I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Published: March 14, 2023 Summary: An innocent father serving life for the murder of his own son receives evidence that his child may still be alive, and must break out of prison to find out the truth in #1 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben’s latest breathtaking thriller. David and Cheryl Burroughs were living the dream life when…
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I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Harper Audio Published: July 16, 2019 Summary: In the trauma center of Atlanta’s busiest hospital, Sara Linton treats the city’s poor, wounded, and unlucky – and finds refuge from the tragedy that rocked her life in rural Grant County. Then, in one instant, Sara is thrust into a frantic police investigation, coming face-to-face with a tall driven detective and his quiet…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Ecco / Harper Audio Published: August 25, 2020 Summary: A groundbreaking thriller about a vigilante on a Native American reservation who embarks on a dangerous mission to track down the source of a heroin influx. Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is…
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I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Harper Audio Published: August 28, 2018 (Originally published 2008) Summary: With its gracious homes and tree-lined streets, Ansley Park is one of Atlanta’s most desirable neighborhoods. But in one gleaming mansion, in a teenager’s lavish bedroom, a girl has been savagely murdered. And in the hallway, her horrified mother stands amid shattered glass, having killed her daughter’s attacker with her bare…
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Thank you William Morrow Paperbacks, #partner, for the finished copy of A Pocket Full of Rye in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Published: April 19, 2022 (first published 1953) Summary: Now with a beautiful new series look, the bizarre death of a financial tycoon has Miss Marple investigating a very odd case of crime by rhyme. Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his…
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Thank you William Morrow Paperbacks, #partner, for the finished copy of The Moving Finger in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Published: March 8, 2022 (first published 1942) Summary: Now with a beautiful new series look, a classic mystery from the Queen of Crime in which the indomitable Miss Marple exposes a small town’s shameful secrets. Lymstock is a town with more than its share of scandalous…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: April 19, 2022 Summary: Friday Night Lights meets Mare of Easttown in this small-town mystery about an unlikely private investigator searching for a missing waitress. Pay Dirt Road is the mesmerizing debut from the 2019 Tony Hillerman Prize recipient Samantha Jayne Allen. Annie McIntyre has a love/hate relationship with Garnett, Texas. Recently graduated from college and home waitressing, lacking not in ambition…
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Today, I’m featuring a book that came out last fall…this is a story taken right from the headlines, though it is fictional! Thank you to the author for inviting me to help spread the word about her fiction debut!!! A Nest of Snakes by Deborah Levison Publisher – Wildblue Press Release Date – 10/11/2022 Summary: In her fiction debut, Deborah Levison, author of the acclaimed, multi award-winning true crime…
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Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and @BookClubFavorites & Simon & Schuster #partner, for the finished copy of Where Are the Children Now? in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Simon & Schuster / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: April 18, 2023 Summary: The legacy of the “Queen of Suspense” continues with the highly anticipated follow-up to Mary Higgins Clark’s iconic novel Where Are The Children?, featuring the…
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I purchased this audiobook for my own collection. Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Published: February 12, 2019 Summary: The number-one New York Times best-selling author and Queen of Suspense launched her career with this classic thriller following a woman whose past holds a terrible secret. Nancy Harmon long ago fled the heartbreak of her first marriage, the macabre deaths of her two little children, and the shocking charges against…
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I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Random House Audio Published: August 11, 2006 Summary: From Atlanta’s wealthiest suburbs to its stark inner-city housing projects, a killer has crossed the boundaries of wealth and race. And the people who are chasing him must cross those boundaries, too. Among them is Michael Ormewood, a veteran detective whose marriage is hanging by a thread and whose arrogance and explosive temper…
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I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Brilliance Audio Published: July 31, 2007 Summary: In a stifling jail cell in a hardscrabble Georgia town, Detective Lena Adams sits in stubborn silence: bruised, angry, and the only suspect in a horrific murder that left a woman incinerated beyond recognition. One hundred miles away, Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver has gotten the call that his young detective has been arrested. Jeffrey’s…
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Thank you Brilliance Audio for the ALC and #ZooloosBooktours, #partner, for the advanced copy of A Truth for a Truth in exchange for my honest review. Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for A Truth for a Truth. Thank you ZooloosBooktours for inviting me to participate. I have long been a fan of Carol Wyer’s books and this is the latest…
