Review: Even If It Kills Her by Kate White

Title:Even If It Kills Her Author:Kate White Series:Bailey Weggins, #7 Published:October 2017, Harper Paperbacks Format:ARC Paperback, 448 pages Source:Publisher   Kate White returns to her New York Times bestselling Bailey Weggins’ Mystery series, with this favorite true-crime journalist turned sleuth’s most chilling case to date. Bailey Weggins’ great new friend in college, Jillian Lowe, had everything going for her. Pretty, popular, and whip-smart, she lit up any room that she…

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Review: The Stolen Marriage by Diane Chamberlain (audio)

Title:The Stolen Marriage Author:Diane Chamberlain Narrator:Susan Bennett Published:October 2017, Macmillan Audio / St. Martin’s Press Length:14 hours 6 minutes / 384 pages Source:Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – ARC E-copy via Netgalley; Finished copy via Publisher   In 1944, twenty-three-year-old Tess DeMello abruptly ends her engagement to the love of her life when she marries a mysterious stranger and moves to Hickory, North Carolina, a small town…

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Review: Dead Souls by Angela Marsons (audio)

Title:Dead Souls Author:Angela Marsons Series:DI Kim Stone, #6 Narrator:Jan Cramer Published:May 2017, Bookouture Length:10 hours 14 minutes Source:Personal copy via Audible   The truth was dead and buried…until now. When a collection of human bones is unearthed during a routine archaeological dig, a Black Country field suddenly becomes a complex crime scene for Detective Kim Stone. As the bones are sorted, it becomes clear that the grave contains more than…

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Review: The Dark Lake by Sarah Bailey

Title:The Dark Lake Author:Sarah Bailey Series:Gemma Woodstock, #1 Published:October 2017, Grand Central Publishing Format:ARC Paperback, 400 pages Source:Publisher   In a suspense thriller to rival Paula Hawkins and Tana French, a detective with secrets of her own hunts the killer of a woman who was the glamorous star of their high school. Rose was lit by the sun, her beautiful face giving nothing away. Even back then, she was a…

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Review: The Lost Child by Patricia Gibney

Title:The Lost Child Author:Patricia Gibney Series:Detective Lottie Parker, #3 Published:October 2017, Bookouture Format:ARC E-copy, 483 pages Source:Netgalley via Publisher   They placed me in here and threw away the key. I look down at the gown they’ve put on me. I want my own clothes. I don’t know how long I’ve been here. An elderly woman is found murdered in her own home, and Detective Lottie Parker and her partner…

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Review: Snowblind by Ragnar Jonasson

Title:Snowblind Author:Ragnar Jonasson Series:Dark Iceland, #1 Published:June 2015, Orenda Books Format:Paperback, 252 pages Source:Personal copy Siglufjörður: an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland, where no one locks their doors – accessible only via a small mountain tunnel. Ari Thór Arason: a rookie policeman on his first posting, far from his girlfriend in Reykjavik – with a past that he’s unable to leave behind. When a young woman is found…

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Review: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Title: Murder on the Orient Express Author: Agatha Christie Series: Hercule Poirot, #10 Published: January 2011, William Morrow Paperbacks, (1st published 1934) Format: Paperback, 265 pages Source: Publisher The most widely-read mystery of all time, now a major motion picture directed by Kenneth Branagh and produced by Ridley Scott “The murderer is with us—on the train now . . .” Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in…

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Review: Good Me, Bad Me by Ali Land

Title:Good Me, Bad Me Author:Ali Land Published:September 2017, Flatiron Books Format:ARC Paperback, 292 pages Source:Publisher Milly’s mother is a serial killer. Though Milly loves her mother, the only way to make her stop is to turn her in to the police. Milly is given a fresh start: a new identity, a home with an affluent foster family, and a spot at an exclusive private school. But Milly has secrets, and…

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Review: The Stolen Girls by Patricia Gibney

Title:The Stolen Girls Author:Patricia Gibney Series:Detective Lottie Parker, #2 Published:July 2017, Bookouture Format:ARC E-copy, 452 pages Source:Netgalley via Publisher The young woman standing on Lottie’s step was a stranger. She was clutching the hand of a young boy. ‘Help me,’ she said to Lottie. ‘Please help me.’ One Monday morning, the body of a young pregnant woman is found. The same day, a mother and her son visit the house…

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Review: The Blind by A.F. Brady

Title:The Blind Author:A.F. Brady Published:September 2017, Park Row Books Format:ARC Paperback, 400 pages Source:Publisher Sam James has spent years carefully crafting her reputation as the best psychologist at Typhlos, Manhattan’s most challenging psychiatric institution. She boasts the highest success rates with the most disturbed patients, believing if she can’t save herself, she’ll save someone else. It’s this savior complex that serves her well in helping patients battle their inner demons,…

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Blog Tour & Review: Without Merit by Colleen Hoover

