The Glass Hotel is a mystery book written by Emily St. John Mandel. This book follows the story of Vincent who is a hotel bartender. Throughout the book we follow her story as she becomes twisted with the hotel owner who is running a Ponzi scheme. Suddenly the scheme collapses and Vincent and the other investors' lives change. The book then follows the stories of the other people that were impacted by the scheme, and we learn about their lives before and after the scheme collapses.
The House Across the Lake is a suspenseful thriller written by Riley Sager. This story follows Casey, who is a recently widowed ex-actress who is back in her family's lake house for an escape from her life. Across the dark lake is a huge house that is the new home to a glamorous couple, Katherine and Tom. One day as Casey is soaking in her grief she notices a body floating in the lake and quickly takes her boat out there to discover it is Katherine.
Family first. That’s the motto Bel Price always went with, but not when it came to her mother. She didn’t truly know Rachel; the only thing she did know was that she disappeared when Bel was little. Bel finally feels like everything is normal until a film crew shows up asking about the past. Then weird things start happening, the weirdest being that Rachel reappears. In this twisted story, Bel must figure out what happened to her mother, and whether she can trust her family.
In Tintin in Tibet, Tintin’s mission is clear: find his beloved friend Chang who was aboard a plane that crashed in the Himalayan mountains, which was believed to have no survivors. The journey is full of challenges, rough terrain, frigid temperature and even mystical creatures.
The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell was an incredibly compelling story about the disappearance of Tallulah Murray. Jewell used multiple different perspectives of those that are close to Tallulah and dropped hints throughout the entirety of the book that introduced new ties leading to her disappearance. Each character, not only, had their own unique story and relationship with Tallulah, but also played a key role in her finding. Jewell also had the story split into different years.
Silent sister by Megan Davidhizar is a thriller book that follows a set of twins and how their senior year trip went horribly wrong. Grace was always the popular athlete with many friends while her twin, Maddy, was the complete opposite and spent her days alone writing poems to pass the time. Suddenly, on their senior trip Grace is found alone and with no memory of what happened to her and Maddy is nowhere to be found.
I really loved this book. I was guessing what would happen the entire time and I love Lisa Jewell as an author. This was one of the first Lisa Jewell books I read and it was so captivating. The story follows a mother, Laurel, whose daughter, Ellie, went missing. Years later, Laurel starts a new relationship and finds a young girl who is identical to her missing daughter. Laurel then begins to uncover what truly happened to Ellie and who was involved. The story was so interesting and the way she is able to connect the characters is so impressive.
Claudia Coleman has never had many friends because of her shyness, but Monday Charles is the exception. The two are inseparable, and close beyond the standard set by their peers. After a poorly timed photo leaves the friends as the talk of the school, Monday mysteriously disappears. The weirdest part? No one but Claudia seems to care, or even remember who Monday is. Claudia dives into the disappearance of her best friend, determined to find the truth and calm her racing mind.
In the previous book, The Inheritance Games, Avery, and the others discover that Toby Hawthorne, the son of billionaire Tobias Hawthorne, who was presumed to have died in a fire, was actually alive. And not only was he alive, he and Avery were known to have a close relationship, which was playing chess in a park together.
Hanneke Bakks is still grieving over her lost lover, Bas, when she decides to turn to stealing goods from the black market and selling them in order to gain money for herself and her family. It’s a nasty business that she ensures her parents and friends don’t find out about. She decides to keep her methods secret to make sure that her job is done skillfully and without prying eyes, especially in Amsterdam in 1943, which is filled with German occupation.
