The Girl in the White Cape by Barbara Sapienza #bookreview

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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The Last Housewife by Ashley Winstead #bookreview #audiobook

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark / Blackstone Audio Published: August 16, 2022   Summary: From the author of the acclaimed In My Dreams I Hold a Knife comes a pitch-black thriller about a woman determined to destroy a powerful cult and avenge the deaths of the women taken in by it, no matter the cost. While in college in…

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Chloe Cates is Missing by Mandy McHugh #bookreview #audiobook

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Published: January 18, 2022   Summary: The disappearance of a young internet celebrity ignites a firestorm of speculation on social media, and to find her a detective will have to extinguish the blaze.   Chloe Cates is missing. The 13-year-old star of the hit YouTube series CC and Me has disappeared, and nobody knows where she’s gone – least of all ruthless momager…

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Dead and Gone by Joanna Schaffhausen #bookreview #bookseries

Thank you Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Dead and Gone in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: August 8, 2023   Summary: The next installment of Joanna Schaffhausen’s critically acclaimed Detective Annalisa Vega series. For Chicago police detective Annalisa Vega, Sam Tran’s death presents an ominous puzzle. The ex-cop turned PI is found hanging from a cemetery tree with a message across his chest…

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The Trap by Catherine Ryan Howard #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Libro.fm / Blackstone Publishing, for the ALC and Blackstone Publishing, #partner for the advanced copy of The Trap in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Blackstone Publishing / Blackstone Publishing Published: August 1, 2023   Summary: From award-winning, internationally bestselling crime writer Catherine Ryan Howard comes The Trap: an unsettling mystery inspired by a series of still-unsolved disappearances in Ireland in the 90s, wherein one young woman risks everything to…

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The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons by Karin Smirnoff #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

Thank you PRH Audio for the ALC and Knopf #partner,  for the advanced copy of The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher:  Knopf / Penguin Random House Audio Published: August 29, 2023   Summary: Lisbeth Salander returns, in a trailblazing new installment to the best-selling Millennium series Change is coming to Sweden’s far north: its untapped natural resources are sparking a gold rush with the…

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Mother-Daughter Murder Night by Nina Simon #bookreview

Thank you William Morrow / Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of Mother-Daughter Murder Night in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Published: September 5, 2023   Summary: The Maid meets The Last Thing He Told Me in this fun, fresh, and twisty debut whodunnit about a grandmother-mother-daughter trio who come together as amateur sleuths to solve a murder in their coastal California town. Nothing brings an estranged family together like…

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Girl, 11 by Amy Suiter Clarke #bookreview #audiobook

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Harper Audio Published: April 20, 2021   Summary: Elle Castillo once trained as a social worker, supporting young victims of violent crime. Now, she hosts a popular true crime podcast that focuses on cold cases of missing and abducted children. After four seasons of successfully solving these cases in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, Elle decides to tackle her white whale: The Countdown Killer.…

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The Twenty by Sam Holland #bookreview #audiobook

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Crooked Lane Books / Dreamscape Media Published: May 11, 2023 / May 2, 2023   Summary: When DCI Adam Bishop arrives at the crime scene in the dead of night, the sight of the body is bad enough—but what Adam notices next chills him to his core. More bodies surface. And the spray-painted numbers…

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The Block Party by Jamie Day #bookreview

Thank you to GetRedPr, St. Martin’s Press, #partner, for a finished copy of The Block Party in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Published: July 18, 2023   Summary: This summer, meet your neighbors. The residents of the exclusive cul-de-sac on Alton Road are entangled in a web of secrets and scandal utterly unknown to the outside world, and even to each other. On the night of…

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Little Souls by Sandra Dallas #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you St. Martin’s Press, #partner, for the finished copy of Little Souls in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin / Macmillan Audio Published: August 22, 2023 (Paperback Release) / April 26, 2022   Summary: Sandra Dallas’s Little Souls is a gripping tale of sisterhood, loyalty, and secrets set in Denver amid America’s last deadly flu pandemic Colorado, 1918. World…

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The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See #bookreview #audiobook

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Scribner / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: March 21, 2017   Summary: The thrilling new novel from number-one New York Times best-selling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been abandoned and adopted by an American couple. Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and…

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The Woman With the Cure by Lynn Cullen #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Berkley Books #partner, for the finished copy of The Woman With the Cure in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Berkley Books / Penguin Audio Published: February 21, 2023   Summary: She gave up everything— and changed the world. A riveting novel based on the true story of the woman who stopped a pandemic, from the bestselling author of Mrs. Poe.…

