Jencey's Corner

Thank you to Tandem Literary and St. Martin’s Press for sending me a copy of The High TideClub by Mary Kay Andrews.   I was given this copy in exchange for an honest review. The month of May 2018 is the 8 th anniversary of Writer’s Corner.   Today we celebrate with a review and giveaway of The High Tide Club by Mary Kay Andrews.   The giveaway will run from the 24 the   to the 31 of May.   I always look forward each year to sharing the next book by Mary Kay Andrews and this year is no exception.   Are you ready for some fun? Synopsis: One night in October 1941 an engagement party took place on Talisa Island the home of the Bettendorfs.   This engagement party is for Millie a friend of Josephine Bettendorf.   At the party Millie is dancing with Josephine’s brother Gardiner when her fiancé Russell Strickland suddenly notices, and pulls her away from Gardiner roughly.     Gardiner   confronts   Russell and threatens tha...

It would not be summer reading if I did not include at least one book by Beatriz Williams.   A Certain Age is part of a series of novels that are set in the 1920s.   It is full of scandal, adultery, and a murder. Oh! My!   What could happen next?   Include an independently minded woman who wants to shape her own destiny.      Let the tale begin! Synopsis:   It is the trial of the century; Mr. Fortescue is on trial for the murder of his wife. Why now?   Let me tell you a story it begins with Mrs. Theresa Marshall sneaking away with her latest boy toy Octavian when her brother finds her, and declares that he is in love with Sophie Fortescue.   He needs his sister Theresa to find someone to be his messenger with the marriage proposal.    This messenger Octavian completes his task but finds there is more to Sophie Fortescue than meets the eye.   When Theresa asks him to investigate Sophie and her family what will he...