Title:The Girl Before Author:Rena Olsen Published:August 2016, G.P Putnam’s Sons Format:Paperback, 314 pages Source:Personal copy In this powerful psychological suspense debut, when a woman’s life is shattered, she is faced with a devastating question: What if everything she thought was normal and good and true . . . wasn’t? Clara Lawson is torn from her life in an instant. Without warning, her home is invaded by armed men, and she…
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Title: The Candidate Author:Lis Wiehl Series:Newsmakers, #2 Narrator:Devon O’Day Published:October, 2016, Thomas Nelson Publishers Length:9 hours 19 minutes Source:Publisher How far would a candidate go to become President of the United States? In covering the presidential election campaign, star newsmaker Erica Sparks notices that favored candidate Senator Mike Ortiz seems dependent on his wife to an unnatural degree. Celeste Ortiz is a brilliant and glamorous billionaire who—along with her best…
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Title: Missing, Presumed Author:Susie Steiner Series:DS Mannon, #1 Narrator:Juanita McMahon Published:June 2016, Random House Audio Length:12 hours, 57 minutes Source:Library Mid-December, and Cambridgeshire is blanketed with snow. Detective Sergeant Manon Bradshaw tries to sleep after yet another soul-destroying Internet date – the low murmuring of her police radio her only solace. Over the airwaves come reports of a missing woman – door ajar, keys and phone left behind, a…
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#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About This was not really a good week…not because I was sick again, but because I was dealing with another health issue. As some of you know, I get frequent headaches and boy oh boy, did I have some crazy headaches this past week! Bad enough that I didn’t want or feel like doing anything.…
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Title:Hindsight Author:Mindy Tarquini Published:November 2016, Sparkpress Format:Paperback, 319 pages EUGENIA PANISPORCHI LIVES WITH HER MOTHER, TEACHES CHAUCER, AND REMEMBERS ALL HER PAST LIVES. SHE IS DESPERATE TO CHANGE HER FUTURE Born this time around into a South Philadelphia Italian-American family so traditional, she and her siblings are expected to marry in birth order, Eugenia lives a simple life―no love connection, no controversy, no complications. Her hope is that the Blessed…
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Please join me in welcoming Kerry Wilkinson to Always With a Book. The latest book in Kerry‘s Detective Jessica Daniel’s series, The Woman in Black, is being published today in the US – it has already been published in the UK. This is the 3rd book in the series of what is already a 10-book series. Title:The Woman in Black Author:Kerry Wilkinson Series:Detective Jessica Daniels, #3 Published:November 2016, Bookouture Format:E-book,…
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Title:The Stranger Author:Camilla Lackberg Series:Patrik Hedstrom /Fjallbacka, #4 Narrator:Simon Vance Published:April 2013, HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books Length:11 hours 24 minutes Source:Library A string of suspicious deaths points to a potential serial killer who has turned his eye toward Fjällbacka and her dark forests, where two children vanished decades before. A local woman is killed in a tragic car crash, but it isn’t a clear-cut drunk driving case. The…
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Title:Night Watch Author:Iris Johasen & Roy Johansen Series: Kendra Michaels, #4 Narrator:Elisabeth Rodgers Published:October 2016, Recorded Books Length:12 hours 4 minutes Source:Personal copy via Audible The #1 New York Times bestselling author and the Edgar Award winning author are back with a new a new novel featuring Kendra Michaels—hired gun for both the CIA and FBI. Born blind, Kendra Michaels spent the first twenty years of her life living…
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Title:Dark Water Author:Robert Bryndza Series:DCI Erika Foster, #3 Narrator:Jan Cramer Published:October 2016, Bookouture Length:8 hours 55 minutes Source:Personal copy via Audible Beneath the water the body sank rapidly. She would lie still and undisturbed for many years but above her on dry land, the nightmare was just beginning. When Detective Erika Foster receives a tip-off that key evidence for a major narcotics case was stashed in a disused quarry on…
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#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About I had another good week – I took it easy, got lots of rest and am ready to get back to my training. I’m not going to go crazy, but I am anxious to take it up a notch! And since I’m not working, I don’t need to do it first thing in the…
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Title: In the Heart of Texas Author:Ginger McKnight Chavers Published:October 2016, She Writes Press Format:Paperback, 328 pages Pitched as “a poor man’s Halle Berry,” forty-one-year-old soap star Jo Randolph, has successfully avoided waiting tables since she left Midland, Texas at eighteen. But then, in the span of twenty-four hours, Jo manages to lose her job, burn her bridges in Hollywood, and accidentally burn down her lover/director’s beach house—after which…
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Title:North of Here Author:Laurel Saville Narrator:Pete Simonelli Published:March 2016, Brilliance Audio Length:9 hours 29 minutes Source:Publisher The sounds of unexpected tragedies—a roll of thunder, the crash of metal on metal—leave Miranda in shock amid the ruins of her broken family. As she searches for new meaning in her life, Miranda finds quiet refuge with her family’s handyman, Dix, in his cabin in the dark forests of the Adirondack Mountains.…
