Thank you HTP Audio for the ALC and HTP / Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: MIRA / Harlequin Audio Published: April 29, 2025 Summary: Cora Zeng is a crime scene cleaner—but the bloody messes don’t bother her, not when she’s already witnessed the most horrific thing possible: her sister being pushed in…
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Thank you Libro/Penguin Random House Audio for the ALC and Berkley Books, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man) in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Berkley Books / PRH Audio Published: April 1, 2025 Summary: Vera Wong is back and as meddling as ever in this follow-up to the hit Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers.… Ever since a man was found…
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Thank you MB Communications/ThrillerbookloversThePulse, #partner, for the advanced copy of Jill Is Not Happy in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Scarlet Suspense Published: June 10, 2025 Summary: Some secrets keep a couple together. If you ask Jill Tingley, she’ll tell you she and her husband Jack are college sweethearts living the dream in Southern California. Wealthy, popular and genetically blessed, theirs is an enviable life, though they’ve grown…
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Thank you MB Communications & Amazon Publishing, #partner, for the advanced copy of Follow Me in exchange for my honest review. I purchased the audiobook for my own collection. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer / Brilliance Publishing Published: April 1, 2025 Summary: Heathers meets The Stepford Wives in this creepy and frighteningly funny dark thriller about a woman who will do anything to find her missing sister. Even pretend to be one of them. After…
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Thank you to the author for the advanced e-copy of Karma Never Sleeps in exchange for my honest opinion. Publisher: Tule Publishing Published: April 14, 2025 Summary: In a small town, the truth can’t always set you free… When a second woman from a group of friends known as “the posse” is murdered in the woods near the New England enclave of Kendalton, FBI agent and profiler Gus Wheeler…
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Thank you BookSparks #partner, for the finished copy of Broken Country in exchange for my honest review. Back with the final book in the @booksparks Winter Reading Challenge. I have loved being an ambassador this season…& I hope you enjoyed the books I shared with you! Publisher: Simon & Schuster / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: March 4, 2025 Summary: “The farmer is dead. He is dead, and all anyone wants…
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Thank you MB Communications & Amazon Publishing, #partner, for the finished copy of The Summer Guests in exchange for my honest review. I purchased the audiobook for my own collection. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer / Brilliance Publishing Published: March 18, 2025 Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen comes a chilling follow-up to The Spy Coast, plunging the Martini Club into the search for a missing teen—with a startling connection…
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I purchased this book for my own collection. Publisher: Pamela Dorman Books Published: January 7, 2025 Summary: A witty, atmospheric, and brilliantly told novel that offers compelling portraits of womanhood, motherhood and female friendship, along with the irresistible intrigue surrounding an extraordinary British family Arriving at the University of Edinburgh for her first term, Pen knows her divorced parents back in Canada are hiding something from her. She believes she’ll…
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Thank you ThrillerBookLoversThePulse #partner, for the advanced e-copy of Chase Harlem in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Rising Action Publishing Published: June 17, 2025 Summary: In the colorful chaos of New Orleans, Chase Harlem has three essentials for happiness: her trusted red Converse, a reliable taser, and a good sense of humor to survive it all. All she wants is a simple life – morning jogs in cemeteries,…
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Thank you Libro.fm/PRH Audio for the ALC and Knopf, #partner, for the finished copy of The Antidote in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Knopf / Random House Audio Published: March 11, 2025 Summary: From Pulitzer finalist, MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and bestselling author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove. A gripping Dust Bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraskan town The Antidote opens on…
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I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Published: November 26, 2024 Summary: Would you defend your husband if he was accused of killing his mistress? Sarah Morgan is a successful and powerful defense attorney in Washington D.C. At 33 years old, she is a named partner at her firm and life is going exactly how she planned. The same cannot be said for her husband, Adam. He…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio, partner for the ALCs of The Dollhouse Academy & Girl Falling, in exchange for my honest reviews. I enjoyed the previous books of both these authors & have been quite eager for their new releases…& I was not disappointed. THE DOLLHOUSE ACADEMY by Margarita Montimore Published: February 11, 2025, Macmillan Audio Summary: From the national bestselling author of Oona Out of Order, a…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio, for the ALC and Goodreads/Flatiron, #partner for the advanced copy of Wild Dark Shore in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Flatiron Books / Macmillan Audio Published: March 4, 2025 Summary: A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon. Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from…
