k2reader April 28, 2026

This Weekend Doesn’t End Well for Anyone by Catherine Mack #bookreview #audiobook #series

Thank you Minotaur Books, #partner for the advanced copy of This Weekend Doesn’t End Well for Anyone in exchange for my honest review. I obtained the audiobook via one of my audiobook subscriptions. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: April 28, 2026   Summary: The third in the witty and captivating series following bestselling author Eleanor Dash, who once again has to swap her sun hat for her detective hat, when…

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k2reader April 28, 2026

Dark Is When the Devil Comes by Daisy Pearce #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Minotaur Books, #partner for the advanced copy of Dark Is When the Devil Comes in exchange for my honest review.   Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: April 28, 2026   Summary: Unrelentingly scary and thrilling, Dark Is When the Devil Comes is an ambitious and chilling novel from acclaimed horror author Daisy Pearce. The woods are known as the place to…

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k2reader April 28, 2026

Shaw Connolly Lives to Tell by Gillian French #bookreview #audiobook #series #backlistreview

Thank you Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Minotaur Books, #partner for the advanced copy of Shaw Connolly Lives to Tell in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: June 17, 2025   Summary: A page-turning, compelling thriller about a woman who will stop at nothing to uncover the truth behind her sister’s disappearance. Shaw Connolly is no stranger to trauma. As a fingerprints analyst, she’s…

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k2reader April 27, 2026

Crooked House by Agatha Christie #bookreview #readingchallenge

I purchased this book for my own collection. Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Published: February 1, 2011 (first published 1949)   Summary: Described by the queen of mystery herself as one of her favorites of her published work, Crooked House is a classic Agatha Christie thriller revolving around a devastating family mystery. The Leonides are one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That is until the head of the household,…

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k2reader April 27, 2026

A Gift Before Dying by Malcolm Kempt #bookreview #audiobook #debut

Thank you PRH Audio for the ALC and Crown #partner, for the finished copy of A Gift Before Dying in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher:  Dutton / Random House Audio Published: January 20, 2026   Summary: In a hauntingly atmospheric novel set against the unforgiving landscape of the Arctic Circle, a disgraced police investigator discovers that his path to redemption is paved with ice—and blood. After a botched high-profile murder…

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k2reader April 25, 2026

Everything Has Happened by T. Greenwood #bookreview

Thank you Crooked Lane Books, #partner for the advanced copy of Everything Has Happened in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Crooked Lane Books Published: April 28, 2026   Summary: A disappearance from the past echoes in the future in this ambitious and wrenching mystery, perfect for readers of The God of the Woods. In 1986, a child disappeared. Nearly forty years later, a tip line rings. It’s been almost…

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k2reader April 25, 2026

The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett #bookreview

Thank you Spiegel and Grau, #partner for the advanced copy of The Calamity Club in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Spiegel and Grau Published: May 5, 2026   Summary: The multimillion-copy-selling author of The Help returns with a bold, big-hearted novel about a group of unbreakable women, fighting for what’s rightfully theirs—and the power of friendship to change everything. “A must-read.”—Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry Oxford, Mississippi, 1933. Abandoned by her…

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k2reader April 23, 2026

The Girls in the Dark by Avery Bishop #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you to Bookouture, #partner, for the ALC and e-copy of The Girls in the Dark in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Bookouture Published: April 24, 2026   Summary: I stare at the security footage, heart pounding in my chest. I know who broke into my home—she has a face just like my own. Twenty years ago, my sister was killed and I survived. So how can she be here…

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k2reader April 21, 2026

The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Libro.fm / Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Atria Books, #partner for the advanced copy of The Caretaker in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books/Emily Bestler Books/12:01 Books / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: April 21, 2026   Summary: Follow the Rites… Nothing less than the survival of humanity is at stake. From Marcus Kliewer, a new “titan of the macabre and unsettling” (Erin…

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k2reader April 14, 2026

Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Harlequin Audio for the ALC and HTP Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Japanese Gothic in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Hanover Square Press / Harlequin Audio Published: April 14, 2026   Summary: In this lyrical, wildly inventive horror novel interwoven with Japanese mythology, two people living centuries apart discover a door between their worlds. October, 2026: Lee Turner doesn’t remember how or why he killed his…

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k2reader April 14, 2026

A Spell for Saints and Sinners by Emily Carpenter #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you to Recorded Books for the ALC and MBC Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of A Spell for Saints and Sinners in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Kensington Books/ Recorded Books Published: March 31, 2026   Summary: Like a gender-flipped You but dripping with Southern Gothic atmosphere, a young psychic on the verge of losing everything becomes obsessed with a wealthy, beautiful heiress in this clever, darkly atmospheric novel of…