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The Sunset Crowd by Karin Tanabe #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you St. Martin’s Press / Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of The Sunset Crowd in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: July 4, 2023   Summary: From Rodeo Drive to the French Riviera, Karin Tanabe’s The Sunset Crowd is a tale of survival and reinvention, of faking it until you make it, and the glittering appeal…

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The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Atria Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Great Transition in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: August 15, 2023   Summary: For fans of Station Eleven and The Ministry for the Future, this richly imaginative, immersive, and electrifyingly relevant climate utopia novel follows a family navigating a crisis both personal and…

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Beneath the Surface by Kaira Rouda #bookreview

Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers Promotions, Thomas & Mercer, #partner, for an advanced e- copy of Beneath the Surface in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Published: September 5, 2023   Summary: On a weekend voyage, the power-hungry children of an aging billionaire are unprepared for a storm of deceptions in a novel about ruthless family ambition by USA Today bestselling author Kaira Rouda. You are cordially invited to an…

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After That Night by Karin Slaughter #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

Thank you Netgalley / Blackstone Audio, for the ALC and William Morrow Books, #partner for the advanced copy of After That Night in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Books / Blackstone Audio Published: August 22, 2020   Summary: After that night, nothing was ever the same again Fifteen years ago, Sara Linton’s life changed forever when a celebratory night out ended in a violent attack that tore her…

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The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and @BookClubFavorites & Atria/Emily Bestler Books #partner,  for the finished copy of The Writing Retreat in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: February 21, 2023   Summary: The Plot meets Please Join Us in this psychological suspense debut about a young author at an exclusive writer’s retreat that descends into a nightmare. Alex has all…

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The Bones of the Story by Carol Goodman #bookreview

Thank you to Thoughts from a Page, William Morrow Books, #partner, for an advanced  e-copy of The Bones of the Story in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Books Published: July 11, 2023   Summary: The twisty locked-room mystery from two-time Mary Higgins Clark Award–winning author Carol Goodman, about a group of former classmates trapped on their college campus—with a murderer among them. It’s been twenty-five years since…

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The Bone Hacker by Kathy Reichs #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio, #partner for the ALC of The Bone Hacker in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Simon and Schuster Audio Published: August 1, 2023   Summary: #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her twenty-second high-stakes thriller featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan who, following a series of bizarre disappearances on the islands of Turks and Caicos, enters a sinister labyrinth in which…

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Small Town Sins by Ken Jaworowski #bookreview

Thank you to Henry Holt Books, #partner, for an advanced copy of Small Town Sins in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Henry Holt & Co Published: August 1, 2023   Summary: Ken Jaworowski’s Small Town Sins is a gripping Rust Belt thriller that captures the characters of a down-and-out Pennsylvania town, revealing their troubled pasts and the crimes that could cost them their lives. In Locksburg, Pennsylvania, a former coal and…

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Dark Corners by Megan Goldin #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Netgalley / Macmillan Audio, for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the advanced copy of Dark Corners in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: August 8, 2023   Summary: Rachel Krall, the true crime podcaster star of Megan Goldin’s acclaimed The Night Swim, returns to search for a popular influencer who disappears after visiting a suspected serial killer. Terence Bailey is about…

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Broadway Butterfly by Sara DiVello #bookreview

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Published: August 1, 2023   Summary: New York in the Roaring Twenties—a riveting true-crime novel, based on one of the most notorious unsolved murders of the era, where power, politics, and secrets conspire to bury the truth. Manhattan, 1923. Scandalous flapper Dot King is found dead in her Midtown apartment, a bottle of chloroform beside her and a fortune…

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The Game She Plays by Siena Sterling #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you to Bibliolifestyle, William Morrow, #partner, for a finished copy of The Game She Plays in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: William Morrow / Harper Audio Published: June 6, 2023   Summary: From the author of Tell Us No Secrets comes a twisty new novel. A young American woman is thrust into the closed social circle of English aristocrats, but beneath their charm…

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Just Another Missing Person by Gillan McAllister #bookreview

Thank you to William Morrow, #partner, for an advanced copy of Just Another Missing Person in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Published: August 1, 2023   Summary: From the author of the Reese’s Book Club Pick and the New York Times bestseller Wrong Place Wrong Time comes a new heart-stopping thriller in which a missing-person case unravels deeper, darker secrets that lead a detective to an impossible moral choice. 22-year-old Olivia has…

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The Silent Wife by Karin Slaughter #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries #reread

Thank you to William Morrow, #partner, for an advanced copy of The Silent Wife in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: William Morrow Books / Blackstone Audio Published: August 4, 2020   Summary: Atlanta, Georgia. Present day. A young woman is brutally attacked and left for dead. The police investigate but the trail goes cold. Until a chance assignment takes GBI investigator Will…

