This month was a little harder than the past two months only in that I would have just gotten back from BookExpo had we not been in the middle of this pandemic. While I am still getting books from publishers – some print copies, but mostly e-galleys – I was just sad to not be able to see everyone and be able to hear about all the upcoming new books…
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Title: The Echo Killing Author: Christi Daugherty Series: Harper McClain, #1 Published: March 2018, Minotaur Books Format: Hardcover, 356 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: When a murder echoing a fifteen-year-old cold case rocks the Southern town of Savannah, crime reporter Harper McClain risks everything to find the identity of this calculated killer. A city of antebellum architecture, picturesque parks, and cobblestone streets, Savannah moves at a graceful pace. But for…
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Title: Tough Love Author: Lori Foster Series: Ultimate, #3 Narrator: Jim Frangione Published: August 2015, Recorded Books / HQN Books Length: 11 hours 10 minutes / 538 pages Source: Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – ARC e-copy via Netgalley Summary: She’s playing hard to get…to win the MMA fighter of her ultimate fantasies in a sultry new novel from New York Times bestselling author Lori Foster Vanity…
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Title: The Liar’s Room Author: Simon Lelic Published: January 2019, Berkley Books Format: ARC E-copy, Source: Netgalley Summary: A new spine-tingling thriller from the author of The New Neighbors that takes place over the course of a therapy session, in which neither patient nor therapist are who they claim to be. Two liars. One room. No way out. Susanna Fenton has a secret. Fourteen years ago she left her identity…
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Title: The Jane Austen Society Author: Natalie Jenner Narrator: Richard Armitage Published: May 2020, Macmillan Audio / St. Martin’s Press Length: 9 hours 55 minutes / 320 pages Source: Audio – ALC via Libro.fm / Print – ARC Paperback via Publisher Summary: “Fans of The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society will adore The Jane Austen Society… A charming and memorable debut, which reminds…
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Title: The 19th Christmas Author: James Patterson Series: Women’s Murder Club, #19 Published: October 2019, Little, Brown & Company Format: Hardcover, 344 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: It’s not sleigh beels that are ringing this Christmas. As the holidays approach, Detective Lindsay Boxer and her friends in the Women’s Murder Club have much to celebrate. Crime is down. The medical examiner’s office is quiet. Even the courts are showing some…
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Title: The Summer Set Author: Aimee Agresti Published: May 2020, Graydon House Format: ARC E-copy, 384 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: The real drama happens backstage in this juicy novel about an idyllic summer theater where hot stars, has-beens and hopefuls chase roles—and each other. Charlie Savoy was once Hollywood’s hottest A-lister. Now, ten years later, she’s pushing forty, exiled from the film world and back at the summer…
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Title: The Sunday Girl Author: Pip Drysdale Published: May 2020, Sourcesbook Landmark Format: ARC E-copy, 288 pages Source: Netgalley Summary: Any woman who’s ever been involved with a bad, bad man and been dumped will understand what it feels like to be broken, broken-hearted and bent on revenge. Taylor Bishop is hurt, angry and wants to destroy Angus Hollingsworth in the way he destroyed her: Insidiously. Irreparably. Like a puzzle,…
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Title: The Ingredients of You and Me Author: Nina Bocci Series: Hopeless Romantics, #3 Published: April 2020, Gallery Books Format: ARC E-copy, 320 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: From the USA TODAY bestselling author of the “heartwarming and refreshingly sweet” (Lauren Layne, New York Times bestselling author) On the Corner of Love and Hate comes a sizzling and sweet small-town love story that follows a bakery store owner who…
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Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the Sister Dear by Hannah Mary McKinnon blog tour – I have an excerpt for you to read thanks to Harlequin Publishing. Title: Sister Dear Author: Hannah Mary McKinnon Published: May 2020, MIRA Books Format: Paperback, 384 pages Summary: Beauty. Wealth. Success. She’s got it all. And it all should’ve been mine. When Eleanor Hardwicke’s beloved father dies, her world…
