psychological thriller – Always With a Book

k2reader March 21, 2026

You Did Nothing Wrong by C.G. Drews #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the finished copy of You Did Nothing Wrong in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: March 17, 2026 Summary: A relentless, horror-inducing psychological suspense for fans of The Push and Baby Teeth by New York Times bestselling author CG Drews. Single mother Elodie’s life has become a fairy tale. She’s met Bren, equal…

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k2reader February 20, 2026

Adrift by Will Dean #bookreview

Thank you Atria Books #partner, for the advanced e-copy of Adrift in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books Published: February 17, 2026 Summary: The author of the “master class in suspense” (Shari Lapena, New York Times bestselling author) The Chamber returns with a high-tension thriller about a family’s descent into darkness that is perfect for fans of Dennis Lehane and Lisa Jewell. Peggy and Drew, both aspiring writers, move to an…

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k2reader February 8, 2026

Good Intentions by Marisa Waltz #bookreview #audiobook #debut

Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the advanced copy of Good Intentions in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: February 3, 2026 Summary: A deft and immersive psychological suspense debut about a luxury party planner who becomes obsessed with a woman she encounters in a hospital waiting room. Cady has worked hard to have…

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k2reader February 6, 2026

She Lies Close by Sharon Doering #bookreview #audiobook #debut

I purchased this book for my own collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Titan Books / Blackstone Publishing Published: November 10, 2020 Summary: A compulsive debut thriller about motherhood, obsession and how far we’d go to protect the ones we love. Five-year-old Ava Boone has been missing for six months. There have been no leads, no arrests, no witnesses. The only suspect was quiet, middle-aged Leland Ernest.…

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k2reader December 19, 2025

Love, Mom by Iliana Xander #bookreview

Thank you Poisoned Pen Press, #partner, for the finished copy of Love, Mom in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Published: September 2, 2025 Summary: A best-selling author. A mother. A murderer… Mackenzie Casper is a brilliant student. But she is best known for her mother, a best-selling author whose dark, twisted thrillers have a dedicated worldwide fanbase. When her mother dies in an accident, fans across…

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k2reader December 17, 2025

The French Honeymoon by Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau #bookreview

Thank you Sourcebooks Landmark, #partner, for the advanced copy of The French Honeymoon in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark Published: April 15, 2025 Summary: The Paris Apartment meets A Simple Favor in an unputdownable thriller about a honeymoon gone horribly wrong. Sometimes, Paris is a terrible idea. This is not how she imagined it, any of it. Taylor Quinn arrives at her honeymoon suite in the City of Love alone, sans suitcase,…

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k2reader December 4, 2025

Her Many Faces by Nicci Cloke #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you to Harper Audio for the ALC and William Morrow, #partner, for the finished copy of Her Many Faces in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow / Harper Audio Published: July 15, 2025 Summary: For readers of Girl A and Notes on an Execution comes a whip-smart and suspenseful story of a woman on trial for murder, as told through the eyes of the most important men in her own life.…

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k2reader December 4, 2025

All This Could Be Yours by Hank Ryan Phillippi #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Minotaur Books, #partner for the advanced copy of All This Could Be Yours in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: September 9, 2025 Summary: Debut sensation Tessa Calloway is on a whirlwind book tour for her instant bestseller, All This Could Be Yours. In a different city every night, Tessa receives standing ovations from adoring fans while her…

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k2reader November 23, 2025

The Gallery Assistant by Kate Belli #bookreview

Thank you Atria Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Gallery Assistant in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books Published: October 14, 2025 Summary: This twisty and sinister thriller follows a New York art gallery assistant reckoning with her past and now trapped in a web of deceit after an up-and-coming painter is murdered—perfect for fans of Katy Hays and Julia Bartz. November 2001: Chloe Harlow wakes…

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k2reader November 19, 2025

The Kidnapping of Alice Ingold #bookreview

Thank you to MBC Books, #partner, for a finished copy of The Kidnapping of Alice Ingold in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Published: November 1, 2025 Summary: A harrowing abduction becomes a tantalizing nationwide game in a twisty and ingenious novel of suspense by a USA Today bestselling author. Alice Ingold has been kidnapped. Call the police. Alert the media. You can’t play this game without all the…

