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Devil’s Way by Robert Bryndza #bookreview #audiobook #netgalley #series

Devil’s Way by Robert Bryndza #bookreview #audiobook #netgalley #series

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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Hide in Place by Emilya Naymark #bookreview #audiobook #series

Hide in Place by Emilya Naymark #bookreview #audiobook #series

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Crooked Lane Books / Dreamscape Media Published: February 9, 2021 / February 25, 2021   Summary: She left the NYPD in the firestorm of a high-profile case gone horribly wrong. Three years later, the ghosts of her past roar back to terrifying life. When NYPD undercover cop Laney Bird’s cover is blown in…

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Aesthetica by Allie Rowbottom #bookreview

Aesthetica by Allie Rowbottom #bookreview

Thank you to TandemCollectiveGlobal, Soho Press, #partner, for a finished copy of Aesthetica in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Soho Press Published: November 22, 2022   Summary: In a debut novel as radiant as it is caustic, a former influencer confronts her past—and takes inventory of the damages that underpin the surface-glamour of social media. At 19, she was an Instagram celebrity. Now, at 35, she works behind the…

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The Lindbergh Nanny by Mariah Fredericks #bookreview

The Lindbergh Nanny by Mariah Fredericks #bookreview

Thank you Minotaur Books/Netgalley #partner, for the advanced copy of The Lindbergh Nanny in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: November 15, 2022   Summary: Mariah Fredericks’s The Lindbergh Nanny is powerful, propulsive novel about America’s most notorious kidnapping through the eyes of the woman who found herself at the heart of this deadly crime. When the most famous toddler in America, Charles Lindbergh, Jr., is kidnapped from his…

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What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall #bookreview #audiobook

What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Macmillan Audio /Netgalley for the ALC and Flatiron Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of What Lies in the Woods in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Flatiron Books / Macmillan Audio Published: January 17, 2023   Summary: They were eleven when they sent a killer to prison . . . They were heroes . . . but they were liars. Naomi Shaw used to believe in magic. Twenty-two…

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Just the Nicest Couple by Mary Kubica #bookreview

Just the Nicest Couple by Mary Kubica #bookreview

Thank you to Thoughts From a Page, Park Row Books, #partner, for an advanced copy of Just the Nicest Couple in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Park Row Books Published: January 10, 2023   Summary: Two couples, two close friends, one missing husband… Jake Hayes is missing. This much is certain. At first, his wife, Nina, thinks he is blowing off steam at a friend’s house after their heated…

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City Under One Roof by Iris Yamashita #bookreview #blogtour

City Under One Roof by Iris Yamashita #bookreview #blogtour

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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All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham #bookreview #audiobook

All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan, #partner for the ALC  of All the Dangerous Things in exchange for my honest review. I purchased a print copy for my own collection. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: January 10, 2023   Summary: Following up her instant New York Times bestseller, A Flicker in the Dark, Stacy Willingham delivers a totally gripping thriller about a desperate mother with a troubled past in All the Dangerous Things.…

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Regrets Only by Kieran Scott #bookreview #audiobook

Regrets Only by Kieran Scott #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and @BookClubFavorites & Gallery Books #partner,  for the finished copy of Regrets Only in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Gallery Books / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: January 10, 2023   Summary: In a fast-paced new novel in the vein of Big Little Lies, a single mom goes undercover to investigate a host of disturbing secrets held by the leaders of…

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Force of Nature by Jane Harper #bookreview #audiobook

Force of Nature by Jane Harper #bookreview #audiobook

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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The Three Lives of Alix St. Pierre by Natasha Lester #bookreview #audiobook

The Three Lives of Alix St. Pierre by Natasha Lester #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Hachette Audio for the ALC and Forever/Grand Central Publishing, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Three Lives of Alix St. Pierre in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Forever / Hachette Audio Published: January 10, 2023   Summary: New York Times bestselling author Natasha Lester delivers an unforgettable story of an orphan turned WWII spy turned fashion icon in Paris—perfect for fans of Kate Quinn and Fiona Davis. 1943.  After…

