Title: Seven Crows Author: Kate Kessler Series: Killian Delaney, #1 Published: October 2019, Redhook Format: Paperback, 357 pages Source: Publisher Summary: An ex-con tracks down the men who have kidnapped her niece in this gritty and visceral thriller. Killian Delaney has a skewed moral compass, a high threshold for pain, and has just been released from prison to discover that someone has taken her niece. Killian does not hesitate.…
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Title: Whiteout Author: Ragnar Jonasson Series: Dark Iceland, #5 Published: January 2020, Orenda Books Format: Paperback, 224 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: Two days before Christmas, a young woman is found dead beneath the cliffs of the deserted village of Kalfshamarvik. Did she jump, or did something more sinister take place beneath the lighthouse and the abandoned old house on the remote rocky outcrop? With winter closing in and…
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Title: Bright Lies Author: A.A. Abbott Published: November 2020, Perfect City Press Format: ARC E-copy, 224 pages Source: Publicist Summary: She’s learned too much, too young. Can she break free? Emily’s dreams come true when her mother marries wealthy painter, David. Thanks to him, Emily’s artistic talents shine. Then he starts teaching her things a 14-year-old shouldn’t know. While Emily breaks free, she’s forced to sleep in a rat-infested…
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Title: The Girl Who Lived Twice Author:David Lagercrantz Series: Millennium, #6 Narrator: Simon Vance Published: August 2019, Random House Audio Length: 9 hours 54 minutes Source: Personal copy Summary: The sixth Lisbeth Salander story in the Millennium Series–the crime-fiction phenomenon that has sold more than 90 million copies worldwide. Lisbeth Salander–the fierce, unstoppable girl with the dragon tattoo–has disappeared. She’s sold her apartment in Stockholm. She’s gone silent electronically.…
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Title: Girls of Brackenhill Author: Kate Moretti Published: November 2020, Thomas & Mercer Format: ARC Paperback, 332 pages Source: Publisher Summary: Haunted by her sister’s disappearance, a troubled woman becomes consumed by past secrets in this gripping thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Year. When Hannah Maloney’s aunt dies in a car accident, she returns to her family’s castle in the Catskills and the…
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Title: The First Shot Author: Liv Constantine Narrator: Suzanne Elise Freeman Published: November 2020, Audible Originals Length: 2 hours 35 minutes Source: Personal copy Summary: In this gripping prequel to the blockbuster best seller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick The Last Mrs. Parrish, listeners will discover exactly how Amber Patterson transformed from small-town girl to master manipulator – after all, practice makes perfect. Amber Patterson has many secrets.…
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Title: The Kingdom Author: Jo Nesbo Published: November 2020, Knopf Format: Hardcover, 560 pages Source: pages Summary: Roy and Carl have spent their whole lives running from the darkness in their past, but when Carl finally returns to make peace with it, the two brothers are inexorably drawn into a reckoning with their own demons. Roy has never left the quiet mountain town he grew up in, unlike his…
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Title: My Darling Author: Amanda Darling Published: November 2020, HarperCollins Format: ARC Paperback, 372 pages Source: Publisher Summary: A new couple moves in next door. And nothing will ever be the same again… I watched you move in and thought we might be friends. I saw you watching from the window – and knew I’d have to keep you away from my husband. I started to trust you. Confide…
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Title: Agent 355 Author: Marie Benedict Narrator: Emily Rankin Published: July 2020, Audible Original Length: 2 hours 7 minutes Source: Personal copy Summary: From Marie Benedict, best-selling author of The Only Woman in the Room and Lady Clementine, comes a captivating work of historical fiction about a young female spy who may have changed the course of American History. The tide is turning against the colonists in the Revolutionary War,…
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I am so excited to help Beatriz William spread the news today about her newest book – and share the cover!!! I love reading historical fiction and Beatriz’s previous books have been so good. I am so excited to read this one. This book will be released June 1, 2021, but you can pre-order now. See the pre-order link below. Title: Our Woman in Moscow Author: Beatriz Williams…
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Title: The Haunting of Brynn Wilder Author: Wendy Webb Published: November 2020, Lake Union Publishing Format: ARC Paperback, 288 pages Source: Publisher Summary: After a devastating loss, Brynn Wilder escapes to Wharton, a tourist town on Lake Superior, to reset. Checking into a quaint boardinghouse for the summer, she hopes to put her life into perspective. In her fellow lodgers, she finds a friendly company of strangers: the frail…
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Title: The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye Author: David Lagercrantz Series: Millennium, #5 Narrator: Simon Vance Published: September 2017, Random House Audio Length: 10 hours 50 minutes Source: Personal copy Summary: From the author of the #1 international best seller The Girl in the Spider’s Web: the new book in the Millennium series, which began with Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Lisbeth Salander…
