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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Thank you to the author, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Expat Wife in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: One Moment Books Published: July 11, 2023 Summary: Welcome to Switzerland in winter: Snow upon snow, everywhere to disappear, nowhere to hide… When newlyweds Rose and Wesley Blackwood move from New York City to Lucerne, Switzerland for his new job, they quickly take to expatriate life. What’s not…
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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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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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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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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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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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Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Atria Books #partner, for the advanced copy of The Long Way Back in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books/ Simon & Schuster ALC Published: June 13, 2023 Summary: When an Instagram-famous teenager mysteriously disappears, her mother grapples with the revelation of dark secrets in this twisty, atmospheric thriller—from the author of the “poignant, riveting” (Wendy Walker, author of Don’t…
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I purchased this audiobook for my own personal collection. Publisher: HarperAudio Published: May 16, 2023 Summary: A woman receives a bewildering inheritance that may have something to do with her past in this twisty and addictive psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author Entertainment Weekly calls “impossible to outwit.” Struggling artist Skyler Moore is flabbergasted when she receives a suspicious phone call from a lawyer she’s never met regarding a “private matter.”…
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I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Harper Audio Published: June 23, 2020 (Originally published 2010) Summary: Broken features the return of New York Times best-selling author Karin Slaughter’s most compelling characters and introduces memorable new ones in a tale of corruption, murder, and confrontation that will leave more than one life destroyed…. When Special Agent Will Trent arrives in Grant County, he finds a police department determined to protect its own…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Published: March 14, 2023 Summary: An innocent father serving life for the murder of his own son receives evidence that his child may still be alive, and must break out of prison to find out the truth in #1 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben’s latest breathtaking thriller. David and Cheryl Burroughs were living the dream life when…
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I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Harper Audio Published: July 16, 2019 Summary: In the trauma center of Atlanta’s busiest hospital, Sara Linton treats the city’s poor, wounded, and unlucky – and finds refuge from the tragedy that rocked her life in rural Grant County. Then, in one instant, Sara is thrust into a frantic police investigation, coming face-to-face with a tall driven detective and his quiet…
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Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Atria Books #partner, for the advanced copy of The Chateau in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books/ Simon & Schuster ALC Published: May 23, 2023 Summary: A dream girls trip to a luxurious French chateau devolves into a deadly nightmare of secrets and murder in this stylish, twisty thriller for fans of Lucy Foley, Ruth Ware, and…
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Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Atria Books #partner, for the advanced copy of The Family Remains in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: August 9, 2022 Summary: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell comes an intricate and affecting novel about twisted marriages, fractured families, and deadly obsessions in this standalone sequel to…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Ecco / Harper Audio Published: August 25, 2020 Summary: A groundbreaking thriller about a vigilante on a Native American reservation who embarks on a dangerous mission to track down the source of a heroin influx. Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is…
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Thank you to TandemCollectiveGlobal, Mariner Books, #partner, for a finished copy of Homecoming in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Mariner Books Published: April 4, 2023 Summary: Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek on the grounds of the grand and mysterious mansion, a local delivery man makes a terrible discovery. A police investigation is called and the small town…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Pamela Dorman Books Published: March 1, 2022 Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of Ghosted comes a love story wrapped in a mystery: an up-all-night page-turner with a dark secret at its core I have held you at night for ten years and I didn’t even know your name. We have a child together. A dog, a house. Who are you? Emma…
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I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Harper Audio Published: August 28, 2018 (Originally published 2008) Summary: With its gracious homes and tree-lined streets, Ansley Park is one of Atlanta’s most desirable neighborhoods. But in one gleaming mansion, in a teenager’s lavish bedroom, a girl has been savagely murdered. And in the hallway, her horrified mother stands amid shattered glass, having killed her daughter’s attacker with her bare…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: William Morrow / Harper Audio Published: May 3, 2022 Summary: In the Long Island oceanfront community of Mattauk, three different women discover that midlife changes bring a whole new type of empowerment… After Nessa James’s husband dies and her twin daughters leave for college, she’s left all alone in a trim white…
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Thank you William Morrow Paperbacks, #partner, for the finished copy of A Pocket Full of Rye in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Published: April 19, 2022 (first published 1953) Summary: Now with a beautiful new series look, the bizarre death of a financial tycoon has Miss Marple investigating a very odd case of crime by rhyme. Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his…