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If a Poem Could Live and Breathe by Mary Calvi #bookfeature #bookexcerpt

If a Poem Could Live and Breathe by Mary Calvi #bookfeature #bookexcerpt

Thank you to the St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the gifted copy. Today I am featuring a book I am really excited for that comes out in February – February 14th to be exact! If a Poem Could Live and Breathe by Mary Calvi is a novel about Teddy Roosevelt’s first love and I’m so thrilled to be helping get the word out about this book. This is one of…

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The Nowhere Child by Christian White #bookreview #audiobook

The Nowhere Child by Christian White #bookreview #audiobook

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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Gallows Rock by Yrsa Sigurdardottir, translated by Victoria Cribb #bookreview #series #translatedbook

Gallows Rock by Yrsa Sigurdardottir, translated by Victoria Cribb #bookreview #series #translatedbook

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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The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes #bookreview #audiobook

The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Librofm/Penguin Audio for the ALC and Dutton/Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced e-galley of The House in the Pines in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Dutton / Penguin Audio Published: January 3, 2023   Summary: Armed with only hazy memories, a woman who long ago witnessed her friend’s sudden, mysterious death, and has since spent her life trying to forget, sets out to track down answers. What she…

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The Last Year of the War by Susan Meissner #bookreview #audiobook

The Last Year of the War by Susan Meissner #bookreview #audiobook

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Berkley Books / Penguin Audio Published: March 19, 2019   Summary: From the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and As Bright as Heaven comes a novel about a German American teenager whose life changes forever when her immigrant family is sent to an internment camp during World War II. In 1943, Elise Sontag is…

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No One Knows Us Here by Rebecca Kelley #bookreview #audiobook

No One Knows Us Here by Rebecca Kelley #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Brilliance Audio for the ALC and MB Communications & Lake Union Publishing #partner, for the advanced copy of No One Knows Us Here in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Lake Union Publishing / Brilliance Audio Published: January 1, 2023   Summary: In this gripping novel about obsession, control, and self-preservation, a woman desperate to provide a new life for her sister enters a compromising arrangement with an…

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The Skeleton Key by Erin Kelly #bookreview

The Skeleton Key by Erin Kelly #bookreview

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Published: September 1, 2022   Summary: THIS REUNION WILL TEAR A FAMILY APART… Summer, 2021. Nell has come home at her family’s insistence to celebrate an anniversary. Fifty years ago, her father wrote The Golden Bones. Part picture book, part treasure hunt, Sir Frank Churcher created a fairy story about Elinore, a murdered woman whose skeleton was scattered all over…

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Locust Lane by Stephen Amidon #bookreview

Locust Lane by Stephen Amidon #bookreview

Thank you Celadon Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Locust Lane in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Celadon Books Published: January 17, 2023     Summary: For fans of Mystic River by Dennis Lehane and Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, Stephen Amidon’s Locust Lane is a taut and utterly propulsive story about the search for justice and the fault lines of power and influence in a seemingly idyllic town. Can anyone be trusted? On the…

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The Lipstick Bureau by Michelle Gable #blogtour #bookreview

The Lipstick Bureau by Michelle Gable #blogtour #bookreview

Thank you HTP Books / Graydon House, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Lipstick Bureau in exchange for my honest review.    Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for The Lipstick Bureas by Michelle Gable. Thank you HTP Books for inviting me to participate. Publisher: Graydon House Published: December 27, 2022   Summary: Inspired by a real-life female spy, a WWII-set novel about a woman challenging convention…

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Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan #bookreview #audiobook

Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Random House Publishing Group/Netgalley #partner, for the advanced copy of Mad Honey in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Ballantine Books / Random House Audio Published: October 4, 2022   Summary: A soul-stirring novel about what we choose to keep from our past, and what we choose to leave behind. Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her…

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Dead and Gondola by Ann Claire #bookreview #series

Dead and Gondola by Ann Claire #bookreview #series

Thank you Random House Publishing Group/Netgalley #partner, for the advanced copy of Dead and Gondola in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Bantam Books Published: November 1, 2022   Summary: When a mysterious bookshop visitor dies under murderous circumstances, the Christie sisters and their cat Agatha call on all they’ve learned about solving mysteries from their favorite novelist in this new series debut. Ellie Christie is thrilled to begin a new…

