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All That’s Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien #bookreview #audiobook

All That’s Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Harper Audio / Netgalley for the ALC and William Morrow / Netgalley #partner,  for the advanced copy of All That’s Left Unsaid in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: William Morrow / Harper Audio Published: September 13, 2022   Summary: For fans of Everything I Never Told You and The Mothers, a deeply moving and unflinching debut following a young Vietnamese Australian woman who returns home to her family in the…

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Acts of Violet by Margarita Montimore #bookreview #audiobook

Acts of Violet by Margarita Montimore #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Macmillan Audio / Netgalley, #partner for the ALC of Acts of Violet in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Macmillan Audio Published: July 5, 2022   Summary: From Margarita Montimore, the author of GMA Book Club pick and national bestseller Oona Out of Order, Acts of Violet is a dazzling and twisty new novel about a famous magician who disappears, leaving her sister to figure out what really happened. Nearly a…

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Girl, Forgotten by Karin Slaughter #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

Girl, Forgotten by Karin Slaughter #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

Thank you Blackstone Publishing / Netgalley for the ALC and Bibliolifestyle & William Morrow Books, #partner,  for the finished copy of Girl, Forgotten in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: William Morrow / Blackstone Publishing Published: August 23, 2022   Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her comes an electrifying thriller featuring newly minted US Marshall Andrea Oliver as she investigates a cold case with links to her father’s…

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Fatal Witness by Robert Bryndza #bookreview #audiobook #netgalley #seriesreview

Fatal Witness by Robert Bryndza #bookreview #audiobook #netgalley #seriesreview

Thank you Raven Street Publishing, the author & Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced copy of Fatal Witness in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Raven Street Publishing Published: July 7, 2022   Summary: Detective Erika Foster is back in Fatal Witness–with a chilling new serial-killer case in Robert Bryndza’s multimillion best-selling crime-thriller series! How do you find a killer who has destroyed all the evidence? Detective Erika Foster is on a…

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

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

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

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Review: The Murder Rule by Dervla McTiernan (audio)

Review: The Murder Rule by Dervla McTiernan (audio)

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

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Review: Make Me Disappear by Jessica Payne (audio)

Review: Make Me Disappear by Jessica Payne (audio)

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

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

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

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

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Review: The Tobacco Wives by Adele Myers (audio)

Review: The Tobacco Wives by Adele Myers (audio)

Publisher: William Morrow / Harper Audio Published: March 1, 2022 Source: Print – Hardcover via Kathleen Carter Communications / Audio: ALC via Netgalley   Summary: North Carolina, 1946. One woman. A discovery that could rewrite history. “A beautifully rendered portrait of a young woman finding her courage and her voice.”—Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author Maddie Sykes is a burgeoning seamstress who’s just arrived in Bright Leaf, North Carolina—the tobacco capital…

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Review: Hotel Portofino by J.P. O’Connell (audio)

Review: Hotel Portofino by J.P. O’Connell (audio)

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Published: January 18, 2022 Source: Netgalley   Summary: For fans of Downton Abbey and The Crown…welcome to Hotel Portofino, where romance, revelry, and intrigue await. A heady historical drama about a British family who opens an upper-class hotel on the magical Italian Riviera during the Roaring Twenties. Hotel Portofino has been open for only a few weeks, but already the problems are mounting for its owner Bella Ainsworth. Her high-class guests…

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Review: The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont (audio)

Review: The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont (audio)

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: February 1, 2022 Source: Print – Netgalley via Publisher / Audio – ALC via Publisher   Summary: Nina de Gramont’s The Christie Affair is a beguiling novel of star-crossed lovers, heartbreak, revenge, and murder—and a brilliant re-imagination of one of the most talked-about unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century. Every story has its secrets. Every mystery has its motives. “A long time ago, in…

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Review: Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka (audio)

Review: Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka (audio)

