Title:The Lost Child Author:Patricia Gibney Series:Detective Lottie Parker, #3 Published:October 2017, Bookouture Format:ARC E-copy, 483 pages Source:Netgalley via Publisher They placed me in here and threw away the key. I look down at the gown they’ve put on me. I want my own clothes. I don’t know how long I’ve been here. An elderly woman is found murdered in her own home, and Detective Lottie Parker and her partner…
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Title:Snowblind Author:Ragnar Jonasson Series:Dark Iceland, #1 Published:June 2015, Orenda Books Format:Paperback, 252 pages Source:Personal copy Siglufjörður: an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland, where no one locks their doors – accessible only via a small mountain tunnel. Ari Thór Arason: a rookie policeman on his first posting, far from his girlfriend in Reykjavik – with a past that he’s unable to leave behind. When a young woman is found…
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Title: Murder on the Orient Express Author: Agatha Christie Series: Hercule Poirot, #10 Published: January 2011, William Morrow Paperbacks, (1st published 1934) Format: Paperback, 265 pages Source: Publisher The most widely-read mystery of all time, now a major motion picture directed by Kenneth Branagh and produced by Ridley Scott “The murderer is with us—on the train now . . .” Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in…
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Title:Good Me, Bad Me Author:Ali Land Published:September 2017, Flatiron Books Format:ARC Paperback, 292 pages Source:Publisher Milly’s mother is a serial killer. Though Milly loves her mother, the only way to make her stop is to turn her in to the police. Milly is given a fresh start: a new identity, a home with an affluent foster family, and a spot at an exclusive private school. But Milly has secrets, and…
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Title:The Stolen Girls Author:Patricia Gibney Series:Detective Lottie Parker, #2 Published:July 2017, Bookouture Format:ARC E-copy, 452 pages Source:Netgalley via Publisher The young woman standing on Lottie’s step was a stranger. She was clutching the hand of a young boy. ‘Help me,’ she said to Lottie. ‘Please help me.’ One Monday morning, the body of a young pregnant woman is found. The same day, a mother and her son visit the house…
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Title:The Blind Author:A.F. Brady Published:September 2017, Park Row Books Format:ARC Paperback, 400 pages Source:Publisher Sam James has spent years carefully crafting her reputation as the best psychologist at Typhlos, Manhattan’s most challenging psychiatric institution. She boasts the highest success rates with the most disturbed patients, believing if she can’t save herself, she’ll save someone else. It’s this savior complex that serves her well in helping patients battle their inner demons,…
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Title:Without Merit Author:Colleen Hoover Published:October 2017, Atria Books Format:ARC E-book, 384 pages Source:Netgalley via Publisher Not every mistake deserves a consequence. Sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness. The Voss family is anything but normal. They live in a repurposed church, newly baptized Dollar Voss. The once cancer-stricken mother lives in the basement, the father is married to the mother’s former nurse, the little half-brother isn’t allowed to do…
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Title:Hide and Seek Author:M.J. Arlidge Series:Helen Grace, #6 Published:October 2016, Penguin Books Format:Paperback, 372 pages Source:Personal copy Prison is no place for a detective Helen Grace was one of the country’s best police investigators. Now she’s behind bars with the killers she caught. Framed for murder She knows there is only way out: stay alive until her trial and somehow prove her innocence. Locked up with a killer But…
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Title:The Last Mrs. Parrish Author:Liv Constantine Published:October 2017, Harper Format:ARC Paperback, 400 pages Source:Publisher A mesmerizing debut psychological thriller full of delicious twists about a coolly manipulative woman who worms her way into the lives of a wealthy “golden couple” from Connecticut to achieve the privileged life she wants. Amber Patterson is fed up. She’s tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background.…
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Today, Next of Kin, the debut book by James Tucker is being published and to celebrate, I am helping the publisher get the word out. I will be reading this book and sharing my review soon! For now, please enjoy this spotlight and let me know if you will be reading this book 🙂 I’m always excited to find a new crime thriller series to read and one that’s set…
