Title:Emma in the Night Author:Wendy Walker Published:August 2017, St. Martin’s Press Format:ARC Paperback, 320 pages Source:Publisher   From the bestselling author of All Is Not Forgotten comes a thriller about two missing sisters, a twisted family, and what happens when one girl comes back… One night three years ago, the Tanner sisters disappeared: fifteen-year-old Cass and seventeen-year-old Emma. Three years later, Cass returns, without her sister Emma. Her story is…

Title: A Beautiful Poison Author:Lydia Kang Published:August 2017, Lake Union Publishing Format:ARC Paperback, 350 pages Source:Publisher Just beyond the Gilded Age, in the mist-covered streets of New York, the deadly Spanish influenza ripples through the city. But with so many victims in her close circle, young socialite Allene questions if the flu is really to blame. All appear to have been poisoned—and every death was accompanied by a mysterious note.…

Title:The People at Number 9 Author:Felicity Everett Published:August 2017, HQ Format:ARC Paperback, 315 pages Source:Publisher Have you met them yet, the new couple? When Gav and Lou move into the house next door, Sara spends days plucking up courage to say hello. The neighbours are glamorous, chaotic and just a little eccentric. They make the rest of Sara’s street seem dull by comparison. When the hand of friendship is extended,…

Title:The End of Temperance Dare Author:Wendy Webb Published:June 2017, Lake Union Publishing Format:Paperback, 336 pages Source:Publisher Haunting and atmospheric, The End of Temperance Dare is another thrilling page-turner from the author reviewers are calling the Queen of the Northern Gothic. When Eleanor Harper becomes the director of a renowned artists’ retreat, she knows nothing of Cliffside Manor’s dark past as a tuberculosis sanatorium, a “waiting room for death.” After years…

Title:The Other Girl Author:Erica Spindler Published:August 2017, St. Martin’s Press Format:ARC E-copy, 256 pages Source:Netgalley via Publisher From the New York Times bestselling author of Justice for Sara and The First Wife comes a chilling new thriller about a ritualistic murder of a college professor that sends a small town cop back into the trauma she thought she’d put behind her.   A horrific crime. One witness—a fifteen year old…

Title:Unraveling Oliver Author:Liz Nugent Published:August 2017, Gallery/Scout Press Format:ARC Paperback, 272 pages Source:Publisher “I expected more of a reaction the first time I hit her.” So begins Liz Nugent’s astonishing debut novel—a chilling, elegantly crafted, and psychologically astute exploration of the nature of evil. Oliver Ryan, handsome, charismatic, and successful, has long been married to his devoted wife, Alice. Together they write and illustrate award-winning children’s books; their life together…

Title:Cockroaches Author:Jo Nesbo Series:Harry Hole, #2 Published:February 2014, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Format:Paperback, 368 pages Source:Personal copy   When the Norwegian ambassador to Thailand is found dead in a Bangkok brothel, Inspector Harry Hole is dispatched from Oslo to help hush up the case. But once he arrives Harry discovers that this case is about much more than one random murder. There is something else, something more pervasive, scrabbling around behind…

Title:Last Breath Author:Karin Slaughter Published:July 2017, Witness Impulse (HarperCollins Imprint) Format:E-book, 176 pages Source:Personal copy Protecting someone always comes at a cost. At the age of thirteen, Charlie Quinn’s childhood came to an abrupt and devastating end. Two men, with a grudge against her lawyer father, broke into her home – and after that shocking night, Charlie’s world was never the same. Now a lawyer herself, Charlie has made it…

Title:The Perfect Stranger Author:Megan Miranda Published:April 2017, Simon & Schuster Format:ARC E-book, 352 pages Source:Netgalley In the masterful follow-up to the New York Times bestseller All the Missing Girls—“think: Luckiest Girl Alive, The Girl on the Train, Gone Girl” (TheSkimm)—a journalist sets out to find a missing friend, a friend who may never have existed at all. Confronted by a restraining order and the threat of a lawsuit, failed journalist…

Title:Secrets of the Dead Author:Carol E. Wyer Series:DI Robyn Carter, #2 Published:May 2017, Bookouture Format:ARC E-book, 316 pages Source:Netgalley via Publisher Three murders. Three innocent victims. What secrets did they share with their killer? A bottle of bubble bath and colourful, plastic boats were scattered in small puddles on the floor. In the bathtub lay Linda Upton, fully-clothed, her lips a shade of blue, and her bloodshot eyes wide open.…

Title:The Alice Network Author:Kate Quinn Published:June 2017, William Morrow Paperbacks Format:ARC Paperback, 503 pages Source:Publisher In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women—a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947—are brought together in a mesmerizing story of courage and redemption. 1947. In the chaotic aftermath of…