Always With a Book

Title:Lost Girls Author:Angela Marsons Series:DI Kim Stone, #3 Narrator:Jan Cramer Published:November 2015, Bookouture Length:10 hours, 34 minutes Source:Publisher Two girls go missing. Only one will return. The couple that offers the highest amount will see their daughter again. The losing couple will not. Make no mistake. One child will die….  When nine-year-old best friends Charlie and Amy disappear, two families are plunged into a living nightmare. A text message confirms…

Title:The Hidden Child Author:Camilla Lackberg Series:Patrik Hedstrom/Fjallbacka, #5 Narrator:Simon Vance Published:May 2014, HighBridge, a Division of Recorded Books Length:14 hours 58 minutes Source:Library Crime writer Erica Falck is shocked to discover a Nazi medal among her late mother’s possessions. Haunted by a childhood of neglect, she resolves to dig deep into her family’s past and finally uncover the reasons why. Her enquiries lead her to the home of a retired…

Title:Playing With Fire Author:Tess Gerritsen Narrator:Julia Whelan & Will Damron Published:October 2015, Brilliance Audio Length:6 hours 56 minutes Source:Personal copy via Audible In a masterly new thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of the Rizzoli & Isles series, a beautiful violinist is haunted by a very old piece of music she finds in a strange antique shop in Rome. The first time Julia Ansdell picks up “The Incendio…

Title:Before He Finds Her Author:Michael Kardos Narrator:Julia Whelan Published:February 2015, HighBridge, a Division of Recorded Books Length:10 hours 30 minutes Source:Personal copy via Audible Everyone in the quiet Jersey Shore town of Silver Bay knows the story: on a Sunday evening in September 1991, Ramsey Miller threw a blowout block party, then murdered his beautiful wife and three-year-old daughter. But everyone is wrong. The daughter got away. Now she is…

Title:The Last Girl Author:Jane Casey Series:Maeve Kerrigan, #3 Narrator:Sarah Coomes Published:May 2013, Brilliance Audio Length:15 hours 21 minutes Source:Personal copy via Audible Vast wealth offers London defense attorney Philip Kennford a lot of things: a gorgeous house with a pool in the backyard, connections in the top echelons of society, a wardrobe worthy of Milan runways. But his money doesn’t provide a happy marriage, or good relationships with his twin…

Title:The Stepmother Author:Claire Seeber Narrator:Karina Fernandez Published:July 2016, Bookouture Length:9 hours 42 minutes Source:Audible via Publisher The perfect wife. A fairytale family. Don’t believe your eyes… Jeanie and Matthew are a happily married couple who both have teenage children from previous relationships. No one said it would be easy to raise a blended family under one roof but Jeanie and Matthew are strong. They will make it work. And whilst…

Title:Winter Storms Author:Elin Hilderbrand Series:Winter, #3 Narrator:Erin Bennett Published:October 2016, Hachette Audio Length:6 hours 31 minutes Source:Library   Gather under the mistletoe for one last round of caroling with the Quinn family in this heartwarming conclusion to Elin Hilderbrand’s bestselling Winter Street Trilogy. Some of the stormy weather of the past few seasons seems to have finally lifted for the Quinns. After a year apart, and an ill-fated affair with…

Title:The Invisible Guardian Author:Dolores Redondo Series:The Baztan Trilogy, #1 Narrator:Coleen Marlo Published:March 2016, Brilliance Audio / Atria Books Length:11 hours 59 minutes / 384 pages Source:Personal copy via Audible / Netgalley   Already a #1 international bestseller, this tautly written and gripping psychological thriller forces a police inspector to reluctantly return to her hometown in Basque Country—a place engulfed in mythology and superstition—to solve a series of eerie murders. When…

Title: Evil Games Author:Angela Marsons Series:DI Kim Stone, #2 Narrator:Jan Cramer Published:June 2015, Bookouture Length:8 hours 43 minutes Source:Publisher   The greater the Evil, the more deadly the game… When a rapist is found mutilated in a brutal attack, Detective Kim Stone and her team are called in to bring a swift resolution. But, as more vengeful killings come to light, it soon becomes clear that there is someone far…

Title:Black Rabbit Hall Author:Eve Chase Narrator:Nathalie Buscombe, Katie Scarfe, Cassandra Campbell Published:February 2016, Penguin Audio Length:12 hours 6 minutes Source:Library For fans of Kate Morton and Sarah Waters, here’s a magnetic debut novel of wrenching family secrets, forbidden love, and heartbreaking loss housed within the grand gothic manor of Black Rabbit Hall. Ghosts are everywhere, not just the ghost of Momma in the woods, but ghosts of us too, what we…

Title: Love You To Death Author:Caroline Mitchell Series:Detective Ruby Preston, #1 Narrator:Emma Newman Published:November 2016, Bookouture Length:10 hours 59 minutes / 315 pages Source:Publisher / Netgalley   ‘I’m not your mother. You’re a monster. I don’t want you’ Women who gave a child up for adoption are being killed. A knock at their front door begins a nightmare from which they will never wake up. For Detective Ruby Preston and…

Title: In Twenty Years Author:Allison Winn Scotch Narrator:Julia Whelan Published:July 2016, Brilliance Audio Length:9 hours 57 minutes Source:Publisher Twenty years ago, six Penn students shared a house, naively certain that their friendships would endure—until the death of their ringleader and dear friend Bea splintered the group for good. Now, mostly estranged from one another, the remaining five reluctantly gather at that same house on the eve of what would have…

Title:Missing Pieces Author:Heather Gudenkauf Narrator:Christina Traister Published:February 2016, Brilliance Audio / MIRA  Length:9 hours 9 minutes /288 pages Source:Personal copy via Audible / Netgalley   A woman uncovers earth-shattering secrets about her husband’s family in this chilling page-turner from New York Times bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf Sarah Quinlan’s husband, Jack, has been haunted for decades by the untimely death of his mother when he was just a teenager, her body…

Title:Fractured Author:Catherine McKenzie Narrator:Teri Clark Linden, Scott Merriman, Amy McFadden & James Foster Published:October 2016, Brilliance Audio Length:9 hours 37 minutes Source:Publisher Welcome, neighbor! Julie Prentice and her family move across the country to the idyllic Mount Adams district of Cincinnati, hoping to evade the stalker who’s been terrorizing them ever since the publication of her bestselling novel, The Murder Game. Since Julie doesn’t know anyone in her new town,…

Title:Echo Lake Author:Carla Neggers Series:Swift River Valley, #4 Narrator:Susan Boyce Published:January 2015, Blackstone Audio Inc / MIRA Length:9 hours 25 minutes / 352 pages Source:Library / Netgalley   In snowy Swift River Valley, unexpected romance is just around the corner… Heather Sloan has landed her dream job—the renovation of Vic Scarlatti’s stately 1912 country home overlooking the icy waters of Echo Lake in Knights Bridge, Massachusetts. It’s the perfect project…