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Title: Blood Wedding Author: Pierre Lemaitre Published: June 2016, MacLehose Press Quercus Format: Paperback, 288 pages Source: Publisher Sophie Duguet–young, successful, and happily married–thought at first she was becoming absentminded when she started misplacing her mail and forgetting where she’d parked her car the night before. But then, as her husband and colleagues pointed out with increasing frustration, she began forgetting things she’d said and done, too. And when she…
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Title:The Lost Boy Author:Camilla Lackberg Series:Patrik Hedstrom/Fjallbacka, #7 Narrator:Simon Vance Published:October 2016, Blackstone Audio Length:12 hours 56 minutes Source:Library From internationally best-selling Swedish crime sensation Camilla Läckberg comes a new psychological thriller – irresistible for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbø. Mats Sverin was Fjällbacka’s financial director on a regeneration project worth millions. When he’s found dead, detective Patrik Hedström must find answers. It seems Mats was a man…
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Title:Friend Request Author:Laura Marshall Narrator:Elaine Claxton Published:September 2017, Hachette Audio Length:11 hours 9 minutes Source:Publisher A paranoid single mom is forced to confront the unthinkable act she committed as a desperate teenager in this addictive thriller with a social media twist. Maria Weston wants to be friends. But Maria Weston is dead. Isn’t she? 1989. When Louise first notices the new girl who has mysteriously transferred late into their senior…
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Title:Last Christmas in Paris Author:Hazel Gaynor & Heather Webb Published:October 2017, William Morrow Paperbacks Format:ARC Paperback, 40 pages Source:Publisher New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor has joined with Heather Webb to create this unforgettably romantic novel of the Great War. August 1914. England is at war. As Evie Elliott watches her brother, Will, and his best friend, Thomas Harding, depart for the front, she believes—as everyone does—that it…
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Title:When We Were Worthy Author:Marybeth Mayhew Whalen Narrator:Joshilyn Jackson Published:September 2017, Brilliance Audio / Lake Union Publishing Length:9 hours 11 minutes / 276 pages Source:Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – ARC Paperback via Publisher A win brought them together, but loss may tear them apart. When the sound of sirens cuts through a cool fall night, the small town of Worthy, Georgia, hurtles from triumph to…
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Last January, I read Right Behind You by Lisa Gardner, the latest book in her Quincy & Rainie series, when it was first released in hardcover, and I loved it! You can find my thoughts on the book here. Today the book is being released in paperback and to celebrate, I am helping the publishers get the word out. Are you a fan of this series? If not, now’s the…
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Goodbye September …Hello October!!! I can’t believe it’s already October…3 months left in 2017…this year is flying by!!! So, I’ve been doing well reading-wise the last few months, but I’m trying to balance it more with library books and my own books. As much as I love reading all these review books, I do have a stack of my own books that I’ve either been buying or have had laying…
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Title:The Names of Dead Girls Author:Eric Rickstad Series:Canaan Crime, #3 Narrator: Jeffrey Kafer Published:September 2017, Harper Audio / William Morrow Paperbacks Length:9 hours 11 minutes /434 pages Source: Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – ARC Paperback via William Morrow Paperbacks New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Eric Rickstad delivers the electrifying sequel to The Silent Girls, and features once again detectives Frank Rath and Sonja Test…
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Title:The Cottingley Secret Author:Hazel Gaynor Narrator:Karen Cass, Billie Fullford-Brown Published:August 2017, Harper Audio / William Morrow Paperbacks Length:11 hours 2 minutes / 416 pages Source:Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – ARC Paperback via Publisher The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home turns the clock back one hundred years to a time when two young girls from Cottingley, Yorkshire, convinced the world that…
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Title:Lies She Told Author:Cate Holahan Published:September 2017, Crooked Lane Books Format:ARC E-copy, 288 pages Source:Netgalley From the author of the USA Today bestselling novel, The Widower’s Wife, comes an electrifying story of love and deceit. The truth can be darker than fiction. Liza Cole, a once-successful novelist whose career has seen better days, has one month to write the thriller that could land her back on the bestseller list.…
