Always With a Book

Title: The Current Author: Tim Johnston Published: January 2019, Algonquin Books Format: ARC Paperback, 408 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  A Stunning New Novel from the Bestselling Author of Descent Tim Johnston, whose 2015 national bestseller Descent was called “astonishing” by the Washington Post and “unforgettable” by the Miami Herald, returns with another tour de force about the indelible impact of a crime on the lives of innocent people. When two…

  Title: Gretchen Author: Shannon Kirk Published: July 2019, Thomas & Mercer Format: Paperback, 364 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  The new tenants have a terrible secret. So do the landlord and his daughter… Ever since Lucy was two, she’s been on the run alongside her mother. She’s never understood the reason for a lifetime of paranoia, aliases, and lies. All she understands are the rules: never lock eyes with strangers,…

Title: Ask Again, Yes Author: Mary Beth Keane Published: May 2019, Scribner Format: Hardcover, 400 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  A profoundly moving novel about two neighboring families in a suburban town, the friendship between their children, a tragedy that reverberates over four decades, and the power of forgiveness. Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope are two NYPD rookies assigned to the same Bronx precinct in 1973. They aren’t close friends on…

Title: The Body Lies Author: Jo Baker Published: June 2019, Knopf Publishing Group Format: Hardcover, 288 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  A dark, thrilling new novel from the best-selling author of Longbourn: a work of riveting psychological suspense that grapples with how to live as a woman in the world–or in the pages of a book–when the stakes are dangerously high. When a young writer accepts a job at a university…

Title: Private Gold Author: James Patterson Series: Private, #13.5 Published: May 2017, BookShots Format: Paperback, 144 pages Source: Personal Copy Summary:  Money. Betrayal. Murder. That’s a Private conversation. Hired to protect a visiting American woman, Private Johannesburg’s Joey Montague is hoping for a routine job looking after a nervous tourist. After the apparent suicide of his business partner, he can’t handle much more. But this case is not what it…

Title: Her Secret Son Author: Hannah Mary McKinnon Published: May 2019, MIRA Books Format: ARC E-copy, 384 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary:  How far would you go to protect the ones you love…when they may not be yours to protect? When Josh’s longtime partner, Grace, dies in a tragic accident, he is left with a mess of grief—and full custody of her seven-year-old son, Logan. While not his biological…

Title: The Two Lila Bennetts Author: Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke Published: July 2019, Lake Union Publishing Format: ARC Paperback, 320 pages Source: Authors Summary:  “One fateful decision. Two unexpected endings. A perfect summer read!” —Wendy Walker, bestselling author of The Night Before Lila Bennett’s bad choices have finally caught up with her. And one of those decisions has split her life in two. Literally. In one life, she’s taken…

Title: The Unbreakables Author: Lisa Barr Published: June 2019, Harper Paperbacks Format: Paperbacks, 352 pages Source: Publisher via GetRed PR Summary:  A delicious, sharp novel about a woman who jets off to France after her perfect marriage collapses, putting the broken pieces of herself back together while rediscovering her own joie de vivre—a lust for life, art, and steamy sex.  The worst birthday ever might just be the gift of a lifetime……

Title: The Chain Author: Adrian McKinty Published: July 2019, Mulholland Books Format: ARC Paperback, 368 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  You just dropped off your child at the bus stop. A panicked stranger calls your phone. Your child has been kidnapped, and the stranger explains that their child has also been kidnapped, by a completely different stranger. The only way to get your child back is to kidnap another child within…

Title: False Step Author: Victoria Helen Stone Published: July 2019, Lake Union Publishing Format: ARC Paperback, 280 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  Stay calm, keep smiling, and watch your step. In this marriage of secrets and lies, nothing is what it seems. For days, all of Denver, Colorado, has worried over the fate of a missing child, little Tanner Holcomb. Then, a miracle: handsome, athletic Johnny Bradley finds him, frightened but…

Title: Lock Every Door Author: Riley Sager Published: July 2019, Dutton Format: ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  No visitors. No nights spent away from the apartment. No disturbing the other residents, all of whom are rich or famous or both. These are the only rules for Jules Larsen’s new job as an apartment sitter at the Bartholomew, one of Manhattan’s most high-profile and mysterious buildings. Recently heartbroken and…

Title: The Dead Girl in 2A Author: Carter Wilson Published: July 2019, Sourcebooks Landmark Format: ARC E-copy, 334 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary:  Jake Buchannan knows the woman sitting next to him on his business flight to Denver—he just can’t figure out how he knows her. Clara Stowe isn’t in Jake’s line of work and didn’t go to college with him. They have nearly nothing in common apart from…