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Thank you MB Communications & Amazon Publishing, #partner, for the finished copy of The Spy Coast in exchange for my honest review. I purchased the audiobook for my own collection. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Published: November 1, 2023 Summary: A retired CIA operative in small-town Maine tackles the ghosts of her past in this fresh take on the spy thriller from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen. Former spy Maggie Bird…
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I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Penguin Audio Published: March 14, 2023 Summary: A lonely shopkeeper takes it upon herself to solve a murder in the most peculiar way in this captivating mystery by Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties. Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady—ah, lady of a certain age—who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco’s…
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Thank you Scribner Books #partner, for the finished copy of The Unworthy in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Scribner Books Published: March 4, 2025 Summary: The long-awaited new novel from the author of global sensation Tender Is the Flesh: a thrilling work of literary horror about a woman cloistered in a secretive, violent religious order, while outside the world has fallen into chaos. From her cell in a mysterious convent,…
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Thank you Atria Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of My Friends in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books Published: May 6, 2025 Summary: #1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a stranger’s life twenty-five years later. Most people don’t even notice them—three tiny figures sitting at…
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Thank you Libro.fm/Recorded Books for the ALC and Sourcebooks Landmark, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of The Undoing of Violet Claybourne in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark / Recorded Books Published: March 4, 2025 Summary: 1938. Gillian Larkin is used to going unnoticed, until she is sent away to school and befriended by her roommate, the vibrant and spirited Violet Claybourne. As the Christmas holidays approach, Gilly…
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Thank you Random House, #partner for the advanced e-copy of You Are Fatally Invited and Gallery/Scout Press, #partner for the advanced copy of Count My Lies, in exchange for my honest reviews. The countdown is on… The weekend of April 10-13th, I’ll be attending one of my favorite bookish events of the year – the @hamptonswhodunit out in East Hampton, NY. In preparation, I read these 3…
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I purchased this book for my own collection. Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Published: October 3, 2011 (first published 1934) Summary: Sir Charles Cartwright should have known better than to allow thirteen guests to sit down for dinner. For at the end of the evening one of them is dead—choked by a cocktail that contained no trace of poison. Predictable, says Hercule Poirot, the great detective. But entirely unpredictable is that he…
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Thank you to Netgalley/Blackstone Publishing for the ALC and to the author for the advanced copy of Remote: The Six in exchange for my honest opinion. Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Published: April 8, 2025 Summary: A serial killer is rampaging across the country, tying families to chairs–arranged in puzzling tableaus–then murdering them, without leaving a trace of evidence. FBI Special Agent Lukas Stark has been hunting the Tableau Killer for eighteen…
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Thank you Penguin Random House Audio for the ALC and Dutton, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of A Mother’s Love in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Dutton Published: March 11, 2025 (first published 2020) Summary: Detective Louise Rick uncovers dark secrets swirling around an inn in a seemingly idyllic tourist town in this propulsive new crime novel from #1 Danish bestselling sensation Sara Blaedel. When innkeeper Dorthe Hyllested is…
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Thank you Sourcebooks Landmark #partner for the finished copy of Follow Me to Africa in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark Published: February 25, 2025 Summary: Historical fiction inspired by the story of groundbreaking paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey, FOLLOW ME TO AFRICA is a sweeping, dual-timeline story of intergenerational friendship, a meditation on the beauty of the natural world, and a celebration of the women who pave the…
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February has come and gone in the blink of an eye! But for a short month, it sure was productive! I have managed to keep up with my goal of staying somewhat up-to-date with reviews – it’s still early on in the year, but I’m hopeful I can manage this all year long. March is a busy month with tons of new releases and me going away at the…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio, for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the advanced e-copy of The Queens of Crime in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: February 11, 2025 Summary: The New York Times bestselling author of The Mystery of Mrs. Christie returns with a thrilling story of Christie’s legendary rival Dorothy Sayers, the race to solve a murder, and the power of…
