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Mysteries and My Musings Book Blog

This is a book review blog for mystery, suspense, and thriller lovers that has been posting since 2009. It includes book reviews, author intreviews, book giveaways, blog tours, mystery related game or trivia, my musings on mystery genre or reading in general, and even occasional mystery/thriller movie reviews.


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Title of Mysterysuspence: "Mysteries and My Musings"

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 Elizabeth Penney is the author of the Apron Shop Series and the Cambridge Bookshop Series, both from St. Martin's Press. She is also the author of women's fiction and mysteries for Annie's Fiction and Guideposts. This is a second installment in the Ravensea Castle Mysteries. Read on to see if this book passed the second book challenge with a win or not.

1) Bo...


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Here is a 1996 Crime/Mystery movie based on the 1993 novel of the same name by William Diehl. The book "Primal Fear" was the first in a trilogy, followed by "Show of Evil" and "Reign in Hell."

Significantly, this is Edward Norton’s film debut in Primal Fear as Aaron Stampler and is regarded as a legendary breakout performance.  Norton was a fairly unknown acto...


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Darcie Wilde is the award-winning author of stylishly adventurous historical mysteries and romances, including the Useful Woman Mystery Series and the Rosalind Thorne Mysteries, both Regency-set series inspired by the novels of Jane Austen, as well as the Regency Makeover Trilogy. She has also written, under the name Sarah Zettel, Locus and Philip K. Dick Award-winning novels...


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Here is another fast paced action thriller, I'm on a roll. I promise next week's won't be so... explosive.  This movie came out in 2009, but its subject matter seems more relevant today with AI everywhere.  How's that for a teaser!?


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An Amazon Editors’ Pick for Best Mystery, Thriller & Suspense (June 2025)

“There’s a definite swoon factor from the love and espionage angle here―readers will be reminded of Hitchcock’s Notorious (1946) and Curtiz’s Casablanca as Electra uses all her skills to once again thwart the secret plans of the Nazis. A rip-roaring finale for a terrific series.”―Boo...


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