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Title:The Blackbird Season Author:Kate Moretti Published:September 2017, Atria Books Format:ARC E-copy, 304 pages Source:Netgalley via Publisher “Where did they come from? Why did they fall? The question would be asked a thousand times… Until, of course, more important question arose, at which time everyone promptly forgot that a thousand birds fell on the town of Mount Oanoke at all.” In a quiet Pennsylvania town, a thousand dead starlings fall onto…
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Title:The Wildling Sisters Author:Eve Chase Narrator:Clare Corbett, Emilia Fox Published:July 2017, Penguin Audio Length:10 hours 46 minutes Source:Library Four sisters. One summer. A lifetime of secrets. When fifteen-year-old Margot and her three sisters arrive at Applecote Manor in June 1959, they expect a quiet English country summer. Instead, they find their aunt and uncle still reeling from the disappearance of their daughter, Audrey, five years before. As the sisters become…
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Title:Working Fire Author:Emily Bleeker Published:August 2017, Lake Union Publishing Format:Paperback, 320 pages Source:Publisher From the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of When I’m Gone comes a compelling novel of a bond between sisters, tested by tragedy… Ellie Brown thought she’d finally escaped her stifling hometown of Broadlands, Illinois; med school was supposed to be her ticket out. But when her father has a stroke, she must return home to…
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Title:The Missing Girls Author:Carol Wyer Series:DI Robyn Carter, #3 Published:September 2017, Bookouture Format:ARC E-book, 392 pages Source:Netgalley via Publisher One girl found dead. Another girl gone… Long shadows danced on the tin walls. Inside the trunk lay Carrie Miller, wrapped in plastic, arms folded across her ribcage, lips sealed tight forever… When, a girl’s body is found at a Midlands storage unit, it is too decomposed for Detective Robyn Carter…
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Title:The Summer That Made Us Author:Robyn Carr Narrator:Therese Plummer Published:September 2017, Recorded Books / Mira Books Length:10 hours 21 minutes / 336 pages Source:Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – ARC Paperback via Little Bird Publicity Mothers and daughters, sisters and cousins–they lived for summers at the lake house until a tragic accident changed everything. The Summer That Made Us is an unforgettable story about a family…
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Title: Best Day Ever Author: Kaira Rouda Published: September 2017, Graydon House Format: ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source: Publisher I glance at my wife as she climbs into the passenger seat, and I am bursting with confidence. Today will be everything I’ve promised her…and more… Paul Strom has the perfect life: a glittering career as an advertising executive, a beautiful wife, two healthy boys and a big house in…
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Title:The Child Finder Author:Rene Denfeld Published:September 2017, Harper Format:ARC Paperback, 288 pages Source:Publisher Three years ago, Madison Culver disappeared when her family was choosing a Christmas tree in Oregon’s Skookum National Forest. She would be eight years old now—if she has survived. Desperate to find their beloved daughter, certain someone took her, the Culvers turn to Naomi, a private investigator with an uncanny talent for locating the lost and missing.…
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Title:The Good Widow Author:Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke Narrator:Dara Rosenberg Published:June 2017, Brilliance Audio Length:9 hours 35 minutes Source:Publisher Bestselling authors Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke make their suspense debut in this twisty, emotional thriller. Elementary school teacher Jacqueline “Jacks” Morales’s marriage was far from perfect, but even in its ups and downs it was predictable, familiar. Or at least she thought it was…until two police officers showed up at…
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#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About It was a good week. One thing I’ve been really conscious of since coming back from my injury is trying to change things up in regards to my workouts. Since I’m still on a restricted workout regiment, and will be for another week or two, I can’t go too crazy, but still I am…
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I am so excited to help Kristy Woodsen Harvey spread the news today about her newest book – and share the cover!!! I have adored Kristy’s previous books and will be anxiously waiting until I can get my hands on this next one…Kristy writes from the heart and that definitely comes across in her writing! This is the second book in her Peachtree Bluff series, and let me just tell…
