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Jackie and Me by Louis Bayard #bookreview #blogtour

Jackie and Me by Louis Bayard #bookreview #blogtour

Thank you Algonquin Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Jackie and Me in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Algonquin Books Published: June 14, 2022 Summary: Master storyteller Louis Bayard delivers a surprising portrait of a young Jackie Kennedy as we’ve never seen her before. In 1951, former debutante Jacqueline Bouvier is hard at work as the Inquiring Camera Girl for a Washington newspaper. Her mission in life is…

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She Wouldn’t Change a Thing by Sarah Adlakha #bookreview #paperbackrelease

She Wouldn’t Change a Thing by Sarah Adlakha #bookreview #paperbackrelease

Thank you @suzyapprovedbooktours and Forge Books, #partner,  for the paperback copy of She Wouldn’t Change a Thing in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Forge Books Published: June 7, 2022 (first published August 2021)   Summary: Sliding Doors meets Life After Life in Sarah Adlakha’s story about a wife and mother who is given the chance to start over at the risk of losing everything she loves. A second chance is the last…

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The Younger Wife by Sally Hepworth #bookreview

The Younger Wife by Sally Hepworth #bookreview

Thank you  St. Martin’s Press/Netgalley #partner,  for the advanced copy of The Younger Wife in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Published: April 5, 2022     Summary: THE HUSBAND A heart surgeon at the top of his field, Stephen Aston is getting married again. But first he must divorce his current wife, even though she can no longer speak for herself. THE DAUGHTERS Tully and Rachel…

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A Deadly Affair by Agatha Christie #bookreview #shortstories

A Deadly Affair by Agatha Christie #bookreview #shortstories

Thank you William Morrow, #partner, for the finished copy of A Deadly Affair in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Published: January 4, 2022   Summary: From the Queen of Mystery—this all-new collection of stories about love gone horribly wrong will get your heart racing. Love can propel us to our greatest heights . . . and darkest depths. In this new collection of Agatha Christie short stories,…

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The Guilty Girl by Patricia Gibney #bookreview #audiobook #seriesreview

The Guilty Girl by Patricia Gibney #bookreview #audiobook #seriesreview

Thank you Bookouture Audio for the ALC and Bookouture & Netgalley, #partner,  for the advanced copy of The Guilty Girl in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Bookouture Published: June 15, 2022   Summary: Something whistling through the door behind her caused her to turn. A shadow spread across the opening. She clasped a hand to her mouth, stilling the fear that was rising. The menacing shadow was followed by…

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The Friendship Pact by Jill Shalvis #bookreview #audiobook

The Friendship Pact by Jill Shalvis #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Harper Audio for the ALC and @GetRedPrBooks & Avon Books, #partner,  for the finished copy of  The Friendship Pact in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Avon Books / Harper Audio Published: June 14, 2022   Summary: New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis returns to Sunrise Cove with a powerful, moving story about a young woman on a quest to find the truth about her father who learns…

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After the Funeral by Agatha Christie #bookreview #librarybook #seriesreview

After the Funeral by Agatha Christie #bookreview #librarybook #seriesreview

I borrow this book from the library. Publisher: William Morrow Published: June 14, 2011 (first published 1953)   Summary: When Cora Lansquenet is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother Richard’s funeral suddenly takes on a chilling significance. At the reading of Richard’s will, Cora was clearly heard to say, “It’s been hushed up very nicely, hasn’t it.…But he was murdered,…

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It All Comes Down to This by Therese Anne Fowler #bookreview #audiobook #netgalley

It All Comes Down to This by Therese Anne Fowler #bookreview #audiobook #netgalley

Thank you Macmillan Audio for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press/Netgalley #partner,  for the advanced copy of It All Comes Down To This in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: June 7, 2022   Summary: Therese Anne Fowler’s It All Comes Down to This is a warm, keenly perceptive novel of sisterhood, heartbreak, home, and what it takes to remake a life at its halfway…

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A Face to Die For by Iris Johansen #bookreview #audiobook