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k2reader November 5, 2025

Not Good People by Audra McElyea #bookreview

Thank you to the author, #partner, for an advanced copy of Not Good People in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Counterplay Press Published: October 14, 2025 Summary: When a group of strangers win a weeklong stay at a primitive-style castle in the Blue Ridge Mountains, it feels like they’ve won the lottery. But when a deadly snowstorm hits the moment they arrive, unease settles in because now they’re bound…

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k2reader August 25, 2025

The Locked Ward by Sarah Pekkanen #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Macmillan Audio for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the advanced copy of The Locked Ward in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: August 5, 2025 Summary: Was it… Bitter, all-consuming jealousy? Pathological sibling rivalry? Pure insanity? Whatever the cause—and everyone has a theory—it’s the Crime of the Decade when glamorous Georgia Cartwright, who was adopted as a…

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k2reader August 16, 2025

Last One Out by Steph Nelson #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon Maverick, #partner, for the ALC of Last One Out in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Simon Maverick Audio Published: June 10, 2025 Summary: Perfect for fans of Noelle Ihli and Stacy Willingham, this chilling, riveting thriller unravels the dark secrets behind Chloe Webster’s disappearance and her shocking return twenty-five years later, as her cousin Frankie races to uncover a truth more terrifying than she could imagine.…

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k2reader August 12, 2025

Guess Again by Charlie Donlea #bookreview

Thank you Kensington Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Guess Again in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Kensington Books Published: July 29, 2025 Summary: On the 10th anniversary of a teenage girl’s disappearance, her cold case breaks open in dangerous ways…and threatens to tear apart her small Wisconsin town all over again in the masterfully twisty new psychological suspense novel from the internationally bestselling author of Twenty Years Later.…

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k2reader June 25, 2025

The Expat Affair by Kimberly Belle #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you HTP Audio for the ALC and HTP / Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of The Expat Affair in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Park Row / Harlequin Audio Published: June 3, 2025 Summary: An American expat‘s startling discovery plunges her into the glamorous but deadly world of Amsterdam’s diamond industry. Following a nasty divorce, Rayna Dumont came to Amsterdam for a fresh start. She’s never…

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k2reader March 12, 2025

Remote: The Six by Eric Rickstad #bookreview #audiobook #series

Thank you to Netgalley/Blackstone Publishing for the ALC and to the author for the advanced copy of Remote: The Six in exchange for my honest opinion. Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Published: April 8, 2025 Summary: A serial killer is rampaging across the country, tying families to chairs–arranged in puzzling tableaus–then murdering them, without leaving a trace of evidence. FBI Special Agent Lukas Stark has been hunting the Tableau Killer for eighteen…

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k2reader March 1, 2025

Cross My Heart by Megan Collins #bookreview #audibook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Atria Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Cross My Heart in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: January 14, 2025 Summary: She has his dead wife’s heart; the one she wants is his. The author of The Family Plot brings her signature prose to a twisty novel about a heart transplant patient…

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k2reader February 28, 2025

Tell Me What You Did by Carter Wilson #bookreview

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Published: January 28, 2025 Summary: She gets people to confess their crimes for a living. He knows she’s hiding a terrible secret. It’s time for the truth to come out… Poe Webb, host of a popular true crime podcast, invites people to anonymously confess crimes they’ve committed to her audience. She can’t guarantee the police won’t…

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k2reader December 4, 2024

The Close-Up by Pip Drysdale #bookreview

Thank you MB Communications & Gallery Books, #partner, for the finished copy of The Close-Up in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Gallery Books Published: December 3, 2024 Summary: A struggling author discovers the dark side of fame when a stalker begins reenacting violent events from her thriller in this electrifying and twisty new novel. When Zoe Ann Weiss moves to Los Angeles to pursue her dream of becoming…

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k2reader November 16, 2024

Mini Reviews: Thriller Edition #bookreviews #thrillers #minireviews

Thank you Viking Books, partner for the finished copy of Someone in the Attic and William Morrow Books, partner for the finished copy of This is Why We Lied in exchange for my honest reviews. I purchased the audiobook of This is Why We Lied for my collection. These are two thrillers that I reviewed on my Instagram page the week they came out but realized I never shared…

