Review: The Names of Dead Girls by Eric Rickstad (audio)

Title:The Names of Dead Girls Author:Eric Rickstad Series:Canaan Crime, #3 Narrator: Jeffrey Kafer Published:September 2017, Harper Audio / William Morrow Paperbacks Length:9 hours 11 minutes /434 pages Source: Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – ARC Paperback via William Morrow Paperbacks New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Eric Rickstad delivers the electrifying sequel to The Silent Girls, and features once again detectives Frank Rath and Sonja Test…

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Review: The Cottingley Secret by Hazel Gaynor (audio)

Title:The Cottingley Secret Author:Hazel Gaynor Narrator:Karen Cass, Billie Fullford-Brown Published:August 2017, Harper Audio / William Morrow Paperbacks Length:11 hours 2 minutes / 416 pages Source:Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – ARC Paperback via Publisher The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home turns the clock back one hundred years to a time when two young girls from Cottingley, Yorkshire, convinced the world that…

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Review: Lies She Told by Cate Holahan

Title:Lies She Told  Author:Cate Holahan Published:September 2017, Crooked Lane Books Format:ARC E-copy, 288 pages Source:Netgalley   From the author of the USA Today bestselling novel, The Widower’s Wife, comes an electrifying story of love and deceit. The truth can be darker than fiction. Liza Cole, a once-successful novelist whose career has seen better days, has one month to write the thriller that could land her back on the bestseller list.…

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Review: The Blackbird Season by Kate Moretti

Title:The Blackbird Season Author:Kate Moretti Published:September 2017, Atria Books Format:ARC E-copy, 304 pages Source:Netgalley via Publisher “Where did they come from? Why did they fall? The question would be asked a thousand times… Until, of course, more important question arose, at which time everyone promptly forgot that a thousand birds fell on the town of Mount Oanoke at all.” In a quiet Pennsylvania town, a thousand dead starlings fall onto…

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Review: The Wildling Sisters by Eve Chase (audio)

Title:The Wildling Sisters Author:Eve Chase Narrator:Clare Corbett, Emilia Fox Published:July 2017, Penguin Audio Length:10 hours 46 minutes Source:Library Four sisters. One summer. A lifetime of secrets. When fifteen-year-old Margot and her three sisters arrive at Applecote Manor in June 1959, they expect a quiet English country summer. Instead, they find their aunt and uncle still reeling from the disappearance of their daughter, Audrey, five years before. As the sisters become…

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Review: Working Fire by Emily Bleeker

Title:Working Fire Author:Emily Bleeker Published:August 2017, Lake Union Publishing Format:Paperback, 320 pages Source:Publisher   From the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of When I’m Gone comes a compelling novel of a bond between sisters, tested by tragedy… Ellie Brown thought she’d finally escaped her stifling hometown of Broadlands, Illinois; med school was supposed to be her ticket out. But when her father has a stroke, she must return home to…

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Review: The Missing Girls by Carol Wyer

Title:The Missing Girls Author:Carol Wyer Series:DI Robyn Carter, #3 Published:September 2017, Bookouture Format:ARC E-book, 392 pages Source:Netgalley via Publisher One girl found dead. Another girl gone… Long shadows danced on the tin walls. Inside the trunk lay Carrie Miller, wrapped in plastic, arms folded across her ribcage, lips sealed tight forever… When, a girl’s body is found at a Midlands storage unit, it is too decomposed for Detective Robyn Carter…

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Review: The Summer that Made Us by Robyn Carr (audio)

Title:The Summer That Made Us Author:Robyn Carr Narrator:Therese Plummer Published:September 2017, Recorded Books / Mira Books Length:10 hours 21 minutes / 336 pages Source:Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – ARC Paperback via Little Bird Publicity   Mothers and daughters, sisters and cousins–they lived for summers at the lake house until a tragic accident changed everything. The Summer That Made Us is an unforgettable story about a family…

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Review: Best Day Ever by Kaira Rouda

Title:Best Day Ever Author:Kaira Rouda Published:September 2017, Graydon House Format:ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source:Publisher   I glance at my wife as she climbs into the passenger seat, and I am bursting with confidence. Today will be everything I’ve promised her…and more… Paul Strom has the perfect life: a glittering career as an advertising executive, a beautiful wife, two healthy boys and a big house in a wealthy suburb. And he’s…

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Review: The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld

Title:The Child Finder Author:Rene Denfeld Published:September 2017, Harper Format:ARC Paperback, 288 pages Source:Publisher Three years ago, Madison Culver disappeared when her family was choosing a Christmas tree in Oregon’s Skookum National Forest. She would be eight years old now—if she has survived. Desperate to find their beloved daughter, certain someone took her, the Culvers turn to Naomi, a private investigator with an uncanny talent for locating the lost and missing.…

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Review: The Good Widow by Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke (audio)

Title:The Good Widow Author:Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke Narrator:Dara Rosenberg Published:June 2017, Brilliance Audio Length:9 hours 35 minutes Source:Publisher Bestselling authors Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke make their suspense debut in this twisty, emotional thriller. Elementary school teacher Jacqueline “Jacks” Morales’s marriage was far from perfect, but even in its ups and downs it was predictable, familiar. Or at least she thought it was…until two police officers showed up at…

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#FitReaders: Weekly Check-in September 15

  #FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog  and That’s What I’m Talking About   It was a good week.  One thing I’ve been really conscious of since coming back from my injury is trying to change things up in regards to my workouts. Since I’m still on a restricted workout regiment, and will be for another week or two, I can’t go too crazy, but still I am…