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Title: Mrs. Lincoln’s Sisters Author: Jennifer Chiaverini Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Published: June 2020, Harper Audio / William Morrow Length: 12 hours 24 minutes / 336 pages Source: Audio via library / Print via Publisher Summary: The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker returns to her most famous heroine, Mary Todd Lincoln, in this compelling story of love, loss, and sisterhood rich with history and suspense. In…
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Title: First Girl Gone Author: L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain Series: Charlotte Winters, #1 Published: September 2020, Bookouture Format: ARC E-copy, 429 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: Down the beach, she can just make out the rusting hulk of the Ferris wheel through the dawn mist. The hairs prickle on her neck as she drags her focus back to the chestnut hair fanned out in the shallow water at…
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Title: The Silent Wife Author: Karin Slaughter Series: Will Trent, #10 Narrator: Kathleen Early Published: August 2020, Blackstone Publishing / William Morrow Length: 18 hours 33 minutes / 496 pages Source: Audio via Netgalley / Print – ARC Paperback via William Morrow Summary: Investigating the killing of a prisoner during a riot inside a state penitentiary, GBI investigator Will Trent is confronted with disturbing information. One of the…
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Title: Secrets of a Serial Killer Author: Rosie Walker Published: July 2020, One More Chapter Format: ARC E-copy, 286 pages Source: Publisher Summary: An edge-of-your-seat serial killer thriller that you won’t be able to put down! There it is: fear. It’s crawling all over her face and in her eyes, like a swarm of insects, and it’s all because of him. A serial killer has been terrorising Lancaster for…
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Title: The Forgotten Daughter Author: Joanna Goodman Narrator: Esther Thibault Published: October 2020, Harper Audio / Harper Paperbacks Length: 12 hours 57 minutes / 416 pages Source: Audio via Library / Print via Publisher Summary: From the author of the bestselling novel The Home for Unwanted Girls, comes another compulsively readable story of love and suspense, following the lives of two women reckoning with their pasts and the choices that will…
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Title: The Home for Unwanted Girls Author: Joanna Goodman Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld Published: April 2018, Harper Audio Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Source: Library Summary: Philomena meets Orphan Train in this suspenseful, provocative novel filled with love, secrets, and deceit – the story of a young unwed mother who is forcibly separated from her daughter at birth and the lengths to which they go to find each other. In…
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Title: To Tell You the Truth Author: Gilly Macmillan Published: September 2020, William Morrow Format: Hardcover, 320 pages Source: Publisher via TLC Booktours Summary: The acclaimed author of The Nanny, The Perfect Girl, and What She Knew—“a writer to watch” (Publishers Weekly)—returns with another serpentine thriller that is a potent blend of atmosphere, tarnished memories, mystery, and twisty secrets from the past. Bestselling mystery writer Lucy Harper’s talent for…
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Title: A Lady’s Guide to Mischief and Mayhem Author: Manda Collins Series: A Lady’s Guide, #1 Published: November 2020, Forever Format: ARC E-copy, 368 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: An intrepid female reporter matches wits with a serious, sexy detective in award-winning author Manda Collins’ fun and flirty historical rom-com! England, 1865 : As one of England’s most notorious newspaper columnists, Lady Katherine Bascomb believes knowledge is power.…
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Title: In the Lion’s Den Author: Barbara Taylor Bradford Series: House of Falconer, #2 Published: November 2020, St. Martin’s Press Format: ARC E-copy, 352 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes the highly anticipated second book in the House of Falconer saga. James Lionel Falconer has risen quickly from a mere shop worker to being the right-hand man of Henry…
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Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for the Shadow Sands by Robert Bryndza. Thank you Little Brown Book Group for inviting me to participate. ***There are different covers for the UK & US books. The first cover shown is the UK cover, and at the bottom of the post, the US cover is show. Title: Shadow Sands Author: Robert Bryndza Series: Kate…
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Title: Paris for One & Other Stories Author: Jojo Moyes Published: October 2017, Penguin Books Format: Paperback, 320 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: Nell is twenty-six and has never been to Paris. She’s never even been on a romantic weekend away–to anywhere–before. Traveling abroad isn’t really her thing. But when Nell’s boyfriend fails to show up for their mini-vacation, she has the opportunity to prove everyone–including herself–wrong. Alone in…
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Title: Master of His Fate Author: Barbara Taylor Bradford Series: House of Falconer, #1 Narrator: Joan Walker Published: November 2018, Macmillan Audio / St. Martin’s Press Length: 10 hours 57 minutes / 400 pages Source: Audio via Library / Print – Hardcopy via GetRed PR Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes the first book in a stunning new historical saga. Victorian England is a…
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My reading might have been a little slower this past month, but still higher than what it typically is. And now that we only have 2 months left in this year – how is that possible??? – I am really going to concentrate on reading more from my shelves and try not to spend any. We’ll see how that goes… Reading Stats: Read this month: 25…
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