Always With a Book

Title: No Easy Target Author: Iris Johansen Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers Published: April 2017, Recorded Books Length: 13 hours 8 minutes Source: Personal copy via Audible Summary:  New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen returns with another thriller, No Easy Target Margaret Douglas has worked hard to put her painful past behind her. Raised off the grid in an abusive home, her only escape was the nearby forest where she sought…

Title: Stillhouse Lake Author: Rachel Caine Series: Stillhouse Lake, #1 Narrator: Emily Sutton-Smith Published: July 2017, Brilliance Audio / Thomas & Mercer Length: 10 hours 4 minutes / 300 pages Source: Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – Paperback via Publisher Summary:  Gina Royal is the definition of average—a shy Midwestern housewife with a happy marriage and two adorable children. But when a car accident reveals her husband’s…

Title: The Birthday Girl Author: Sue Fortin Narrator: Penelope Rawlins Published: November 2017, HarperCollins / HarperImpulse Length: 10 hours 23 minutes /  364 pages Source: Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – ARC E-copy via Netgalley Summary:  Dear Carys, Zoe and Andrea Come and join me for my fortieth birthday adventure weekend, full of mysteries and surprises the like of which you can’t imagine. When Joanne’s friends reluctantly…

Title: Sunshine Beach Author: Wendy Wax Series: Ten Beach Road, #4 Narrator: Amy Rubinate Published: June 2016, Penguin Audio / Berkley Length: 12 hours 52 minutes / 420 pages Source: Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – ARC Paperback via Publicist Summary:  In this brand-new summer read by the USA Today bestselling author of The House on Mermaid Point, three women join forces to bring a historic seaside…

Title: I Know a Secret Author: Tess Gerritsen Series: Rizzoli & Isles, #12 Narrator: Tanya Eby Published: August 2017, Brilliance Audio Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Source: Personal copy via Audible Summary: In the twelfth gripping novel featuring Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles, the crime-solving duo—featured in the smash-hit TNT series Rizzoli & Isles—are faced with the gruesomely staged murder of a horror film producer.  The crime scene is unlike…

Title: The Girl Who Was Taken Author: Charlie Done Narrator: Nina Alvamar Published: April 2017, Recorded Books Length: 10 hours 48 minutes Source: Personal copy via Audible Summary:  Charlie Donlea, one of the most original new voices in suspense, returns with a haunting novel, laden with twists and high tension, about two abducted girls one who returns, one who doesn’t and the forensics expert searching for answers. Nicole Cutty and…

Title: The Sleeping Beauty Killer Author: Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke Series: Under Suspicion, #3 Narrator: Jan Maxwell Published: November 2016, Simon & Schuster Audio Length: 8 hours 39 minutes Source: Library Summary:  The third thrilling installment in the bestselling Under Suspicion series from #1 New York Times bestselling author and “Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke—television producer Laurie Moran puts everything on the line to…

Title: A Simple Favor  Author: Darcey Bell  Narrator: Andi Arndt, Xe Sands, Matthew Waterson  Published: March 2017, HarperAudio  Length: 8 hours 55 minutes  Source: Library Summary: She’s your best friend. She knows all your secrets. That’s why she’s so dangerous. A single mother’s life is turned upside down when her best friend vanishes in this chilling debut thriller in the vein of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train.…

Title: Winter Solstice Author: Elin Hilderbrand Series: Winter, #4 Narrator: Erin Bennett Published: October 2017, Hachette Audio Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Source: Library Summary: Raise one last glass with the Quinn Family at the Winter Street Inn. It’s been too long since the entire Quinn family has been able to celebrate the holidays under the same roof, but that’s about to change. With Bart back safe and sound from Afghanistan,…

Title:Until I Met Her Author:Natalie Barelli Series:Emma Fern, #1 Narrator:Kate Rudd Published:July 2017, Brilliance Audio / Thomas & Mercer Length:8 hours 42 minutes / 304 pages Source:Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – ARC E-copy via Netgalley Beatrice Johnson Greene, a bestselling crime writer, has an unusual favor to ask. When a chance encounter brings Emma Fern into her life, she thinks she’s found just the person for…

Title:Persons Unknown Author:Susie Steiner Series:DS Manon, #2 Narrator:Juanita McMahon Published:July 2017, Random House Audio / Random House Length:11 hours 46 minutes / 368 pages Source:Audio – Personal copy via Audio / Print – ARC Paperback via Publisher In this brilliant crime novel from the author of Missing, Presumed, a detective investigates her most personal case yet: a high-profile murder in which her own family falls under suspicion.   As dusk…

Title:Flight of Dreams Author:Ariel Lawhon Narrator:John Lee Published:February 2016, Random House Audio / Doubleday Length:12 hours 45 minutes / 336 pages Source:Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – ARC E-copy via Netgalley   On the evening of May 3rd, 1937, ninety-seven people board the Hindenburg for its final, doomed flight to Lakehurst, New Jersey. Among them are a frightened stewardess who is not what she seems; the steadfast…

Title:Little Deaths Author:Emma Flint Narrator:Lauren Fortgang, Graham Halstead Published:January 2017, Hachette Audio Length:10 hours 17 minutes Source:Library Inspired by a true story, Little Deaths, like celebrated novels by Sarah Waters and Megan Abbott, is compelling literary crime fiction that explores the capacity for good and evil in us all. It’s 1965 in a tight-knit working-class neighborhood in Queens, New York, and Ruth Malone – a single mother who works long…

Title:Sleep Tight Author:Caroline Mitchell Series:Detective Ruby Preston, #2 Narrator:Emma Newman Published:July 2017, Audible Studios Length:10 hours 10 minutes Source:Personal copy via Audible Close your eyes … Just pray you don’t wake up. A killer stalks the streets of East London. All over the area, murdered young women are discovered, their bodies posed into disturbing recreations of fairytale princesses. Detective Ruby Preston is determined to hunt down the murderer who is…

Title:The Stolen Marriage Author:Diane Chamberlain Narrator:Susan Bennett Published:October 2017, Macmillan Audio / St. Martin’s Press Length:14 hours 6 minutes / 384 pages Source:Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – ARC E-copy via Netgalley; Finished copy via Publisher   In 1944, twenty-three-year-old Tess DeMello abruptly ends her engagement to the love of her life when she marries a mysterious stranger and moves to Hickory, North Carolina, a small town…

Title:Dead Souls Author:Angela Marsons Series:DI Kim Stone, #6 Narrator:Jan Cramer Published:May 2017, Bookouture Length:10 hours 14 minutes Source:Personal copy via Audible   The truth was dead and buried…until now. When a collection of human bones is unearthed during a routine archaeological dig, a Black Country field suddenly becomes a complex crime scene for Detective Kim Stone. As the bones are sorted, it becomes clear that the grave contains more than…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…