Publisher: William Morrow/Harper Audio Published: January 25, 2022 Source: Print – ARC Paperback via William Morrow / Audio – ALC via Netgalley   Summary: In the tradition of ‘Long Bright River’ and ‘The Mars Room’, a gripping and atmospheric work of literary suspense that deconstructs the story of a serial killer on death row, told primarily through the eyes of the women in his life – from the best-selling author of ‘Girl in Snow’.…

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Review: Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins (audio)

Review: Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins (audio)

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: January 4, 2022 Source: Netgalley via the Publisher   Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wife Upstairs comes a deliciously wicked gothic suspense, set on an isolated Pacific island with a dark history, for fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware. When Lux McAllister and her boyfriend, Nico, are hired to sail two women to a remote island in the South Pacific,…

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Review: All Her Little Secrets by Wanda M. Morris (audio)

Review: All Her Little Secrets by Wanda M. Morris (audio)

Publisher: Harper Audio Published: November 2, 2021 Source: Netgalley via Publisher   Summary: In this fast-paced thriller, Wanda M. Morris crafts a twisty mystery about a black lawyer who gets caught in a dangerous conspiracy after the sudden death of her boss . . . A debut perfect for fans of Attica Locke, Alyssa Cole, Harlan Coben, and Celeste Ng, with shades of How to Get Away with Murder and John Grisham’s The…

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Review: The Corpse Flower by Anne Mette Hancock (audio)

Review: The Corpse Flower by Anne Mette Hancock (audio)

Publisher: Crooked Lane Books / Dreamscape Media LLC Published: October 12, 2021 Source: ARC Paperback – Let’s Talk Books Promo & Publisher / Audio – ALC via Netgalley   Summary: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo meets Sharp Objects in this internationally bestselling psychological thriller, for fans of Jo Nesbø and Henning Mankell, now for the first time in English A Danish journalist digs deep to uncover a web of…

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Review: 56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard (audio)

Review: 56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard (audio)

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Published: August 17, 2021 Source: Print & Audio via Publisher   Summary: No one knew they’d moved in together. Now one of them is dead. Could this be the perfect murder? 56 DAYS AGO Ciara and Oliver meet in a supermarket queue in Dublin the same week Covid-19 reaches Irish shores. 35 DAYS AGO When lockdown threatens to keep them apart, Oliver suggests that Ciara move in…

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Review: The Guilt Trip by Sandie Jones (audio)

Review: The Guilt Trip by Sandie Jones (audio)

Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: August 3, 2021 Source: Print – ARC Paperback via Minotaur Books / Audio: ALC via Netgalley   Summary: In the vein of the Reese’s Book Club x Hello Sunshine Book Club pick The Other Woman, Sandie Jones’s explosive new novel The Guilt Trip will have listeners gripped to the very last chapter. They went away as friends. They came back as suspects. Rachel and Jack. Paige…

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Review: A Woman of Intelligence by Karin Tanabe (audio)

Review: A Woman of Intelligence by Karin Tanabe (audio)

Publisher: Macmillan Audio / St. Martin’s Press Published: July 20, 2021 Source: Audio: Netgalley via Macmillan Audio / Print: ARC Paperback via St. Martin’s Press   Summary: From “a master of historical fiction” (NPR), Karin Tanabe’s A Woman of Intelligence is an exhilarating tale of post-war New York City, and one remarkable woman’s journey from the United Nations, to the cloistered drawing rooms of Manhattan society, to the secretive ranks of the…

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Review: False Witness by Karin Slaughter (print/audio)

Review: False Witness by Karin Slaughter (print/audio)

  Publisher: William Morrow / Blackstone Publishing Published: July 20, 2021 Source: Print – ARC Paperback via William Morrow / Audio: ALC via Blackstone Publishing   Summary: AN ORDINARY LIFE Leigh Coulton has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. She has a good job as a defence attorney, a daughter doing well in school, and even her divorce is relatively civilised – her life is just…

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