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I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Random House Audio Published: October 4, 2006 Summary: The victim was buried alive in the Georgia woods – then killed in a horrifying fashion. When Sara Linton and Jeffrey Tolliver stumble upon the body, both become consumed with finding out who killed the pretty young woman. For them, a harrowing journey begins, one that will test their own turbulent relationship and…
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Thank you Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Red Queen in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: March 14, 2023 Summary: Introducing Antonia Scott – the most compelling and original detective since Lisbeth Salander – in the international bestselling thriller that has taken the world by storm. Red Queen is the first book in a trilogy that has sold over 2 million copies in Spain, sold…
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I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: HarperAudio Published: February 10, 2015 Summary: Two armed men enter the police station in tiny Heartsdale, Georgia, and open fire. When the shooting stops, an officer is dead, Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver is seriously wounded, and the survivors—including a class of grade-school children and medical examiner Sara Linton—are held hostage. In a tense standoff that could erupt at any moment into more bloodletting—with…
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I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: HarperAudio Published: February 10, 2015 Summary: An apparent student suicide has brought medical examiner Sara Linton to the local college campus, along with her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver. But a horribly mutilated corpse yields up few answers. And a suspicious rash of subsequent “suicides” suggests that a different kind of terror is stalking the youth of Heartsdale, Georgia – a nightmare that…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Penguin Random House Audio, for the ALC and Viking Books, #partner for the finished copy of I Have Some Questions for You in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Viking Books / Penguin Random House Audio Published: February 21, 2023 Summary: The riveting new novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great Believers A successful film professor and podcaster,…
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I purchased this book for my own collection. Publisher: William Morrow Published: April 17, 2012 (first published 1929) Summary: Agatha Christie’s Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are Partners in Crime—or rather partners in crime solving—and must demonstrate their deductive skills in a wide range of confounding cases after agreeing to take over Blunt’s International Detective Agency. Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are restless for adventure, so when they are asked to take over…
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I purchased this book for my own collection. Publisher: William Morrow Published: August 30, 2011 (first published 1940) Summary: In Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery Sad Cypress, a woman damned by overwhelming evidence stands accused of murdering her romantic rival, and only Hercule Poirot stands between her and the gallows. Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence…
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Thank you Thomas & Mercer, #partner for the finished copy of Sea Castle in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Published: February 21, 2023 Summary: When a young woman washes ashore on a Fort Lauderdale beach, Sloan McPherson of the Underwater Investigation Unit is called in to consult. Sloan’s instinct says murder, but even then, there are too many questions. For answers she reaches out to Gwen…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Penguin Random House Audio, #partner for the ALC of Age of Vice in exchange for my honest review. I purchased a print copy for my own collection. Publisher: Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House Audio Published: January 3, 2023 Summary: This is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also kill. New Delhi, 3 a.m.…
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Thank you Bookouture for the audiobook and Bookouture & Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Guilty Girl in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Bookouture Published: February 10, 2023 Summary: She kissed her daughter, turned out the light and entered her own room. Too late to run, she stood frozen as a figure stepped out from behind the door and a hand covered her mouth. Fear was a…
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Thank you Berkley Books, #partner, for the finished copy of The Last Grudge in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Berkley Books Pub date: February 7, 2023 Summary: While her colleagues investigate the brutal murder of a prominent businessman, Jessica Niemi must battle demons from her past in this terrifying new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Witch Hunter. Powerful executive Eliel Zetterborg has been found murdered in his…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio /Netgalley, #partner for the ALC of Exiles in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Macmillan Audio Published: January 31, 2023 Summary: Federal Investigator Aaron Falk is on his way to a small town deep in Southern Australian wine country for the christening of an old friend’s baby. But mystery follows him, even on vacation. This weekend marks the one-year anniversary of Kim Gillespie’s disappearance. One year…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Published: May 2, 2022 Summary: 22 seconds… until Lindsay Boxer loses her badge—or her life. SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer has guns on her mind. There’s buzz of a last-ditch shipment of drugs and weapons crossing the Mexican border ahead of new restrictive gun laws. Before Lindsay can act, her top informant tips her to a…