A Face to Die For by Iris Johansen #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Hachette Audio for the ALC and @NovelSuspects & Grand Central Publishing, #partner, for the finished copy of A Face to Die For in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Published: June 14, 2022   Summary: Eve Duncan attempts to unearth one of history’s most intriguing lost secrets in this adventure ripped from the pages of Greek mythology, by number one New York Times best-selling author Iris Johansen.…

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The Snowman by Jo Nesbo #bookreview #shortandsweetreview #seriesreview

The Snowman by Jo Nesbo #bookreview #shortandsweetreview #seriesreview

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Published: June 28, 2016 (first published 2007)   Summary: Internationally acclaimed crime writer Jo Nesbø’s antihero police investigator, Harry Hole, is back: in a bone-chilling thriller that will take Hole to the brink of insanity. Oslo in November. The first snow of the season has fallen. A boy named Jonas wakes in the night to find his…

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The Missing Wife by Sam Carrington #bookreview #backlistreview

The Missing Wife by Sam Carrington #bookreview #backlistreview

Thank you HarperCollins360, #partner, for the finished copy of The Missing Wife in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Avon Published: June 27, 2019   Summary: You think you know those closest to you. You are wrong… A sleep-deprived new mother approaching her fortieth birthday, the very last thing Louisa wants to do is celebrate. But when her friend Tiff organises a surprise party, inviting the entire list of Louisa’s Facebook…

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Find Me by Alafair Burke #bookreview #audiobook #librarybook

Find Me by Alafair Burke #bookreview #audiobook #librarybook

I borrow this audiobook from my library via the Libby app. Publisher: Harper Audio Published: January 11, 2022   Summary: The disappearance of a young woman leaves her closest friend reeling and an NYPD homicide detective digging into her own past in this thrilling mystery full of twists from the New York Times bestselling author of The Better Sister and The Wife. Some pasts won’t stay forgotten . . . She calls herself Hope Miller,…

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The New Neighbor by Carter Wilson #bookreview #netgalley

The New Neighbor by Carter Wilson #bookreview #netgalley

Thank you Poisoned Pen Press / Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced copy of The New Neighbor in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Published: April 12, 2022   Summary: USA Today bestselling author Carter Wilson returns with another chilling psychological thriller, for readers of Megan Miranda and Alex Michaelides Aidan holds the winning Powerball numbers. Is today the best day of his life… or the worst? Aidan Marlowe…

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Counterfeit by Kirstin Chin #bookreview #audiobook

Counterfeit by Kirstin Chin #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Librofm, Harper Audio for the ALC and William Morrow #partner,  for the finished copy of Counterfeit in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Harper Audio / William Morrow Published: June 7, 2022   Summary: For fans of Hustlers and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, the story of two Asian American women who band together to grow a counterfeit handbag scheme into a global enterprise–an incisive and glittering blend…

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The Lost Summers of Newport by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, Karen White #bookreview #audiobook

The Lost Summers of Newport by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, Karen White #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Harper Audio for the ALC and William Morrow #partner,  for the finished copy of The Lost Summers of Newport in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Harper Audio / William Morrow Published: May 17, 2022   Summary: From the New York Times bestselling team of Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White–a novel of money and secrets set among the famous summer mansions of Newport, Rhode Island, spanning over a…

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Moonlight and the Pearler’s Daughter by Lizzie Pook #bookreview #audiobook

Moonlight and the Pearler’s Daughter by Lizzie Pook #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and @BookClubFavorites & Simon & Schuster #partner,  for the advanced copy of Moonlight and the Pearler’s Daughter in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Simon & Schuster / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: June 14, 2022   Summary: For readers of The Light Between Oceans and The Island of Sea Women, a feminist adventure story set against the backdrop of the dangerous pearl diving…

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The Foundling by Ann Leary #bookreview #audiobook

The Foundling by Ann Leary #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and @BookClubFavorites & Scriber/Marysue Rucci Books #partner, for the finished copy of The Foundling in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Scriber/Marysue Rucci Books / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: May 31, 2022   Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good House, the story of two friends, raised in the same orphanage, whose loyalty is put to the ultimate test…

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Cold, Cold Heart by Karin Slaughter #bookreview #audiobook #librarybook

