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Title:Shadow Girl Author:Gerry Schmitt Series:Afton Tangler Thriller, #2 Published:August 2017, Berkley Books Format:ARC Paperback, 336 pages Source:Author The brutal murder of a business tycoon leaves Afton Tangler and the Twin Cities reeling, but that s just the beginning of a gruesome crime spree…   Leland Odin made his fortune launching a home shopping network, but his millions can t save his life. On the list for a transplant, the ailing…

Title:The Lying Game Author:Ruth Ware Published:July 2017, Gallery/Scout Press Format:ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source:Publisher   From the instant New York Times bestselling author of blockbuster thrillers In a Dark, Dark Wood and The Woman in Cabin 10 comes Ruth Ware’s chilling new novel. On a cool June morning, a woman is walking her dog in the idyllic coastal village of Salten along a tidal estuary known as the Reach. Before…

Title:Cocoa Beach Author:Beatriz Williams Published:June 2017, William Morrow Format:ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source:Publisher The author of A Certain Age transports readers to sunny Florida in this lush and enthralling historical novel—an enchanting blend of love, suspense, betrayal, and redemption set among the rum runners and scoundrels of Prohibition-era Cocoa Beach Burdened by a dark family secret, Virginia Fortescue flees her oppressive home in New York City for the battlefields of…

Title:Bring Her Home Author:David Bell Published:July 2017, Berkley Books Format:ARC E-copy, 464 pages  Source:Netgalley via Publisher   In the breathtaking new thriller from David Bell, bestselling author of Since She Went Away and Somebody I Used to Know, the fate of two missing teenage girls becomes a father’s worst nightmare…. Just a year and a half after the tragic death of his wife, Bill Price’s fifteen-year-old daughter, Summer, and her…

Title:The Breakdown Author:B.A. Paris Published:July 2017, St. Martin’s Press Format:ARC Paperback, 336 pages Source:Publisher If you can’t trust yourself, who can you trust? Cass is having a hard time since the night she saw the car in the woods, on the winding rural road, in the middle of a downpour, with the woman sitting inside―the woman who was killed. She’s been trying to put the crime out of her mind;…

Title:The Child Author:Fiona Barton Published:June 2017, Berkley Books Format:ARC E-copy, 36 pages Source:Netgalley via Publisher   The author of the stunning New York Times bestseller The Widow returns with a brand-new novel of twisting psychological suspense. As an old house is demolished in a gentrifying section of London, a workman discovers a tiny skeleton, buried for years. For journalist Kate Waters, it s a story that deserves attention. She cobbles…

Title:Final Girls Author:Riley Sager Published:July 2017, Dutton Books Format:Hardcover, 352 pages Source:Publisher Ten years ago, college student Quincy Carpenter went on vacation with five friends and came back alone, the only survivor of a horror movie–scale massacre. In an instant, she became a member of a club no one wants to belong to—a group of similar survivors known in the press as the Final Girls. Lisa, who lost nine sorority…

Title:The Space Between Sisters Author:Mary McNear Series:Butternut Lake, #4 Published:June 2016, William Morrow Paperbacks Format:ARC Paperback, 336 pages Source:Publisher Return to Butternut Lake with the newest from Mary McNear, whose heartfelt and powerful stories have made her a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. Here, the complicated bonds of sisterhood are tested, long-kept secrets are revealed, and love is discovered…all during one unforgettable summer at the lake. Two…

Title:The Identicals Author:Elin Hilderbrand Published:June 2017, Little Brown & Company Format:ARC Paperback, 432 pages Source:Publisher   Identical twin sisters who couldn’t look more alike…or live more differently. Harper Frost is laid-back, easygoing. She doesn’t care what anyone thinks of her. She likes a beer and a shot and wouldn’t be caught dead wearing anything fashionable. She’s inherited her father’s rundown house on Martha’s Vineyard, but she can’t hold down a…

Title:Lie to Me Author:Jess Ryder Published:April 2017, Bookouture Format:ARC E-book, 320 pages Source:Netgalley   We’re going to tell our story and then it will all stop and Mummy will be safe. You want Mummy to be safe, don’t you? Three minutes. That’s all it takes for Meredith’s entire world to fall apart when she watches the videotape of her four-year-old self with Becca, the mother she’s never known. Meredith can’t…

Title:Sister Sister Author:Sue Fortin Published:May 2017, Harper Impulse Format:ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source:Publisher Alice: Beautiful, kind, manipulative, liar. Clare: Intelligent, loyal, paranoid, jealous. Clare thinks Alice is a manipulative liar who is trying to steal her life. Alice thinks Clare is jealous of her long-lost return and place in their family. One of them is telling the truth. The other is a maniac. Two sisters. One truth. My thoughts:This is…