Chapter 1 In Manhattan, Lowen Ashleigh sees a man get hit by a truck, and the blood splashes on her. A man, Jeremy Crawford, helps her into the nearby coffee shop to get cleaned up. He offers her his shirt since hers is bloodied. Jeremy tells her that his 8-year-old drowned in a lake five …
I had decided I was going to take a break from reading Stephen King novels (for no particular reason other than feeling like I’d read quite a few of them lately), but then everyone was saying how great Billy Summers is and so I felt like had to check it out for myself. So, here …
Chapter 1 Billy Summers, 44, goes to meet with Nick Majarian, accompanied by some of Nick’s men, Frank “Frankie” Macintosh and Paulie Logan. They are in a run-down yellow house in a small town called Midwood just east of the Mississippi. Billy is a sniper and former Iraq War vet who has been working as …
We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz is a thriller and the latest pick for Reese’s Book Club. The book opens with one of the characters, Kristen, killing a man while she’s on vacation with her best friend, Emily. Kristen claims it was in self-defense, but the incident is oddly similar to something that happened …
Chapters 1 – 3 Emily Donovan and her best friend Kristen Czarnecki, both women who are nearing thirty and who met in college at Northwestern, are on their annual reunion trip. Emily works as a project manager at an organic cat food start up called Kibble while Kristen works at a market research firm. Kristen …