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Title:Crepe Factor Author:Laura Childs Series:A Scrapbooking Mystery, #14 Published:October 2016, Berkley Format:ARC Paperback, 336 pages Source:Author The Winter Market in the French Quarter is in full swing, but murder isn’t taking a holiday in the latest from the New York Times bestselling author of Parchment and Old Lace… The holidays are a busy time for scrapbook shop owner Carmela Bertrand—but not so hectic that she doesn’t have time to…
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Title:The Waiting Room Author:Leah Kaminsky Published:November 2016, Harper Perennial Format:ARC Paperback, 320 pages Source:Publisher Leah Kaminsky’s powerful fiction debut—a multi-generational novel perfect for fans of The Tiger’s Wife and A Constellation of Vital Phenomena—unfolds over a day in the life of a young physician in contemporary Israel, who must cope with modern threats in the shadow of her parents’ horrific wartime pasts. A young doctor in Haifa, Israel, must…
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#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About I had a pretty good week – even made it to the gym this week 😉 I got in 2 5k’s and I think I may finally have turned the corner with my sickness – yay!!! I’m slowly easing back into things – it’s amazing how tired I still am, even though I’ve basically…
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Title:Found Author:Emily Brett Published:October 2016, SparkPress Format:Paperback, 308 pages Twenty-seven-year-old ICU nurse Natalie Ulster has a desire to see the world, in case she dies young like her mother, and a need to heal, which is compensation for her own damaged heart. Armed with an independence and self-reliance that stems from her father s emotional abandonment and wanting to separate herself from a deranged nurse whose husband just died…
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Title:Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes Author:Karin Slaughter Published:August 2015, Cornerstone Digital Format:E-Copy, 115 pages Source:Library A missing girl in the news reminds Julia Carroll of herself: nineteen, beautiful, blonde hair, blue eyes. Julia begins to dig deeper and plans an article for her college paper. She becomes gradually more obsessed with the case, never imagining how close she herself is to danger. ***Short & Sweet Reviews are short, quick reviews. These…
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Title:Pretty Girls Author:Karin Slaughter Narrator:Kathleen Early Published:September 2015, Blackstone Audio Length:19 hours 59 minutes Source:Library #1 internationally bestselling author Karin Slaughter returns with a sophisticated and chilling psychological thriller of dangerous secrets, cold vengeance, and unexpected absolution, in which two estranged sisters must come together to find truth about two harrowing tragedies, twenty years apart, that devastate their lives. Sisters. Strangers. Survivors. More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia’s…
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Title:The Off Season Author:Colleen Thompson Narrator:Hillary Huber Published:September 2016, Brilliance Audio Length:12 hours 5 minutes Source:Publisher Winter winds off the Atlantic have turned the tourist mecca of Seaside Creek, New Jersey, into a ghost town. Dr. Christina Paxton, however, is growing accustomed to living with ghosts. Recently widowed, the emergency room physician has returned to the shore with her young daughter, house-sitting a sprawling beachside Victorian home. One night,…
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#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About Ok…so, I think I might actually be on the mend…finally! I have not been sick this long in forever and every time I think I am getting better, the cough/cold seems to come back. Luckily I’m not working right now (quit my job after realizing the stress/aggravation just wasn’t worth it!) so I’ve been able…
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Title:Unexpected Love Author:Kristy Kryszczak Published:October 2016, She Writes Press Format:Paperback, 218 pages As a young woman living in the wondrous city of New York, Inez Champlain has always aspired to be like Carrie from Sex and the City, sans the tulle skirts and poor financial decisions, of course. Inez has it all: great friends, her dream job as a notable beauty writer, a studio loft on the Upper East…
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Title: The Woman in Cabin 10 Author:Ruth Ware Published:July 2016, Gallery/Scout Press Format:ARC E-copy, 352 pages Source:Netgalley From New York Times bestselling author of the “twisty-mystery” (Vulture) novel In a Dark, Dark Wood, comes The Woman in Cabin 10, an equally suspenseful novel from Ruth Ware—this time, set at sea. In this tightly wound story, Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the…
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Title:Fool Me Once Author:Harlan Coben Narrator:January LaVoy Published:March 2016, Brilliance Audio Length:10 hours 6 minutes Source:Publisher In the course of eight consecutive #1 New York Times bestsellers, millions of readers have discovered Harlan Coben’s page-turning thrillers, filled with his trademark edge-of-your-seat suspense and gut-wrenching emotion. In Fool Me Once, Coben once again outdoes himself. Former special ops pilot Maya, home from the war, sees an unthinkable image captured by her…
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Here are my reading stats for October! Books read: 15 Books I read: The Things We Wish Were True — Marybeth Mayhew Whalen (audio book) Little Blue Blue — M.J. Arlidge (e-book) The Girl in the Castle — Santa Montefiore (audio book) Field of Graves — J.T. Ellison (audio book) In the Woods — Tana French A Kiss in the Snow — Susan Mallery (e-book) Summit Lake — Charlie Donlea…
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