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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Thank you Libro.fm / Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Atria Books, #partner for the advanced e-copy of Nothing Tastes As Good in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: March 31, 2026 Summary: The acclaimed author of the “disorienting, creepy, paranoia-inducing” (Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World) A History of Fear returns with a spine-tingling new…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Minotaur Books, #partner for the advanced copy of Finlay Donovan Crossed the Line in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: March 17, 2026 Summary: Life hasn’t been easy for Finlay Donovan lately, but it just got a whole lot harder. Her nanny and partner-in-crime, Vero, has been extradited from Virginia to Maryland, where she’s…
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Thank you PRH Audio for the ALC and KCCPR, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Stolen Queen in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Dutton / PRH Audio Published: January 7, 2025 Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis, an utterly addictive new novel that will transport you from New York City’s most glamorous party to the labyrinth streets of Cairo and back. Egypt, 1936: When anthropology student…
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Thank you PRH Audio, #partner, for the ALC of A Box Full of Darkness in exchange for my honest review. I received the print copy from a friend. Publisher: Berkley / Penguin Audio Published: January 20, 2026 Summary: Siblings return to the house they fled eighteen years before, called back by the ghost of their long-missing brother and his haunting request to come home. Strange things happen in Fell,…
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Thank you Highbridge Audio for the ALC and Lauren Cerand PR, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Daughters in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Mysterious Press / Highbridge Audio Published: March 17, 2026 Summary: Reeling from the dual deaths of her estranged father and ex-fiancé, Genevieve Tompkins has dropped out of her PhD program in New York City and is looking for a chance to start over…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the finished copy of You Did Nothing Wrong in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: March 17, 2026 Summary: A relentless, horror-inducing psychological suspense for fans of The Push and Baby Teeth by New York Times bestselling author CG Drews. Single mother Elodie’s life has become a fairy tale. She’s met Bren, equal…
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Thank you to Hachette Audio for the ALC and Grand Central Publishing , #partner, for the advanced copy of Strangers in the Villa in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Grand Central Publishing / Hachette Audio Published: March 3, 2026 Summary: From the international bestselling author of The Drowning Woman, a psychological thriller about a couple rocked by infidelity who moves to a villa in Spain’s Costa Brava to rebuild…
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Thank you to Brilliance Audio for the ALC and MBC Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of I Came Back for You in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer / Brilliance Audio Published: March 1, 2026 Summary: A mother begins to challenge everything she’s been told about her daughter’s murder in a shocking novel of suspense by a New York Times bestselling author. Ten years after her daughter, Melanie,…
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Thank you to MBC Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of We Were Never Friends in exchange for my honest review. I obtained the audiobook via my Spotify membership. Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press / Sourcebooks Audio Published: February 3, 2026 Summary: Sisters? Forever. Friends? NEVER. Who knew a reunion weekend could b Meet the sorority sisters of Theta Gamma Mu: Roxy Callahan Gentry, the ruthless former sorority president and current…
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Thank you Harlequin Audio for the ALC and HTP Books, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of It’s Not Her in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Park Row / Harlequin Audio Published: February 3, 2026 Summary: A scream shatters the silence… Courtney Gray’s peaceful vacation turns into a nightmare when she discovers her brother and sister-in-law dead in their lakeside cottage. Her niece Reese is missing. Her nephew Wyatt is…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Minotaur Books, #partner for the advanced copy of The Bone Queen in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: February 3, 2026 Summary: A chilling horror-thriller debut where a mother’s search for her missing daughter battles against the shadows of a historic, dangerous legend. Single mother Jenna arrives on the tranquil shores of Athelsea fueled…
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Thank you Forge Books, #partner for the advanced copy of You Deserve to Know in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Forge Books Published: March 11, 2025 Summary: A brand new suspense novel from “the master of the suburban scandal” (Samantha M. Bailey), Aggie Blum Thompson. Neighbors Gwen, Aimee, and Lisa share more than playdates and coffee mornings on their tranquil street in East Bethesda. They confide their deepest…
