Thank you Atria Books, #partner for the advanced copy of Habits of the Sea in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books Published: July 7, 2026 Summary: The second adult novel from New York Times bestselling author Shea Ernshaw, in which a woman rediscovers the mythical island she stumbled upon as a child—and the man she once met who apparently hasn’t aged—and must choose between the life she’s built and a…
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I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Recorded Books Published: August 30, 2011 Summary: With his family caught in the crosshairs of a group of brutal killers, detective Cork O’Connor must solve the murder of a young girl in the latest installment of William Kent Krueger’s unforgettable New York Times bestselling series. During a houseboat vacation on the remote Lake of the Woods, a violent gale sweeps through unexpectedly, stranding Cork and…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Minotaur Books, #partner for the advanced copy of Hot Girl Murder Club in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: July 14, 2026 Summary: From national bestselling author Ashley Winstead comes a buzzy, bloody new thriller about success, sisterhood, and demanding justice…by any means necessary. What’s a girl got to do to get some fame, a few million…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Minotaur Books, #partner for the advanced copy of Killer Vibes in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: July 14, 2026 Summary: Meet Peter Key: self-proclaimed “laziest private investigator in Texas” (it’s harder than it looks), full-time bisexual, dedicated stoner, and the surprised recipient of a windfall inheritance from an uncle he barely knew. Peter’s life…
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Thank you PRH Audio for the ALC and Bantam Books, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of Scary Movie Night in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Bantam Books / Random House Audio Published: July 14, 2026 Summary: In this nail-biting thriller, a horror-themed birthday party turns deadly when guests start disappearing—and the birthday girl realizes that she must face a long-buried secret to make it out alive. Tippi is…
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Thank you Poisoned Pen Press #partner, for the advanced e-copy of The Secret Attic in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: The Secret Attic Published: June 2, 2026 Summary: The past isn’t just haunting her—it’s hunting her. Addison Lowe knew her mother-in-law despised her, but inheriting Barb’s massive estate after her death feels less like closure and more like a trap. Barb’s hoarded rooms aren’t just filled with clutter—they’re filled…
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Thank you Scribner #partner, for the finished copy of Helpless in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Scribner Published: July 7, 2026 Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of Luckiest Girl Alive and Bright Young Women comes a smoldering psychological thriller with a singular, mind-bending last page. It’s been twelve years since Faye Heron broke Henry Spalding’s heart. Henry was her college boyfriend, her first intense love, but Faye…
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Thank you Harper #partner, for the advanced copy of Hide and Seek in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Harper Published: July 7, 2026 Summary: The author of The Chestnut Man and creator of the hit television series The Killing returns with a twisty, breakneck psychological thriller that takes an innocent children’s game to its most terrifying and diabolical extreme. Count to one, count to two . . . A strange voice from inside…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the advanced copy of Beach Thriller in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: June 9, 2026 Summary: The next riveting summer suspense by the author of THE BLOCK PARTY, ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY, and THE LAKE ESCAPE Jamie Day. Holly Sinclair, a struggling writer, is forced from her cherished New York…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio for the ALC of Tell Your Friends in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Flatiron Books: Pine and Cedar / Macmillan Audio Published: June 2, 2026 Summary: A former child star and an envious fan collide in this cat-and-mouse psychological thriller about obsession, self-invention, and the dark side of internet fame. University was meant to be Crystal’s way out. Growing up, there was nothing in…
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Thank you PRH Audio for the ALC and Ballantine Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Under the Stars in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Ballantine Books / Random House Audio Published: July 29, 2025 Summary: When a daughter and her famous mother return to Winthrop Island to confront their complicated past, they discover a secret trove of paintings that connect them to a mysterious woman who vanished on…
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Thank you Sourcebooks Landmark, #partner for the advanced e-copy of The Bridesmaid in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark / Tantor Audio Published: November 4, 2025 / December 16, 2025 Summary: From the acclaimed author of The Clinic comes a pulse-pounding thriller about a society wedding turned deadly, for fans of The Unwedding. The Kensingtons invite you to the society wedding of the…
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I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Recorded Books Published: September 7, 2010 Summary: Some nights, Corcoran O’Connor dreams his father’s death. William Kent Krueger’s gripping tale of suspense begins with a recurring nightmare, a gun, and a wound in the earth so deep and horrific that it has a name, Vermilion Drift. When the Department of Energy puts an underground iron mine on its short list of potential…