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The Murders at Fleat House by Lucinda Riley #bookreview

The Murders at Fleat House by Lucinda Riley #bookreview

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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Sea Storm by Andrew Mayne #bookreview #series

Sea Storm by Andrew Mayne #bookreview #series

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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Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak #bookreview #audiobook #backlistreview

Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak #bookreview #audiobook #backlistreview

Thank you Berkley, #partner for the finished copy of Seven Days of Us in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Berkley Books / Penguin Audio Published: October 17, 2017   Summary: It’s Christmas, and for the first time in years the entire Birch family will be under one roof. Even Emma and Andrew’s elder daughter—who is usually off saving the world—will be joining…

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The Santa Suit by Mary Kay Andrews #bookreview #audiobook #backlistreview

The Santa Suit by Mary Kay Andrews #bookreview #audiobook #backlistreview

Thank you St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the finished copy of The Santa Suit in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: September 28, 2021   Summary: From Mary Kay Andrews, the New York Times bestselling author of Hello, Summer, comes a novella celebrating the magic of Christmas and second chances in The Santa Suit. When newly-divorced Ivy Perkins buys an…

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The Unknown Beloved by Amy Harmon #bookreview #audiobook

The Unknown Beloved by Amy Harmon #bookreview #audiobook

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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The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton #bookreview #audiobook

The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Hachette Audio for the ALC and Grand Central Publishing, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Light Pirate in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Grand Central Publishing / Hachette Audio Published: December 6, 2022   Summary: For fans of Station Eleven and Where the Crawdads Sing comes a hopeful, sweeping story of survival and resilience spanning one extraordinary woman’s lifetime as she navigates the uncertainty, brutality, and arresting beauty of a rapidly changing…

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The Den by Cara Reinhard #bookreview #audiobook

The Den by Cara Reinhard #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you  Brilliance Audio for the ALC and Booksparks, #partner for the advanced copy of The Den in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Thomas & Mercer / Brilliance Audio Published: December 13, 2022   Summary: A family estate is to die for in a gripping novel of psychological suspense by the author of Into the Sound. Nothing brings the four Fox siblings together like their detestable father’s heart attack—and a…

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The Widowmaker by Hannah Morrissey #bookreview #series

The Widowmaker by Hannah Morrissey #bookreview #series

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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The Bird Tribunal by Agnes Ravatn #bookreview #backlistreview

The Bird Tribunal by Agnes Ravatn #bookreview #backlistreview

Thank you Orenda Books, #partner for the finished copy of The Bird Tribunal in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Orenda Books Published: January 1, 2017 (first published 2013)   Summary: Two people in exile. Two secrets. As the past tightens its grip, there may be no escape… TV presenter Allis Hagtorn leaves her partner and her job to take voluntary exile in a remote house on an isolated fjord.…

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The Drowning Sea by Sarah Stewart Taylor #bookreview #series

The Drowning Sea by Sarah Stewart Taylor #bookreview #series

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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Behind Closed Doors by Carol Wyer #blogtour #bookreview #audiobook

Behind Closed Doors by Carol Wyer #blogtour #bookreview #audiobook

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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The Widow by Kaira Rouda #bookreview

The Widow by Kaira Rouda #bookreview

Thank you Booksparks, #partner for the advanced copy of The Widow in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Thomas and Mercer Published: December 1, 2022   Summary: A husband with secrets. A wife with no limits. A riveting novel of marriage, privilege, and lies by Kaira Rouda, the USA Today bestselling author of The Next Wife. Jody Asher had a plan. Her charismatic husband, Martin, would be a political icon.…

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The Villa by Rachel Hawkins #bookreview #audiobook

The Villa by Rachel Hawkins #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio, #partner for the ALC of The Villa in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Macmillan Audio Published: January 3, 2023   Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins comes a deliciously wicked gothic suspense, set at an Italian villa with a dark history, for fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware. As kids, Emily and Chess were inseparable. But by their 30s, their bond…

