k2reader – Page 15 – Always With a Book

k2reader August 17, 2023

All the Living and the Dead by Hayley Campbell #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you to St. Martin’s Press, #partner, for an advanced copy of All the Living and the Dead in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: April 12, 2022 Summary: A deeply compelling exploration of the death industry and the people―morticians, detectives, crime scene cleaners, embalmers, executioners―who work in it and what led them there. We…

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k2reader August 16, 2023

After That Night by Karin Slaughter #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

Thank you Netgalley / Blackstone Audio, for the ALC and William Morrow Books, #partner for the advanced copy of After That Night in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Books / Blackstone Audio Published: August 22, 2020 Summary: After that night, nothing was ever the same again Fifteen years ago, Sara Linton’s life changed forever when a celebratory night out ended in a violent attack that tore her…

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k2reader August 16, 2023

The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and @BookClubFavorites & Atria/Emily Bestler Books #partner, for the finished copy of The Writing Retreat in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: February 21, 2023 Summary: The Plot meets Please Join Us in this psychological suspense debut about a young author at an exclusive writer’s retreat that descends into a nightmare. Alex has all…

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k2reader August 14, 2023

The Bones of the Story by Carol Goodman #bookreview

Thank you to Thoughts from a Page, William Morrow Books, #partner, for an advanced e-copy of The Bones of the Story in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Books Published: July 11, 2023 Summary: The twisty locked-room mystery from two-time Mary Higgins Clark Award–winning author Carol Goodman, about a group of former classmates trapped on their college campus—with a murderer among them. It’s been twenty-five years since…

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k2reader August 12, 2023

The Bone Hacker by Kathy Reichs #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio, #partner for the ALC of The Bone Hacker in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Simon and Schuster Audio Published: August 1, 2023 Summary: #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her twenty-second high-stakes thriller featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan who, following a series of bizarre disappearances on the islands of Turks and Caicos, enters a sinister labyrinth in which…

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k2reader August 11, 2023

Small Town Sins by Ken Jaworowski #bookreview

Thank you to Henry Holt Books, #partner, for an advanced copy of Small Town Sins in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Henry Holt & Co Published: August 1, 2023 Summary: Ken Jaworowski’s Small Town Sins is a gripping Rust Belt thriller that captures the characters of a down-and-out Pennsylvania town, revealing their troubled pasts and the crimes that could cost them their lives. In Locksburg, Pennsylvania, a former coal and…

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k2reader August 7, 2023

Dark Corners by Megan Goldin #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Netgalley / Macmillan Audio, for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the advanced copy of Dark Corners in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: August 8, 2023 Summary: Rachel Krall, the true crime podcaster star of Megan Goldin’s acclaimed The Night Swim, returns to search for a popular influencer who disappears after visiting a suspected serial killer. Terence Bailey is about…

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k2reader August 4, 2023

Broadway Butterfly by Sara DiVello #bookreview

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Published: August 1, 2023 Summary: New York in the Roaring Twenties—a riveting true-crime novel, based on one of the most notorious unsolved murders of the era, where power, politics, and secrets conspire to bury the truth. Manhattan, 1923. Scandalous flapper Dot King is found dead in her Midtown apartment, a bottle of chloroform beside her and a fortune…

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k2reader August 4, 2023

The Game She Plays by Siena Sterling #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you to Bibliolifestyle, William Morrow, #partner, for a finished copy of The Game She Plays in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: William Morrow / Harper Audio Published: June 6, 2023 Summary: From the author of Tell Us No Secrets comes a twisty new novel. A young American woman is thrust into the closed social circle of English aristocrats, but beneath their charm…

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k2reader August 3, 2023

Just Another Missing Person by Gillan McAllister #bookreview

Thank you to William Morrow, #partner, for an advanced copy of Just Another Missing Person in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Published: August 1, 2023 Summary: From the author of the Reese’s Book Club Pick and the New York Times bestseller Wrong Place Wrong Time comes a new heart-stopping thriller in which a missing-person case unravels deeper, darker secrets that lead a detective to an impossible moral choice. 22-year-old Olivia has…