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Thank you to Hachette Audio, #partner for the ALC of Wait and See in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Grand Central Publishing / Hachette Audio Published: June 23, 2026 Summary: Investigator Kendra Michaels—formerly blind and now with uniquely insightful observational skills in the tradition of Sherlock Holmes—returns in this action-packed novel from the #1 New York Times and Edgar Award-winning writing duo Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen. When Kendra Michaels receives…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the advanced copy of When I Kill You in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: February 17, 2026 Summary: Who is watching Nell Masters? Nell Masters is certain someone is following her. The hairs on the back of her neck rise when she travels to and from work, there are…
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Thank you Knopf #partner, for the finished copy of Someone Else’s Husband in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Knopf Published: June 16, 2026 Summary: New York Times bestselling author Kimberly McCreight delivers a tour de force of character-driven suspense: the story of two women whose secrets and desires entrap them in a deadly love triangle. You had to rely on the power of love. That he loved you enough not…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the advanced copy of The Final Target in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: May 26, 2026 Summary: A young author becomes the object of a fan’s desire―and rage―in the gripping new thriller by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Hidden Nature. He showed up at Arden Bowie’s debut…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Celadon Books, #partner for the advanced copy of Heather in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Celadon Books / Macmillan Audio Published: June 9, 2026 Summary: For readers of Liz Moore’s The God of the Woods, a small-town detective reopens an unsolved case, sending shock waves across generations of women in this gripping new mystery from the Edgar Award–winning author…
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Thank you Atria Books, #partner for the advanced copy of The Wasp Trap in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books Published: September 16, 2025 Summary: A dinner party in a beautiful Notting Hill townhouse turns into a sinister game, as six old friends are forced to spill their darkest secrets…or else. Six friends reunite in London to celebrate the life of their recently deceased ex-employer, a professor…
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Thank you Bantam #partner, for the advanced and finished copies of Backstabbers in exchange for my honest review. I obtained the audiobook from one of my subscriptions. Publisher: Bantam / Random House Audio Published: June 2, 2026 Summary: When three friends lose their way in a serial killer’s old hunting ground, they must fight to survive the threat in the woods—and each other—in this spiky, heart-pounding slasher. Never turn your back…
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Thank you to Harper Perennial #partner, for the advanced copies of Murder Most Delicious in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Harper Perennial Published: May 26, 2026 Summary: Starting over in Paris was supposed to be the opportunity of a lifetime for American sommelier Olivia Beech—until her dream job ends in murder. Once a rising star in the wine world, Olivia was one of a handful of women in the…
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Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers The Pulse and Putnam, #partner, for an advanced copy of Keep Them Close in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: G. P. Putnam’s Sons Published: June 30, 2026 Summary: From the bestselling author of Look Closer comes a new domestic thriller about betrayal and murder inside one twisted family Siblings Allison and Luke have been through a lot together. They’ve always stood by each other. They’d do anything for each…
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I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Recorded Books Published: January 1, 2009 Summary: Intrepid hero Cork O’Connor faces the most harrowing mission of his life when a charter plane carrying his wife, Jo, goes missing in a snowstorm over the Wyoming Rockies. Months after the tragedy, two women show up on Cork’s doorstep with evidence that the pilot of Jo’s plane was not the man he claimed to…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Minotaur Books, #partner for the advanced copy of I, Spy in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: May 5, 2026 Summary: Ex-spy Kendal was one of the best, but now she’s wearing the toughest disguise of her career: Mom. Kendal Carter is out in the cold and she wouldn’t have it any other way. It’s been…
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Thank you Sourcebooks Audio for the ALC and Sourcebooks Landmark, #partner for the advanced copy of The Last Time We Drowned in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Cosmo Reads / Sourcebooks Audio Published: June 2, 2026 Summary: Six influencers. One luxury yacht. Nowhere to hide. Charlie Engels is broke and desperate when her bookstagram account lands her the offer of a lifetime: join Empress, a state-of-the-art yacht houseboat…
