Thank you Macmillan Audio for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the advanced copy of Birth of the Witch in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: November 17, 2026 Summary: First in the enchanting new epic by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lost Bride Trilogy Niamh McShane was born a witch and died a witch in the…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Minotaur Books, #partner for the advanced copy of Home for the Homicides in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: October 13, 2026 Summary: ‘Tis the season . . . for murder. When Special Agents Holly Frost and Mark Shepherd report to the idyllic town of Christmas to investigate a very less than idyllic…
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I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Recorded Books Published: September 6, 2016 Summary: Since the violent deaths of his wife, father, and best friend all occurred in previous Novembers, Cork O’Connor has always considered it to be the cruelest of months. Yet, his daughter has chosen this dismal time of year in which to marry, and Cork is understandably uneasy. His concern comes to a head when a man…
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Thank you to the author for the advanced copy of The River Runs Black in exchange for my honest opinion. Publisher: Severn House Published: October 6, 2026 Summary: A small town on the water where things aren’t as perfect as they look . . . After the recent death of a teenager by overdose, a record drug seizure along the Canadian border is a game changer for New York State’s criminal…
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Thank you Poisoned Pen Press, #partner, for the finished copy of The Cove in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Published: May 5, 2026 (originally published in 2021) Summary: THE PERFECT ESCAPE… Gabrielle Adams has it all – brains, beauty, a handsome fiancé, and a dream job in publishing. Until, one day, everything changes. The ‘Underground Killer’ takes his victims when they least expect it: standing on the…
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Thank you Poisoned Pen Press, #partner, for the advanced copy of Hysteria in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Published: June 2, 2026 (originally published in 2019) Summary: In a beautiful world, murder is always ugly… Recently returned from his last case in Ireland, elite forensic psychologist and criminal profiler Dr Alexander Gregory receives a call from the French police that he can’t ignore. It’s Paris fashion week…
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Thank you Poisoned Pen Press, #partner, for the advanced copy of Holy Island in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Published: April 7, 2026 (originally published in 2015) Summary: Detective Chief Inspector Ryan retreats to Holy Island seeking sanctuary when he is forced to take sabbatical leave from his duties as a homicide detective. A few days before Christmas, his peace is shattered and he is thrust back…
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Thank you Over The River PR, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Ferryman’s Daughter in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Published: October 1, 2206 Summary: The daughter of an infamous murderer gets caught up in a copycat’s sick game in this thriller about legacy, self-determination, and corrosive secrecy from the bestselling author of Not What She Seems. Forensic science teacher Sanaa Karrem buried her…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Scribner, #partner for the advanced copy of The Witches of Cambridge in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Scribner / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: September 8, 2026 Summary: The brand-new series from the bestselling author of Practical Magic, following two brilliant young women in 1950s Cambridge, Massachusetts, as they become immersed in a mysterious secret group…
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Thank you St. Martin’s Press #partner, for the advanced copy of Fury in Death in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: September 8, 2026 Summary: In the new crime thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author, Lt. Eve Dallas journeys into the darkness where murder is born… NYSPD homicide detective Eve Dallas never knows…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Minotaur Books, #partner for the advanced copy of A Tour to Die For in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: September 23, 2025 Summary: In Michelle Chouinard’s A Tour to Die For, Capri Sanzio is back, giving a true crime tour her guests won’t soon forget. After all, a tour guide who specializes…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Simon & Schuster #partner for the advanced e-copy of Before You Were Anne in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Simon & Schuster / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: September 1, 2026 Summary: After a woman is killed and her daughter vanishes, detective Chelsey Calhoun uncovers a legacy of violence and survival that spans from Japan to…
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I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Recorded Books Published: August 19, 2014 Summary: When the body of a teenage Ojibwe girl washes up on the shore of an island in Lake Superior, the residents of the nearby Bad Bluff reservation whisper that it was the work of a deadly mythical beast, the Windigo, or a vengeful spirit called Michi Peshu. Such stories have been told by the Ojibwe people…
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Thank you Atria Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Silent Appeal in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books Published: September 1, 2026 Summary: From “modern Agatha Christie” (The Sunday Times, London) Janice Hallett, a follow-up to her blockbuster debut novel The Appeal, featuring the Fairway Players as they put on Agatha Christie’s play The Hollow and find themselves embroiled in murder, blackmail, and betrayal once again.…
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I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Recorded Books Published: August 20, 2013 Summary: Violence and murder blow into Minnesota’s sleepy Tamarack County as ex-sheriff Cork O’Connor returns in the latest installment of William Kent Krueger’s New York Times bestselling series.As a blizzard swells just days before Christmas, the car belonging to the wife of a retired local judge is discovered abandoned on a rural road in Tamarack County. After days of…