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k2reader August 2, 2023

Month in Review: July 2023

Why is it that the summer months seem to go by so fast? I feel like the month just started and yet, here we are at the beginning of August already! July was a great month, reading-wise. I finished up the Will Trent series and am ready for the new book, After That Night, which comes out at the end of the month. I do already have a copy of…

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k2reader July 31, 2023

The Silent Wife by Karin Slaughter #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries #reread

Thank you to William Morrow, #partner, for an advanced copy of The Silent Wife in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: William Morrow Books / Blackstone Audio Published: August 4, 2020 Summary: Atlanta, Georgia. Present day. A young woman is brutally attacked and left for dead. The police investigate but the trail goes cold. Until a chance assignment takes GBI investigator Will…

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k2reader July 29, 2023

The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Blackstone Audio Published: August 20, 2019 Summary: New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter brings back Will Trent and Sara Linton in this superb and timely thriller full of devious twists, disturbing secrets, and shocking surprises you won’t see coming. A mysterious kidnapping On a hot summer night, a scientist from the Centers for Disease Control is grabbed by unknown assailants in a…

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k2reader July 28, 2023

A Ghost of Caribou by Alice Henderson #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: William Morrow / Harper Audio Published: November 15, 2022 Summary: Building upon the highly acclaimed debut of Alice Henderson’s A Solitude of Wolverines and its follow-up thriller A Blizzard of Polar Bears comes the eagerly anticipated and electrifying third installment A Ghost of Caribou, in which wildlife biologist Alex Carter encounters an unsolved murder and a town in…

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k2reader July 28, 2023

Cleaning the Gold by Karin Slaughter, Lee Child #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Harper Audio Published: May 9, 2019 Summary: The new short story from Karin Slaughter and Lee Child! Twice the action. Twice the drama. Double the trouble. Will Trent is undercover at Fort Knox. His assignment: to investigate a 22-year-old murder. His suspect’s name: Jack Reacher. Jack Reacher is in Fort Knox on his own mission: to bring down a dangerous criminal ring…

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k2reader July 28, 2023

The Kept Woman by Karin Slaughter #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Blackstone Audio Published: September 20, 2016 Summary: It’s the most dangerous case of Will Trent’s career. He knows this from the moment he sets foot in the abandoned Atlanta warehouse where a body lies on the floor—the body of an ex-cop. Bloody footprints leading away from the scene reveal that another victim, evidently a woman, was carried away and has vanished…

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k2reader July 25, 2023

The Hidden Life of Aster Kelly by Katherine A. Sherbrooke #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Dreamscape Media/Netgalley for the ALC and MB Communications & Pegasus Books #partner, for the finished copy of The Hidden Life of Aster Kelly in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Pegasus Books / Dreamscape Media Published: April 4, 2023 / June 26 2023 Summary: When a runway model in 1940s Hollywood makes a split-second decision intended to protect those she loves, she triggers a cascade of secrets that threatens to…

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k2reader July 24, 2023

Searching for Savanna by Mona Gable #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Atria Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Searching for Savanna in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: April 25, 2023 Summary: A gripping and illuminating investigation into the disappearance of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind when she was eight months pregnant, highlighting the shocking epidemic of violence against Native American women in America and…

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k2reader July 23, 2023

The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine #bookreview #audiobook #reread

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Harper Audio Published: October 17, 2017 Summary: Amber Patterson is fed up. She’s tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background. She deserves more – a life of money and power like the one blond-haired, blue-eyed goddess Daphne Parrish takes for granted. To everyone in the exclusive town of Bishops Harbor, Connecticut, Daphne – a…

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k2reader July 22, 2023

Unseen by Karin Slaughter #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Harper Audio Published: July 7, 2020 (first published 2013) Summary: Detectives, lovers, and enemies are pitted against one another in an unforgettable standoff between righteous courage and deepest evil from New York Times best-selling author Karin Slaughter. Will Trent is a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent whose latest case has him posing as Bill Black, a scary ex-con who rides a motorcycle around…