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Thank you Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced copy of Devil’s Way in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Raven Street Publishing Published: January 12, 2023 Summary: THE TRUTH HIDES IN THE DARK Kate Marshall’s investigation into a young boy’s disappearance sends her down an unexpectedly twisted path in a riveting thriller by multi-million bestselling author, Robert Bryndza. When Private Investigator Kate Marshall is rushed to hospital after being pulled into…
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Thank you Berkley Books, #partner, for the finished copy of City Under One Roof in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Berkley Books Pub date: January 10, 2023 Summary: A stranded detective tries to solve a murder in a tiny Alaskan town where everyone lives in a single high-rise building, in this gripping debut by an Academy Award–nominated screenwriter. When a local teenager discovers a severed hand and foot washed…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Flatiron Books / Macmillan Audio Published: February 6, 2018 Summary: Five women go on a hike. Only four return. Force of Nature begs the question: How well do you really know the people you work with? When five colleagues are forced to go on a corporate retreat in the wilderness, they reluctantly pick up…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: January 22, 2019 (first published June 2018) Summary: Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, The Nowhere Child is screenwriter Christian White’s internationally bestselling debut thriller of psychological suspense about a woman uncovering devastating secrets about her family–and her very identity… Kimberly Leamy is a photography teacher in…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Published: May 28, 2020 Summary: On a jagged, bleak lava field just outside Reykjavik stands the Gallows Rock. Once a place of execution, it is now a tourist attraction. Until this morning, when a man was found hanging from it… The nail embedded in his chest proves it wasn’t suicide. But when the police go to…
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Thank you to GetRedPR, Blue Box Press, #partner, for the finished copy of The Murders at Fleat House in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Blue Box Press Published: April 19, 2022 Summary: The sudden death of a pupil in Fleat House at St Stephen’s – a small English private boarding school in deepest Norfolk – is a shocking event that the headmaster is very keen to call a tragic…
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Thank you Thomas & Mercer, #partner for the finished copy of Sea Storm in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Published: March 29, 2022 Summary: An explosive conspiracy sets the ocean roiling for a deep-diving investigator in a riveting thriller by the author of the Amazon Charts bestseller The Girl Beneath the Sea. A distress call draws rescuers Sloan McPherson and the Underwater Investigation Unit to a…
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Thank you Brilliance Audio, #partner for the ALC of The Unknown Beloved in exchange for my honest review. I purchased the print copy. Publisher: Brilliance Audio / Lake Union Publishing Published: April 19, 2022 Summary: From the bestselling author of Where the Lost Wander and What the Wind Knows comes the evocative story of two people whose paths collide against the backdrop of mystery, murder, and the Great Depression.…
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Thank you Brilliance Audio, #partner for the ALC of Hidden in Snow in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Brilliance Audio Published: December 1, 2022 Summary: The splendor of the Swedish mountains becomes the backdrop for a bone-chilling crime. On the day Stockholm police officer Hanna Ahlander’s personal and professional lives crash, she takes refuge at her sister’s lodge in the Swedish ski resort paradise of Åre. But it’s a…
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Thank you Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Widowmaker in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: December 6, 2022 Summary: A wealthy family shrouded in scandal; a detective tasked with solving an impossible cold case; and a woman with a dark past collide in Hannah Morrissey’s stunning new Black Harbor mystery, The Widowmaker. Ever since business mogul Clive Reynolds disappeared twenty years ago, the name “Reynolds” has become…
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Thank you Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Drowning Sea in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: June 21, 2022 Summary: In The Drowning Sea, Sarah Stewart Taylor returns to the critically acclaimed world of Maggie D’arcy with another atmospheric mystery so vivid readers will smell the salt in the air and hear the wind on the cliffs. For the first time in her adult life,…