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Title: HumanKind Author: Brad Aronson Published: April 2020, LifeTree Media Format: Paperback, 256 pages Source: Author via @SuzyApprovedBookTours Summary: HumanKind is the heartwarming, feel-good book that we all need right now. Brad Aronson’s life changed in an instant when his wife, Mia, was diagnosed with leukemia. Following her diagnosis, Brad spent most of the next two-and-a-half years either by her side as she received treatment or trying to shield their…
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Title: The German Heiress Author: Anika Scott Published: April 2020, William Morrow Paperbacks Format: ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source: Publisher Summary: For readers of The Alice Network and The Lost Girls of Paris, an immersive, heart-pounding debut about a German heiress on the run in post-World War II Germany. Clara Falkenberg, once Germany’s most eligible and lauded heiress, earned the nickname “the Iron Fräulein” during World War II for her…
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Title: The Sun Sister Author: Lucinda Riley Series: The Seven Sisters, #6 Narrator: Weruche Opia, Sophie Roberts Published: February 2020, Whole Story Audiobooks / May 2020, Atria Books Length: 26 hours 14 minutes / 656 pages Source: Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – ARC Paperback via Publisher Summary: The Sun Sister is the sixth installment in the multi-million selling epic series, The Seven Sisters, written by the…
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Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the The Summer Set by Aimee Agresti blog tour – I have an excerpt for you to read thanks to Harlequin Publishing. Title: The Summer Set Author: Aimee Agresti Published: May 2020, Graydon House Format: Paperback 384 pages Summary: The real drama happens backstage in this juicy novel about an idyllic summer theater where hot stars, has-beens and hopefuls chase…
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Title: Where the Lost Wander Author: Amy Harmon Narrator: Lauren Ezzo, Shaun Taylor-Corbett Published: April 2020, Brilliance Audio Length: 11 hours 46 minutes Source: Publisher Summary: In this epic and haunting love story set on the Oregon Trail, a family and their unlikely protector find their way through peril, uncertainty, and loss. The Overland Trail, 1853: Naomi May never expected to be widowed at twenty. Eager to leave her…
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Title: This Is How I Lied Author: Heather Gudenkauf Published: May 2020, Park Row Books Format: ARC E-copy, Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: Gudenkauf proves herself the master of the smart, suspenseful small-town thriller that gets right under your skin.” —Gilly Macmillan, New York Times bestselling author of The Nanny Everyone has a secret they’ll do anything to hide… Twenty-five years ago, the body of sixteen-year-old Eve Knox was found…
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Title: Criss Cross Author: James Patterson Series: Alex Cross, #27 Published: November 2019, Little, Brown & Company Format: Hardcover, 389 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: A killer with all the skills of a master detective has made Alex Cross the subject of his deranged “investigation.” In a Virginia penitentiary, Alex Cross and his partner, John Sampson, witness the execution of a killer they helped convict. Hours later, they are called…
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Title: The Getaway Author: Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen Narrator: Emily Bauer Published: April 2020, Audible Original Length: 2 hours 24 minutes Source: Audible Summary: In this short thriller from number one New York Times best-selling authors Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, a young woman’s dream getaway becomes her worst nightmare. Prepare yourself for a transformative experience. Sometimes, life’s setbacks contain hidden gifts. Here at Lakewood, you’ll find the space…
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Title: Blindside Author: James Patterson Series: Michael Bennett, #12 Published: February 2020, Little, Brown & Company Format: Hardcover, 384 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: The mayor of New York has a daughter who’s missing and in danger. Detective Michael Bennett has a son who’s in prison. The two strike a deal. Bennett and the mayor have always had a tense relationship, but now the mayor sees in Bennett a discreet…
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Title: Followers Author: Megan Angelo Narrator: Jayme Mattler Published: January 2020, Harlequin Audio Length: 13 hours 29 minutes Source: Library Summary: An electrifying story of two ambitious friends, the dark choices they make and the stunning moment that changes the world as we know it forever Orla Cadden is a budding novelist stuck in a dead-end job, writing clickbait about movie-star hookups and influencer yoga moves. Then Orla meets…
