Cocktails for Three by Madeline Wickham

What a fun story about three women who get together once a month for cocktials.  They all work together is some way shape or form and have a great time kicking back.  They each have very separate lives and each in their own way starts to fall apart.  Through each of their own distress they don't communicate well with each other and are not there when they need each other the most.  They find their way, but it is difficult.  A very enjoyable book full of laughter and emotion.

The Rumor by Elin Hildebrand

It is amazing how things can spiral out of control with what people think they hear.  A visitor becomes someone you are having an affair with.  The gardener becomes the father of an unborn child of a married woman.  Pictures are shared that are meant to be private.  Without speaking to the person you can ruin their lives and reputations.  Hildebrand does an amazing job developing the characters, twisting the plots and just reeling you in.  She never disappoints.

men and dogs by Katie Crouch

Hannah has never come to grips with the fact that her father drown.  Twenty years after it has happened she has ruined her marriage and her business and goes back home to recover from a fall.  This visit home rekindles her desire to prove her father was alive. As good as the book sounds it was quite a disappointment.  The writing was okay but there was nothing like about the characters, the situation or the ending.  I made my way through the book but it was not enjoyable.