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Thank you Libro.fm/ HarperAudio, partner for the ALC of Famous Last Words in exchange for my honest review. I purchased a print copy for my own collection. Publisher: William Morrow / Harper Audio Published: February 25, 2025 Summary: From the author of Reese’s Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller Wrong Place Wrong Time comes an addictive thriller about a new mother’s world upended when her husband commits a terrifying crime. How well does…
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A friend gifted me this book. Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark Published: April 23, 2024 Summary: They say the camera never lies. But on this show, you can’t trust anything you see. Stranded in the Welsh mountains, seven reality show contestants have no idea what they’ve signed up for. Each of these strangers has a secret. If another player can guess the truth, they won’t just be eliminated – they’ll be exposed…
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Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Atria Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Cross My Heart in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: January 14, 2025 Summary: She has his dead wife’s heart; the one she wants is his. The author of The Family Plot brings her signature prose to a twisty novel about a heart transplant patient…
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I purchased this book for my own collection. Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Published: October 3, 2026 (first published 1969) Summary: When a Halloween Party turns deadly, it falls to Hercule Poirots to unmask a murderer in Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery, Hallowe’en Party. At a Halloween party, Joyce—a hostile thirteen-year-old—boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found,…
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Thank you Libro.fm/Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: March 4, 2025 Summary: From New York Times bestseller and Edgar-Award nominee Elle Cosimano, comes Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave—the hugely anticipated next installment in the fan-favorite Finlay Donovan series. Finlay Donovan may have skeletons in her closet . .…
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Thank you ThrillerBookLoversThePulse #partner, for the advanced e-copy of Their Double Lives in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Scarlet Suspense Published: May 20, 2025 Summary: Living a double life always comes with a cost. A down-on-her-luck waitress at a posh New Jersey country club, Kim Valva couldn’t be living a more different life from the carefree socialites she serves. Her live-in boyfriend recently cheated on her, her social…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Published: January 28, 2025 Summary: She gets people to confess their crimes for a living. He knows she’s hiding a terrible secret. It’s time for the truth to come out… Poe Webb, host of a popular true crime podcast, invites people to anonymously confess crimes they’ve committed to her audience. She can’t guarantee the police won’t…
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Thank you Hachette Audio, #partner for the ALC of Nesting in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Hachette Audio Published: February 18, 2025 Summary: On a bright spring afternoon in Dublin, Ciara Fay makes a split-second decision that will change everything. Grabbing an armful of clothes from the washing line, Ciara straps her two young daughters into her car and drives away. Head spinning, all she knows for certain is…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio, for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the advanced e-copy of The Mother Next Door in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: February 4, 2025 Summary: A groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that investigates Munchausen by Proxy from the host and creator of the award-winning true crime podcast Nobody Should Believe Me. No bond is more sacred…
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Thank you ThrillerBooksLoversThePulse #partner, for the advanced e-copy of Lie in the Tide in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Severn House Published: June 3, 2025 Summary: Theirs is a reunion . . . to die for! Four friends are meeting at a beautiful Cape Cod beach house for a long overdue reunion. But before the trip is over, one of them will wind up dead . . .…
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Thank you St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the advanced copy of The Girls of Summer in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: June 6, 2023 Summary: “That place has been my whole life. Everything I thought I knew about myself was constructed in those few months I spent within touching distance of the sea. Everything I…
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Thank you St. Martin’s Press #partner, for the finished copy of Bonded in Death in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Published: February 4, 2025 Summary: The #1 New York Times bestselling author spins an epic tale of loyalty, treachery, murder, and the long shadow of war… His passport read Giovanni Rossi. But decades ago, during the Urban Wars, he was part of a small, secret organization called…