Title: Chase Author: James Patterson Series: Michael Patterson, #9.5 Published: August 2016, BookShots Format: Paperback, 115 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  “This was no suicide,” says Detective Michael Bennett. A man plunges to his death from the roof of a Manhattan hotel. It looks like a suicide–except the victim has someone else’s fingerprints and $10,000 in cash. Enter Detective Michael Bennett. ***Short & Sweet Reviews are short, quick reviews. These will…

Title: The Favorite Daughter Author: Kaira Rouda Published: May 2019, Graydon House Format: ARC Paperback, 368 pages Source: Publisher via Wunderkind PR Summary:  From the author of the page-turning domestic suspense Best Day Ever, comes another gripping novel of psychological suspense set in an upscale Southern California community, for fans of B.A. Paris and Shari Lapena. The perfect home. The perfect family. The perfect lie. Jane Harris lives in a…

Title: Your Life Is Mine Author: Nathan Ripley Published: June 2019, Atria Books Format: ARC Paperback, 304 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  Instant national bestseller Nathan Ripley follows up the success of Find You in the Dark with another suspenseful page-turner—this time about a woman whose notorious father died when she was a child, but whose legacy comes back to haunt her. Blanche Potter never expected to face her past again—but…

Title: Count to Ten Author: James Patterson Series: Private, #10 Published: November 2017, Grand Central Publishing Format: Paperback, 400 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  From the world’s #1 bestselling author comes the newest book in the blockbuster PRIVATE series… Santosh Wagh quit his job as head of Private India after harrowing events in Mumbai almost got him killed. But Jack Morgan, global head of the world’s finest investigation agency, needs…

Title: The First Mistake Author: Sandie Jones Published: June 2019, Minotaur Books Format: ARC Paperback, 304 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  From Sandie Jones, the author of the Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller The Other Woman, comes an addictively readable new domestic suspense about a wife, her husband, and the woman who is supposedly her best friend. THE WIFE: For Alice, life has…

Title: The Island Author: Ragnar Jonasson Series: Hidden Iceland Published: May 2019, Minotaur Books Format: ARC Paperback, 352 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  Elliðaey is an isolated island off the coast of Iceland. It is has a beautiful, unforgiving terrain and is an easy place to vanish. The Island is the second thrilling book in Ragnar Jonasson’s Hidden Iceland trilogy. This time Hulda is at the peak of her career and…

Title: The Royal Secret Author: Lucinda Riley Published: May 2019, Atria Books (first published July 2000) Format: ARC E-copy, 528 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary:  Note to readers: In the UK, this book is published under the title The Love Letter. In this suspenseful and heart-pounding novel from New York Times bestselling author Lucinda Riley, an ambitious young journalist unravels a dangerous mystery that threatens to devastate the British…

Title: The Disappeared Author: Kristina Ohlsson Series: Fredrika Bergman & Alex Recht, #3 Published: March 2015, Atria/Emily Bestler Books Format: Paperback, 432 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  The body of a young woman is found carved up and buried in a forest glade in an innocuous Stockholm suburb. As Fredrika Bergman and her colleagues in the Stockholm Police continue to excavate the site, several more bodies are unearthed. Meanwhile, the…

Title: The Night Before Author: Wendy Walker Published: May 2019, St. Martin’s Press Format: ARC Paperback, 320 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  First dates can be murder. Riveting and compulsive, national bestselling author Wendy Walker’s The Night Before “takes you to deep, dark places few thrillers dare to go” as two sisters uncover long-buried secrets when an internet date spirals out of control. Laura Lochner has never been lucky in love.…

Title: Out East: Memoir of a Montauk Summer Author: John Glynn Published: May 2019, Grand Central Publishing Format: Hardcover, 256 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  A gripping portrait of life in a Montauk summer house–a debut memoir of first love, identity and self-discovery among a group of friends who became family. They call Montauk the end of the world, a spit of land jutting into the Atlantic. The house was a…

Title: The Way of All Flesh Author: Ambrose Parry Series: Will Raven, #1 Published: October 2018, Canongate Books Format: ARC Paperback, 416 pages Source: Publisher Summary: Edinburgh, 1847. City of Medicine, Money, Murder. Young women are being discovered dead across the Old Town, all having suffered similarly gruesome ends. In the New Town, medical student Will Raven is about to start his apprenticeship with the brilliant and renowned Dr Simpson.…