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Review of the Alibis Collection

Death Row by Freida McFadden

The Ex-Wives Club by Sally Hepworth

False Note by David Lagercrantz

The Skydivers by Chris Bohjailian

Good Neighbors by Chad Zunker

Small Things by Wanda M. Morris

June 22, 2025 by Classic Leave a Comment

4 stars for this one. I thought the first story in the “Alibis Collection” was really strong and honestly the best out of the bunch. I thought that McFadden actually stretched herself in this one in a good way. I didn’t see the twists coming and loved how she tied things up her. “Death Row” follows a woman named Talia Kemper has been on death row for years after being convicted of the murder of her husband. We find Talia remembering things before she was […]

Filed Under: Mystery, Short Stories, Suspense Tagged With: Alibis #1, Alibis #2, Alibis #3, Alibis #4, Alibis #5, Alibis #6, Chad Zunker, Chris Bohjailian, chris bohjalian, David Lagercrantz, death row, False Note, Freida McFadden, Good Neighbors, sally hepworth, Small Things, The Ex-Wives Club, The Skydivers, Wanda M. Morris

Classic's CBR17 Review No:86 · Genres: Mystery, Short Stories, Suspense · Tags: Alibis #1, Alibis #2, Alibis #3, Alibis #4, Alibis #5, Alibis #6, Chad Zunker, Chris Bohjailian, chris bohjalian, David Lagercrantz, death row, False Note, Freida McFadden, Good Neighbors, sally hepworth, Small Things, The Ex-Wives Club, The Skydivers, Wanda M. Morris ·
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The girl who has survived her creator

December 8, 2015 by alwaysanswerb 4 Comments

The Girl in the Spider’s Web was okay. I didn’t have any glaring problems with it; nor was I especially blown away by it. Lagercrantz does seem to have done a good enough job capturing the spirit of the original trilogy, and his background as a crime reporter certainly prepares him for suspenseful crime thrillers — particularly ones where one of the protagonists is himself a journalist. Here’s the Goodreads summary: “Late one night, Blomkvist receives a phone call from a source claiming to have […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: crime, David Lagercrantz, millennium series, mystery, thriller

alwaysanswerb's CBR7 Review No:110 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: crime, David Lagercrantz, millennium series, mystery, thriller ·
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