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I purchased this book for my own collection. Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Published: September 27, 2011 (first published 1947) Summary: In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet—reasoned the detective—like Hercules he had been responsible for ridding society of some of its most unpleasant monsters. So, in the period leading up to his retirement, Poirot makes up his mind to accept just twelve more cases: his self-imposed “Labors.”…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Minotaur Books, #partner for the advanced copy of The Anniversary in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: May 12, 2026 Summary: Every Year He Comes For Them. On one fateful night in 1992, the lives of two seventeen-year-olds are changed and intertwined forever. Quinn Riley, a boy from the wrong side of the tracks,…
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Thank you to Hachette Audio for the ALC and Grand Central Publishing, #partner, for the advanced copy of Night Objects in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Grand Central Publishing / Hachette Audio Published: May 26, 2026 Summary: In this “vivid and immersive” (Liz Moore) debut, Eli Raphael conjures the windswept coast of Washington State and a boarding school steeped in privilege and deadly secrets—a remarkable story of grief, power,…
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Thank you Libro.fm / William Morrow for the ALC and William Morrow, #partner for the advanced e-copy of Caller Unknow in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow / William Morrow Published: May 5, 2026 Summary: How far would you go to rescue your child? A mother races against the clock—and finds herself on the wrong side of the law—in a desperate fight to save her teenage daughter…
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Thank you Libro.fm and Macmillan Audio for the ALCs and Poisoned Pen Press, Minotaur Books, Flatiron Books/Pine & Cedar and Atria Books #partner for the physical copies in exchange for my honest reviews. Thrillers will always be my go-to and these all hit the mark for me! FINDERS KEEPERS by Natalie Barelli Published: February 24, 2026, Poisoned Pen Press Summary: Dear Diary. Today I’m going to…
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Thank you Libro.fm / William Morrow for the ALC and William Morrow, #partner, for the finished copy of The Murder at World’s End in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow / William Morrow Published: January 6, 2026 Summary: Secrets, murder, and mayhem collide as this unlikely sleuthing duo—an under-butler and a foul-mouthed octogenarian—hunt a killer in a manor sealed against the end of the world. Cornwall, 1910. On a…
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Thank you Atlantic Crime, #partner, for the advanced copy of Last Seen in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atlantic Crime Published: May 19, 2026 Summary: The Survivors meets Disappearing Earth in this psychologically acute thriller about a seaside community grappling with its dark past as long-hidden secrets begin to inflict new wounds, from million-copy and internationally bestselling author Lucy Clarke Seven years ago, two boys went missing at sea – and only…
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I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Recorded Books Published: September 2, 2008 Summary: When the daughter of a powerful businessman dies as a result of her meth addiction, her father, strong-willed and brutal Buck Reinhardt, vows revenge. His target is the Red Boyz, a gang of Ojibwe youths accused of supplying the girl’s fatal drug dose. When the head of the Red Boyz and his wife are murdered in…
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I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Recorded Books Published: July 24, 2007 Summary: Henry Meloux, Cork’s friend and spiritual advisor, asks the Minnesota sheriff turned private investigator to find Henry’s long-lost son. Cork tracks the man to the Canadian town of Thunder Bay, Ontario, where it turns out he’s a prominent (if reclusive) industrialist. When someone tries to kill Henry, and the evidence points to his son, Cork digs…
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Thank you Atria Books, #partner for the advanced copy of Two Kinds of Stranger in exchange for my honest review. I obtained the audiobook via one of my audiobook subscriptions. Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: March 24, 2026 Summary: SHE HELPED A PERFECT A STRANGER. SHE DIDN’T KNOW HE WAS THE PERFECT KILLER… Elly Parker had everything. Perfect husband. Perfect apartment. Perfect friends and the…
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Thank you PRH Audio for the ALC and Bantam #partner, for the advanced and finished copies of The Library After Dark in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Bantam / Random House Audio Published: May 5, 2026 Summary: A bookseller must escape the infamously haunted library that holds her darkest secrets, but with a murderer in her tour group, escaping alive is not as simple as it seems, in this…
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Thank you Minotaur Books, #partner for the advanced copy of This Weekend Doesn’t End Well for Anyone in exchange for my honest review. I obtained the audiobook via one of my audiobook subscriptions. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: April 28, 2026 Summary: The third in the witty and captivating series following bestselling author Eleanor Dash, who once again has to swap her sun hat for her detective hat, when…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Minotaur Books, #partner for the advanced copy of Dark Is When the Devil Comes in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: April 28, 2026 Summary: Unrelentingly scary and thrilling, Dark Is When the Devil Comes is an ambitious and chilling novel from acclaimed horror author Daisy Pearce. The woods are known as the place to…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Minotaur Books, #partner for the advanced copy of Shaw Connolly Lives to Tell in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: June 17, 2025 Summary: A page-turning, compelling thriller about a woman who will stop at nothing to uncover the truth behind her sister’s disappearance. Shaw Connolly is no stranger to trauma. As a fingerprints analyst, she’s…
