August 30, 2026

* Review * I’LL BE WATCHING YOU by Allison Brennan

I'll Be Watching You by Allison Brennan
Series: Angelhart Investigations #3
Published by Hanover Square Press on September 15, 2026
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Private investigator Margo Angelhart has recently rejoined her family’s PI business, but she never forgot the reason she walked away. Three and a half years ago, her father, Dr. Cooper Angelhart, pled guilty to killing his colleague. While she never believed he was guilty, her mother, Ava, refused to help investigate and wouldn’t explain why.

When a nurse who once worked with Cooper reaches out, Margo leaps at what could be a potential lead…only to stumble across the nurse’s grisly murder. Then, Cooper is mysteriously transferred to a penitentiary out of state in the middle of the night, and Ava finally discloses why her husband confessed to a murder he didn’t commit.

Now the entire Angelhart family must fight to clear Cooper’s name. But every step they take drags them deeper into a deadly conspiracy…and into the crosshairs of some very powerful people with fortunes on the line. They’ve killed to keep their secrets before. And this time, the target is an Angelhart.

Highly addictive from start to finish! The Angelhearts have been doing a fine job of wrapping themselves around reader’s hearts, so getting to the center of what really happened with dad Cooper all those years ago is really rewarding. This book is filled with heart, redemption and so much mystery. I love that Margo stood tall in her faith about her dad, and seeing her finally get some answers just feels right. The family as a whole is great and I know there is so much more to build on for them all and hope we will continue to join them as one mystery after another comes into their lives as their family settles back into a peace they’ve been greatly missing. Well developed characters, a fairly good follow through of keeping a reader up to date on past happenings even if they are starting with this book in the series and great chemistry as they right wrongs.

I highly recommend this book as well as the rest in the series to anyone who enjoys a tight knit family of investigators who have had their share of ups and downs in life and with each other but always stand behind one another when the going gets tough. Great intrigue and relationships.

* Review * BETRAYED by Anna J Stewart

I voluntarily read an early copy of this book.

Betrayed by Anna J. Stewart
Series: Circle of the Red Lily #4
Published by Tule Publishing on September 10, 2026
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She trusted him with her life. He lied about why he came.

Sutton O’Hara has enough on her plate raising her orphaned niece and nephew and working as a nutritionist at a retirement home. But when clues among the residents point to the Circle—a powerful secret network linked to decades of missing girls and murder—she refuses to look away.

Former Naval investigator Blake Redford is determined to keep Sutton safe. Posing as her boyfriend gives him the perfect excuse to stay close while they search for answers, but the attraction they’ve both ignored quickly becomes impossible to deny. For the first time since losing his wife and son, Blake can imagine a future again.

Then Sutton discovers why he really took the job as a building maintenance man, and it rocks everything she thought about him.

Now, with the trust he needs shattered and the enemy closing in, Blake must prove whose side he’s on before the secrets he kept cost him the woman he loves, the family he never expected, and their only chance to expose the truth.

Suspenseful and filled with lovable characters! Stewart is returning with book four in her intriguing Circle of the Red Lily series and we are reunited with lots of familiar faces and friends. If you’ve been following the series, you know Sutton and Blake well from the time we’ve spent with the group, so it’s easy to route for them falling into a romance. I’ve loved getting to know her and her niece and nephew and although he showed a side we didn’t know in the previous book, he had always been solid and helpful prior. The mystery continues to stump us as they look for answers as to who is behind the Circle and what their true objective really is. I enjoyed Sutton and Blake and look forward to moving even closer to getting the answers we’re striving for soon. This particular book drug a smidge since we didn’t get a whole lot further in our quest for answers, but there was a little bit of a forward momentum and some Hollywood dazzle in addition.

I highly recommend you read this series in order so you can fully get the context of what has happened previously. Tidbits are glossed over here and there throughout, but to get to the heart of what happened to each couple previously, you need to dive into their book. I’m looking forward to solving this case soon!