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k2reader October 7, 2024

The Poison Tree by Erin Kelly #bookreview

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Penguin Books Published: January 31, 2012 (first published 2010) Summary: It is the sweltering summer of 1997, and Karen is a straight-laced, straight-A university student. When she meets the impossibly glamorous Biba, a bohemian orphan who lives in a crumbling old mansion in Highgate with her enigmatic brother Rex, she is soon drawn into their world — but something…

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k2reader August 16, 2024

House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Macmillan Audio, for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the advanced copy of House of Glass in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: August 6, 2024 Summary: On the outside they were the golden family with the perfect life. On the inside they built the perfect lie. A young nanny who plunged to her death, or was she pushed?…

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k2reader July 31, 2024

The Second Mrs. Strom by Kaira Rouda #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers The Pulse, Bookouture, #partner, for an advanced e- copy and ALC of The Second Mrs. Strom in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Bookouture Published: August 16, 2024 Summary: I don’t want the perfect marriage. I want revenge… If you had met me a year ago, you wouldn’t have noticed me. A beautiful woman, but a struggling nobody in a tiny apartment, invisible… Meeting Paul…

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k2reader July 18, 2024

The Last Party by A.R. Torre #bookreview

Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers The Pulse, Thomas & Mercer, #partner, for an advanced e- copy of The Last Party in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Published: August 20, 2024 Summary: A loving mother. A notorious murderer. They both have reasons to hide their secrets in a novel of escalating shock and suspense by New York Times bestselling author A. R. Torre. Perla Wultz lives with her husband,…

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k2reader July 7, 2024

On the Surface by Rachel McGuire #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Dreamscape Media, Netgalley, #partner for an advanced ALC of On the Surface in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Dreamscape Meda Published: July 9, 2024 Summary: A YouTubing cruiser couple sails the world living their best life—until one of them goes missing and their whole world capsizes, in this captivating psychological thriller perfect for fans of Something in the Water and Saint X. Sawyer Stone III and Dani Fox, a…

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k2reader June 29, 2024

What Lies in Darkness by Christina McDonald #bookreview #series

Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers The Pulse, Thomas & Mercer, #partner, for an advanced e- copy of What Lies in Darkness in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Published: July 16, 2024 Summary: A missing family. A traumatized detective. The past and present collide in a riveting novel of suspense by the USA Today bestselling author of These Still Black Waters, Do No Harm, Behind Every Lie, and…

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k2reader June 27, 2024

What the Wife Knew by Darby Kane #bookreview

Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers The Pulse, William Morrow, #partner, for an advanced e-copy of What the Wife Knew in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Published: December 10, 2024 Summary: Darby Kane, author of the #1 international bestseller Pretty Little Wife, returns with another twisty domestic thriller about a wife wondering who tried to kill her husband twice before finally succeeding… because that was supposed to be her job. Dr. Richmond Dougherty…

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k2reader May 20, 2024

Middletide by Sarah Crouch #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Atria Books #partner, for the advanced copy of Middletide in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: June 11, 2024 Summary: In this gripping and intensely atmospheric debut, disquiet descends on a small town after the suspicious death of a beautiful young doctor, with all clues pointing to the reclusive young man…

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k2reader May 16, 2024

Mad Love by Wendy Walker #audioreview

I obtained this audiobook through my Audible Subscription. Publisher: Audible Originals Published: May 9, 2024 Summary: They were madly in love. The perfect couple. That was the story everyone in South River believed … until Gin Talcott and Adam Archer were found shot in their bed. Adam is dead at the scene. Gin is fighting for her life. Detectives Greta Jessup and Finn Pate are assigned to the case.…

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k2reader May 9, 2024

Original Twin by Paula Gleeson #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Brilliance Audio/Netgalley, #partner for the ALC of Original Twin in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Brilliance Audio Published: June 1, 2024 Summary: A twisty crossover thriller that will have readers guessing right up until the end. Perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn, Mary Kubica, and Megan Abbott. SHE’S ALWAYS BEEN SECOND BEST. NOW SHE’S THE ONLY ONE LEFT. Twin sisters May and June couldn’t be more different.…

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k2reader May 1, 2024

Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Libro.fom / Macmillan Audio, for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the advanced copy of Darling Girls in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: April 23, 2024 Summary: SISTERS, SECRETS, LOVE, AND MURDER… Sally Hepworth’s new novel has it all. For as long as they can remember, Jessica, Norah, and Alicia have been told how lucky they are.…

