Review: Meet Me In Monaco by Hazel Gaynor & Heather Webb

Title: Meet Me in Monaco Author: Hazel Gaynor & Heather Webb Published: July 2019, William Morrow Format: ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source: Publisher via Author Summary:  Set in the 1950s against the backdrop of Grace Kelly’s whirlwind romance and glamourous wedding to Prince Rainier of Monaco, New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb take the reader on an evocative sun-drenched journey along the Côte d’Azur in this…

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Review: Never Have I Ever by Joshilyn Jackson

Title: Never Have I Ever Author: Joshilyn Jackson Published: July 2019, William Morrow Format: ARC Paperback, 352 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  In this game, even winning can be deadly… Amy Whey is proud of her ordinary life and the simple pleasures that come with it–teaching diving lessons, baking cookies for new neighbors, helping her best friend, Charlotte, run their local book club. Her greatest joy is her family: her devoted…

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Review: Last Summer by Kerry Lonsdale

Title: Last Summer Author: Kerry Lonsdale Published: July 2019, Lake Union Publishing Format: ARC Paperback, 302 pages Source: Publisher via Little Bird Publicity Summary:  From the Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the Everything series comes a new novel of love, lies, and deceit. Lifestyle journalist Ella Skye remembers every celebrity she interviewed, every politician she charmed between the sheets, and every socialite who eyed her with…

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Review: Layover by David Bell

Title: Layover Author: David Bell Published: July 2019, Berkley Books Format: Hardcover, 416 pages Source: Publisher via GetRed PR Summary:  In this high concept psychological suspense novel from the USA Today bestselling author of Somebody’s Daughter, a chance meeting with a woman in an airport sends a man on a pulse-pounding quest for the truth. Joshua Fields takes the same flights every week for work, his life a series of…

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Review: How To Walk Away by Katherine Center

Title: How To Walk Away Author: Katherine Center Published: July 2019, St. Martin’s Griffin Format: Paperback, 368 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  From the author of Happiness for Beginners comes an unforgettable love story about finding joy even in the darkest of circumstances. Margaret Jacobsen has a bright future ahead of her: a fiancé she adores, her dream job, and the promise of a picture-perfect life just around the corner. Then,…

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Review: The Dare by Carol Wyer

Title: The Dare Author: Carol Wyer Series: Detective Natalie Ward, #3 Published: April 2019, Bookouture Format: ARC E-copy, 348 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary:  Jane’s daughter is a good girl. What is she hiding? When thirteen-year-old Savannah Hopkins doesn’t come straight home from school, as she always does, her mother Jane immediately raises the alarm. Leading the investigation is Detective Natalie Ward whose daughter Leigh is the same age…

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Book Spotlight: Cari Mora by Thomas Harris — with Link to #BookGiveaway!!!

One of this summer’s most anticipated releases, Thomas Harris’s latest book, Cari Mora, was released. This is his first book in over 10 years!!! To help the publisher get the word out, I am hosting a giveaway for two copies of this book. I will be reading this book very soon and am so excited – this one sounds so good! But just take note…the Giveaway is happening on my…

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Review: One Little Secret by Cate Holahan

Title: One Little Secret Author: Cate Holahan Published: July 2019, Crooked Lane Books Format: ARC E-copy, 320 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary:  Everyone has a secret. For some, it’s worth dying to protect. For others, it’s worth killing. The glass beach house was supposed to be the getaway that Susan needed. Eager to help her transplanted family set down roots in their new town – and desperate for some…

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Book Spotlight – Never Tell by Lisa Gardner

Last February, I read Never Tell by Lisa Gardner, the latest book in her Detective D.D. Warren series, when it was first released in hardcover, and I loved it! You can find my thoughts on the book here. On August 6th the book is being released in trade paperback and to celebrate, I am helping the publishers get the word out.  Are you a fan of this series? If not,…

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Review: The Current by Tim Johnston

Title: The Current Author: Tim Johnston Published: January 2019, Algonquin Books Format: ARC Paperback, 408 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  A Stunning New Novel from the Bestselling Author of Descent Tim Johnston, whose 2015 national bestseller Descent was called “astonishing” by the Washington Post and “unforgettable” by the Miami Herald, returns with another tour de force about the indelible impact of a crime on the lives of innocent people. When two…

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Review: Gretchen by Shannon Kirk

  Title: Gretchen Author: Shannon Kirk Published: July 2019, Thomas & Mercer Format: Paperback, 364 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  The new tenants have a terrible secret. So do the landlord and his daughter… Ever since Lucy was two, she’s been on the run alongside her mother. She’s never understood the reason for a lifetime of paranoia, aliases, and lies. All she understands are the rules: never lock eyes with strangers,…

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Review: Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane

Title: Ask Again, Yes Author: Mary Beth Keane Published: May 2019, Scribner Format: Hardcover, 400 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  A profoundly moving novel about two neighboring families in a suburban town, the friendship between their children, a tragedy that reverberates over four decades, and the power of forgiveness. Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope are two NYPD rookies assigned to the same Bronx precinct in 1973. They aren’t close friends on…