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The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Blackstone Audio Published: August 20, 2019   Summary: New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter brings back Will Trent and Sara Linton in this superb and timely thriller full of devious twists, disturbing secrets, and shocking surprises you won’t see coming. A mysterious kidnapping On a hot summer night, a scientist from the Centers for Disease Control is grabbed by unknown assailants in a…

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A Ghost of Caribou by Alice Henderson #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: William Morrow / Harper Audio Published: November 15, 2022   Summary: Building upon the highly acclaimed debut of Alice Henderson’s A Solitude of Wolverines and its follow-up thriller A Blizzard of Polar Bears comes the eagerly anticipated and electrifying third installment A Ghost of Caribou, in which wildlife biologist Alex Carter encounters an unsolved murder and a town in…

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Cleaning the Gold by Karin Slaughter, Lee Child #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Harper Audio Published: May 9, 2019   Summary: The new short story from Karin Slaughter and Lee Child! Twice the action. Twice the drama. Double the trouble.  Will Trent is undercover at Fort Knox. His assignment: to investigate a 22-year-old murder. His suspect’s name: Jack Reacher. Jack Reacher is in Fort Knox on his own mission: to bring down a dangerous criminal ring…

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The Kept Woman by Karin Slaughter #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Blackstone Audio Published: September 20, 2016   Summary: It’s the most dangerous case of Will Trent’s career. He knows this from the moment he sets foot in the abandoned Atlanta warehouse where a body lies on the floor—the body of an ex-cop. Bloody footprints leading away from the scene reveal that another victim, evidently a woman, was carried away and has vanished…

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The Hidden Life of Aster Kelly by Katherine A. Sherbrooke #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Dreamscape Media/Netgalley for the ALC and MB Communications & Pegasus Books #partner, for the finished copy of The Hidden Life of Aster Kelly in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Pegasus Books / Dreamscape Media Published: April 4, 2023 / June 26 2023   Summary: When a runway model in 1940s Hollywood makes a split-second decision intended to protect those she loves, she triggers a cascade of secrets that threatens to…

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The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine #bookreview #audiobook #reread

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Harper Audio Published: October 17, 2017   Summary: Amber Patterson is fed up. She’s tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background. She deserves more – a life of money and power like the one blond-haired, blue-eyed goddess Daphne Parrish takes for granted. To everyone in the exclusive town of Bishops Harbor, Connecticut, Daphne – a…

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Unseen by Karin Slaughter #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Harper Audio Published: July 7, 2020 (first published 2013)   Summary: Detectives, lovers, and enemies are pitted against one another in an unforgettable standoff between righteous courage and deepest evil from New York Times best-selling author Karin Slaughter. Will Trent is a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent whose latest case has him posing as Bill Black, a scary ex-con who rides a motorcycle around…

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A Twisted Love Story by Samantha Downing #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you PRH Audio for the ALC and Berkley #partner,  for the finished copy of A Twisted Love Story in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher:  Berkley / Random House Audio Published: July 18, 2023   Summary: From the bestselling author of My Lovely Wife comes a reckless, delicious thriller about a young couple that gives a whole new meaning to the dangers of modern dating. Wes and Ivy are madly in…

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Night Will Find You by Julia Heaberlin #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Flatiron Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Night Will Find You in exchange for my honest review. I purchased the audiobook for my own collection. Publisher: Flatiron Books / Macmillan Audio Published: June 20, 2023   Summary: A scientist with a special gift riles a wasp’s nest of conspiracy theories while investigating a cold case in this riveting novel from the acclaimed and bestselling author of Black-Eyed…

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One Night by Georgina Cross #bookreview

Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers Promotions, Penguin Random House, #partner, for an advanced copy of One Night in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Bantam Published: August 1, 2023   Summary: One night. That’s all the time a family has to decide what to do with the man they believe murdered their daughter: Do they forgive him, or take justice into their own hands? An electrifying novel by the author of Nanny…

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Busted by Karin Slaughter #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Blackstone Audio Published: June 24, 2014 (first published 2013)   Summary: From Karin Slaughter comes a fast and furious tale in which no one is quite who they seem. This electrifying eBook novella featuring Will Trent is a prequel to Slaughter’s upcoming novel, Unseen. Detective Will Trent is standing in a Georgia convenience store, waiting on an obstinate Icee frozen drink machine. To…

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Strange Sally Diamond #bookreview

