Just in case your New Year's resolutions had something to do with reading, too, here's a title for anyone who loves a good, suspenseful yarn involving creepy old houses, mistaken identities, and ghosts from high school past. In NEVER TELL A LIE, Ivy and David Rose seem to have the perfect life--a Victorian fixer-upper, a happy marriage, a first baby on the way--until a woman who claims to know them shows up at their yard sale. She introduces herself as Melinda White, but she looks and acts...

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Leave ’em Hanging

Have you ever said to yourself: I’ll just read one more chapter and then I’m going to go to bed, only to find that, six chapters later, it’s 3 in the morning and you’re still sitting in the same place? Well, you can blame it on the transitions. It can be argued that good transitions are what make a book successful. A great transition between chapters is what sucks the reader in and makes her (or him) not just want to keep reading but need to keep reading. Susan Elizabeth Phillips is the master of transitions. She knows just when to leave you hanging so that you just have to keep reading. Take a look at Breathing Room or Match Me If You Can, and you’ll see what I mean.

Tessa Woodward, Assistant Editor

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