#whodunnit

Publication Day: January 11th, 2022

Rating:  ★★★★

A Flicker in the Dark features Chloe Davis, who at 12 years old was living in a small town where girls were disappearing all summer, only for her father to be arrested at the end of summer for all of their murders. Now nearing the 20 year anniversary, Chloe is a psychologist in private practice, engaged— only for young girls to start going missing all over again.

The beginning of this novel really draws you in and makes you keep turning pages! Chloe turns out to be a very unreliable narrator, one who is grasping onto her happiness. The plot is really interesting and atmospheric reads are my absolute favorite. While the book gets to a point where it isn’t as page-turning as it initially was, it does constantly keep you trying to figure out the plot and guess what’s going on, and it does pick up and grip you again! I thought the ending was satisfying and the best plots are ones that make sense to a certain degree when you figure out what really happened/is happening, like this one did.

This was a great read from one of my favorite publishers recently; they have just been a powerhouse of putting out some of my recent favorite thrillers! I’m in a cabin in the middle of the mountains with almost no internet so I missed publication day by a day, but happy publication day! Thank you so much to Minotaur Books, Stacy Willingham, and NetGalley for this copy.

Saylor Rains

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Rating:  ★★★★★

Brilliant.

Twenty years ago the Lovelorn Killer murdered seven women before seemingly going underground. Now, he’s back. 

Detective Annalise Vega lost someone she loved to this killer twenty years ago, and now she has the chance to solve the case once and for all. Starting with the recent murder of Grace Harper, who may have discovered something incriminating that no one else knew. 

The best part of Joanna Schaffhausen’s writing, is her characterization. Right from the introduction Annalise comes across as a well-rounded character with both positive and negative traits, and she’s very self aware. You become suspicious of every new character but she’s able to endear some of them to you so that you hope it isn’t them. 

This book was a great police procedural and was so fun for me to figure out, and I was pleased to get it all except for one detail that even slipped by me! This was an enjoyable read and this book definitely got me out of a reading slump.

Thank you to Netgalley, St. Martin’s Press/Minotaur Books, and Joanna Schaffhausen for the opportunity to read this review copy.

Saylor Rains

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“The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.” - Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Agatha Christie is one of the greatest storytellers of all time and the queen of writing cosy crime. There is nothing better than unwinding with a relaxing Poirot mystery!

The day is finally here! Reveal Day, here we go!

Is everyone ready? Tin foil hats sorted? Guesses all in? Bingo cards to hand?

All will now be revealed…!!

Here are the TMRSS 2020 Santas!!

Thanks so much to our fabulous santas, who worked very hard to create a gorgeous and diverse sleigh-load of gifts with which to bless the fandom! What a beautiful flood of festive tmr content for us all to swim in!!

We hope that you all had fun this year, both creating and receiving your gifts, and thank you so much to those of you who have shared your excitement, both here on tumblr and in our tmr discord (contact @comebacknow if you’d like to join us there, it’s lots of fun!).

We have reallyappreciated seeing all the reblogs, screaming, livereads and guesses; not only is it a wonderful act of celebration of all the hard work that our santas put in, but it encourages us and keeps us going!

Please continue to reblog and share the stunning creations we have been gifted by this year’s santas! Reblog, rec, tag, comment - show our dedicated creators some love!

Santas:

if you want to post your creations on your own blogs, or anywhere else, go for it!

We’d be really, really grateful if you could tag/mention “tmrss20″ when you do

Also, go ahead and thank your betas, cheerleaders, or houseplants if you want to - there’s no longer any need for secrecy! ‍♀️️‍♀️

We’d like to personally thank the following people:

@whiterubys for designing our fabulous banner and icon - check out Anne’s blog for more gorgeous gifs and edits!

Our wonderful pinch hitters and beta readers: @comebacknow,@keeperoftherunnerrs,@singt0me,@00250,@jo-the-unknowable,@kathsilver,@seaselkie,@minhonewtandtommyand@persnickett!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You’re all absolute ⭐STARS⭐ and we appreciate your help so very much!! We could not run tmrss without having amazing pinch hitters who we can trust and rely on; you’re absolutely crucial to the event and to making sure that nobody is left without a gift. Thank you, tmrss angels!!!!!!!

And, last but certainly not least! Thank you ever so much to the kind, thoughtful santas who went out of their way to bring some extra festive joy to the two of us and to allow us to get involved in the fun guessing games!! We loved our gorgeous, hilarious fic and our beautiful, personalised art so very much!!!!! You made us very happy, thank you!!

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Thanks again everyone for participating this year! Hope you had fun!

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Hope to see you all next Christmas, for tmrss21…!

Dreams and Bridge