Thank you to the author & Gallery/Scout Press, #partner, for the advanced copy of  Strange Sally Diamond in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Gallery/Scout Press Published: July 18, 2023   Summary: The internationally bestselling author of Lying in Wait returns with a wickedly dark, twisted, and brilliantly observed new novel about an enigmatic woman confronting her unknown past. Reclusive Sally Diamond causes outrage by trying to incinerate her dead father. Now…

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Gone Tonight by Sarah Pekkanen #bookfeature #upcomingrelease

Next month, Sarah Pekkanen’s solo thriller, Gone Tonight, will be released. I was fortunate to be sent some extra copies, so I am giving them away. I will be reading this book very soon and am so excited – I have loved the thrillers so co-wrote with Greer Henricks and this one sounds just as good! But just take note…the giveaway is happening on my Instagram page – head here…

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Hello Stranger by Katherine Center #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Netgalley / Macmillan Audio, for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the advanced e-copy of Hello Stranger in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: July 11, 2023   Summary: Love isn’t blind, it’s just little blurry. Sadie Montgomery never saw what was coming . . . Literally! One minute she’s celebrating the biggest achievement of her life—placing as a finalist…

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Criminal by Karin Slaughter #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Harper Audio Published: July 9, 2019 (first published 2012)   Summary: Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Newly in love, he is beginning to put a difficult past behind him. Then a local college student goes missing, and Will is inexplicably kept off the case by his supervisor and mentor, deputy director Amanda Wagner. Will cannot…

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Little Cruelties by Liz Nugent #bookreview #bookclub

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Gallery/Scout Press Published: November 10, 2020   Summary: Three brothers are at the funeral. One lies in the coffin. Will, Brian and Luke grow up competing for their mother’s unequal love. As men, the competition continues – for status, money, fame, women … They each betray each other, over and over, until one of them is dead. But which brother killed…

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The Clearing by Simon Toyne #bookreview #bookseries

Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers Promotions, William Morrow, #partner, for a finished copy of The Clearing in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Published: July 11, 2023   Summary: In this gripping suspense novel from the bestselling author of the Sanctus trilogy, lead forensic expert Laughton Rees is back, this time investigating a series of missing women in a small town near the Forest of Dean–where she uncovers a dark…

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Thicker Than Water by Megan Collins #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Atria Books #partner,  for the advanced copy of Thicker Than Water in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Atria Books/ Simon & Schuster ALC Published: July 11, 2023   Summary: Two sisters-in-law find themselves at painful odds when the man who connects them—the brother of one, the husband of the other—is accused of a brutal crime in this twisty thriller from…

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Dark Objects by Simon Toyne #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Harper Audio Published: July 12, 2022   Summary: Forensics expert Laughton Rees hunts an unusually clever killer who appears to be staging murder scenes just for her in this twisty new psychological thriller by the bestselling author of the Sanctus trilogy. How do you catch a killer if the victim doesn’t exist? A glamorous woman is murdered in her ultra-luxurious London mansion and…

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Snatched by Karin Slaughter #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Published: July 1, 2013   Summary: While in an airport restroom in Atlanta, Will Trent, an agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, overhears a girl pleading to go home and knows something is wrong. But he waits too long to act, and now the girl and the angry man she’s with have disappeared into the crowds at the busiest…

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The Hidden Hours by Sara Foster #bookreview

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Published: November 3, 2020   Summary: Keeping her secret may save her family. But telling it may save her life. Arabella Lane, senior executive at a children’s publisher, is found dead in the Thames on a frosty winter’s morning after the office Christmas party. No one is sure whether she jumped or was pushed. The one person who may…

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The Quiet Tenant #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you PRH Audio for the ALC and  Knopf #partner,  for the advanced e-copy of The Quiet Tenant in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Knopf / Random House Audio Published: June 20, 2023   Summary: A pulse-pounding psychological thriller about a serial killer narrated by those closest to him: His 13-year-old daughter, his girlfriend—and the one victim he has spared Aidan Thomas is a hard-working family man and a…

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The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave #bookreview #audiobook #reread

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Published: May 4, 2021   Summary: The instant #1 New York Times bestselling mystery and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick that’s captivated more than a million readers about a woman searching for the truth about her husband’s disappearance…at any cost. Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion…

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Fallen by Karin Slaughter #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Harper Audio Published: August 28, 2018 (Originally published 2011)   Summary: There’s no police training stronger than a cop’s instinct. Faith Mitchell’s mother isn’t answering her phone. Her front door is open. There’s a bloodstain above the knob. Her infant daughter is hidden in a shed behind the house. All that the Georgia Bureau of Investigations taught Faith Mitchell goes out the window…

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