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Thank you William Morrow Paperbacks, #partner, for the finished copy of The Moving Finger in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Published: March 8, 2022 (first published 1942) Summary: Now with a beautiful new series look, a classic mystery from the Queen of Crime in which the indomitable Miss Marple exposes a small town’s shameful secrets. Lymstock is a town with more than its share of scandalous…
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Thank you Scout Press / Netgalley #partner, for the advanced copy of Zero Days in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Gallery / Scout Press Published: June 20, 2023 Summary: The New York Times bestselling “new Agatha Christie” (Air Mail) Ruth Ware returns with this adrenaline-fueled thriller that combines Mr. and Mrs. Smith with The Fugitive about a woman in a race against time to clear her name and find her husband’s murderer. Hired by…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: April 19, 2022 Summary: Friday Night Lights meets Mare of Easttown in this small-town mystery about an unlikely private investigator searching for a missing waitress. Pay Dirt Road is the mesmerizing debut from the 2019 Tony Hillerman Prize recipient Samantha Jayne Allen. Annie McIntyre has a love/hate relationship with Garnett, Texas. Recently graduated from college and home waitressing, lacking not in ambition…
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Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and @BookClubFavorites & Simon & Schuster #partner, for the finished copy of Where Are the Children Now? in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Simon & Schuster / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: April 18, 2023 Summary: The legacy of the “Queen of Suspense” continues with the highly anticipated follow-up to Mary Higgins Clark’s iconic novel Where Are The Children?, featuring the…
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I purchased this audiobook for my own collection. Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Published: February 12, 2019 Summary: The number-one New York Times best-selling author and Queen of Suspense launched her career with this classic thriller following a woman whose past holds a terrible secret. Nancy Harmon long ago fled the heartbreak of her first marriage, the macabre deaths of her two little children, and the shocking charges against…
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I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Random House Audio Published: August 11, 2006 Summary: From Atlanta’s wealthiest suburbs to its stark inner-city housing projects, a killer has crossed the boundaries of wealth and race. And the people who are chasing him must cross those boundaries, too. Among them is Michael Ormewood, a veteran detective whose marriage is hanging by a thread and whose arrogance and explosive temper…
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Today, I’m featuring a book that is coming out this summer. I have been a fan of Megan Collins ever since reading her debut novel, The Winter Sister, and I am so excited for this upcoming book! Get ready to add this to your summer tbr!!! Thank you #Thrillerbookloverspromotions for inviting me to help spread the word about this upcoming release and thank you Atria Books for the gifted copy!!! …
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Thank you Harper Audio /Netgalley, #partner for the ALC of Wrong Place Wrong Time in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Harper Audio Published: August 2, 2022 Summary: From UK bestselling author Gillian McAllister comes an astonishing, compulsively twisty psychological thriller about a mother who witnesses her teenage son stab a man and then seizes on an unconventional way to try to save him, deemed “perfection, every word, every moment”…
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Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio, #partner for the ALC of The Only Survivors in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Published: April 11, 2023 Summary: A mystery about a group of former classmates who reunite to mark the tenth anniversary of a tragic accident—only to have one of the survivors disappear, casting fear and suspicion on the original tragedy. Seven hours in the past. Seven…
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I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Brilliance Audio Published: July 31, 2007 Summary: In a stifling jail cell in a hardscrabble Georgia town, Detective Lena Adams sits in stubborn silence: bruised, angry, and the only suspect in a horrific murder that left a woman incinerated beyond recognition. One hundred miles away, Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver has gotten the call that his young detective has been arrested. Jeffrey’s…
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Thank you Brilliance Audio for the ALC and #ZooloosBooktours, #partner, for the advanced copy of A Truth for a Truth in exchange for my honest review. Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for A Truth for a Truth. Thank you ZooloosBooktours for inviting me to participate. I have long been a fan of Carol Wyer’s books and this is the latest…
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Thank you St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the advanced copy of The Soulmate in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Published: April 4, 2023 Summary: Get ready for a thrilling, addictive novel about marriage, betrayal, and the secrets that push us to the edge in Sally Hepworth’s The Soulmate. There’s a cottage on a cliff. Gabe and Pippa’s dream home in a sleepy coastal town. But their…
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Thank you HTP Books & Park Row Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The London Seance Society in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Park Row Books / Harlequin Audio Published: March 7, 2023 Summary: From the author of the sensational bestseller The Lost Apothecary comes a spellbinding tale about two daring women who hunt for truth and justice in the perilous art…
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I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Random House Audio Published: October 4, 2006 Summary: The victim was buried alive in the Georgia woods – then killed in a horrifying fashion. When Sara Linton and Jeffrey Tolliver stumble upon the body, both become consumed with finding out who killed the pretty young woman. For them, a harrowing journey begins, one that will test their own turbulent relationship and…
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Thank you Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of What Have We Done in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: March 7, 2023 Summary: In this thriller from Alex Finlay, What Have We Done is a tale about the lives we leave behind and the secrets we carry with us forever. A stay-at-home mom with a past. A has-been rock star with a habit. A…