Cold, Cold Heart by Karin Slaughter #bookreview #audiobook #librarybook

I borrow this audio from my library via the Libby app. Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Published: January 5, 2015   Summary: Pam is a 52-year-old teacher who has let herself go for the first time in her life. It’s two years since her husband – ex-husband – John died, and she’s heading from Georgia to California for the third and (she hopes) final time. But just what lies in store for…

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Metropolis by B.A. Shapiro #bookreview

Metropolis by B.A. Shapiro #bookreview

Thank you Algonquin Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Metropolis in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Algonquin Books Published: May 17, 2022   Summary: From bestselling author B. A. Shapiro, a gripping novel that follows six mysterious characters whose lives intersect when a tragedy occurs at the storage facility where they all rent units. In Metropolis we meet six unforgettable characters who never would have met if not for their…

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Review: On Gin Lane by Brooke Lea Foster (audio)

Review: On Gin Lane by Brooke Lea Foster (audio)

Publisher: Gallery Books / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: May 31, 2022 Source: Print – ARC Paperback via @BookClubFavorites / Gallery Books / Audio – ALC via Simon & Schuster Audio   Summary: After her fiancé whisks her off to the glistening shores of Southampton in June of 1957, one young socialite begins to realize that her glamorous summer is giving her everything—except what she really wants—in this new novel…

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Short & Sweet Review: The Redeemer by Jo Nesbo

Short & Sweet Review: The Redeemer by Jo Nesbo

Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Published: September 9, 2014 (first published 2005) Source: Personal copy   SUMMARY A fantastically gripping thriller from the best-selling author of The Snowman. Christmas shoppers stop to hear a Salvation Army concert on a crowded Oslo street. A gunshot cuts through the music and the bitter cold: one of the singers falls dead, shot in the head at point-blank range. Harry Hole—the Oslo Police Department’s best investigator and…

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Review: The Fault Between Us by Bette Lee Crosby

Review: The Fault Between Us by Bette Lee Crosby

Publisher: Bent Pine Publishing Published: October 19, 2021 Source: Author   Summary: April 18, 1906 – A devastating earthquake rocks San Francisco and Templeton Morehouse fears her husband is lost forever. A powerful and compelling story from USA Today bestselling author Bette Lee Crosby Chances were a million to one that a girl born and raised in Philadelphia would encounter a stranger from California on the trolley and fall madly…

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Review: Dava Shastri’s Last Day by Kirthana Ramisetti

Review: Dava Shastri’s Last Day by Kirthana Ramisetti

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Published: November 30, 2021 Source: Publisher   Summary: In this thought-provoking and entertaining debut novel about of a multicultural family, a dying billionaire matriarch leaks news of her death early so she can examine her legacy–a decision that horrifies her children and inadvertently exposes secrets she has spent a lifetime keeping. Dava Shastri, one of the world’s wealthiest women, has always lived with her sterling reputation…

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Blog Tour & Review: Never Coming Home by Hannah Mary McKinnon

Blog Tour & Review: Never Coming Home by Hannah Mary McKinnon

  Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for Never Coming Home by Hannah Mary McKinnon. Thank you MIRA for inviting me to participate.   Publisher: MIRA Published: May 24, 2022 Source: ARC E-copy via Netgalley   SUMMARY: First comes love. Then comes murder. Lucas Forester didn’t hate his wife. Michelle was brilliant, sophisticated and beautiful. Sure, she had extravagant spending habits and that petty attitude, a…

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Review: The Sky Above Us by Natalie Lund

Review: The Sky Above Us by Natalie Lund

Publisher: Philomel Books Published: April 13, 2021 Source: Netgalley via Publisher   Summary: From the author of We Speak in Storms comes a twisty, psychological thriller about three friends searching for the truth in the aftermath of a plane crash. The morning after their senior year beach party, Izzy, Cass, and Janie are woken by a thundering overhead. Then they and their classmates watch in shock as a plane crashes…

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Review: The Good Left Undone by Adriana Trigiani (audio)

Review: The Good Left Undone by Adriana Trigiani (audio)

