We made it to the end of another month…and it was another good month for reading! The trend is still continuing with great books being published this year, though I did manage to read my own books this month as well…I got 3 books in – so yay for me 🙂 I am really enjoying the challenges I have decided to participate in this year – #theunreadshelfproject2019 is not only…
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Title: Blood Echo Author: Christopher Rice Series: Burning Girl, #2 Narrator: Lauren Ezzo Published: February 2019, Brilliance Audio / Thomas & Mercer Length: 10 hours 53 minutes / 355 pages Source: Audio – Publisher / Print – Netgalley via Little Bird Publicity Summary: A conspiracy that promises bloodshed and the only woman who can stop it collide in the page-turning thriller by Christopher Rice, Amazon Charts bestselling author of Bone…
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Title: What Doesn’t Kill Her Author: Christina Dodd Series: Cape Charade, #2 Published: January 2019, HQN Format: ARC Paperback, 400 pages Source: Publisher Summary: One secret, one nightmare, one lie. You guess which is which. 1. I have the scar of a gunshot on my forehead. 2. I have willfully misrepresented my identity to the US military. 3. I’m the new mother of a seven-year-old girl. Kellen Adams suffers from…
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Title: The Last Romantics Author: Tara Conklin Published: February 2019, William Morrow Format: ARC Paperback, 368 pages Source: Publisher via TLC Book Tours Summary: The New York Times bestselling author of The House Girl explores the lives of four siblings in this ambitious and absorbing novel in the vein of Commonwealth and The Interestings. “The greatest works of poetry, what makes each of us a poet, are the stories we…
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Yesterday, Harriet Tyce’s debut novel, Blood Orange,was published in the United States. To help the publisher get the word out, I am hosting a giveaway for two lucky readers…one giveaway is being hosted here & one is being hosted on my Instagram page. I just finished reading this book and posted my review earlier today – you can find my review here. Read on to see what others have…
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Title: Blood Orange Author: Harriet Tyce Published: February 2019, Grand Central Publishing Format: ARC Paperback, 352 pages Source: Publisher Summary: A young lawyer’s outwardly perfect life spirals out of control as she takes on her first murder case in this dark and twisty debut thriller for readers of Paula Hawkins, A.J. Finn, or Shari Lapena. Alison has it all. A doting husband, adorable daughter, and a career on the…
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Title: Never Tell Author: Lisa Gardner Series: Detective D.D. Warren, #10 Published: February 2019, Dutton Books Format: ARC Paperback, 416 pages Source: Publisher Summary: #1 New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner returns with an unpredictable thriller that puts fan favorites D. D. Warren and Flora Dane on a shocking new case that begins with a vicious murder and gets darker from there. A man is dead, shot three times in…
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Title: The Moon Sister Author: Lucinda Riley Series: The Seven Sisters, #5 Narrator: Imogen Wilde Published: January 2018, Whole Story Audiobooks / February 2019, Atria Books Length: 19 hours 53 minutes / 544 pages Source: Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – ARC E-copy via Netgalley via Publisher Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Lucinda Riley, The Moon Sister transports you to the grandeur of the remote…
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Earlier this week, Roz Nay’s book, Our Little Secret, was released in paperback. I read the book when it first came out in hardcover and loved it!!! And I am thrilled to be able to offer one reader a copy of this book …But – the giveaway is over on my Instagram page. You can find my review of Our Little Secrethere. Read on to see what others have to…
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Title: Last Lullaby Author: Carol Wyer Series: Detective Natalie Ward, #2 Published: December 2018, Bookouture Format: ARC E-copy, 338 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: Charlotte’s baby is safe. But is she? When the body of young mother Charlotte Brannon is discovered by her husband in their immaculate, silver bedroom, Detective Natalie Ward is first on the scene. The killer has left a chilling calling card: the word ‘Why?’…
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Title: The Reckoning Author: Yrsa Sigurdardottir Series: Children’s House, #2 Published: February 2019, Minotaur Books Format: ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source: Publisher Summary: The Reckoning is the stunning follow-up to The Legacy, which was the start of a thrilling new series that Booklist (starred) recommends for fans of Tana French. Vaka sits, regretting her choice of coat, on the cold steps of her new school. Her father appears to have…
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Title: The Burning Island Author: Hester Young Series: Charlie Cates, #3 Published: February 2019, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Format: Hardcover, 416 pages Source: Publisher Summary: The newest haunting mystery from the beloved author of The Gates of Evangeline, featuring Charlie Cates, a headstrong heroine who must confront her unwanted supernatural gift and bring dark secrets to light if she ever wants to leave the Big Island . . . …
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Earlier this week, Sally Hepworth’s book, The Family Next Door, was released in paperback. I read the book when it first came out in hardcover and loved it!!! And I am thrilled to be able to offer one reader a copy of this book (and bonus – it contains a sneak peak of Sally’s upcoming new novel, The Mother-In-Law, due out in April!!!)…But – the giveaway is over on my…