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k2reader July 21, 2023

A Twisted Love Story by Samantha Downing #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you PRH Audio for the ALC and Berkley #partner, for the finished copy of A Twisted Love Story in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Berkley / Random House Audio Published: July 18, 2023 Summary: From the bestselling author of My Lovely Wife comes a reckless, delicious thriller about a young couple that gives a whole new meaning to the dangers of modern dating. Wes and Ivy are madly in…

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k2reader July 21, 2023

Night Will Find You by Julia Heaberlin #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Flatiron Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Night Will Find You in exchange for my honest review. I purchased the audiobook for my own collection. Publisher: Flatiron Books / Macmillan Audio Published: June 20, 2023 Summary: A scientist with a special gift riles a wasp’s nest of conspiracy theories while investigating a cold case in this riveting novel from the acclaimed and bestselling author of Black-Eyed…

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k2reader July 20, 2023

One Night by Georgina Cross #bookreview

Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers Promotions, Penguin Random House, #partner, for an advanced copy of One Night in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Bantam Published: August 1, 2023 Summary: One night. That’s all the time a family has to decide what to do with the man they believe murdered their daughter: Do they forgive him, or take justice into their own hands? An electrifying novel by the author of Nanny…

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k2reader July 17, 2023

The Expat Wife by Courtney Hargrove #bookreview

Thank you to the author, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Expat Wife in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: One Moment Books Published: July 11, 2023 Summary: Welcome to Switzerland in winter: Snow upon snow, everywhere to disappear, nowhere to hide… When newlyweds Rose and Wesley Blackwood move from New York City to Lucerne, Switzerland for his new job, they quickly take to expatriate life. What’s not…

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k2reader July 17, 2023

Busted by Karin Slaughter #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Blackstone Audio Published: June 24, 2014 (first published 2013) Summary: From Karin Slaughter comes a fast and furious tale in which no one is quite who they seem. This electrifying eBook novella featuring Will Trent is a prequel to Slaughter’s upcoming novel, Unseen. Detective Will Trent is standing in a Georgia convenience store, waiting on an obstinate Icee frozen drink machine. To…

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k2reader July 16, 2023

Strange Sally Diamond #bookreview

Thank you to the author & Gallery/Scout Press, #partner, for the advanced copy of Strange Sally Diamond in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Gallery/Scout Press Published: July 18, 2023 Summary: The internationally bestselling author of Lying in Wait returns with a wickedly dark, twisted, and brilliantly observed new novel about an enigmatic woman confronting her unknown past. Reclusive Sally Diamond causes outrage by trying to incinerate her dead father. Now…

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k2reader July 13, 2023

Gone Tonight by Sarah Pekkanen #bookfeature #upcomingrelease

Next month, Sarah Pekkanen’s solo thriller, Gone Tonight, will be released. I was fortunate to be sent some extra copies, so I am giving them away. I will be reading this book very soon and am so excited – I have loved the thrillers so co-wrote with Greer Henricks and this one sounds just as good! But just take note…the giveaway is happening on my Instagram page – head here…

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k2reader July 13, 2023

Hello Stranger by Katherine Center #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Netgalley / Macmillan Audio, for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the advanced e-copy of Hello Stranger in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: July 11, 2023 Summary: Love isn’t blind, it’s just little blurry. Sadie Montgomery never saw what was coming . . . Literally! One minute she’s celebrating the biggest achievement of her life—placing as a finalist…

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k2reader July 12, 2023

Criminal by Karin Slaughter #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Harper Audio Published: July 9, 2019 (first published 2012) Summary: Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Newly in love, he is beginning to put a difficult past behind him. Then a local college student goes missing, and Will is inexplicably kept off the case by his supervisor and mentor, deputy director Amanda Wagner. Will cannot…

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k2reader July 10, 2023

Little Cruelties by Liz Nugent #bookreview #bookclub

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Gallery/Scout Press Published: November 10, 2020 Summary: Three brothers are at the funeral. One lies in the coffin. Will, Brian and Luke grow up competing for their mother’s unequal love. As men, the competition continues – for status, money, fame, women … They each betray each other, over and over, until one of them is dead. But which brother killed…