Publisher: Dutton / Penguin Audio Published: April 26, 2022 Source: Print – Hardcover via Dutton / Audio via Library   Summary: From Adriana Trigiani, “a master of visual and palpable detail” (The Washington Post), comes a lush, immersive novel about three generations of Tuscan artisans with one remarkable secret. Epic in scope and resplendent with the glorious themes of identity and belonging, The Good Left Undone unfolds in breathtaking turns. Matelda, the…

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Review: The Murder Rule by Dervla McTiernan (audio)

Review: The Murder Rule by Dervla McTiernan (audio)

Publisher: Harper Audio Published: May 10, 2022 Source: ALC via Netgalley   Summary: For fans of the compulsive psychological suspense of Ruth Ware and Tana French, a mother-daughter story – one running from a horrible truth, and the other fighting to reveal it – that twists and turns in shocking ways, from the internationally best-selling author of The Scholar and The Ruin. First Rule: Make them like you. Second Rule: Make them need you. Third Rule:…

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Review: The Island by Adrian McKinty (audio)

Review: The Island by Adrian McKinty (audio)

Publisher: Little, Brown & Company / Hachette Audio Published: May 17, 2022 Source: Print – Hardcover via Novel Suspects / Audio – ALC via Hachette Audio   Summary: IT WAS JUST SUPPOSED TO BE A FAMILY VACATION. A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT CHANGED EVERYTHING. YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’RE CAPABLE OF UNTIL THEY COME FOR YOUR FAMILY. After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed…

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Review: One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle (audio)

Review: One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle (audio)

Publisher: Atria Books / Simon and Schuster Audio Published: March 1, 2022 Source: Print – Netgalley / Audio – ALC via Simon & Schuster Audio   Summary: The New York Times best-selling author of the “heartwarming, heartbreaking, and hard to put down” (Laurie Frankel, New York Times best-selling author) modern classic In Five Years returns with a moving and unforgettable exploration of the powerful bond between mother and daughter set on the breathtaking Amalfi Coast. When…

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Blog Tour & Review: Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner (audio)

Blog Tour & Review: Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner (audio)

  Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner. Thank you Austen Prose PR for inviting me to participate.     Publisher: Macmillan Audio Published: May 17, 2022 Source: ALC via Macmillan Audio   SUMMARY: Natalie Jenner, the internationally bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society, returns with a compelling and heartwarming story of post-war London, a century-old bookstore, and…

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Review: The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig

Review: The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig

Publisher: Del Ray Books Published: July 20, 2021 Source: Personal copy   Summary: A family returns to their hometown—and to the dark past that haunts them still—in this masterpiece of literary horror by the New York Times bestselling author of Wanderers Long ago, Nathan lived in a house in the country with his abusive father—and has never told his family what happened there. Long ago, Maddie was a little girl making dolls in…

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Review: Magpie by Elizabeth Day (audio)

Review: Magpie by Elizabeth Day (audio)

Publisher: Simon & Schuster / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: May 3, 2022 Source: Print ARC Paperback via BookClub Favorites / ALC via Simon & Schuster Audio   Summary: She has almost everything. The rest she’ll take. Single White Female meets The Perfect Nanny in this taut, psychological suspense novel about a perfect couple and their seemingly perfect roommate—that is until she threatens to destroy everything they’ve worked so hard to create. Marisa…

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Review: The Shadow House by Anna Downes

Review: The Shadow House by Anna Downes

Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: April 5, 2022 Source: ARC E-copy via Netgalley   Summary: Extraordinarily tense and deliciously mysterious, Anna Downes’s The Shadow House follows one woman’s desperate journey to protect her children at any cost, in a remote place where not everything is as it seems. A HOUSE WITH DEADLY SECRETS. A MOTHER WHO’LL RISK EVERYTHING TO BRING THEM TO LIGHT. Alex, a single mother-of-two, is determined to make a fresh…

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Review: Make Me Disappear by Jessica Payne (audio)

Review: Make Me Disappear by Jessica Payne (audio)

Publisher: Bookouture Audio Published: May 16, 2022 Source: ALC via Publisher   Summary: By the time I realized the truth about Daniel it was too late. But the truth about me? He never saw that coming… Dr Daniel Ashcroft was perfect: handsome, romantic, protective. I thought I was so lucky. But then I heard the rumors about his previous girlfriend, that she had vanished without a trace. That’s when I…

