The Introvert's Book Club

Purchase Thursday Murder Club #1 🖉 Rating: 4/5 🖉 Spice: 0/5 🖉 Plot: 4/5 🖉 Primary Genre: Mystery 🖉 Blurb:  Now a Netflix Film! The first installment in the beloved and New York Times bestselling series from Richard Osman, also author of We Solve Murders. Four septuagenarians with a few tricks up their sleeves. A female cop with her first big case. A brutal murder. Welcome to...THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB. In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves the Thursday Murder Club. When a local developer is found dead with a mysterious photograph left next to the body, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case. As the bodies begin to pile up, can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer, before it's too late? 🖉 My Thoughts: A murder mystery set in a Britain retirement community full of a quirky and entertaining cast of character...

Purchase Book #2 in the 725 Files 🖉 Rating: 3.5/5 - Rounding up to 4 🖉 Spice: 0/5 🖉 Plot: 4/5 🖉 Primary Genre: Thriller 🖉 Blurb: On a red-eye from New York to Los Angeles, the passengers of Flight 725 are shaken by a sudden, blinding flash of light. As they try to make sense of what happened, terror strikes—one of them is found dead, and it’s clear the death was no accident. With the plane still in the air and nowhere to run, the passengers realize they are trapped with a killer. Paranoia spreads as everyone becomes a suspect, and trust dissolves in the claustrophobic cabin. As the body count rises, the survivors must identify the murderer before the plane lands—or before they all meet a gruesome end. 🖉 My Thoughts: I liked this quick little thriller. There were a lot of characters that all had interesting back stories. I would have liked to see them fleshed out a bit more. There were so many characters that this started to get confusing. *SPOILERS* * * * * * * * * * * * * SPO...

  Buy on Amazon Rating: 4/5 Spice: 0/5 Plot: 4/5 Primary Genre: Thriller Blurb: How well do you really know your neighbors? Veteran serial killer Klaus Fischer is determined that his most recent murder will be his last, but like many retirements, this one isn’t sticking. No one has come close to suspecting he’s buried the victims on his quiet suburban California cul-de-sac property—but he’s feeling the urge to kill again, and this time he’s set his sights on a target dangerously close to home. Widowed Peg Jurgensen has lived on the cul-de-sac for the past fifteen years, and she’s ready to shed her doldrums and re-enter the world around her. And where better to start than with mothering the curious young teen Eliza van Damal, whose family just moved to the cul-de-sac in order to expose their daughter to a better life. Eliza, however, prefers to coerce the enigmatic hermit next door, Alex, into helping her pass math. Alex wishes the lot of them would disappear. The closer these ...

Purchase My Rating:  5/5 stars Primary Genre: Thriller Blurb: Goodreads Choice AwardNominee for Readers' Favorite Mystery & Thriller (2024) After their mother passes, three estranged siblings reunite to sort out her estate. Beth, the oldest, never left home. She stayed with her mom, caring for her until the very end. Nicole, the middle child, has been kept at arm's length due to her ongoing battle with a serious drug addiction. Michael, the youngest, lives out of state and hasn't been back to their small Wisconsin town since their father ran out on them seven years before. While going through their parents' belongings, the siblings stumble upon a collection of home videos and decide to revisit those happier memories. However, the nostalgia is cut short when one of the VHS tapes reveals a night back in 1999 that none of them have any recollection of. On screen, their father appears covered in blood. What follows is a dead body and a pact between their parents to get ...

Purchase My Rating:  3/5 stars Primary Genre: Thriller Blurb: Goodreads Choice AwardNominee for Readers' Favorite Mystery & Thriller (2024) A mind-bending, psychological thriller from Freida McFadden, the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Housemaid! Lesson #1: trust no one. Eve has a good life. She gets up each day, gets a kiss from her husband Nate, and heads off to teach math at the local high school. All is as it should be. Except…Last year, Caseham High was rocked by a scandal involving a student-teacher affair, with one student, Addie, at its center. But Eve knows there is far more to these ugly rumors than meets the eye. Addie can't be trusted. She lies. She hurts people. She destroys lives. At least, that's what everyone says. But nobody knows the real Addie. Nobody knows the secrets that could destroy her. And Addie will do anything to keep it quiet. From the New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden comes a story of twisting secrets...

Purchase My Rating:  5/5 stars Primary Genre: Horror Blurb: Goodreads Choice AwardWinner for Readers' Favorite Horror (2021) In horror movies, the final girls are the ones left standing when the credits roll. They made it through the worst night of their lives…but what happens after? Like his bestselling novel The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, Grady Hendrix’s latest is a fast-paced, frightening, and wickedly humorous thriller. From chain saws to summer camp slayers, The Final Girl Support Group pays tribute to and slyly subverts our most popular horror films—movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Scream. Lynnette Tarkington is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realiz...

Purchase My Rating:  3/5 Stars Primary Genre: Dark Romance Blurb:  Who am I? I've forgotten the answer to that question long ago. Ever since I ran from that house, so desperate to escape, I left with only the clothes on my back and socks on my feet. After that day, I've only ever walked in stolen shoes. Could I be a girl who is searching for the meaning of life in faceless men? They were all so forgettable. Until he came along. He took me under a waterfall and made me forget my name, and in return, I took his instead. Enzo Vitale. An enigmatic man that will only ever love the deep sea. Or rather the predators that inhabit it. Turns out, he's not so different than the monsters he feeds. He lured me onto his boat like a fish in the ocean, seeking vengeance for my crime. Had I realized his intentions, and that a massive storm would leave us shipwrecked, I would've ran. Now, I'm a girl who's seeking refuge in a decrepit lighthouse with a man who loathes me almost as...

Purchase Movie Magic #1 My Rating: 4/5 Stars Primary Genre: Paranormal Romance Blurb:  A magical costume designer and a surly leading man solve on-set sabotage in this cozy and witchy novella romance perfect for fans of The Ex Hex and The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches. Stitch-witch and costume designer Marnie Taylor knew she was taking a risk when she left her solid studio job in L.A. and returned to New Zealand for a job on the film adaptation of her favorite fantasy book series. But she didn’t expect supernatural sabotage on set – or her inconvenient but pressing attraction to the leading man. A-lister Rider Adams was excited for something new – the lead in an adaptation of an iconic series. Instead, he’s trapped with a terrible script and a cursed production plagued by mysterious problems from flat tires to costumes that seem to almost magically resize overnight. And for some reason, he can’t stop making an idiot of himself in front of the gorgeous costume supervisor…...