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Title: I Invited Her In Author: Adele Parks Published: February 2019, MIRA Format: ARC Paperback, 432 Source: Publisher Summary: Imagine the worst thing a friend could ever do. This is worse. When Mel receives an unexpected email from her oldest friend Abi, it brings back memories she thought she had buried forever. Their friendship belonged in the past. To those carefree days at university. But Abi is…
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Title: The Beantown Girls Author: Jane Healey Narrator: Sarah Mollo-Christiansen Published: February 2019 Brilliance Audio / Lake Union Publishing Length: 11 hours 14 minutes / 366 pages Source: Audio – Brilliance Audio / Print – Paperback via GetRed PR Summary: A novel of love, courage, and danger unfolds as World War II’s brightest heroines—the best of friends—take on the front lines. 1944: Fiona Denning has her entire future planned…
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Title: The Silent Patient Author: Alex Michaelides Published: February 2019, Celadon Books Format: ARC Paperback, 336 pages Source: Publisher Summary: Promising to be the debut novel of the season The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive… Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she…
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Title: Stalker Author: Lars Kepler Series: Joona Linna, #5 Published: February 2019, Knopf Publishing Group Format: ARC Paperback, 560 pages Source: Publisher Summary: The internationally bestselling authors of The Sandman and The Hypnotist return with a terrifying new thriller: Detective Joona Linna–recently returned from compassionate leave–reunites with hypnotist Erik Maria Bark in a search for a seemingly unassailable sadistic killer. The Swedish National Crime Unit receives a video of…
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We have finally come to the end of this month. I don’t know about you, but this January felt like the longest month ever!!! Lucky for me, I had a great month of reading…it was a crazy weather month – we had some cold days, especially this past week and that made for lots of indoor time. There have been lots of good books published already this year and we…
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Title: Beach Haven Author: Tammy L. Grace Series: Glass Beach Cottage Series, #1 Published: October 2018, Lone Mountain Press Format: Paperback, 259 pages Summary: A heartbreaking loss. An unexpected inheritance. A chance for a new beginning. Lily’s no stranger to loss, but her life takes its most tragic turn the day her husband is killed. Unable to escape the memories surrounding her, she jumps at the chance to return…
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Title: As Bright As Heaven Author: Susan Meissner Published: February 2018, Berkley Books Format: Hardcover, 387 pages Source: Publisher Summary: From the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and A Bridge Across the Ocean comes a new novel set in Philadelphia during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, which tells the story of a family reborn through loss and love. In 1918, Philadelphia was a city teeming with…
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Title: No Exit Author: Taylor Adams Published: January 2019, William Morrow Format: Hardcover, 352 pages Source: Publisher Summary: A brilliant, edgy thriller about four strangers, a blizzard, a kidnapped child, and a determined young woman desperate to unmask and outwit a vicious psychopath.A kidnapped little girl locked in a stranger’s van. No help for miles. What would you do? On her way to Utah to see her dying mother, college…
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I am so excited to help Kristy Woodson Harvey spread the news about her newest book in her Peachtree Bluff series!!! 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 third book in her beloved Peachtree Bluff series, and let me just tell…
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Title: The Smiling Man Author: Joseph Knox Series: Aidan Waits, #2 Published: January 2019, Crown Format: ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source: Publisher Summary: From the bestselling author of Sirens, Detective Aidan Waits is on the hunt to find the identity of The Smiling Man. Disconnected from his history and careless of his future, Detective Aidan Waits has resigned himself to the night shift. An endless cycle of meaningless emergency…
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Earlier this week, Melanie Benjamin’s latest novel, The Girls in the Picture, was released in paperback with a jazzy new cover, and to help the publishers get the word out, I’m hosting a giveaway! I will be reading this book soon and will be sure to share my review as soon as I do. You can see what others have to say and then be sure to enter the giveaway…
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Title: The Boy Author: Tami Hoag Series: Broussard & Fourcade, #2 Narrator: Hilary Huber Published: December 2018, Brilliance Audio Length: 17 hours 15 minutes Source: Publisher Summary: An unfathomable loss or an unthinkable crime? Number one New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag keeps you guessing in her most harrowing thriller yet. A panic-stricken woman runs in the dead of night, battered and bloodied, desperate to find help. . .…
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Title: 15th Affair Author: James Patterson Series: Women’s Murder Club, #15 Published: May 2016, Little, Brown & Company Format: Hardcover, 351 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: Detective Lindsay Boxer has everything she could possibly want. Her marriage and baby daughter are perfect, and life in Homicide in the San Francisco Police Department is going well. But all that could change in an instant. Lindsay is called to a crime scene…
