Thank you HTP Books #partner, for the advanced e-copy of The Audrey Hepburn Estate in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Graydon House / Harlequin Audio Published: April 18, 2023 Summary: When Emma Jansen discovers that the grand Long Island estate where she grew up is set to be demolished, she can’t help but return for one last visit. After all, it…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Berkley / Penguin Audio Published: October 25, 2022 Summary: A darkly humorous, surprisingly poignant, and utterly gripping debut novel about a guy who works in Hell (literally) and is on the cusp of a big promotion if only he can get one more member of the wealthy Harrison family to sell their soul.…
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Thank you to Wunderkind PR, Podium Publishing, #partner, for an advanced copy of Darkness Calls in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Podium Publishing Published: May 16, 2023 Summary: When a newly promoted police inspector becomes the target of a blackmailer, she struggles to clear her name. But is she fighting for justice—or revenge? Police inspector Cecilie Mars is a different kind of cop. She has a heavy cocaine…
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Thank you Tor Nightfire, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of Just Like Mother in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Tor Nightfire / Macmillan Audio Published: May 17, 2022 Summary: A girl would be such a blessing… The last time Maeve saw her cousin was the night she escaped the cult they were raised in. For the past two decades, Maeve has…
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I purchased this book and audiobook for my own personal collection. Publisher: Lake Union Publishing / Brilliance Audio Published: September 12, 2023 Summary: A desperate woman. An irresistible invitation. An escalating nightmare of secrets, lies, and murder. Bree’s new home is luxurious and private, with a fancy Beverly Hills address. What a shame it’s not hers. Widowed, penniless, living in her car, and out of options, she’s climbed the fence…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin Published: December 27, 2022 Summary: An American documentarian travels a haunted highway across the frozen tundra of Siberia in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden’s Road of Bones, a “tightly wound, atmospheric, and creepy as hell” (Stephen King) supernatural thriller. Surrounded by barren trees in a snow-covered wilderness with a dim, dusky sky forever overhead, Siberia’s…
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Thank you St. Martin’s Press / Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of The Prisoner in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Published: November 1, 2022 Summary: With Behind Closed Doors, B.A. Paris takes the psychological thriller to shocking new heights. Now she’ll hold you captive with this stunning new thriller about one woman wed into a family with deadly intentions. THEN Amelie has always been a survivor,…
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Thank you Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of Veronica Ruiz Breaks the Bank in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: November 7, 2023 Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Elle Cosimano, comes Veronica Ruiz Breaks the Bank—a hilarious short story diving into Finlay Donovan’s partner-in-crime Vero’s past. Anyone can spot a window of opportunity, but not everyone can manage to fall straight through one. Veronica…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: January 31, 2023 Summary: Maame (ma-meh) has many meanings in Twi but in my case, it means woman. It’s fair to say that Maddie’s life in London is far from rewarding. With a mother who spends most of her time in Ghana (yet still somehow manages…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Ballantine Books Published: November 8, 2022 Summary: The debut short story collection from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man, featuring ten bone-chilling and mind-bending tales. Timeslips. Doomsday scenarios. Killer butterflies. C. J. Tudor’s novels are widely acclaimed for their dark, twisty suspense plots, but with A Sliver of Darkness, she pulls us even further into her dizzying imagination. In Final Course,…
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I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: HighBridge Published: October 17, 2023 Summary: Victoria Tate has had enough of her controlling, incompetent husband Warren. But planning the perfect murder is more difficult than she expected. When the social event of the year, an over-the-top costume ball, is rescheduled for the date she has selected for her crime, Victoria has to scramble to make sure she will still be…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio, for the ALC and Minotaur Books, #partner for the advanced copy of When I’m Dead in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: October 31, 2023 Summary: One girl murdered. Another one missing. And a medical examiner desperate to uncover the truth in the latest Black Harbor mystery by acclaimed author Hannah Morrissey. On a bone-chilling October night,…
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Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers Promotions, Thomas & Mercer, #partner, for an advanced e- copy of Lights Out in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Published: November 1, 2023 Summary: In this exciting debut novel comes a fast-paced thriller that follows a sports reporter’s journey off the court…and into a world of murder and deception. Former Olympic athlete and current semi-disgraced sports reporter Kate Green isn’t sure how…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: One World / Random House Audio Published: March 28, 2023 Summary: Blue skies, empty land—and enough room to hide away a horrifying secret. Or is there? Discover a haunting new vision of the American West from the award-winning author of The Changeling. Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes.…
