In Lauren Thoman’s second novel, “You Shouldn’t Be Here,” she pens another engaging mystery that, like her first novel, has a bit of paranormal time travel. Unlike her first novel, “I’ll Stop the World,” in this story the time traveler seems to be a ghost. But as with all well-written mysteries, we don’t understand exactly what is happening until the end. And even then, just like the perplexed characters in the novel, we aren’t completely sure what exactly happened.
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Author Rob Hart’s “Assassins Anonymous” is a unique entry in the action-spy-mystery novel universe. On the one hand, it does boast many of the usual exciting action novel features: bloody violence; mano-a-mano combat; powerful heroes and equally powerful villains; clever and deadly spies; hit men (and women) galore; the CIA, of course; and most of all, murders. And murderers, as the title indicates.
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There is so much to consider, so much to unpack, and so much to learn about in “Boss Lady,” the newest brainchild of coauthors Alli Frank and Asha Youmans. Fans of these writers know that they write intriguing novels about people we find extremely relatable; people who are stuck or need a bit of luck, but people with whom we can connect. Their main characters are always flawed, but we like that because aren’t we all flawed in some respect?
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