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Title: The Wartime Sisters Author: Lynda Cohen Loigman Published: January 2019, St. Martin’s Press Format: ARC Paperback, 304 pages Source: Publisher Summary: Two estranged sisters, raised in Brooklyn and each burdened with her own shocking secret, are reunited at the Springfield Armory in the early days of WWII. While one sister lives in relative ease on the bucolic Armory campus as an officer’s wife, the other arrives as a war…
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Title: The Suspect Author: Fiona Barton Series: Kate Waters, #3 Published: January 2019, Berkley Books Format: ARC Paperback, 416 pages Source: Publisher Summary: The New York Times bestselling author of The Widow returns with a brand new novel of twisting psychological suspense about every parent’s worst nightmare… When two eighteen-year-old girls go missing in Thailand, their families are thrust into the international spotlight: desperate, bereft, and frantic with worry. What…
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Title: The Birthday Author: Carol Wyer Series: Detective Natalie Ward, #1 Published: September 2018, Bookouture Format: ARC E-copy, 304 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: One hot summer’s afternoon, five-year-old Ava Sawyer went to a party. She never came home …When five-year-old Ava Sawyer goes missing from a birthday party at a local garden centre, the police are bewildered by the lack of leads. That is until two years later,…
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Title: Anna Karenina Author: Leo Tolstoy Published: August 2004, Barnes & Noble (first published April 1877) Format: Hardcover, Barnes & Noble Classics Series, 803 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: Married to a powerful government minister, Anna Karenina is a beautiful woman who falls deeply in love with a wealthy army officer, the elegant Count Vronsky. Desperate to find truth and meaning in her life, she rashly defies the conventions of…
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Title: The Last Lie Author: Alex Lake Published: December 2018, HarperCollins Format: Paperback, 368 pages Source: Publisher Summary: THE TWISTY NEW PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF AFTER ANNA, KILLING KATE AND COPYCAT Everyone lies…but some lies are deadly. For Claire Daniels, life is good. She has everything she’s ever wanted – a career she loves, friends she can rely on and a husband who dotes on her.…
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Title: 14th Deadly Sin Author: James Patterson Series: Women’s Murder Club, #14 Published: May 2015, Little, Brown & Company Format: Hardcover, 349 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: Detective Lindsay Boxer and her three best friends are back and recovering from the events that pushed them all to the edge. After her near-death experience, Yuki is seeing her life from a new perspective and is considering a change in her law…
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Title: Schoolgirl Missing Author: Sue Fortin Published: January 2019, HarperCollins Format: Paperback, 432 pages Source: Publisher Summary: HAVE YOU SEEN THIS GIRL? When fourteen-year-old Poppy vanishes on a family boating trip, suspicion soon turns close to home – to the two people who should do everything to keep her safe, her parents, Kit and Neve. Neve has a secret. Kit is lying. Everyone is watching. Who do you believe?…
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Title: The Gown Author: Jennifer Robson Published: December 2018, William Morrow Format: ARC Paperback, 400 pages Source: Publisher via TLC Book Tours Summary: “The Gown is marvelous and moving, a vivid portrait of female self-reliance in a world racked by the cost of war.”–Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network From the internationally bestselling author of Somewhere in France comes an enthralling historical novel about one of the most famous wedding…
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Title: The Legacy Author: Yrsa Sigurdardottir Series: Children’s House, #1 Published: January 2019, Minotaur Books (1st Published 2014 in Iceland) Format: Paperback, 480 pages Source: Publisher Summary: The first in a stunning new series from the author of The Silence of the Sea, winner of the 2015 Petrona Award for best Scandinavian Crime Novel.The Legacy is the first installment in a fantastic new series featuring the psychologist Freyja and the…
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Title: The Guy Who Died Twice Author: Lisa Gardner Series: Detective D.D. Warren, #9.5 Published: January 2019, Dutton Format: ARC E-copy, 72 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: Sergeant Detective D. D. Warren confronts the strangest case of her career in this exclusive eBook short story by the #1 New York Times bestselling author. D. D. Warren was pretty sure she’d seen it all. Then a man walks into police…
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Earlier this week, Robyn Carr’s latest novel, The Best of Us, was released, and because I ended up with an extra copy, I’m going to give that copy away – and it’s a finished copy! This is the latest book in her Sullivan’s Crossing series. I will be reading it soon and will be sure to share my review as soon as I do. You can see what others have…
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Title: Secrets of Cavendon Author: Barbara Taylor Bradford Series: Cavendon Hall, #4 Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld Published: November 2017, Macmillan Audio / St. Martin’s Press Length: 13 hours 10 minutes / 390 pages Source: Audio – borrowed via Library / Print – Hardcover via GetRed PR Summary: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford, comes a striking, breathtaking saga featuring the aristocratic Inghams and the Swann family, who…