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Thank you St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the advanced copy of The Show Girl in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: August 10, 2021 Summary: It’s 1927 when Olive McCormick moves from Minneapolis to New York City determined to become a star in the Ziegfeld Follies. Extremely talented as a singer and dancer, it takes every…
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Thank you Harlequin Audio for the ALC and KCCPR, #partner, for the advanced copy of That’s What Friends Are For in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: MIRA / Harlequin Audio Published: February 3, 2026 Summary: In this poignant and hilarious story inspired by TV’s beloved The Golden Girls, bestselling author Wade Rouse celebrates love, aging, finding your people, and the art of impeccably timed one-liners. Theodore Copeland has created…
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I obtained this e-book through my Kindle Unlimited Subscription. Publisher: Amazon Original Stories Published: January 1, 2025 Summary: In nineteenth-century Venice, a young woman’s marriage to an illusionist hides secrets that go deeper than his spectacular acts. The stage is set for transformation in a mesmerizing short story by the New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Apothecary. In 1820s Venice, world-renowned magician Oscar Van Hoff confounds sold-out crowds…
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Thank you KCCPR and the author, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Found Object Society in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Hyperion Avenue Published: February 10, 2026 Summary: An atmospheric speculative suspense novel following a mysterious society offering its members the chance to relive the death of another person whenever they want—and the self-destructive woman determined to uncover its secrets. For twenty years, Greta Davenport has lived with…
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Thank you Hachette Audio for the ALC and Grand Central Publishing, #partner, for the finished copy of Circle of Days in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Grand Central Publishing / Hachette Audio Published: September 23, 2025 Summary: From a bestselling author of epic fiction comes the deeply human story of one of the world’s greatest mysteries: the building of Stonehenge. A FLINT MINER WITH A GIFT Seft, a…
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Thank you Libro.fm / HarperAudio for the ALC and Angela Books PR, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Fourth Princess in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow / Harper Audio Published: February 10, 2026 Summary: From the internationally bestselling author of The Porcelain Moon comes a haunting Gothic novel set in 1911 China. Two young women living in a crumbling, once-grand Shanghai mansion face danger as…
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I purchased this book for my own collection. Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Published: September 2, 2025 (first published 1952) Summary: In Mrs. McGinty’s Dead, one of Agatha Christie’s most ingenious mysteries, the intrepid Hercule Poirot must look into the case of a brutally murdered landlady. Mrs. McGinty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head. Suspicion falls immediately on her shifty lodger, James Bentley, whose clothes reveal traces of…
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Thank you Knopf, #partner, for the advanced copy of Yesteryear in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Knopf Published: April 7, 2026 Summary: A traditional American woman, a beautiful wife and mother who sells her pioneer lifestyle of raw milk and farm-fresh eggs to her millions of social media followers, suddenly awakens cold, filthy, and terrified in the brutal reality of 1805—where she must unravel whether this living nightmare is…
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Thank you Scribner Books #partner, for the finished copy of Postmortem in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Scribner Books / Recorded Books Published: February 17, 2026 (first published 1990) Summary: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell comes Postmortem, the groundbreaking thriller that introduced Dr. Kay Scarpetta and redefined the crime genre. A killer is stalking the streets of…
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Thank you Atria Books #partner, for the advanced e-copy of Adrift in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books Published: February 17, 2026 Summary: The author of the “master class in suspense” (Shari Lapena, New York Times bestselling author) The Chamber returns with a high-tension thriller about a family’s descent into darkness that is perfect for fans of Dennis Lehane and Lisa Jewell. Peggy and Drew, both aspiring writers, move to an…
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Thank you Simon Maverick, #partner, for the ALC of You’ll Never Know in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Simon Maverick Audio Published: November 18, 2025 Summary: When his wife and unborn child are abducted, Grant Wilson races against the clock in this pulse-pounding thriller packed with riddles, danger, and the desperate fight to save his family, perfect for fans of Adrian McKinty’s The Chain. They took his wife. They…
