Title: 15th Affair Author: James Patterson Series: Women’s Murder Club, #15 Published: May 2016, Little, Brown & Company Format: Hardcover, 351 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  Detective Lindsay Boxer has everything she could possibly want. Her marriage and baby daughter are perfect, and life in Homicide in the San Francisco Police Department is going well. But all that could change in an instant. Lindsay is called to a crime scene…

Title: The Wartime Sisters Author: Lynda Cohen Loigman Published: January 2019, St. Martin’s Press Format: ARC Paperback, 304 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  Two estranged sisters, raised in Brooklyn and each burdened with her own shocking secret, are reunited at the Springfield Armory in the early days of WWII. While one sister lives in relative ease on the bucolic Armory campus as an officer’s wife, the other arrives as a war…

Title: The Suspect Author: Fiona Barton Series: Kate Waters, #3 Published: January 2019, Berkley Books Format: ARC Paperback, 416 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  The New York Times bestselling author of The Widow returns with a brand new novel of twisting psychological suspense about every parent’s worst nightmare… When two eighteen-year-old girls go missing in Thailand, their families are thrust into the international spotlight: desperate, bereft, and frantic with worry. What…

Title: The Birthday Author: Carol Wyer Series: Detective Natalie Ward, #1 Published: September 2018, Bookouture Format: ARC E-copy, 304 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary:  One hot summer’s afternoon, five-year-old Ava Sawyer went to a party. She never came home …When five-year-old Ava Sawyer goes missing from a birthday party at a local garden centre, the police are bewildered by the lack of leads. That is until two years later,…

Title: Anna Karenina Author: Leo Tolstoy Published: August 2004, Barnes & Noble (first published April 1877) Format: Hardcover, Barnes & Noble Classics Series, 803 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  Married to a powerful government minister, Anna Karenina is a beautiful woman who falls deeply in love with a wealthy army officer, the elegant Count Vronsky. Desperate to find truth and meaning in her life, she rashly defies the conventions of…

Title: The Last Lie Author: Alex Lake Published: December 2018, HarperCollins Format: Paperback, 368 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  THE TWISTY NEW PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF AFTER ANNA, KILLING KATE AND COPYCAT Everyone lies…but some lies are deadly.    For Claire Daniels, life is good. She has everything she’s ever wanted – a career she loves, friends she can rely on and a husband who dotes on her.…

Title: 14th Deadly Sin Author: James Patterson Series: Women’s Murder Club, #14 Published: May 2015, Little, Brown & Company Format: Hardcover, 349 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  Detective Lindsay Boxer and her three best friends are back and recovering from the events that pushed them all to the edge. After her near-death experience, Yuki is seeing her life from a new perspective and is considering a change in her law…

Title: Schoolgirl Missing Author: Sue Fortin Published: January 2019, HarperCollins Format: Paperback, 432 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  HAVE YOU SEEN THIS GIRL?   When fourteen-year-old Poppy vanishes on a family boating trip, suspicion soon turns close to home – to the two people who should do everything to keep her safe, her parents, Kit and Neve. Neve has a secret. Kit is lying. Everyone is watching. Who do you believe?…

Title: The Legacy Author: Yrsa Sigurdardottir Series: Children’s House, #1 Published: January 2019, Minotaur Books (1st Published 2014 in Iceland) Format: Paperback, 480 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  The first in a stunning new series from the author of The Silence of the Sea, winner of the 2015 Petrona Award for best Scandinavian Crime Novel.The Legacy is the first installment in a fantastic new series featuring the psychologist Freyja and the…

Title: The Guy Who Died Twice Author: Lisa Gardner Series: Detective D.D. Warren, #9.5 Published: January 2019, Dutton Format: ARC E-copy, 72 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary:  Sergeant Detective D. D. Warren confronts the strangest case of her career in this exclusive eBook short story by the #1 New York Times bestselling author. D. D. Warren was pretty sure she’d seen it all. Then a man walks into police…

Title: Cover of Snow Author: Jenny Milchman Published: December 2013, Ballantine Books Format: Paperback, 336 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  Jenny Milchman’s Cover of Snow is a remarkable debut, a gripping tale of suspense in the tradition of Gillian Flynn, Chris Bohjalian, and Nancy Pickard.  Waking up one wintry morning in her old farmhouse nestled in the Adirondack Mountains of New York, Nora Hamilton instantly knows that something is wrong.…

Title: The Light Over London Author: Julia Kelly Published: January 2019, Gallery Books Format: ARC Paperback, 304 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  Reminiscent of Martha Hall Kelly’s Lilac Girls and Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale, this sweeping, entrancing story is a must-read for fans of remarkable women rising to challenges they could never have predicted. It’s always been easier for Cara Hargraves to bury herself in the past than confront the present,…

Title: The Burglar Author: Thomas Perry Published: January 2019, Mysterious Press Format: ARC Paperback, 304 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  From Thomas Perry comes a new thriller about an unlikely burglar–a young woman in her 20s–who realizes she must solve a string of murders, or else become the next victim Elle Stowell is a young woman with an unconventional profession: burglary. But Elle is no petty thief–with just the right combination…