The best books of 2024

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My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Final Cut

Linda Reid ❤️ loved this book because...

The author brings more than 25 years of experience as a costume designer for hit movies like Apollo 13, the Firm, and X Men: Days of Future Past. In this thrilling murder mystery, set in Los Angeles' glamorous Hollywood Hills and movie studios, the Malibu Coast, and the renowned San Fernando Valley, McCown gives us a VIP pass to observe the ins and outs of blockbuster film production, seasoned with adultery, fraud, duplicity, manipulation, and murder. A typical day on the set--and key costumer Joey Jessop dives into solving the homicide of a fellow crew member--risking her job and her life. An exciting story about movies that's a great cinematic read to enjoy!

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    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Emotions
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    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Marjorie McCown,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Final Cut as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Perfect for fans of Elle Cosimano and Nita Prose, when Hollywood costumer Joey Jessop stumbles across a dead body near the set of a big budget movie, she must find ways to protect her career—and herself—before it's too late.

Joey Jessop enjoys working behind the scenes. As key costumer for the next epic superhero movie, her role is to make others look good while staying out of the spotlight. That means making sure to be professional around Eli Logan, her ex and the First Assistant Director, and Courtney Lisle, Eli's newest love interest and the Second Assistant Director. But this…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from Hell

Linda Reid ❤️ loved this book because...

I'm a Holmes and Watson super-fan, and loved Nicholas Meyer's ground-breaking pastiche, The Seven Percent Solution, in which Holmes met Sigmund Freud. Meyer has since penned a number of Holmes pastiches and now gives up a glimpse of the behind-the-scenes intelligence in Holmes' 60s during World War I. Holmes makes a dashing, elderly, proto-Bond, with his veteran Boswell Watson by his side, and travels to the US and Mexico to help Britain win the war against the German Kaiser's aggression. It's up to our two heroes to convince the US to come to Britain's aid. Will the British strategy succeed? A thrilling high-stakes adventure that lets readers share in lost history on the path to victory.

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    🥇 Character(s) 🥈 Immersion
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    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Nicholas Meyer,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from Hell as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson cross the Atlantic at the height of World War I in pursuit of a mysterious coded telegram in this new mystery from the author of The Return of the Pharaoh.

June, 1916. With a world war raging on the continent, exhausted John H. Watson, M.D. is operating on the wounded full-time when his labors are interrupted by a knock on his door, revealing Sherlock Holmes, with a black eye, a missing tooth and a cracked rib. The story he has to tell will set in motion a series of world-changing events in the most consequential…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Stars Turned Inside Out

Linda Reid ❤️ loved this book because...

A gripping mystery set in the tech superworld of the CERN Large Hadron collider, the scientific facility in Geneva that is the center of studies of subatomic particles, their impacts, and their impact. The death of a young scientist is investigated by PI Sabine Leroux, who bores into this competitive academic universe and its humanity--and inhumanity--and destroys its foundations and core. Nova Jacobs has penned a compelling whodunit with a philosophical center.

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    🥇 Character(s) 🥈 Thoughts
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    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Nova Jacobs,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked The Stars Turned Inside Out as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

“Many and wondrous are the charms of this witty, suspenseful, and enchanting book.” —The Wall Street Journal

The discovery of a suspicious death at a famous Swiss physics laboratory sparks a mystery that merges science, philosophy, and the high-stakes race to unlock the fundamental nature of our universe in this thrilling new novel from the Edgar Award–nominated author of the “hugely entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) The Last Equation of Isaac Severy.

Deep beneath the ground outside of Geneva, where CERN’s Large Hadron Collider smashes subatomic particles at breathtaking speeds, a startling discovery is made when the tunnel is down…


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The Zygan Emprise

By Y.S. Pascal,

Book cover of The Zygan Emprise

What is my book about?

Singularity Channel viewers may recognize Hollywood actress Shiloh Rush who plays Ensign Tara Guard in the sci-fi TV series Bulwark, but nobody knows Shiloh is leading a double life. Haunted by the mysterious disappearance of her beloved older brother, Shiloh hopes to track him down by following in his footsteps as a secret agent for the Zygan Federation, an intergalactic empire still hidden from Earth. During this quest, Shiloh and her British co-star William "Spud" Escott, also a Zygan agent, fly into space--for real--to stop terrorists and invaders who could destroy the Zygan Federation and kill millions throughout the universe.

Sent back in time to Earth's Ancient Middle East to save the life of a young prophet and prevent Earth's destruction, Shiloh and Spud stumble on a diabolical conspiracy and barely escape with their lives. Their assignment sabotaged, Shiloh and Spud discover the villains' real mission, face powerful enemy fighters from warrior planets and traitors from their own ranks, and race against time to save Earth.

Desperate to save her long-lost brother, also a Zygan Intelligence agent, from the clutches of an intergalactic terrorist and his minions, Shiloh enlists Spud to travel to a desolate dimension and mount a rescue, using the Golden Fleece she has borrowed from the ancient prophet Immanuel. On the trail, Shiloh and Spud risk their lives in the mysterious nebula, The Plegma, and face menacing demons, vampires, guerrillas, and Valkyries as they storm the gates of Hades. Returning to Earth, they find that their actions have resulted in devastating changes in the path of our history and that the Earth and the people they left behind no longer exist. Will they have to sacrifice their lives to save Earth’s?

Shiloh and Spud race to capture a former friend and fellow Zygan Intelligence trainee who is attacking Zygan outposts, murdering innocent Zygans, and aiming to assassinate the Zygan Federation's King, the Omega Archon, in the name of freedom. Shiloh and her friends confront the insurgent and his minions, who relay a secret about their lives that turns their ships--and their universe--upside down. Shiloh, Spud, and their team must choose between submission and rebellion--a revolution can save millions of lives, but risk billions in an empire that has become a dictatorship. Calling on rebels, Valkyries, and heavenly allies to join them in the war to overthrow their King, Shiloh and Spud go rogue and face kidnappers and torturers to learn the truth about themselves and their world. Join Shiloh and Spud on their mind-blowing missions (which may be their last), across Andromeda and the Milky Way, in the fog of the Plegma nebula, and the smog of Victorian-era London. Will they--and the Zygan Federation--survive?

A fiery thriller ride for fans of sci-fi, fantasy, mystery, and hope!

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