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k2reader April 29, 2024

The Woman on the Ledge by Ruth Mancini #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Harper Perennial, #partner, for the finished copy of The Woman on the Ledge in exchange for my honest review. I purchased the audiobook for my collection. Publisher: Harper Perennial / Harper Audio Published: January 16, 2024 Summary: Obsession. Intrigue. Revenge. Whose secrets are you keeping? And why? A woman falls to her death from a London bank’s twenty-fifth-floor roof terrace. You’re arrested for her murder. You tell…

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k2reader April 22, 2024

You Know What You Did by K.T. Nguyen #bookreview

Thank you Dutton / Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of You Know What You Did in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Dutton Published: April 16, 2024 Summary: In this heart-pounding debut thriller for fans of Lisa Jewell and Celeste Ng, a first-generation Vietnamese American artist must confront nightmares past and present… Annie “Anh Le” Shaw grew up poor but seems to have it all now: a dream…

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k2reader March 14, 2024

Don’t Forget Me by Rea Frey #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers Promotions, Netgalley, #partner, for an advanced ALC of Don’t Forget Me in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Brilliance Audio Published: March 1, 2024 Summary: When a body is presumed to be her missing husband’s, a woman must unravel the secrets of her own past to clear her name, find the truth, and put her conscience to rest once and for all. All Ruby wanted…

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k2reader December 19, 2023

It Ends at Midnight by Harriet Tyce #bookreview #audiobook

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark / Highbridge Audio Published: February 21, 2023 Summary: It’s New Year’s Eve, and the stage is set for a lavish party in one of Edinburgh’s best postcodes. It’s a moment for old friends to set the past to rights – and move on. And yet, the celebration fails to materialize. Because…

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k2reader November 7, 2023

Lie by the Pool by Susan Walter #bookreview #audiobook

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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k2reader November 6, 2023

The Prisoner by B.A. Paris #bookreview #backlistreview

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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k2reader October 16, 2023

American Girl by Wendy Walker #bookreview #audiobook

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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k2reader October 7, 2023

The Intern by Michele Campbell #bookreview

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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k2reader September 20, 2023

These Still Black Waters by Christina McDonald #bookreview

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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k2reader August 29, 2023

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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k2reader July 23, 2023

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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k2reader July 17, 2023

The Expat Wife by Courtney Hargrove #bookreview

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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k2reader July 16, 2023

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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k2reader July 10, 2023

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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k2reader June 30, 2023

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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k2reader June 22, 2023

The New Mother by Nora Murphy #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The New Mother in exchange for my honest review. I purchased the audiobook for my own collection. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: May 30, 2023 Summary: A relatable and nerve-wracking, sympathetic and bone-chilling story — a fresh new twist on motherhood and murder in suburbia. Isolated. Lonely. Tired. It’s hard being The New Mother. Sometimes it’s murder.…

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k2reader May 31, 2023

The Good Doctor by Jessica Payne #bookreview

Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers Promotions, Bookouture, #partner, for an advanced copy of The Good Doctor in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Bookouture Published: June 14, 2023 Summary: I finally have everything I’ve ever wanted: a career saving lives, my dream home among the pines, and my caring fiancé, Elton. He doesn’t know about my past. And I’ll do anything to keep it that way… I’m so excited for…

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k2reader May 25, 2023

The Drowning Woman by Robyn Harding #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Hachette Audio, #partner for the ALC of The Drowning Woman in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Hachette Audio Published: June 13, 2o23 Summary: From the bestselling author of The Party comes a deliciously twisted story of friendship, retribution, and betrayal following a homeless woman fleeing a dangerous past—and the wealthy society wife she saves. Lee Gulliver never thought she’d find herself living on the streets—no one ever does—but…

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k2reader May 6, 2023

Tell Us No Secrets by Siena Sterling #bookreview #audiobook #backlistreview

Thank you William Morrow, #partner, for the finished copy of Tell Us No Secrets in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks / Harper Audio Published: June 7, 2022 Summary: This stunning debut thriller, set in a girls’ boarding school, will leave you breathless until the final minute. Sometimes girls are the meanest of them all… Female friendship is intense…

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