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k2reader April 13, 2026

These Familiar Walls by C.J. Dotson #bookreview

Thank you Chris Bucci and St. Martin’s Press, #partner, for the advanced copy and finished copy of These Familiar Walls in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Published: April 14, 2026   Summary: A spine-chilling, heart-pounding suburban horror novel at the heart of the genre, perfect for fans of T. Kingfisher, Cassandra Khaw, and Catriona Ward. In 1998, desperate loneliness pushes preteen Amber to ignore the misgivings of…

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k2reader April 13, 2026

The Tortoise’s Tale by Kendra Coulter #bookreview #debut

I purchased the print copy for my personal collection. Publisher: Simon & Schuster Published: November 4, 2025   Summary: A century of American history unfolds through the eyes of a giant tortoise with a heightened awareness for live music, the location of edible flowers, and the nuances of human behavior in this spellbinding debut novel. Snatched from her ancestral lands, a giant tortoise finds herself in an exclusive estate in…

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k2reader April 13, 2026

Guide Me Home by Attica Locke #bookreview #series #backlistreview

Thank you Mulholland Books, #partner for the advanced e-copy of Guide Me Home in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Mulholland Books Published: September 3, 2024   Summary: In the final novel in the “timely and evocative” (NPR) Highway 59 trilogy, from Edgar Award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author Attica Locke, Darren Matthews is pulled out of an early retirement to investigate the disappearance of a Black college student from an…

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k2reader April 11, 2026

The Astral Library by Kate Quinn #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you William Morrow, #partner for the advanced and finished copies of The Astral Library in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: William Morrow / William Morrow Published: February 17, 2026   Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Kate Quinn comes a gorgeously written fantastical adventure which poses the question: Have you ever wished you could live inside a book? Welcome to the Astral Library,…

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k2reader April 11, 2026

Mother Is Watching by Karma Brown #bookreview

Thank you Dutton #partner, for the finished copy of Mother Is Watching in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher:  Dutton Published: March 17, 2026   Summary: An internationally bestselling author’s chilling horror debut in which an art conservator’s obsession with a mysterious painting spirals into a nightmarish descent, where the line between reality and the supernatural shatters, threatening both her sanity and her life. Mathilde “Tilly” Crewson, a thirty-nine-year-old mother and…

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k2reader April 10, 2026

Copper River by William Kent Krueger #bookreview #audiobook #series

I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Recorded Books Published: November 27, 2006   Summary: Desperately avoiding the clutches of professional hit men who have already put a bullet in his leg, Cork finds sanctuary outside the small Michigan town of Bodine. But while he’s hiding out in an old resort owned by his cousin Jewell DuBois, a bitter widow with a fourteen-year-old son named Ren, the body of a…

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k2reader April 10, 2026

Ruby Falls by Gin Phillips #bookreview

Thank you Atlantic Crime, #partner for the advanced copy of Ruby Falls in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atlantic Crime Published: March 3, 2026   Summary: One body. Five suspects. Total darkness. A tense, claustrophobic historical mystery set almost entirely underground at the onset of the Great Depression about the discovery of a 150-foot waterfall in the middle of a mountain, the unthinkable crime that happens in its caves, and…

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k2reader April 9, 2026

Missing Sister by Joshilyn Jackson #bookreview

Thank you William Morrow, #partner for the finished copy of Missing Sister in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Published: March 3, 2026   Summary: Revenge. It’s all relative. Born three minutes apart, Penny and Nix Albright grew up doing everything together, close as only twins can be. But when Nix dies in a tragic accident soon after college, she leaves behind a cryptic voicemail that has Penny guilt-ridden…

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k2reader April 9, 2026

Mercy Falls by William Kent Krueger #bookreview #audiobook #series

I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Recorded Books Published: May 7, 2007   Summary: Back in the saddle as sheriff of Tamarack County, Cork O’Connor is lured to the nearby Ojibwe reservation on what appears to be a routine call — only to become the target of sniper fire. Soon after, he’s called to investigate a mutilated body found perched above the raging waters of Mercy Falls. The victim is…

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k2reader April 9, 2026

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie #bookreview #series #reread #readingchallenge

Thank you William Morrow, #partner for the finished copy of Murder on the Orient Express in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Published: January 18. 2011 (first published 1934)   Summary: “The murderer is with us—on the train now . . .” Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment,…

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k2reader April 9, 2026

Five Found Dead by Sulari Gentill #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Poisoned Pen Press, #partner for the advanced copy of Five Found Dead in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press / Sourcebooks Audio Published: August 19, 2025   Summary: On a train, there are only so many places to hide… Crime fiction author Joe Penvale has won the most brutal battle of his life. Now that he has finished…

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k2reader April 6, 2026

Five by Ilona Bannister #bookreview

Thank you Crown, #partner for the advanced copy of Five in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Crown Published: May 5, 2026   Summary: Five lives. Five stories. Four will live—one will die. Who it will be? In this slow-burn masterpiece of psychological fiction, the choice is all yours. Have you ever tried to pass the time by imagining the lives of the strangers standing next to you? Ilona Bannister’s Five introduces…

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