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Title:The Scarred Woman Author:Jussi Adler-Olsen Series:Department Q, #7 Published:September 2017, Dutton Books Format:ARC Paperback, 486 pages Source:Publisher The New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Causes delivers his most captivating and suspenseful Department Q novel yet—perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson. Detective Carl Mørck of Department Q, Copenhagen’s cold cases division, meets his toughest challenge yet when the dark, troubled past of one of…
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Title:Mrs. Saint and the Defectives Author:Julie Lawson Timmer Narrator:Elizabeth Wiley Published:August 2017, Brilliance Audio / Lake Union Publishing Length:10 hours 31 minutes / 366 pages Source: Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – Paperback via Publisher Critically acclaimed author Julie Lawson Timmer returns with a tale of how community can heal the brokenness in all of us. Markie, a fortysomething divorcée who has suffered a humiliating and very…
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Title:Undertow Author:Elizabeth Heathcote Published:June 2017, Park Row Books Format:ARC E-copy, 320 pages Source:Netgalley An exhilarating debut novel that follows one woman’s hunt for the truth when she realizes she might have married a killer They said her death was a tragic accident. And I believed them…until now. Carmen is happily married to Tom, although she knows she’ll always live in the shadow of another woman—the mistress who ended his first…
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#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About Hello everyone…I’m back! This injury (a stress fracture in my foot) really has been most annoying…and now that I’ve been given clearance to start exercising again, I am slowly getting back to my regular routines. Boy is it hard to follow doctor’s orders – for now, I am only allowed to do fitness…
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Title:Everything We Lost Author:Valerie Geary Published:August 2017, William Morrow Paperbacks Format:ARC Paperback, 480 pages Source:Publisher via TLC Book Tours Lucy Durant was only fourteen-years-old when she lost her older brother. First to his paranoid delusions as he became increasingly obsessed with UFOs and government conspiracies. Then, permanently, when he walked into the desert outside Bishop, California, and never returned. Now on the tenth anniversary of Nolan’s mysterious disappearance, Lucy is…
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Title:The Silent Girls Author:Eric Rickstad Series:Canaan Crime Series, #2 Narrator:R.C. Bray Published:May 2015, Tantor Audio Length:9 hours 33 minutes Source:Library With the dead of a bitter Vermont winter closing in, evil is alive and well … Frank Rath thought he was done with murder when he turned in his detective’s badge to become a private investigator and raise a daughter alone. Then the police in his remote rural community of…
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Title:The Walls Author:Hollie Overton Published:August 2017, Redhook Format:ARC Paperback, 416 pages Source:Publisher A heart-stopping psychological suspense novel about a Texas prison official driven to commit the perfect crime, by the author of the international bestselling thriller Baby Doll. WOULD YOU KILL TO PROTECT YOUR FAMILY? Working on death row is far from Kristy Tucker’s dream, but she is grateful for a job that allows her to support her son and…
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Title:The Good Daughter Author:Karin Slaughter Published:August 2017, William Morrow Format:Hardcover, 528 pages Source:Publisher via TLC Book Tours The stunning new novel from the international #1 bestselling author — a searing, spellbinding blend of cold-case thriller and psychological suspense. Two girls are forced into the woods at gunpoint. One runs for her life. One is left behind… Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinn’s happy small-town family life was torn apart by a…
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Title:Something Like Happy Author:Eva Woods Published:September 2017, Graydon House Format:ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source:Publisher via Little Bird Publicity With wry wit and boundless heart, Eva Woods delivers an unforgettable tale of celebrating triumphs great and small, seizing the day, and always remembering to live in the moment. “It’s simple, really. You’re just meant to do one thing every day that makes you happy. Could be little things. Could be big.…
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Title:Lie to Me Author:J.T. Ellison Published:September 2017, Mira Books Format:ARC Paperback, 426 pages Source:Author They built a life on lies Sutton and Ethan Montclair’s idyllic life is not as it appears. The couple seems made for each other, but the truth is ugly. Consumed by professional and personal betrayals and financial woes, the two both love and hate each other. As tensions mount, Sutton disappears, leaving behind a note…