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Blog Tour & Review: The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray

Blog Tour & Review: The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray

  Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray. Thank you Austen Prose PR for inviting me to participate.   Publisher: Vintage Anchor Books Published: May 3, 2022 Source: ARC Paperback via AustenProse PR   Summary: A summer house party turns into a whodunit when Mr. Wickham, one of literature’s most notorious villains, meets a sudden and suspicious…

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Review: Lacie’s Secrets by Teresa Sorkin & Tullan Holmqvist

Review: Lacie’s Secrets by Teresa Sorkin & Tullan Holmqvist

Publisher: Beaufort Books Published: April 12, 2022 Source: ARC Paperback via Author (via giveaway win!!!)   Summary: Reminiscent of classic suspense novels, Lacie’s Secrets is the latest psychological thriller from writing duo Teresa Sorkin and Tullan Holmqvist, authors of the award-winning thriller The Woman in the Park. For the past 18 years, Kate Williams has tried to forget that fateful summer, the summer that ripped her family apart. But when her estranged mother…

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Review: The Next Thing You Know by Jessica Strawser

Review: The Next Thing You Know by Jessica Strawser

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Published: March 22, 2022 Source: ARC E-copy via Pubisher   Summary: A musician facing the untimely end of his career. An end-of-life doula with everything, and nothing, to lose. A Star Is Born meets Me Before You in this powerful novel by the author of A Million Reasons Why. As an end-of-life doula, Nova Huston’s job—her calling, her purpose, her life—is to help terminally ill people…

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Blog Tour & Excerpt: The Wrong Victim by Allison Brennan

Blog Tour & Excerpt: The Wrong Victim by Allison Brennan

  Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for The Wrong Victim by Allison Brennan – I have an excerpt for you to read thanks to MIRA.   Publisher: MIRA Published: April 26, 2022 Source: Netgalley via Publisher   SUMMARY: A bomb explodes on a sunset charter cruise out of Friday Harbor at the height of tourist season and kills everyone on board. Now this fishing and boating…

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Review: Everything Must Go by Camille Pagan (audio)

Review: Everything Must Go by Camille Pagan (audio)

Publisher: Lake Union Publishing / Brilliance Audio Published: April 26, 2022 Source: Print – Finished copy via KCCPR/SuzyApprovedBookTours / Audio – ALC via Brilliance Audio   Summary: A warm, wry novel about secrets, second chances, and the unbreakable bonds between mothers, daughters, and sisters by the #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author of Life and Other Near-Death Experiences. Laine Francis believes there’s a place for everything—and New York, where her family lives,…

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Review: Take Your Breath Away by Linwood Barclay

Review: Take Your Breath Away by Linwood Barclay

Publisher: William Morrow Published: May 17, 2022 Source: ARC E-copy via Netgalley   Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of Find You First and Elevator Pitch comes a gripping psychological thriller about a formerly missing woman who has suddenly returned under mysterious circumstances. One weekend, while Andrew Mason was on a fishing trip, his wife, Brie, vanished without a trace. Most everyone assumed Andy had got away with murder–it’s always the husband, isn’t it?–but…

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Review: Little Creeping Things by Chelsea Ichaso

Review: Little Creeping Things by Chelsea Ichaso

Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire: Published: June 2, 2020 Source: Hardcover via Publisher   Summary: When she was a child, Cassidy Pratt accidentally started a fire that killed her neighbor. At least, that’s what she’s been told. She can’t remember anything from that day, and her town’s bullies, particularly the cruel and beautiful Melody Davenport, have never let her live it down. But then Melody goes missing, and Cassidy thinks she may…

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Review: Woman on Fire by Lisa Barr (audio)

Review: Woman on Fire by Lisa Barr (audio)

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks / Harper Audio Published: March 1, 2022 Source: Print – ARC Paperback via Publisher / Audio – ALC via Publisher   Summary: From the author of the award-winning Fugitive Colors and The Unbreakables, a gripping tale of a young, ambitious journalist embroiled in an international art scandal centered around a Nazi-looted masterpiece – forcing the ultimate showdown between passion and possession, lovers and liars, history and truth. After talking her way into a job with…