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k2reader July 7, 2023

The Clearing by Simon Toyne #bookreview #bookseries

Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers Promotions, William Morrow, #partner, for a finished copy of The Clearing in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Published: July 11, 2023 Summary: In this gripping suspense novel from the bestselling author of the Sanctus trilogy, lead forensic expert Laughton Rees is back, this time investigating a series of missing women in a small town near the Forest of Dean–where she uncovers a dark…

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k2reader July 6, 2023

Thicker Than Water by Megan Collins #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Atria Books #partner, for the advanced copy of Thicker Than Water in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books/ Simon & Schuster ALC Published: July 11, 2023 Summary: Two sisters-in-law find themselves at painful odds when the man who connects them—the brother of one, the husband of the other—is accused of a brutal crime in this twisty thriller from…

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k2reader July 6, 2023

Dark Objects by Simon Toyne #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Harper Audio Published: July 12, 2022 Summary: Forensics expert Laughton Rees hunts an unusually clever killer who appears to be staging murder scenes just for her in this twisty new psychological thriller by the bestselling author of the Sanctus trilogy. How do you catch a killer if the victim doesn’t exist? A glamorous woman is murdered in her ultra-luxurious London mansion and…

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k2reader July 6, 2023

Snatched by Karin Slaughter #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Published: July 1, 2013 Summary: While in an airport restroom in Atlanta, Will Trent, an agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, overhears a girl pleading to go home and knows something is wrong. But he waits too long to act, and now the girl and the angry man she’s with have disappeared into the crowds at the busiest…

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k2reader July 4, 2023

Month in Review: June 2023

And just like that, half the year has gone by…how is that possible? Summer is finally here, weather-wise and I am loving it!!! I’ve been out paddle boarding in the mornings and then reading outside whenever I have the chance. I also started working one or two days a week at the cutest independent bookstore on the north fork of Long Island, called A Book Place, located in Riverhead. I…

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k2reader June 30, 2023

The Hidden Hours by Sara Foster #bookreview

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Published: November 3, 2020 Summary: Keeping her secret may save her family. But telling it may save her life. Arabella Lane, senior executive at a children’s publisher, is found dead in the Thames on a frosty winter’s morning after the office Christmas party. No one is sure whether she jumped or was pushed. The one person who may…

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k2reader June 28, 2023

The Quiet Tenant #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you PRH Audio for the ALC and Knopf #partner, for the advanced e-copy of The Quiet Tenant in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Knopf / Random House Audio Published: June 20, 2023 Summary: A pulse-pounding psychological thriller about a serial killer narrated by those closest to him: His 13-year-old daughter, his girlfriend—and the one victim he has spared Aidan Thomas is a hard-working family man and a…

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k2reader June 28, 2023

The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave #bookreview #audiobook #reread

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Published: May 4, 2021 Summary: The instant #1 New York Times bestselling mystery and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick that’s captivated more than a million readers about a woman searching for the truth about her husband’s disappearance…at any cost. Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion…

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k2reader June 24, 2023

Fallen by Karin Slaughter #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Harper Audio Published: August 28, 2018 (Originally published 2011) Summary: There’s no police training stronger than a cop’s instinct. Faith Mitchell’s mother isn’t answering her phone. Her front door is open. There’s a bloodstain above the knob. Her infant daughter is hidden in a shed behind the house. All that the Georgia Bureau of Investigations taught Faith Mitchell goes out the window…

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k2reader June 23, 2023

The Last Word by Taylor Adams #bookreview

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: William Morrow Published: April 25, 2023 Summary: After posting a negative book review, a woman living in a remote location begins to wonder if the author is a little touchy—or very, very dangerous—in this pulse-pounding novel of psychological suspense and terror from the critically acclaimed author of No Exit and Hairpin Bridge. Emma Carpenter lives in isolation with her golden…