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Thank you Poisoned Pen Press, #partner, for the advanced copy of Imposter in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Published: February 3, 2026, Summary: There’s a killer inside all of us… In the remote hills of western Ireland, fear spreads as the locals struggle to make sense of a killer who is seemingly one of their own… Dr. Alexander Gregory, a psychologist recovering from the collapse of a…
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Thank you Viking Books #partner for the e-copy in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Viking Published: April 15, 2025 Summary: It’s the night we never talk about. It’s the story the world wants to hear. But this isn’t the story of that night. This is the story of us. Together, Edward and Isabel move to London. They are young and in love, occupied by friends, work and fun.…
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Thank you Simon Maverick, #partner, for the ALC of If You Lie in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Simon Maverick Audio Published: October 21, 2025 Summary: A buried past. A new-age cult. A floating prison with no way off. Seven years ago, Olivia woke up in the trunk of a stranger’s car—and barely escaped with her life. She’s been looking over her shoulder ever since. Now, Olivia is a…
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I purchased the print copy for my personal collection. Publisher: Algonquin Books Published: January 27, 2026 Summary: From bestselling author Thrity Umrigar, a thrilling and haunting story of an Indian-American woman who becomes the prime suspect when her wife goes missing. When Aliya and Samantha have a fight one night, Samantha goes for a run early the next morning—and doesn’t come back. Aliya reports her wife Samantha as missing,…
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I purchased this book for my own collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Grand Central Publishing / Hachette Audio Published: July 8, 2025 Summary: Nola Strate, a late night call-in radio host in Portland, Oregon, listens to stories of hauntings and cryptic sightings for a living. But one foggy, wet evening, when a caller describes an eerie scene that triggers memories of Nola’s escape from a serial…
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I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Recorded Books Published: January 31, 2007 Summary: When a high school student’s body is found and her boyfriend goes missing, tough-as-nails former sheriff Cork O’Connor is forced into the center of an eerie mystery with a shocking twist in this “vivid and realistic” ( Booklist ), Anthony Award-winning novel from New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger. When the body of a…
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Thank you HarperAudio for the ALC and William Morrow, #partner, for the finished copy of Paper Cut in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow / William Morrow Published: January 27, 2026 Summary: A compelling suspense debut about a woman infamous for escaping a cult as a teenager, whose future is threatened when dangerous secrets come back to haunt her—perfect for fans of Jessica Knoll and The Girls . Lucy…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the advanced copy of Good Intentions in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: February 3, 2026 Summary: A deft and immersive psychological suspense debut about a luxury party planner who becomes obsessed with a woman she encounters in a hospital waiting room. Cady has worked hard to have…
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I purchased this book for my own collection. Publisher: Zaffre Published: January 11, 2024 Summary: The tenth thrilling installment in Lars Kepler’s bestselling series— acclaimed for “smart psychological suspense,” “explosive conclusions,” and “gritty portrayals of human evil” (Booklist)—is tense and terrifying. An emergency call comes in the middle of the night. There is an ongoing burglary at a closed campsite in Bredäng, outside Stockholm. When the police respond to…
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I purchased this book for my own collection. Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Published: December 3, 2024 (first published 1929) Summary: A practical joke goes chillingly, murderously wrong in Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie’s classic detective story, The Seven Dials Mystery. Gerry Wade had proved himself to be a champion sleeper, so the other houseguests decided to play a practical joke on him. Eight alarm clocks were set to go off, one…
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I purchased this book for my own collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Titan Books / Blackstone Publishing Published: November 10, 2020 Summary: A compulsive debut thriller about motherhood, obsession and how far we’d go to protect the ones we love. Five-year-old Ava Boone has been missing for six months. There have been no leads, no arrests, no witnesses. The only suspect was quiet, middle-aged Leland Ernest.…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Scribner Books #partner, for the finished copy of The First Time I Saw Him in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Scribner Books / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: January 6, 2026 Summary: Laura Dave continues Hannah Hall’s pulse-pounding journey in the riveting and deeply moving sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling blockbuster and Apple TV+ show, The…
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