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Thank you HTP Books #partner, for the advanced e-copy of The Fiction Writer in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Park Row Books Published: November 28, 2023 Summary: Last night I dreamt I went to Malibu again… The once-rising literary star Olivia Fitzgerald is down on her luck. Her most recent novel–a retelling of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca–was a flop, her boyfriend of nine years just dumped her and she’s…
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Thank you PRH Audio for the ALC and @GetRedPrBooks/Berkley Books #partner, for the finished copy of Murder and Mamon in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Berkley Books / Penguin Audio Published: September 19, 2023 Summary: When murder mars the grand opening for Lila Macapagal’s aunties’ new laundromat, she will have to air out all the dirty laundry in Shady Palms to catch a killer… Lila Macapagal’s godmothers April, Mae,…
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Thank you Atria Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Christmas Appeal in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books Published: October 24, 2023 Summary: This immersive holiday caper from the “modern Agatha Christie” (The Sunday Times, London) follows the hilarious Fairway Players theater group as they put on a Christmas play—and solve a murder that threatens their production. The Christmas season has arrived in Lower Lockwood, and…
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Thank you PRH Audio for the ALC and Berkley #partner, for the finished copy of Blood Sisters in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Berkley / Random House Audio Published: October 31, 2023 Summary: A visceral and compelling mystery about a Cherokee archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs who is summoned to rural Oklahoma to investigate the disappearance of two women…one of them her sister. There are secrets in…
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Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers Promotions, Thomas & Mercer, #partner, for an advanced e- copy of A Friend in the Dark in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Published: March 1, 2024 Summary: A digital romance turns deadly in this sensual domestic thriller from USA Today bestselling author Samantha M. Bailey. Eden Miller’s world is crumbling. Her husband blindsided her with divorce, and her daughter barely speaks to…
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Thank you to Bibliolifestyle, William Morrow, #partner, for a finished copy of The Christmas Guest in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Published: October 17, 2023 Summary: New York Times bestselling author Peter Swanson pens a spectacularly spine-chilling novella in which an American art student in London is invited to join a classmate for the holidays at Starvewood Hall, her family’s Cotswold manor house. But behind the holly…
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Thank you Blackstone Publishing, #partner for the advanced copy of American Girl in exchange for my honest review. I got the audiobook as part of my Audible Subscription. Publisher: Blackstone Publishing / Audible Originals Published: October 17, 2023 / December 16, 2021 Summary: A pulse-pounding novel about a small-town business owner found dead and the teenage girl caught in the crosshairs, American Girl is the latest thriller from international best-selling author…
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Thank you PRH Audio for the ALC of Happiness Falls in exchange for my honest review. I purchased the print book for my own collection. Publisher: Hogarth / Random House Audio Published: August 29, 2023 Summary: When a father goes missing, his family’s desperate search leads them to question everything they know about him and one another–both a riveting page-turner and a deeply moving portrait of a family in…
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Thank you Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Lost Village in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: March 23, 2021 Summary: The Blair Witch Project meets Midsommar in this brilliantly disturbing thriller from Camilla Sten, an electrifying new voice in suspense. Documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt has been obsessed with the vanishing residents of the old mining town,…
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Thank you Atria Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Last One in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books Published: August 8, 2023 Summary: When Caz steps onboard the exclusive cruise liner RMS Atlantica, it’s the start of a vacation of a lifetime with her new love, Pete. On their first night they explore the ship, eat, dance, make friends, but when Caz wakes the next…
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Thank you Hachette Audio for the ALC and @NovelSuspects & Mulholland Books, #partner, for the e-copy of In the Clearing in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Mulholland Books / Hachette Audio Published: August 4, 2020 Summary: A ticking-clock thriller that braids together the stories of a girl raised in a terrifying cult, and of an overprotective single mother whose fears for her child are about to come true.…