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Cover Reveal & Book Spotlight: The Secret to Southern Charm by Kristy Woodson Harvey

I am so excited to help Kristy Woodsen Harvey spread the news today about her newest book – and share the cover!!! I have adored Kristy’s previous books and will be anxiously waiting until I can get my hands on this next one…Kristy writes from the heart and that definitely comes across in her writing! This is the second book in her Peachtree Bluff series, and let me just tell…

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Review: The Scarred Woman by Jussi Adler-Olsen

Title:The Scarred Woman Author:Jussi Adler-Olsen Series:Department Q, #7 Published:September 2017, Dutton Books Format:ARC Paperback, 486 pages Source:Publisher   The New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Causes delivers his most captivating and suspenseful Department Q novel yet—perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson.   Detective Carl Mørck of Department Q, Copenhagen’s cold cases division, meets his toughest challenge yet when the dark, troubled past of one of…

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Review: Mrs. Saint and the Defectives by Julie Lawson Timmer (audio)

Title:Mrs. Saint and the Defectives Author:Julie Lawson Timmer Narrator:Elizabeth Wiley Published:August 2017, Brilliance Audio / Lake Union Publishing Length:10 hours 31 minutes / 366 pages Source: Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – Paperback via Publisher Critically acclaimed author Julie Lawson Timmer returns with a tale of how community can heal the brokenness in all of us. Markie, a fortysomething divorcée who has suffered a humiliating and very…

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Review: Undertow by Elizabeth Heathcote

Title:Undertow Author:Elizabeth Heathcote Published:June 2017, Park Row Books Format:ARC E-copy, 320 pages Source:Netgalley  An exhilarating debut novel that follows one woman’s hunt for the truth when she realizes she might have married a killer They said her death was a tragic accident. And I believed them…until now. Carmen is happily married to Tom, although she knows she’ll always live in the shadow of another woman—the mistress who ended his first…

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#FitReaders: Weekly Check-in September 8

    #FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog  and That’s What I’m Talking About   Hello everyone…I’m back! This injury (a stress fracture in my foot) really has been most annoying…and now that I’ve been given clearance to start exercising again, I am slowly getting back to my regular routines. Boy is it hard to follow doctor’s orders – for now, I am only allowed to do fitness…

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Blog Tour & Review: Everything We Lost by Valerie Geary

Title:Everything We Lost Author:Valerie Geary Published:August 2017, William Morrow Paperbacks Format:ARC Paperback, 480 pages Source:Publisher via TLC Book Tours Lucy Durant was only fourteen-years-old when she lost her older brother. First to his paranoid delusions as he became increasingly obsessed with UFOs and government conspiracies. Then, permanently, when he walked into the desert outside Bishop, California, and never returned. Now on the tenth anniversary of Nolan’s mysterious disappearance, Lucy is…

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Review: The Silent Girls by Eric Rickstad (audio)

Title:The Silent Girls Author:Eric Rickstad Series:Canaan Crime Series, #2 Narrator:R.C. Bray Published:May 2015, Tantor Audio Length:9 hours 33 minutes Source:Library With the dead of a bitter Vermont winter closing in, evil is alive and well … Frank Rath thought he was done with murder when he turned in his detective’s badge to become a private investigator and raise a daughter alone. Then the police in his remote rural community of…

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Review: The Walls by Hollie Overton

Title:The Walls Author:Hollie Overton Published:August 2017, Redhook Format:ARC Paperback, 416 pages Source:Publisher A heart-stopping psychological suspense novel about a Texas prison official driven to commit the perfect crime, by the author of the international bestselling thriller Baby Doll. WOULD YOU KILL TO PROTECT YOUR FAMILY? Working on death row is far from Kristy Tucker’s dream, but she is grateful for a job that allows her to support her son and…

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Blog Tour & Review: The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter

Title:The Good Daughter Author:Karin Slaughter Published:August 2017, William Morrow Format:Hardcover, 528 pages Source:Publisher via TLC Book Tours The stunning new novel from the international #1 bestselling author — a searing, spellbinding blend of cold-case thriller and psychological suspense. Two girls are forced into the woods at gunpoint. One runs for her life. One is left behind… Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinn’s happy small-town family life was torn apart by a…

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Review: Something Like Happy by Eva Woods

Title:Something Like Happy Author:Eva Woods Published:September 2017, Graydon House Format:ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source:Publisher via Little Bird Publicity With wry wit and boundless heart, Eva Woods delivers an unforgettable tale of celebrating triumphs great and small, seizing the day, and always remembering to live in the moment. “It’s simple, really. You’re just meant to do one thing every day that makes you happy. Could be little things. Could be big.…

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Review: Lie to Me by J.T. Ellison

Title:Lie to Me Author:J.T. Ellison Published:September 2017, Mira Books Format:ARC Paperback, 426 pages Source:Author   They built a life on lies Sutton and Ethan Montclair’s idyllic life is not as it appears. The couple seems made for each other, but the truth is ugly. Consumed by professional and personal betrayals and financial woes, the two both love and hate each other. As tensions mount, Sutton disappears, leaving behind a note…

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Month in Review: August 2017

Goodbye August …Hello September!!! So, this was a funny month – between being on vacation at the beach for a week and then coming home only to realize I had a stress fracture in my foot and needed to stay off it for 2 weeks, I suddenly found myself with tons of reading time on my hands 🙂 Not that I’m complaining – those piles of books aren’t going to…

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