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Title: Cover of Snow Author: Jenny Milchman Published: December 2013, Ballantine Books Format: Paperback, 336 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: Jenny Milchman’s Cover of Snow is a remarkable debut, a gripping tale of suspense in the tradition of Gillian Flynn, Chris Bohjalian, and Nancy Pickard. Waking up one wintry morning in her old farmhouse nestled in the Adirondack Mountains of New York, Nora Hamilton instantly knows that something is wrong.…
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Title: The Light Over London Author: Julia Kelly Published: January 2019, Gallery Books Format: ARC Paperback, 304 pages Source: Publisher Summary: Reminiscent of Martha Hall Kelly’s Lilac Girls and Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale, this sweeping, entrancing story is a must-read for fans of remarkable women rising to challenges they could never have predicted. It’s always been easier for Cara Hargraves to bury herself in the past than confront the present,…
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Title: Look Alive Twenty-Five Author: Janet Evanovich Series: Stephanie Plum, #25 Narrator: Lorelei King Published: November 2018, Penguin Audio Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Source: Library Summary: Stephanie Plum faces the toughest puzzle of her career in the twenty-fifth entry in Janet Evanovich’s #1 New York Times bestselling series.There’s nothing like a good deli and the Red River Deli in Trenton is one of the best. World famous for its…
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Title: The Burglar Author: Thomas Perry Published: January 2019, Mysterious Press Format: ARC Paperback, 304 pages Source: Publisher Summary: From Thomas Perry comes a new thriller about an unlikely burglar–a young woman in her 20s–who realizes she must solve a string of murders, or else become the next victim Elle Stowell is a young woman with an unconventional profession: burglary. But Elle is no petty thief–with just the right combination…
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READING GOALS: This year, I am going to make sure I take the time to read more of what I want to read. I wouldn’t say I’m a mood reader per say, but I don’t want to get too bogged down by reading just one genre anymore. I love thrillers and psychological suspense, but when I pick up historical fiction every once in a while, I remember just how much…
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Each year, Sheila over at Book Journey makes a big deal over what the first book she’ll read will be for the new year and once again she’s asked us to join her. I have joined in for the last 4 years and it’s always a lot of fun seeing what book everyone selects. Be sure to stop by Sheila’s post to see the collage she makes of everyone participating!…
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How is it that we are not only at the end of December already, but also at the end of 2018??? This year has flown by!!! It was a great year, filled with lots of great books, and judging by the books that have already shown up on my doorstep for 2019, it looks like it is going to be another great year of reading coming up! As always, there…
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Title: Somebody I Used to Know Author: David Bell Narrator: Andy Paris Published: Audio – July 2015, Recorded Books / Mass Market Paperback – December 2018, Berkley Length: 10 hours 51 minutes / 464 pages Source: Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – Paperback via GetRed PR Summary: The bestselling author of Somebody’s Daughter and Cemetery Girl, “one of the brightest and best crime fiction writers of our…
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Title: An Anonymous Girl Author: Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen Published: January 2019, St. Martin’s Press Format: ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source: Publisher Summary: Seeking women ages 18–32 to participate in a study on ethics and morality. Generous compensation. Anonymity guaranteed. When Jessica Farris signs up for a psychology study conducted by the mysterious Dr. Shields, she thinks all she’ll have to do is answer a few questions, collect her…
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Last February I read Look For Me by Lisa Gardner, the latest book in her Detective D.D. Warren series, when it was first released in hardcover, and I loved it! You can find my thoughts on the book here. Next week, on December 31st, the book is being released in trade paperback and to celebrate, I am helping the publishers get the word out. Are you a fan of this…
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Title: The Fire Witness Author: Lars Kepler Series: Joona Linna, #3 Published: November 2018, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Format: Paperback, 560 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: The third installment of the #1 internationally bestselling Joona Linna series, The Fire Witness sees Joona drawn into a gruesome, mysterious murder at a home for wayward girls. Detective Joona Linna is on leave dealing with personal and professional issues when he gets…
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Title: The Christmas Hirelings Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon Narrator: Richard Armitage Published: December 2018, Audible Studios Length: 3 hours 53 minutes Source: Personal copy via Audible Summary: Richard Armitage modernizes a classic hidden gem of Christmas Past… Sir John Penlyon is planning to spend Christmas at his estate with his niece and his friend Danby, the closest thing he has to family since disowning his daughter years ago. (She eloped…
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