Gothic  by Silvia Moreno-Garcia I was checking out new releases in 2020 and this caught my eye. I’ve read a few reviews by others and even one of my favorite vloggers read it. So when I saw it on the Buy one Get one 50% off at B&N, you know I had to snag it. The other book I bought was a christmas gift for my friend, which reminds me…I have to mail out that box.  This book begins in the 1950’s with a glamorous woman named Noemí Taboada coming in from a night out to her father calling her into his office. Her father tells her that she will be traveling to see her newlywed cousin for a wellness visit after receiving a distressing letter stating there are ghosts and that her husband is poisoning her. So Noemi goes to High Place, an isolated mansion on top of the hill in the middle of the Mexican Countryside. The front for an old silver mine that was active before the revolution. From here she meets her cousins in-laws, the Doyles. Who are eerily strict and set in...

The Perfect Guests By Emma Rous      Bought this book on a whim when researching books that were going to be new releases last year. It just sat in my TBR pile on my nook, when at the last minute I needed a new book for vacation, this is the one that just happened to be there. And let me tell you, this is one hell of a book. Couldn’t get enough of it and just had to finish it in two days. Only reason it wasn’t one was because of the drive back to Tennessee from Florida. It was phenomenal. I haven’t read anything else by Rous but I am very excited to see what else they have written. What first intrigued me was that it goes between the late 1980’s and 2019. Following the same place and the information given in the 1980’s leads to further understanding of what's happening in 2019. The story is told following two women, Beth in the late 1980’s and Sadie in 2019. Beth, an orphan and not wanted by her Aunt Caroline, is asked to be a companion for another girl Nina. The only...