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Title: The Girl Beneath the Sea Author: Andrew Mayne Series: Underwater Investigation Unit, #1 Published: May 2020, Thomas Mercer Format: ARC Paperback, 332 pages Source: Publisher via MB Communications Summary: For a Florida police diver, danger rises to the surface in an adventurous thriller by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Naturalist. Coming from scandalous Florida treasure hunters and drug smugglers, Sloan McPherson is forging her own path,…
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Title: The Secrets of Love Story Bridge Author: Phaedra Patrick Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davies Published: April 2020, Harlequin Audio / Park Row Books Length: 8 hours 2 minutes / 336 pages Source: Audio – library / Print – ARC E-copy via Netgalley Summary: A single father gets an unexpected second chance at love in the heartwarming new novel from the author of The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper It’s summer…
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Title: My Kind of People Author: Lisa Duffy Published: May 2020, Atria Books Format: ARC E-copy, 336 pages Source: Publisher Summary: From the author of The Salt House and This Is Home comes a profound novel about the power of community and a small town’s long-buried secrets as a group of New England islanders come together for a recently orphaned girl. On Ichabod Island, a jagged strip of land thirteen…
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Title: Flowers On Her Grave Author: Jennifer Chase Series: Detective Katie Scott, #3 Published: March 2020, Bookouture Format: Paperback, 328 pages Summary: On the floor, amongst the piles of freshly pressed laundry, lay the woman’s lifeless body, her pale yellow nightdress soaked in blood. “I didn’t do it…” came a whisper from the corner of the room. Detective Katie Scott has never seen two people more in love than her…
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Title: Take Me Apart Author: Sara Sligar Published: April 2020, MCD Format: ARC Paperback, 368 pages Source: Publisher Summary: A young archivist’s obsession with her subject’s mysterious death threatens to destroy her fragile grasp on sanity, in a riveting debut novel of psychological suspense. When the famed photographer Miranda Brand died mysteriously at the height of her career, it sent shock waves through Callinas, California. Decades later, old wounds are…
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Title: A Good Neighborhood Author: Therese Anne Fowler Published: March 2020, St. Martin’s Press Format: ARC Paperback, 311 pages Source: Publisher Summary: In Oak Knoll, a verdant, tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood, professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son. Xavier is headed to college in the fall, and after years of single parenting, Valerie is facing the prospect of an empty nest. All…
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Title: The Heirloom Garden Author: Viola Shipman Narrator: Nan McNamara, Lauren Ezzo Published: April 2020, Harlequin Audio, Graydon House Length: 11 hours 27 minutes, 384 pages Source: Audio via Library / Print – ARC E-copy via Netgalley Summary: In her inimitable heartwarming style, Viola Shipman’s brand-new novel follows two women, separated by a generation but equally scarred by war, who find hope, meaning and friendship through a garden of flowers.…
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Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the Secrets of Love Story Bridge by Phaedra Patrick blog tour – I have an excerpt for you to read thanks to Harlequin Publishing. Title: The Secrets of Love Story Bridge Author: Phaedra Patrick Published: April 2020, Park Row Books Format: Hardcover, 336 pages Summary: A single father gets an unexpected second chance at love in the heartwarming new novel…
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Title: Target: Alex Cross Author: James Patterson Series: Alex Cross, #26 Published: November 2018, Little, Brown & Company Format: Hardcover, 414 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: TARGET: HEAD OF STATE A leader has fallen, and the procession route from Capitol Hill to the White House is lined with hundreds of thousands of mourners. None feel the loss of a President more keenly than Alex Cross, who has devoted his life…
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Well…April has certainly been a better month reading-wise. I just made the best of it and read as much as possible, clearly. Not turning on the tv has helped and not really paying attention to the news every five seconds has helped as well! There’s not much I can do and so might as well just turn to my books which provide as great escape. Now if only the weather…