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Thank you Brilliance Audio for the ALC and WunderKind PR , #partner, for the advanced copy of The Family Bones in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer / Brilliance Audio Published: March 7, 2023 Summary: What makes a psychopath? A young woman delves into her family’s shadowy legacy in a terrifying novel by the #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author of Strangers We Know. Psychology student Olivia Eriksen’s…
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I received this book from a friend. Publisher: Atria Books Published: September 7, 2021 Summary: 2017: 19 year old Tallulah is going out on a date, leaving her baby with her mother, Kim. Kim watches her daughter leave and, as late evening turns into night, which turns into early morning, she waits for her return. And waits. The next morning, Kim phones Tallulah’s friends who tell her that Tallulah…
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Thank you Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of A Flicker in the Dark in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: January 11, 2022 Summary: From debut author Stacy Willingham comes a masterfully done, lyrical thriller, certain to be the launch of an amazing career. A Flicker in the Dark is eerily compelling to the very last…
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Thank you HarperCollins360, #partner, for the finished copy of Ready or Not in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Harper Collins / HarperAudio Published: January 4, 2022 Summary: A happy family… Alice and Tom Sark seem to have it all – a wonderful marriage, a gorgeous baby, a beautiful home. And now Alice, a journalist, starts investigating a story which could make…
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Thank you BookClubFavorites & Avid Reader Press #partner, for the finished copy of Murder Your Employer in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Avider Reader Press Published: February 21, 2023 Summary: From the diabolical imagination of Edgar Award–winning novelist, playwright, and story-songwriter Rupert Holmes comes a devilish thriller with a killer concept: The McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts, a luxurious, clandestine college dedicated to the fine art of…
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Thank you Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Long Weekend in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Published: March 29, 2022 Summary: Three couples. Two bodies. One secret. Dark Fell Barn is a “perfectly isolated” retreat, or so says its website when Jayne books a reservation for her friends. A quiet place, far removed from the rest of the world, is exactly what they need. The…
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I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: HarperAudio Published: February 10, 2015 Summary: Two armed men enter the police station in tiny Heartsdale, Georgia, and open fire. When the shooting stops, an officer is dead, Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver is seriously wounded, and the survivors—including a class of grade-school children and medical examiner Sara Linton—are held hostage. In a tense standoff that could erupt at any moment into more bloodletting—with…
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Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Atria Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Golden Spoon in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: March 7, 2023 Summary: A killer is on the loose when someone turns up dead on the set of a hit TV baking competition in this darkly beguiling debut mystery that is perfect…
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I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: HarperAudio Published: February 10, 2015 Summary: An apparent student suicide has brought medical examiner Sara Linton to the local college campus, along with her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver. But a horribly mutilated corpse yields up few answers. And a suspicious rash of subsequent “suicides” suggests that a different kind of terror is stalking the youth of Heartsdale, Georgia – a nightmare that…
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Thank you HarperCollins360, #partner, for the advanced copy of When She Disappeared in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Avon Published: September 20, 2022 Summary: ‘On May 26, 2004, Jessie Germaine went to school as normal and cheered at the end of year rally. That evening, she rode her bike into the forest and disappeared…into thin air.’ Margo hasn’t been back to Lake…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Penguin Random House Audio, for the ALC and Viking Books, #partner for the finished copy of I Have Some Questions for You in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Viking Books / Penguin Random House Audio Published: February 21, 2023 Summary: The riveting new novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great Believers A successful film professor and podcaster,…
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Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for Cold-Blooded Liar. Thank you Berkley Books for inviting me to participate. I have a book spotlight and excerpt for you today. Publisher: Berkley Books Published: February 28, 2023 Summary: Brace yourself for a scorching new series from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen Rose, where San Diego means sun, surf, sand…and serial killers. Sam Reeves is…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio /Netgalley for the ALC and Forge Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The House Guest in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Forge Books / Macmillan Audio Published: February 7, 2023 Summary: The House Guest is another diabolical cat-and-mouse thriller from USA Today bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan—but which character is the cat, and which character is the mouse? After every divorce, one spouse gets all the friends.…
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I purchased this book for my own collection. Publisher: William Morrow Published: April 17, 2012 (first published 1929) Summary: Agatha Christie’s Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are Partners in Crime—or rather partners in crime solving—and must demonstrate their deductive skills in a wide range of confounding cases after agreeing to take over Blunt’s International Detective Agency. Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are restless for adventure, so when they are asked to take over…
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I purchased this book for my own collection. Publisher: William Morrow Published: August 30, 2011 (first published 1940) Summary: In Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery Sad Cypress, a woman damned by overwhelming evidence stands accused of murdering her romantic rival, and only Hercule Poirot stands between her and the gallows. Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence…
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