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Goodbye August …Hello September!!! So, this was a funny month – between being on vacation at the beach for a week and then coming home only to realize I had a stress fracture in my foot and needed to stay off it for 2 weeks, I suddenly found myself with tons of reading time on my hands 🙂 Not that I’m complaining – those piles of books aren’t going to…
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Title: The Daughters of Ireland Author:Santa Montefiore Series:The Deverill Chronicles, #2 Narrator:Genevieve Swallow Published:August 2017, HarperAudio / William Morrow Paperbacks Length:18 hours 33 minutes / 576 pages Source: Audio – personal copy via Audible / ARC Paperback – Publisher via TLC Book Tours Ireland. 1925. The war is over. But life will never be the same… In the green hills of West Cork, Ireland, Castle Deverill has burned to the…
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Title:Emma in the Night Author:Wendy Walker Published:August 2017, St. Martin’s Press Format:ARC Paperback, 320 pages Source:Publisher From the bestselling author of All Is Not Forgotten comes a thriller about two missing sisters, a twisted family, and what happens when one girl comes back… One night three years ago, the Tanner sisters disappeared: fifteen-year-old Cass and seventeen-year-old Emma. Three years later, Cass returns, without her sister Emma. Her story is…
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Title: A Beautiful Poison Author:Lydia Kang Published:August 2017, Lake Union Publishing Format:ARC Paperback, 350 pages Source:Publisher Just beyond the Gilded Age, in the mist-covered streets of New York, the deadly Spanish influenza ripples through the city. But with so many victims in her close circle, young socialite Allene questions if the flu is really to blame. All appear to have been poisoned—and every death was accompanied by a mysterious note.…
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Title:Everything We Left Behind Author:Kerry Lonsdale Series:Everything We Keep, #2 Narrator:Timothy Andres Pabon Published:July 2017, Brilliance Audio / Lake Union Publishing Length:9 hours 14 minutes / 348 pages Source:Audio -Brilliance Audio / Print – Lake Union Publishing From the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Everything We Keep comes the highly anticipated sequel. Told from one man’s two perspectives, Everything We Left Behind effortlessly blends suspense, mystery, and romance…
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Title:The Goddesses Author:Swan Huntley Narrator:Hillary Huber Published:July 2017, Random House Audio / Doubleday Books Length:11 hours 38 minutes / 320 pages Source:Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – ARC E-copy via Netgalley The Descendants meets Single White Female in this captivating novel about a woman who moves her family to Hawaii, only to find herself wrapped up in a dangerous friendship, from the celebrated author of We Could…
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Title:The People at Number 9 Author:Felicity Everett Published:August 2017, HQ Format:ARC Paperback, 315 pages Source:Publisher Have you met them yet, the new couple? When Gav and Lou move into the house next door, Sara spends days plucking up courage to say hello. The neighbours are glamorous, chaotic and just a little eccentric. They make the rest of Sara’s street seem dull by comparison. When the hand of friendship is extended,…
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Title:The End of Temperance Dare Author:Wendy Webb Published:June 2017, Lake Union Publishing Format:Paperback, 336 pages Source:Publisher Haunting and atmospheric, The End of Temperance Dare is another thrilling page-turner from the author reviewers are calling the Queen of the Northern Gothic. When Eleanor Harper becomes the director of a renowned artists’ retreat, she knows nothing of Cliffside Manor’s dark past as a tuberculosis sanatorium, a “waiting room for death.” After years…
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Title:The Other Girl Author:Erica Spindler Published:August 2017, St. Martin’s Press Format:ARC E-copy, 256 pages Source:Netgalley via Publisher From the New York Times bestselling author of Justice for Sara and The First Wife comes a chilling new thriller about a ritualistic murder of a college professor that sends a small town cop back into the trauma she thought she’d put behind her. A horrific crime. One witness—a fifteen year old…
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Title:Unraveling Oliver Author:Liz Nugent Published:August 2017, Gallery/Scout Press Format:ARC Paperback, 272 pages Source:Publisher “I expected more of a reaction the first time I hit her.” So begins Liz Nugent’s astonishing debut novel—a chilling, elegantly crafted, and psychologically astute exploration of the nature of evil. Oliver Ryan, handsome, charismatic, and successful, has long been married to his devoted wife, Alice. Together they write and illustrate award-winning children’s books; their life together…
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