Title:Without Merit Author:Colleen Hoover Published:October 2017, Atria Books Format:ARC E-book, 384 pages Source:Netgalley via Publisher Not every mistake deserves a consequence. Sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness. The Voss family is anything but normal. They live in a repurposed church, newly baptized Dollar Voss. The once cancer-stricken mother lives in the basement, the father is married to the mother’s former nurse, the little half-brother isn’t allowed to do…

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Review: Hide and Seek by M.J. Arlidge

Title:Hide and Seek Author:M.J. Arlidge Series:Helen Grace, #6 Published:October 2016, Penguin Books Format:Paperback, 372 pages Source:Personal copy    Prison is no place for a detective Helen Grace was one of the country’s best police investigators. Now she’s behind bars with the killers she caught. Framed for murder She knows there is only way out: stay alive until her trial and somehow prove her innocence. Locked up with a killer But…

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Review: The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine

Title:The Last Mrs. Parrish Author:Liv Constantine Published:October 2017, Harper Format:ARC Paperback, 400 pages Source:Publisher   A mesmerizing debut psychological thriller full of delicious twists about a coolly manipulative woman who worms her way into the lives of a wealthy “golden couple” from Connecticut to achieve the privileged life she wants. Amber Patterson is fed up. She’s tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background.…

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Book Spotlight: Next of Kin by James Tucker

Today, Next of Kin, the debut book by James Tucker is being published and to celebrate, I am helping the publisher get the word out. I will be reading this book and sharing my review soon! For now, please enjoy this spotlight and let me know if you will be reading this book 🙂 I’m always excited to find a new  crime thriller series to read and one that’s set…

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Review: Blood Wedding by Pierre Lemaitre

Title: Blood Wedding Author: Pierre Lemaitre Published: June 2016, MacLehose Press Quercus Format: Paperback, 288 pages Source: Publisher Sophie Duguet–young, successful, and happily married–thought at first she was becoming absentminded when she started misplacing her mail and forgetting where she’d parked her car the night before. But then, as her husband and colleagues pointed out with increasing frustration, she began forgetting things she’d said and done, too. And when she…

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Short & Sweet Review: The Lost Boy by Camilla Lackberg (audio)

Title:The Lost Boy Author:Camilla Lackberg Series:Patrik Hedstrom/Fjallbacka, #7 Narrator:Simon Vance Published:October 2016, Blackstone Audio Length:12 hours 56 minutes Source:Library From internationally best-selling Swedish crime sensation Camilla Läckberg comes a new psychological thriller – irresistible for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbø.  Mats Sverin was Fjällbacka’s financial director on a regeneration project worth millions. When he’s found dead, detective Patrik Hedström must find answers.  It seems Mats was a man…

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Review: Friend Request by Laura Marshall (audio)

Title:Friend Request Author:Laura Marshall Narrator:Elaine Claxton Published:September 2017, Hachette Audio Length:11 hours 9 minutes Source:Publisher A paranoid single mom is forced to confront the unthinkable act she committed as a desperate teenager in this addictive thriller with a social media twist. Maria Weston wants to be friends. But Maria Weston is dead. Isn’t she? 1989. When Louise first notices the new girl who has mysteriously transferred late into their senior…

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Review: Last Christmas in Paris by Hazel Gaynor & Heather Webb

Title:Last Christmas in Paris Author:Hazel Gaynor & Heather Webb Published:October 2017, William Morrow Paperbacks Format:ARC Paperback, 40 pages Source:Publisher   New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor has joined with Heather Webb to create this unforgettably romantic novel of the Great War. August 1914. England is at war. As Evie Elliott watches her brother, Will, and his best friend, Thomas Harding, depart for the front, she believes—as everyone does—that it…

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Review: When We Were Worthy by Marybeth Mayhew Whalen (audio)

Title:When We Were Worthy Author:Marybeth Mayhew Whalen Narrator:Joshilyn Jackson Published:September 2017, Brilliance Audio / Lake Union Publishing Length:9 hours 11 minutes / 276 pages Source:Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – ARC Paperback via Publisher   A win brought them together, but loss may tear them apart. When the sound of sirens cuts through a cool fall night, the small town of Worthy, Georgia, hurtles from triumph to…

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Book Spotlight: Right Behind You by Lisa Gardner

Last January, I read Right Behind You by Lisa Gardner, the latest book in her Quincy & Rainie series, when it was first released in hardcover, and I loved it! You can find my thoughts on the book here. Today the book is being released in paperback and to celebrate, I am helping the publishers get the word out.  Are you a fan of this series? If not, now’s the…

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Month in Review: September 2017

Goodbye September …Hello October!!! I can’t believe it’s already October…3 months left in 2017…this year is flying by!!! So, I’ve been doing well reading-wise the last few months, but I’m trying to balance it more with library books and my own books. As much as I love reading all these review books, I do have a stack of my own books that I’ve either been buying or have had laying…

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