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Thank you to William Morrow, #partner, for an advanced copy of The Leftover Woman in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Published: October 10, 2023 Summary: An evocative family drama and a riveting mystery about the ferocious pull of motherhood for two very different women–from the New York Times bestselling author of Searching for Sylvie Lee and Girl in Translation. Jasmine Yang arrives in New York City from her rural Chinese village…
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Thank you Atria Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The River We Remember in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books Published: September 5, 2023 Summary: In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh fuel on old grievances in this dazzling standalone novel from the New York Times bestselling author of This Tender Land. On Memorial Day, as the people of…
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Thank you St. Martin’s Press / Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of The Intern in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Published: October 3, 2023 Summary: A young Harvard law student falls under the spell of a charismatic judge in this timely and thrilling novel about class, ambition, family and murder. Madison Rivera lands the internship of a lifetime working for Judge Kathryn Conroy. But…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Berkley Books / Penguin Audio Published: February 22, 2022 Summary: From the USA Today bestselling and Edgar-nominated author of Darling Rose Gold comes a dark, thrilling novel about two sisters–one trapped in the clutches of a cult, the other in a web of her own lies. Welcome to Wisewood. We’ll keep your secrets if you keep ours.…
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Thank you to G.P. Putnam’s Sons, #partner, for an advanced copy of The Christmas Wager in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons Published: September 26, 2023 Summary: One rivalry. Eight days until Christmas. Let the holiday games begin. When L.A.-based real estate developer Bella Ross arrives in the sleepy mountain town of Maple Falls, she has one to acquire the local failing Christmas shop, Always Noelle,…
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Thank you Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Winter’s End in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: December 6, 2022 Summary: The fourth installment in the gripping, atmospheric Alaska Wild series, Paige Shelton’s Winter’s End… It’s springtime in Benedict, Alaska, and with it the warmer weather comes an unseasonably somber local tradition…the annual Death March. At…
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Thank you Brilliance Audio for the ALC and Get Red PR and Blue Box Press , #partner, for the finished copy of The Jeweler of Stolen Dreams in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Blue Box Press / Brilliance Audio Published: February 7, 2023 Summary: A captivating tale of two passionate women separated by decades but united by a shared vision. One, the famous jeweler Suzanne Belperron, fighting to…
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Thank you Harper Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Kill Show in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Harper Published: October 3, 2023 Summary: When sixteen-year-old Sara Parcell goes missing, it’s an utter tragedy—and an entertaining national obsession—in this thoughtful and addictively readable novel that offers a fresh and provocative take on whodunits and true crime. Sara Parcell disappeared without a trace on a crisp April morning in…
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Thank you TCL BookTours, Kensington Books, #partner, for the finished copy of A Trace of Poison in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Kensington Books / Highbridge Published: October 25, 2022 Summary: In England’s stately manor houses, murder is not generally a topic for polite conversation. Mallowan Hall, home to Agatha Christie and her husband, Max, is the exception. And housekeeper Phyllida…
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Thank you GetRedPR and the author, #partner, for the advanced copy of Don’t Forget To Write in exchange for my honest review. I purchased the audiobook. Publisher: Lake Union Publishing / Brilliance Audio Published: September 1, 2023 Summary: In 1960, a young woman discovers a freedom she never knew existed in this exhilarating, funny, and emotional novel by the bestselling author of She’s Up to No Good. When Marilyn Kleinman is…
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Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers Promotions, William Morrow Paperbacks, #partner, for an advanced copy of The Death of Us in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Published: October 3, 2023 Summary: From the award-winning author of Death at Greenway and The Lucky One comes a chilling suspense novel in which the discovery of a submerged car in a murky pond reveals betrayals and family secrets that will tear a small town…
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Thank you Hachette Audio for the ALC and Algonquin Books, #partner for the finished copy of The Museum of Failures in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Algonquin Books / Hachette Audio Published: September 26, 2023 Summary: An immersive story about family secrets and the power of forgiveness from the bestselling author of Reese’s Book Club pick Honor When Remy Wadia left India for the United States, he carried his…
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Thank you Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Golden Gate in exchange for my honest review. I purchased the audiobook for my own collection. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: September 19, 2023 Summary: Amy Chua’s debut novel, The Golden Gate, is a sweeping, evocative, and compelling historical thriller that paints a vibrant portrait of a California buffeted by the turbulent crosswinds of a world at…