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Title: The Missing Sister Author: Elle Marr Narrator: Sarah Naughton Published: April 2020, Brilliance Audio / Thomas Mercer Length: 9 hours 48 minutes / 300 pages Source: Audio – Brilliance Audio / Print – ARC Paperback via Thomas & Mercer Summary: In Paris, her twin sister has vanished, leaving behind three chilling words: Trust no one. Shayna Darby is finally coming to terms with her parents’ deaths when she’s delivered…
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Title: Little Family Author: Ishmael Beah Published: April 2020, Riverhead Books Format: Hardcover, 272 pages Source: Publisher Summary: A powerful novel about young people in a conflict-scarred land, struggling to replace the homes they have lost with the one they have created together. Hidden away from a harsh outside world, five young people have improvised a home in an abandoned airplane, a relic of their country’s chaos. Elimane, the bookworm,…
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Title: The Sweeney Sisters Author: Lian Dolan Published: April 2020, William Morrow Format: ARC E-copy, 304 pages Source: Netgalley via Wunderkind PR Summary: An accomplished storyteller returns with her biggest, boldest, most entertaining novel yet—a hilarious, heartfelt story about books, love, sisterhood, and the surprises we discover in our DNA that combines the wit of Jonathan Tropper with the heart of Susan Wiggs. Maggie, Eliza, and Tricia Sweeney grew up…
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Title: The Love Story of Missy Carmichael Author: Beth Morrey Published: April 2020, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Format: ARC E-copy, 352 pages Source: Netgalley Summary: For readers of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and A Man Called Ove, a life-affirming, deeply moving “coming-of-old” story, a celebration of how ordinary days are made extraordinary through friendship, family, and the power of forgiving yourself–at any age. Boy meets girl. Girl meets boy. Woman…
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Title: Afterlife Author: Julia Alvarez Narrator: Alma Cuervo Published: April 2020, Recorded Books Length: 6 hours 26 minutes Source: ALC via Libro.fm Summary: The first adult novel in almost fifteen years by the internationally bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired…
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Title: Feels Like Falling Author: Kristy Woodson Harvey Published: April 2020, Gallery Books Format: ARC Paperback, 400 pages Source: Author Summary: From “the next major voice in Southern fiction” (Elin Hilderbrand) and the bestselling author of the Peachtree Bluff series comes an odd-couple tale of friendship that asks just how much our past choices define our happiness. It’s summertime on the North Carolina coast and the livin’ is easy.…
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Title: The Friend Zone Author: Abby Jimenez Narrator: Teddy Hamilton, Erin Mallon Published: June 2019, Hachette Audio Length: 9 hours 32 minutes Source: Library Summary: Kristen Petersen doesn’t do drama, will fight to the death for her friends, and has no room in her life for guys who just don’t get her. She’s also keeping a big secret: facing a medically necessary procedure that will make it impossible for her…
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Title: Strike Me Down Author: Mindy Mejia Published: April 2020, Atria/Emily Bestler Books Format: ARC E-copy, 352 pages Source: Negalley via Publisher Summary: From the critically acclaimed author of Leave No Trace, the “nail-biting page-turner that grabs you early and never lets go” (The Real Book Spy), comes a visceral thriller where a high stakes crime triggers a woman’s complicated and potentially deadly search for the truth. Nora Trier catches…
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Title: The Guest List Author: Lucy Foley Published: June 2020, William Morrow Format: Hardcover, 313 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: A wedding celebration turns dark and deadly in this deliciously wicked and atmospheric thriller reminiscent of Agatha Christie from the author of The Hunting Party. The bride ‧ The plus one ‧ The best man ‧ The wedding planner ‧ The bridesmaid ‧ The body On an island off the…
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Title: A Conspiracy of Bones Author: Kathy Reichs Series: Temperance Brennan, #19 Narrator: Linda Emond Published: March 2020, Simon & Schuster Audio Length: 11 hours 57 minutes Source: Library Summary: #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with a new riveting novel featuring her vastly popular character forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, who must use all her tradecraft to discover the identity of a faceless corpse, its connection to…