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I purchased this book for my own collection. Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Published: February 1, 2011 (first published 1949) Summary: Described by the queen of mystery herself as one of her favorites of her published work, Crooked House is a classic Agatha Christie thriller revolving around a devastating family mystery. The Leonides are one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That is until the head of the household,…
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Thank you PRH Audio for the ALC and Crown #partner, for the finished copy of A Gift Before Dying in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Dutton / Random House Audio Published: January 20, 2026 Summary: In a hauntingly atmospheric novel set against the unforgiving landscape of the Arctic Circle, a disgraced police investigator discovers that his path to redemption is paved with ice—and blood. After a botched high-profile murder…
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Thank you Crooked Lane Books, #partner for the advanced copy of Everything Has Happened in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Crooked Lane Books Published: April 28, 2026 Summary: A disappearance from the past echoes in the future in this ambitious and wrenching mystery, perfect for readers of The God of the Woods. In 1986, a child disappeared. Nearly forty years later, a tip line rings. It’s been almost…
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Thank you to Bookouture, #partner, for the ALC and e-copy of The Girls in the Dark in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Bookouture Published: April 24, 2026 Summary: I stare at the security footage, heart pounding in my chest. I know who broke into my home—she has a face just like my own. Twenty years ago, my sister was killed and I survived. So how can she be here…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Atria Books, #partner for the advanced copy of The Caretaker in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books/Emily Bestler Books/12:01 Books / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: April 21, 2026 Summary: Follow the Rites… Nothing less than the survival of humanity is at stake. From Marcus Kliewer, a new “titan of the macabre and unsettling” (Erin…
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Thank you to Recorded Books for the ALC and MBC Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of A Spell for Saints and Sinners in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Kensington Books/ Recorded Books Published: March 31, 2026 Summary: Like a gender-flipped You but dripping with Southern Gothic atmosphere, a young psychic on the verge of losing everything becomes obsessed with a wealthy, beautiful heiress in this clever, darkly atmospheric novel of…
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Thank you Chris Bucci and St. Martin’s Press, #partner, for the advanced copy and finished copy of These Familiar Walls in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Published: April 14, 2026 Summary: A spine-chilling, heart-pounding suburban horror novel at the heart of the genre, perfect for fans of T. Kingfisher, Cassandra Khaw, and Catriona Ward. In 1998, desperate loneliness pushes preteen Amber to ignore the misgivings of…
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Thank you Mulholland Books, #partner for the advanced e-copy of Guide Me Home in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Mulholland Books Published: September 3, 2024 Summary: In the final novel in the “timely and evocative” (NPR) Highway 59 trilogy, from Edgar Award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author Attica Locke, Darren Matthews is pulled out of an early retirement to investigate the disappearance of a Black college student from an…
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Thank you Dutton #partner, for the finished copy of Mother Is Watching in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Dutton Published: March 17, 2026 Summary: An internationally bestselling author’s chilling horror debut in which an art conservator’s obsession with a mysterious painting spirals into a nightmarish descent, where the line between reality and the supernatural shatters, threatening both her sanity and her life. Mathilde “Tilly” Crewson, a thirty-nine-year-old mother and…
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I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Recorded Books Published: November 27, 2006 Summary: Desperately avoiding the clutches of professional hit men who have already put a bullet in his leg, Cork finds sanctuary outside the small Michigan town of Bodine. But while he’s hiding out in an old resort owned by his cousin Jewell DuBois, a bitter widow with a fourteen-year-old son named Ren, the body of a…
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Thank you Atlantic Crime, #partner for the advanced copy of Ruby Falls in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atlantic Crime Published: March 3, 2026 Summary: One body. Five suspects. Total darkness. A tense, claustrophobic historical mystery set almost entirely underground at the onset of the Great Depression about the discovery of a 150-foot waterfall in the middle of a mountain, the unthinkable crime that happens in its caves, and…
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