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Thank you to Kathleen Carther Communications, Lake Union Publishing, #partner, for an advanced copy of Salthouse Place in exchange for my honest review. I purchased the audiobook. Publisher: Lake Union Publishing / Brilliance Audio Published: September 1, 2023 Summary: From debut author Jamie Sogn comes a twisty thriller about the allure of the past and the danger of the truth as a young woman dives headlong into a cult…
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Thank you Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Reykjavik in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: September 5, 2023 Summary: With over three million copies sold worldwide, Ragnar Jónasson, along with Katrín Jakobsdóttir, brings us a gripping and chilling new thriller, Reykjavík. What happened to Lára? Iceland, 1956. Fourteen-year-old Lára decides to spend the summer working for a couple on the small island…
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Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers Promotions, Thomas & Mercer, #partner, for an advanced e- copy of These Still Black Waters in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Published: October 1, 2023 Summary: Two women struggle toward a dark truth as a killer avenges the sins of the past in a twisting novel of suspense by the USA Today bestselling author of Do No Harm, Behind Every Lie, and The Night Olivia Fell. After…
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I purchased this book and audiobook for my own personal collection. Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark / Audible Studios Published: June 21, 2022 Summary: From author Julie Clark comes a twisted con-woman thriller about two women out for revenge―or is it justice? Two women. Many aliases. Meg Williams. Maggie Littleton. Melody Wilde. Different names for the same person, depending on the town, depending on the job. She’s a con artist who erases…
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Thank you Berkley Books #partner, for the finished copy of One of the Boys in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Berkley Books Published: July 11, 2023 Summary: A mother knows best… Doesn’t she? Antonia and Bea are sisters. They are both doting mothers to their sons. But that is where their similarities end. Antonia had her son tested at an early age to ensure her little angel did…
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Thank you Harper Perennial, #partner, for the advanced copy of Dark August in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Harper Paperbacks Published: June 30, 2020 Summary: An electrifying, page-turning debut about a young woman haunted by her tragic past, who returns to her hometown and discovers that there might be more to her police detective mother’s death–and last case–than she ever could have imagined. Augusta (Gus) Monet is living…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Anchor Books / Random House Audio Published: May 3, 2022 Summary: IT’S ICE COLD. YOU’RE MILES FROM HELP. AND ONE OF YOU WILL BE NEXT . . . A high-altitude thriller that will take your breath away—Cecily Wong is on her most dangerous climb yet, miles above sea level. But the elements are…
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Thank you Hachette Audio, #partner for the ALC of More Than Meets the Eye in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Hachette Audio Published: February 7, 2023 Summary: New York Times bestselling authors Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen team up for another electrifying thriller that pits a serial killer against Kendra Michaels’ heightened powers of deduction. After scoring a plea deal in a high-profile murder trial, serial killer James Michael…
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Thank you Blackstone Publishing, #partner for the ALC of The Killing Room in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Published: August 22, 2023 Summary: From USA Today bestselling author Robert Swartwood comes another bone-chilling thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat. While on vacation in Las Vegas, a businessman wakes up in a strange hotel room to find a dead woman in the bathtub. Panicked,…
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Thank you Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of What the Neighbors Saw in exchange for my honest review. I purchased the audiobook for my own collection. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: June 20, 2023 Summary: Desperate Housewives meets The Couple Next Door in a chilling story of murder and intrigue set in a well-to-do DC suburb. Sometimes the darkest acts occur in the most beautiful houses……
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Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and @BookClubFavorites & Simon & Schuster #partner, for the advanced copy of The House of Eve in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Simon & Schuster / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: February 7, 2023 Summary: From the award-winning author of Yellow Wife, a daring and redemptive novel set in 1950s Philadelphia and Washington, DC, that explores what it means to be…
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Thank you to GetRedPr, She Writes Press, #partner, for an advanced copy of The Girl in the White Cape in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: She Writes Press Published: July 25, 2023 Summary: Fifteen-year-old Elena lives in a church attic in San Francisco’s Richmond neighborhood, where she is cared for by her guardian, a kind Russian priest named Father Al. Six days a week, Father Al sends her…
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