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Title: Little Secrets Author: Jennifer Hillier Published: April 2020, Minotaur Books Format: ARC Paperback, 352 pages Source: Publisher Summary: From the author of Jar of Hearts, a mother driven to the edge by the disappearance of her son learns her husband is having an affair with the woman who might have kidnapped him. Four hundred and eighty seconds. That’s how long it took for someone to steal Marin Machado’s four-year-old…
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Title: Hold Your Breath Author: B.P. Walter Published: April 2020, Avon Books UK Format: ARC E-copy, 400 pages Source: Publisher via Netgalley Summary: If you go down to the woods today, you’re in for a big surprise… Kitty Marchland has always known that her family aren’t like others. But when her father uproots them to a remote cottage in the woods, she realises that her parents are keeping secrets from…
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Title: Sister Dear Author: Hannah Mary McKinnon Published: May 2020, MIRA Format: ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source: Author Summary: Beauty. Wealth. Success. She’s got it all. And it all should’ve been mine. When Eleanor Hardwicke’s beloved father dies, her world is further shattered by a gut-wrenching secret: the man she’s grieving isn’t really her dad. Eleanor was the product of an affair and her biological father is still out there,…
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Title: The Other Family Author: Loretta Nyhan Narrator: Mary Robinette Kowal Published: April 2020, Brilliance Audio Length: 8 hours 56 minutes Source: Publisher Summary: From the bestselling author of Digging In comes a witty and moving novel about motherhood, courage, and finding true family. With a dissolving marriage, strained finances, and her life in flux, Ally Anderson longs for normal. Her greatest concerns, though, are the health problems of…
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Title: Little Lovely Things Author: Maureen Joyce Connolly Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers Published: April 2019, Recorded Books Length: 10 hours 14 minutes Source: Publicist Summary: A mother’s chance decision leads to a twist of fate that is every parent’s worst nightmare. Claire Rawlings, mother of two and medical resident, will not let the troubling signs of an allergic reaction prevent her from making it in for rounds. But when Claire’s symptoms…
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Title: Holding Strong Author: Lori Foster Series: Ultimate, #2 Narrator: Jim Frangione Published: March 2015, Recorded Books / HQN Books Length: 13 hours 45 minutes / 475 pages Source: Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – ARC e-copy via Netgalley Summary: Heavyweight fighter Denver Lewis plays real nice, but he doesn’t share. That’s why he’s been avoiding top-notch flirt Cherry Peyton. But a man can only resist those…
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Title: Sunrise on Half Moon Bay Author: Robyn Carr Published: April 2020, MIRA Format: ARC E-copy, 336 pages Source: Netgalley via Little Bird Publicity Summary: Sometimes the happiness we’re looking for has been there all along… Adele and Justine have never been close. Born twenty years apart, Justine was already an adult when Addie was born. The sisters love each other but they don’t really know each other. When Addie…
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Title: The New Husband Author: D.J. Palmer Published: April 2020, St. Martin’s Press Format: ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source: Publisher Summary: What makes Simon Fitch so perfect? -He knows all her favorite foods, music, and movies. -Her son adores him. He was there when she needed him most. -He anticipates her every need. -He would never betray her like her first husband. The perfect husband. He checks all the boxes.…
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Title: In Plain Sight Author: Laurie Holbrook Series: Mabel Peters, #2 Published: April 2020, Frisson Publishing Format: ARC E-book, 314 pages Source: Author Summary: Across Colorado, girls are disappearing. Mabel Peters and her partner, Frankie Dowdy, have dedicated their lives to bring them home before they are gone for good. Thirteen-year-old Isabel Dumel is no longer a child, but not yet an adult. Her mom is dead and her dad…
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Title: The Secret Admirer Author: Carol Wyer Series: Detective Natalie Ward, #6 Published: April 2020, Bookouture Format: ARC E-copy, 413 pages Source: Netgalley Summary: ‘I tried to talk to you today but you snubbed me and walked away. It wasn’t wise to give me the brush-off, Gemma. I can be a truly good friend but I also make the perfect enemy.’ Sasha’s eighteen-year-old daughter Gemma was all she had in…
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