Always With a Book

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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.…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

Title:Cockroaches Author:Jo Nesbo Series:Harry Hole, #2 Published:February 2014, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Format:Paperback, 368 pages Source:Personal copy   When the Norwegian ambassador to Thailand is found dead in a Bangkok brothel, Inspector Harry Hole is dispatched from Oslo to help hush up the case. But once he arrives Harry discovers that this case is about much more than one random murder. There is something else, something more pervasive, scrabbling around behind…