By: S.A. Crosby Goodreads description: Titus Crown is the first Black sheriff in the history of Charon County, Virginia. In recent decades, Charon has had only two murders. After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus knows better than anyone that while his hometown might seem like a land of moonshine, cornbread, and honeysuckle, […]
Author: helenandhollyhitthebooks
book review blog
The Housemaid’s Secret
by: Freida McFadden Goodreads description: It’s hard to find an employer who doesn’t ask too many questions about my past. So I thank my lucky stars that the Garricks miraculously give me a job, cleaning their stunning penthouse with views across the city and preparing fancy meals in their shiny kitchen. I can work here […]
Mercury
by: Amy jo Burns Goodreads description: A roofing family’s bonds of loyalty are tested when they uncover a long-hidden secret at the heart of their blue-collar town―from Amy Jo Burns, author of the critically acclaimed novel Shiner It’s 1990 and seventeen-year-old Marley West is blazing into the river valley town of Mercury, Pennsylvania. A perpetual […]
The Mystery Guest
by: Nita Prose Goodreads description: When an acclaimed author dies at the Regency Grand Hotel, it’s up to a fastidious maid to uncover the truth, no matter how dirty—in a standalone novel featuring Molly Gray, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid, a Good Morning America Book Club Pick. Molly Gray is not like anyone else. […]
Small Things Like These
by: Claire Keegan Goodreads description: It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his […]
Upcoming Books for March 2024
We were speedy readers this past month- 5 books in the shortest month of the year. It must have been the winter doldrums. We have some really fun novels chosen for next month. Read along with us! Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase. Click here to purchase – (pretty cover art- I must say). Click here […]
February 2024 Tidbit
Dear Reader- Are you at home with bated breath wondering what we have been up to? We have been “wintering” in New Hanover County, NC….and watching a lot stories on TV. Helen says: Besides my usual reading for our blog, I have been enjoying some other books and shows. My friend Jean turned me on the […]
The Berry Pickers
by: Amanda Peters Goodreads description: A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a community, and remains unsolved for nearly fifty years. July 1962. A Mi’kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old […]
Day
by: Michael Cunningham Goodreads description: As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, falling in and out of love, losing the things that are most precious—and learning to go on—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hours April 5, 2019 : In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, […]
Familia
by: Lauren E. Rico Goodreads description: What if your most basic beliefs about your life were suddenly revealed to be a lie? In this compelling, emotional novel, two young women are brought together by a genealogy test and a haunting question that shakes their understanding of what family is and who they truly are . […]
Helen and Holly Hit the Books 