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The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone by Felicity McLean

The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

The summers when I was 11 and 12 years old stand out more clearly in memory than other points in my childhood; I was too young to have even a babysitting job, but old enough to roam the neighborhood with my friends largely unsupervised. It was a stage where I was starting to be aware of the adult world, but was still pretty naïve. The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone taps into that period of … Continue reading The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone by Felicity McLean

Book Review

When All the Girls Have Gone by Jayne Ann Krentz

When All the Girls Have Gone

If I’m being very specific, When All the Girls Have Gone by Jayne Ann Krentz is really a romantic mystery not romantic suspense, and that’s what I loved about it. There’s been a trend I think lately of publishing darker books with characters in more dire circumstances, and romantic suspense certainly isn’t exempt from that. Sometimes the hero and heroine’s combined emotional sturm und drang is so intense it’s overwhelming. Adding scary suspense themes to that–murder, … Continue reading When All the Girls Have Gone by Jayne Ann Krentz