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Thank you Brilliance Audio for the ALC and #ZooloosBooktours & the author, #partner, for the finished copy of Behind Closed Doors in exchange for my honest review. Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for Behind Closed Doors. Thank you ZooloosBooktours for inviting me to participate. I have long been a fan of Carol Wyer’s books – she has written quite a…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Published: June 2, 2020 (first published 2019) Summary: Brilliant, audaciously rogue police officer Harry Hole from The Snowman and The Thirst is back and in the throes of a new, unanticipated rage–once again hunting the murderer who has haunted his entire career. Harry Hole is not in a good place. Rakel–the only woman he’s ever loved–has ended it with him, permanently.…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Dutton Published: March 22, 2022 (first published 2019) Summary: A woman is haunted by a heartwrenching decision she made as a teenager in this darkly atmospheric, deeply emotional thriller from #1 internationally bestselling global superstar Sara Blaedel. Detective Louise Rick is on a beach in Thailand when the panicked call from her father comes through. Louise′s beloved brother, Mikkel,…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Published: January 30, 2018 (first published 2017) Summary: In this electrifying new thriller from the author of Police and The Snowman, Inspector Harry Hole hunts down a serial murderer who targets his victims . . . on Tinder. The murder victim, a self-declared Tinder addict. The one solid clue–fragments of rust and paint in her wounds–leaves the investigating team baffled.…
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I borrowed this book from the library. Publisher: Orenda Books Published: June 1, 2021 (first published 2019) Summary: When the mother of a missing two-year-old girl is seriously injured in a suspected terrorist attack in Oslo, crime-fighting duo Blix and Ramm join forces to investigate the case, and things aren’t adding up … The second instalment in the addictive, atmospheric, award-winning Blix & Ramm series. Oslo, New Year’s Eve. The…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Published: July 15, 2014 (first published 2013) Summary: The police urgently need Harry Hole. A killer is stalking Oslo’s streets. Police officers are being slain at the scenes of crimes they once investigated, but failed to solve. The murders are brutal, the media reaction hysterical. But this time, Harry can’t help anyone. For years, detective Harry Hole…
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Thank you Celadon Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Angel Maker in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Celadon Books Published: February 28, 2023 Summary: A dark, suspenseful new thriller about the mysteries of fate, the unbreakable bond of siblings, and a notorious serial killer who was said to know the future. Growing up in a beautiful house in the English countryside, Katie Shaw lived a charmed life.…
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Thank you Knopf Publishing Group, #partner, for the advanced copy of Dark Music in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group Published: August 23, 2022 Summary: Inspired by Sherlock Holmes, an exhilarating new thriller from the bestselling author of The Girl in the Spider’s Web–a murder investigation in which two unlikely allies race to uncover a shadowy international conspiracy. Professor Hans Rekke is a world authority on interrogation techniques,…
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Thank you Hachette Audio for the ALC and @NovelSuspects & Grand Central Publishing, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Perfect Assassin in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Grand Central Publishing / Hachette Audio Published: November 15, 2022 Summary: Prof. Brandt Savage—grandson of the legendary action hero—is forced into a top-secret training program where he discovers his true calling…as the perfect assassin. Dr. Brandt Savage is on sabbatical from…
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Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Gallery/Scout Press / Netgalley #partner, for the advanced copy of The Harbor in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Gallery/Scout Press / Simon and Schuster Audio Published: February 22, 2022 Summary: From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Butterfly House, called “brazen and original” by The Toronto Star, comes a timely, suspenseful, and darkly original new novel about a missing child…
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Thank you Dreamscape Media/Netgalley, #partner for the ALC of The Collector in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Dreamscape Media Published: November 8, 2022 Summary: When ten-year-old Lukas disappears from his Copenhagen school, police investigators discover that the boy had a peculiar obsession with pareidolia: a phenomenon that makes him see faces in random things. A photo on his phone, posted just hours before his disappearance, shows an old barn…
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Thank you Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Blackwater Falls in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: November 8, 2022 Summary: From critically acclaimed author Ausma Zehanat Khan, Blackwater Falls is the first in a timely and powerful crime series, introducing Detective Inaya Rahman. Girls from immigrant communities have been disappearing for months in the Colorado town of Blackwater Falls, but the local sheriff is slow to act…
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Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and @BookClubFavorites & Atria Books #partner, for the finished copy of The Other Side of Night in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: October 11, 2022 Summary: The Other Side of Night begins with a man named David Asha writing about his biggest regret: his sudden separation from his son, Elliot. In his…
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