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Thank you Penguin Random House Audio for the ALC and Knopf, #partner, for the finished copy of Blood Ties in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Knopf Published: February 11, 2025 Summary: FAMILY COMES FIRST. NO MATTER THE COST. Brothers Carl and Roy Opgard have succeeded in life. Or at least they’ve had as much success as is possible in a small town like Os, where they’ve killed their…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio for the ALC of A Killing Cold in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Macmillan Audio Published: February 4, 2025 Summary: A woman invited to her wealthy fiance’s family retreat realizes they are hiding a terrible secret—and that she’s been there before, by the bestselling author of What Lies in the Woods. A whirlwind romance. When Theodora Scott met Connor—wealthy, charming, and a member of the powerful…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Pamela Dorman Books / Penguin Audio Published: July 27, 2021 Summary: In this family, everyone is keeping secrets–especially the dead. Brecken Hill in upstate New York is an expensive place to live. You have to be rich to have a house there. And they don’t come much richer than Fred and Sheila…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Ecco / Harper Audio Published: March 5, 2024 Summary: An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved, and labored there. It is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first, it must be built.…
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Thank you Minotaur Books, #partner for the advanced copy of The Nature of Disappearing in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: June 18, 2024 Summary: In this captivating novel of suspense, a wilderness guide must team up with the man who ruined her life years ago when the friend who introduced them goes missing. Emlyn doesn’t let herself think about the past. How she and her…
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Thank you BookSparks #partner, for the finished copy of After Life in exchange for my honest review. I am thrilled to be a @booksparks ambassador for the Winter Reading Challenge! The theme this season is ‘The Art of Reading’ & the lineup of books is looking pretty good, if I do say so myself! Publisher: Quill Tree Books Published: January 7, 2025 Summary: “After Life is a masterful…
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Thank you PRH Audio, partner for the ALC of Trust Issues & Dead Money, in exchange for my honest reviews. I have been leaning heavily into audiobooks lately, especially for thrillers. There is something so exciting about listening to a story that’s fast-paced, thrilling & one that keeps you guessing…& both of these do just that. TRUST ISSUES by Elizabeth McCullough Keenan & Greg Wands Published: January…
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Thank you to the author/Netgalley for the advanced copy of Into the Fall in exchange for my honest opinion. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Published: February 1, 2025 Summary: From debut author Tamara L. Miller comes a suspenseful psychological thriller tracking the mysteries of a seemingly mundane life as they come to light in the vast, unforgiving Canadian wilderness. For better or for worse, Sarah Anderson has it a thriving career,…
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Thank you to the author for the advanced copy of River of Lies in exchange for my honest opinion. Publisher: Oceanview Publishing Published: January 7, 2025 Summary: Detective Emily Hunter must be the voice for the voiceless The homeless camps spread throughout the city of Sacramento are a topic of heated debate among residents. They’ re considered undesirable— a nuisance— an eyesore. But when the camps fall victim to a…
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Thank you Forge Books #partner, for the finished copy of Carolina Moonset in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Forge Books Published: May 31, 2022 Summary: Both suspenseful and deeply moving, Carolina Moonset is an engrossing novel about family, memories both golden and terrible, and secrets too dangerous to stay hidden forever, from New York Times bestselling and Emmy Award-winning author, Matt Goldman. Joey Green has returned to Beaufort, South Carolina, with its…
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And finally, January is over! Was it not the longest month ever? At least it was a productive one…and I hope moving forward, every month is as productive! I have made a few goals for myself concerning the blog and my reading and so far, so good! Here they are: Keep up with reviews! Keep up-to-date with Goodreads tracking Balance new ARC reading with my own books and some…
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Thank you Penguin Random House Audio for the ALC and Berkley Books, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of Mask of the Deer Woman in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Berkley Books / PRH Audio Published: January 21, 2025 Summary: To find a missing young woman, the new tribal marshal must also find herself. At rock bottom following her daughter’s murder, ex-Chicago detective Carrie Starr has nowhere to go…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Celadon Books #partner for the advanced copy of Penitence in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Celadon Books / Macmillan Audio Published: January 28, 2025 Summary: For readers of Ann Patchett and Celeste Ng, Penitence is a poignant exploration of love and forgiveness. It’s a suspenseful, addictive page-turner filled with literary insight that compels readers to consider whether each of us is…
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