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Knife by Jo Nesbo #bookreview #shortandsweetreview #series

Knife by Jo Nesbo #bookreview #shortandsweetreview #series

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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A Harmless Lie by Sara Blaedel #bookreview #shortandsweetreview #series

A Harmless Lie by Sara Blaedel #bookreview #shortandsweetreview #series

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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The Thirst by Jo Nesbo #bookreview #shortandsweetreview #series

The Thirst by Jo Nesbo #bookreview #shortandsweetreview #series

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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Winterland by Rae Meadows #bookreview #audiobook

Winterland by Rae Meadows #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Macmillan Audio /Netgalley, #partner for the ALC of Winterland in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Macmillan Audio Published: November 29, 2022   Summary: Perfection has a cost . . . Reminiscent of Maggie Shipstead’s Astonish Me and Julia Phillips’s Disappearing Earth, Winterland tells the story of a previous era, shockingly pertinent today, shaped by glory and loss and finding light where none exists. In the Soviet Union in 1973, there is perhaps…

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A Quiet Life by Ethan Joella #bookreview #audiobook

A Quiet Life by Ethan Joella #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Scribner #partner, for the advanced copy of A Quiet Life in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Scribner / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: November 29, 2022   Summary: From the author of A Little Hope—a Read with Jenna Bonus Pick—comes an enormously powerful and life-affirming novel about three individuals whose lives intersect in unforeseen ways. Set in a close-knit Pennsylvania suburb in…

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Smoke Screen by Jorn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger #bookreview #series

Smoke Screen by Jorn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger #bookreview #series

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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Atomic Anna by Rachel Barenbaum #bookreview

Atomic Anna by Rachel Barenbaum #bookreview

Thank you Hachette Audio for the ALC and Grand Central Publishing, #partner, for the advanced copy of Atomic Anna in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Grand Central Publishing / Hachette Audio Published: April 5, 2022   Summary: Three generations of women work together and travel through time to prevent the Chernobyl disaster and right the wrongs of their past. Three brilliant women. Two life-changing mistakes. One chance to reset…

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Police by Jo Nesbo #bookreview #shortandsweetreview #series

Police by Jo Nesbo #bookreview #shortandsweetreview #series

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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The Angel Maker by Alex North #bookreview

The Angel Maker by Alex North #bookreview

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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Dark Music by David Lagercrantz #bookreview #newseries

Dark Music by David Lagercrantz #bookreview #newseries

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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The Perfect Assassin by James Patterson, Brian Sitts #bookreview #audiobook

The Perfect Assassin by James Patterson, Brian Sitts #bookreview #audiobook

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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The Harbor by Katrine Engberg #bookreview #audiobook #series

The Harbor by Katrine Engberg #bookreview #audiobook #series

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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We Are the Light by Matthew Quick #bookreview #audiobook

We Are the Light by Matthew Quick #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Avid Reader Press #partner, for the advanced copy of We Are the Light in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: November 1, 2022   Summary: From Matthew Quick, the New York Times best-selling author of The Silver Linings Playbook, made into the Academy Award-winning movie starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper, comes a poignant…

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The Resemblance by Lauren Nossett #bookreview

The Resemblance by Lauren Nossett #bookreview

Thank you Flatiron Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Resemblance in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Flatiron Books Published: November 8, 2022   Summary: Never betray the brotherhood. On a chilly November morning at the University of Georgia, a fraternity brother steps off a busy crosswalk and is struck dead by an oncoming car. More than a dozen witnesses all agree on two things: The driver looked identical…

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Little Eve by Catriona Ward #bookreview

Little Eve by Catriona Ward #bookreview

Thank you Tor Nightfire, #partner, for the advanced copy of Little Eve in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Tor Nightfire Published: October 11, 2022   Summary: A heart-pounding tale of faith and family, with a devastating twist “A great day is upon us. He is coming. The world will be washed away.” On the wind-battered isle of Altnaharra, off the wildest coast of Scotland, a clan prepares to bring about…

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