Review: Deadly Secrets by Robert Bryndza (audio)

Title: Deadly Secrets Author: Robert Bryndza Series: Detective Erika Foster, #6 Narrator: Jan Cramer Published: April 2018, Bookouture Length: 8 hours 42 minutes Source: Personal copy via Audible Summary: To commit the perfect murder, you need the perfect cover. On a cold icy morning, a mother wakes to find her daughter’s blood-soaked body frozen to the road. Who would carry out such a horrific killing on the victim’s doorstep? Straight…

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Review: Woman on the Edge by Samantha M. Bailey

Title: Woman on the Edge Author: Samantha M. Bailey Published: E-book: November 2019/Paperback: March 2020, Simon Schuster (these are US Dates) Format: ARC Paperback, 272 pages Source: Author Summary:  A moment on the subway platform changes two women’s lives forever—a debut thriller that will take your breath away. A total stranger on the subway platform whispers, “Take my baby.” She places her child in your arms. She says your name.…

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Review: A Girl Named Anna by Lizzy Barber

Title: A Girl Named Anna Author: Lizzy Barber Published: September 2019, Mira Books Format: ARC Paperback, 329 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  A compulsive suspense debut for fans of Megan Miranda, Wendy Walker and Kimberly Belle, about two teens–one sheltered by her strict and reclusive mamma, one living in the shadow of the missing sister who was snatched from a theme park as a toddler–and their search for the truth about…

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Review: The Liar’s House by Carla Kovach

Title: The Liar’s House Author: Carla Kovach Series:  Detective Gina Harte, #4 Published: July 2019, Bookouture Format: E-copy, 337 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  Samantha stumbled out of the party and on to a busy street only ten minutes away from her home. But she never made it home… Seven years after Samantha’s disappearance, on what would have been her thirty-fifth birthday, her best friend Diane is shocked to find…

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Review: Regretting You by Colleen Hoover

Title: Regretting You Author: Colleen Hoover Published: December 2019, Montlake Romance Format: ARC E-copy, 365 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary:  From #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us comes a poignant novel about family, first love, grief, and betrayal that will touch the hearts of both mothers and daughters. Morgan Grant and her sixteen-year-old daughter, Clara, would like nothing more than to be nothing alike.…

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Review: Broken Souls by Patricia Gibney

Title: Broken Souls Author: Patricia Gibney Series: D.I. Lottie Parker, #7 Published: October 2019, Bookouture Format: ARC E-copy, 446 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary:  ‘She shivered, though the kitchen was warm. Icicles of foreboding trickled down her spine. With trembling hands she whipped back her hair at the nape of her neck. As she turned away from the window, she missed the shadow passing by.’ One dark winter’s morning,…

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Review: The Other Windsor Girl by Georgie Blalock

Title: The Other Windsor Girl Author: Georgie Blalock Published: November 2019, William Morrow Paperbacks Format: ARC Paperback, 400 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  In a historical debut evoking the style of The Crown, the daughter of an impoverished noble is swept into the fame and notoriety of the royal family and Princess Margaret’s fast-living friends when she is appointed as Margaret’s second Lady-in-Waiting. Diana, Catherine, Meghan…glamorous Princess Margaret outdid them all. Springing…

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Review: Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin

Title: Saint X Author: Alexis Schaitkin Published: February 2020, Celadon Books Format: ARC Paperback, 352 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  Hailed as a “marvel of a book” and “brilliant and unflinching,” Alexis Schaitkin’s stunning debut Saint X is a haunting portrait of grief, obsession, and the bond between two sisters never truly given the chance to know one another. Claire is only seven years old when her college-age sister, Alison, disappears…

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Review: The Golden Hour by Beatriz Williams

Title: The Golden Hour Author: Beatriz Williams Published: July 2019, William Morrow Format: Hard Cover, 480 pages Source: Publisher   Summary:  The New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives and A Certain Age creates a dazzling epic of World War II-era Nassau—a hotbed of spies, traitors, and the most infamous couple of the age, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. The Bahamas, 1941. Newly-widowed Leonora “Lulu” Randolph arrives…

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Review: The Vanishing Season by Joanna Schaffhausen

Title: The Vanishing Season Author: Joanna Schaffhausen Series: Ellery Hathaway, #1 Published: December 2017, Minotaur Books Format: E-copy, 288 pages Source: Netgalley Summary:  Ellery Hathaway knows a thing or two about serial killers, but not through her police training. She’s an officer in sleepy Woodbury, MA, where a bicycle theft still makes the newspapers. No one there knows she was once victim number seventeen in the grisly story of serial…

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Blog Tour & Review: November Road by Lou Berney

Title: November Road Author: Lou Berney Published: October 2019, William Morrow Paperbacks Format: Paperback, 320 pages Source: Publisher via TLC Booktours   Summary: Set against the assassination of JFK, a poignant and evocative crime novel that centers on a desperate cat-and-mouse chase across 1960s America—a story of unexpected connections, daring possibilities, and the hope of second chances from the Edgar Award-winning author of The Long and Faraway Gone.  Frank Guidry’s…

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Review: Cilka’s Journey by Heather Morris (print/audio)

Title: Cilka’s Journey Author: Heather Morris Series: The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #2 Narrator: Louise Brealey Published: October 2019, MacMillan Audio / St. Martin’s Press Length: 11 hours 3 minutes / 352 pages Source: Audio – personal copy / Print – via Publisher Summary: From the author of the multi-million copy bestseller, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, comes the new novel based on an incredible true story of love and resilience. “She…

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Review: The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell

Title: The Family Upstairs Author: Lisa Jewell Published: November 2019, Atria Books Format: ARC Paperback, 352 pages Source: Publisher   Summary:  From the New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone and Watching You comes another page-turning look inside one family’s past as buried secrets threaten to come to light. Be careful who you let in. Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to…

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