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Short & Sweet Review: The Devil’s Star by Jo Nesbo

Short & Sweet Review: The Devil’s Star by Jo Nesbo

  Publisher: Vintage Published: April 6, 2016 (first published 2003) Source: Personal copy   SUMMARY: A young woman is murdered in her Oslo flat. One finger has been severed from her left hand, and behind her eyelid is secreted a tiny red diamond in the shape of a five-pointed star – a pentagram, the devil’s star. Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case with his long-time adversary Tom Waaler and initially…

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Review: Insomnia by Sarah Pinborough

Review: Insomnia by Sarah Pinborough

Publisher: William Morrow Published: April 12, 2022 Source: Print copy via Publisher   Summary: IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT, MADNESS LIES . . . Emma can’t sleep. CHECK THE WINDOWS. It’s been like this since her big 4-0 started getting closer. LOCK THE DOORS. Her mother stopped sleeping just before her own fortieth birthday. She went mad and did the unthinkable because of it. LOOK IN ON THE CHILDREN. Is…

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Review: The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn (print/audio)

Review: The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn (print/audio)

Publisher: William Morrow / Harper Audio Published: March 29, 2022 Source: Print – Hardcover via William Morrow / Audio – ALC via Harper Audio   Summary: The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history’s deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story. In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kiev (now known as Kyiv), wry and bookish…

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Blog Tour & Excerpt: Summer at the Cape by RaeAnne Thayne

Blog Tour & Excerpt: Summer at the Cape by RaeAnne Thayne

  Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for Summer at the Cape by RaeAnne Thayne – I have an excerpt for you to read thanks to HQN. Publisher: HQN Published: April 12, 2022 Source: Netgalley via Publisher   SUMMARY: From the beloved bestselling author of Season of Wonder and The Cliff House  comes a poignant and uplifting novel about forgiveness, family and all the complications—and joy — that come with it As the…

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Blog Tour & Review: Mrs. England by Stacey Halls (audio)

Blog Tour & Review: Mrs. England by Stacey Halls (audio)

  Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for Mrs. England by Stacey Hall. Thank you MIRA for inviting me to participate.   Publisher: MIRA / Harper Audio Published: April 12, 2022 Source: Print – Paperback via HTP Books / Audio – ALC via Harper Audio   SUMMARY: Simmering with slow-burning menace,  Mrs. England  is a portrait of an Edwardian marriage, an enthralling tale of men and…

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Review: The Caretakers by Amanda Bestor-Siegal (audio)

Review: The Caretakers by Amanda Bestor-Siegal (audio)

Publisher: Harper Audio Published: April 12, 2022 Source: Netgalley   Summary: Set in a wealthy Parisian suburb, an emotionally riveting debut told from the point of view of six women, and centered around a group of au pairs, one of whom is arrested after a sudden and suspicious tragedy strikes her host family—a dramatic exploration of identity, class, and caregiving from a profoundly talented new writer. Paris, 2015. A crowd…

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Blog Tour & Review: A Family Affair by Robyn Carr (audio)

Blog Tour & Review: A Family Affair by Robyn Carr (audio)

  Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for A Family Affair  by Robyn Carr. Thank you MIRA for inviting me to participate.   Publisher: MIRA / Harper Audio Published: April 5, 2022 Source: Print: Netgalley via HTP Books / Audio: ALC via Harper Audio   SUMMARY: Life’s biggest dilemmas can provide its sweetest rewards Anna McNichol knows how to take charge. Raised by a single…

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Blog Tour & Review: Fool Me Once by Ashley Winstead

Blog Tour & Review: Fool Me Once by Ashley Winstead

  Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for Fool Me Once  by Ashley Winstead. Thank you Graydon House for inviting me to participate.   Publisher: Graydon House Published: April 5, 2022 Source: Netgalley via Publisher   SUMMARY: In this fierce and funny battle of the exes, Ashley Winstead’s FOOL ME ONCE explores the chaos of wanting what you already had. Lee Stone is a twenty-first-century woman: she kicks…

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