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Review: The Body Lies by Jo Baker

Title: The Body Lies Author: Jo Baker Published: June 2019, Knopf Publishing Group Format: Hardcover, 288 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  A dark, thrilling new novel from the best-selling author of Longbourn: a work of riveting psychological suspense that grapples with how to live as a woman in the world–or in the pages of a book–when the stakes are dangerously high. When a young writer accepts a job at a university…

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Review: Private Gold

Title: Private Gold Author: James Patterson Series: Private, #13.5 Published: May 2017, BookShots Format: Paperback, 144 pages Source: Personal Copy Summary:  Money. Betrayal. Murder. That’s a Private conversation. Hired to protect a visiting American woman, Private Johannesburg’s Joey Montague is hoping for a routine job looking after a nervous tourist. After the apparent suicide of his business partner, he can’t handle much more. But this case is not what it…

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Review: Her Secret Son by Hannah Mary McKinnon

Title: Her Secret Son Author: Hannah Mary McKinnon Published: May 2019, MIRA Books Format: ARC E-copy, 384 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary:  How far would you go to protect the ones you love…when they may not be yours to protect? When Josh’s longtime partner, Grace, dies in a tragic accident, he is left with a mess of grief—and full custody of her seven-year-old son, Logan. While not his biological…

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Review: The Two Lila Bennetts by Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke

Title: The Two Lila Bennetts Author: Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke Published: July 2019, Lake Union Publishing Format: ARC Paperback, 320 pages Source: Authors Summary:  “One fateful decision. Two unexpected endings. A perfect summer read!” —Wendy Walker, bestselling author of The Night Before Lila Bennett’s bad choices have finally caught up with her. And one of those decisions has split her life in two. Literally. In one life, she’s taken…

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Review: The Last Guest House by Megan Miranda (audio)

Title: The Last Guest House Author: Megan Miranda Narrator: Rebekkah Ross Published: June 2019, Simon & Schuster Audio Length: 10 hours 2 minutes Source: Publisher Summary: Littleport, Maine is like two separate towns: a vacation paradise for wealthy holidaymakers and a simple harbour community for the residents who serve them. Friendships between locals and visitors are unheard of – but that’s just what happened with Avery Greer and Sadie Loman.…

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Review: The Unbreakables by Lisa Barr

Title: The Unbreakables Author: Lisa Barr Published: June 2019, Harper Paperbacks Format: Paperbacks, 352 pages Source: Publisher via GetRed PR Summary:  A delicious, sharp novel about a woman who jets off to France after her perfect marriage collapses, putting the broken pieces of herself back together while rediscovering her own joie de vivre—a lust for life, art, and steamy sex.  The worst birthday ever might just be the gift of a lifetime……

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Book Spotlight: Last Summer by Kerry Lonsdale — With link to #BookGiveaway!!!

Today, Kerry Lonsdale’s latest book, Last Summer, was released. I was lucky enough to be sent 2 copies and so I am going to give away the finished copy to one lucky reader!!! I will be reading this book very soon and am so excited – this one sounds so good! But just take note…the Giveaway is happening on my Instagram page!!! Read on to see what others have to…

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Review: The Chain by Adrian McKinty

Title: The Chain Author: Adrian McKinty Published: July 2019, Mulholland Books Format: ARC Paperback, 368 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  You just dropped off your child at the bus stop. A panicked stranger calls your phone. Your child has been kidnapped, and the stranger explains that their child has also been kidnapped, by a completely different stranger. The only way to get your child back is to kidnap another child within…

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Blog Tour & Review: Never Look Back by Alison Gaylin

Title: Never Look Back Author: Alison Gaylin Published: July 2019, William Morrow Paperbacks Format: ARC Paperback, 368 pages Source: Publisher via TLC Book Tours Summary:  Reminiscent of the bestsellers of Laura Lippman and Harlan Coben—with a Serial-esque podcast twist—an absorbing, addictive tale of psychological suspense from the author of the highly acclaimed and Edgar Award-nominated What Remains of Me and the USA Today bestselling and Shamus Award-winning Brenna Spector series.   When website columnist…

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Review: False Step by Victoria Helen Stone

Title: False Step Author: Victoria Helen Stone Published: July 2019, Lake Union Publishing Format: ARC Paperback, 280 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  Stay calm, keep smiling, and watch your step. In this marriage of secrets and lies, nothing is what it seems. For days, all of Denver, Colorado, has worried over the fate of a missing child, little Tanner Holcomb. Then, a miracle: handsome, athletic Johnny Bradley finds him, frightened but…

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Month in Review: June 2019

How is it that this year is already half over? I had a great reading month and I am hoping, now that summer is here, that this trend continues!!! I did manage to get my recap posts up from my time at BookExpo, so I will include the links here. And if you follow me on Instagram, I’ve been spotlighting each individual book I picked up…I’m having a great time…

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