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k2reader June 22, 2023

Banyan Moon by Thao Thai #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you to HarperAudio/Netgalley for the ALC and Thoughts From a Page, Mariner Books, #partner, for an advanced e-copy of Banyan Moon in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Mariner Books / Harper Audio Published: June 27, 2023 Summary: A sweeping, evocative debut novel following three generations of Vietnamese American women reeling from the death of their matriarch, revealing the family’s inherited burdens, buried secrets, and unlikely love stories.…

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k2reader June 22, 2023

The New Mother by Nora Murphy #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The New Mother in exchange for my honest review. I purchased the audiobook for my own collection. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: May 30, 2023 Summary: A relatable and nerve-wracking, sympathetic and bone-chilling story — a fresh new twist on motherhood and murder in suburbia. Isolated. Lonely. Tired. It’s hard being The New Mother. Sometimes it’s murder.…

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k2reader June 20, 2023

Lay Your Body Down by Amy Suiter Clarke #bookreview

Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers Promotions, William Morrow, #partner, for a finished copy of Lay Your Body Down in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Published: June 27, 2023 Summary: A young woman returns to her rural Minnesota hometown, where a radical evangelical pastor has poisoned everyone’s minds—and may be covering up a murder. After Del Walker fled her small hometown and its cult-like church, she vowed to…

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k2reader June 14, 2023

The Long Way Back by Nicole Baart #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Atria Books #partner, for the advanced copy of The Long Way Back in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books/ Simon & Schuster ALC Published: June 13, 2023 Summary: When an Instagram-famous teenager mysteriously disappears, her mother grapples with the revelation of dark secrets in this twisty, atmospheric thriller—from the author of the “poignant, riveting” (Wendy Walker, author of Don’t…

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k2reader June 14, 2023

Between Two Strangers by Kate White #bookreview #audiobook

I purchased this audiobook for my own personal collection. Publisher: HarperAudio Published: May 16, 2023 Summary: A woman receives a bewildering inheritance that may have something to do with her past in this twisty and addictive psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author Entertainment Weekly calls “impossible to outwit.” Struggling artist Skyler Moore is flabbergasted when she receives a suspicious phone call from a lawyer she’s never met regarding a “private matter.”…

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k2reader June 13, 2023

The Survivor by Iris Johansen #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

Thank you Hachette Audio, #partner for the ALC of The Survivor in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Hachette Audio Published: June 6, 2023 Summary: Eve Duncan and Riley Smith must solve their most exciting puzzle since A Face to Die For when asked to uncover the mysterious secret hidden on a remote island. When archeologist Riley Smith comes to ask Eve Duncan for help, Eve has to say no.…

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k2reader June 8, 2023

What Remains by Wendy Walker #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Libro.fm / Blackstone Publishing, for the ALC and Blackstone Publishing, #partner for the advanced copy of What Remains in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Blackstone Publishing / Blackstone Publishing Published: June 13, 2023 Summary: She saved his life. Now he‘ll never let her go. Detective Elise Sutton is drawn to cold cases. Each crime is a puzzle to solve, pulled from the past. Elise looks for…

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k2reader June 6, 2023

Look Closer by David Ellis #bookfeature #paperbackrelease

Today, I’m featuring a book that out in paperback today. This book has been on my tbr since it first came out in hardcover last year and you better believe that I made a special trip to the bookstore today to grab a copy! Thank you #Thrillerbookloverspromotions for inviting me to help spread the word about this paperback release!!! Look Closer by David Ellis Publisher – G.P. Putnam’s Sons…

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k2reader June 6, 2023

Broken by Karin Slaughter #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Harper Audio Published: June 23, 2020 (Originally published 2010) Summary: Broken features the return of New York Times best-selling author Karin Slaughter’s most compelling characters and introduces memorable new ones in a tale of corruption, murder, and confrontation that will leave more than one life destroyed…. When Special Agent Will Trent arrives in Grant County, he finds a police department determined to protect its own…

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k2reader June 5, 2023

Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and @BookClubFavorites & Scriber #partner, for the advanced copy of Lady Tan’s Circle of Women in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Scribner / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: June 6, 2023 Summary: The latest historical novel from New York Times bestselling author Lisa See, inspired by the true story of a woman physician from 15th-century China—perfect for fans of See’s…

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