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I purchased this book for my own collection. Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Published: August 13, 2024 (first published 1922) Summary: The novel that introduced Tommy and Tuppence, a bantering pair of 1920s bright young things who solve a mystery together while falling for each other. The Great War is over and jobs are scarce. Tommy Beresford and Prudence “Tuppence” Cowley, who were friends before the war, run into each other in…
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Thank you to the author for an advanced e- copy of All the Lies We See in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Intrique Ink Publishing Published: July 7, 2026 Summary: A viral video shows a detective committing a murder she didn’t commit in this gripping psychological crime thriller from the USA Today bestselling author of The Night Olivia Fell. Detective Jess Lambert is days away from the trial of…
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I purchased this book for my own collection. Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Published: December 28, 2021 (first published 1926) Summary: The official edition of the beloved classic voted by the British Crime Writers’ Association as the “Best Crime Novel of all Time,” now featuring a new introduction by Louise Penny, a foreword from Agatha Christie’s great grandson, and exclusive content from the Queen of Mystery. Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He…
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I purchased this book for my own collection. Publisher: William Morrow Published: March 24, 2026 Summary: Wildlife biologist Alex Carter jumps at the chance to work with hawksbill turtles in Hawaii, only to face an unthinkable threat that endangers countless lives in the captivating latest entry of the acclaimed series by Alice Henderson. Alex Carter is thrilled to be in lush, tropical Hawaii for her new to study and protect…
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Thank you William Morrow, #partner, for the finished copy of The Secrets We Hide in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Published: August 11, 2026 Summary: The next thrilling mystery in the new North Falls series from Karin Slaughter, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Girls and the Will Trent Series. Welcome to North Falls. A small town where everyone knows everyone. But nobody knows…
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I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Recorded Books Published: August 22, 2012 Summary: The latest in the New York Times bestselling Cork O’Connor mystery series—the action never stops when the private detective ends up in the crosshairs of a political assassin. The dying don’t easily become the dead. The next novel in William Kent Krueger’s New York Times bestselling series finds Cork O’Connor sitting in the shadow of a towering monolith known as Trickster’s Point,…
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I purchased this book for my own collection. Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Published: February 24, 2026 (first published 1975) Summary: Arthritic and immobilized, Poirot calls on his old friend Captain Hastings to join him at Styles to be the eyes and ears that will feed observations to Poirot’s still razor sharp mind. Though aware of the criminal’s identity, Poirot will not reveal it to the frustrated Hastings, and dubs the nameless…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Minotaur Books, #partner for the advanced copy of Brimstone Hollow in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: August 11, 2026 Summary: Following her powerful debut in The Witch’s Orchard, private investigator Annie Gore returns in Brimstone Hollow, bringing readers back to the mountains that author Archer Sullivan, a ninth generation Appalachian, knows so well. There isn’t…
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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 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 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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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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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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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 / 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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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 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 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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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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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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I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Recorded Books Published: May 7, 2007 Summary: Back in the saddle as sheriff of Tamarack County, Cork O’Connor is lured to the nearby Ojibwe reservation on what appears to be a routine call — only to become the target of sniper fire. Soon after, he’s called to investigate a mutilated body found perched above the raging waters of Mercy Falls. The victim is…
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Thank you William Morrow, #partner for the finished copy of Murder on the Orient Express in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Published: January 18. 2011 (first published 1934) Summary: “The murderer is with us—on the train now . . .” Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment,…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Minotaur Books, #partner for the advanced copy of Finlay Donovan Crossed the Line in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: March 17, 2026 Summary: Life hasn’t been easy for Finlay Donovan lately, but it just got a whole lot harder. Her nanny and partner-in-crime, Vero, has been extradited from Virginia to Maryland, where she’s…
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I purchased this book for my own collection. Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Published: September 2, 2025 (first published 1952) Summary: In Mrs. McGinty’s Dead, one of Agatha Christie’s most ingenious mysteries, the intrepid Hercule Poirot must look into the case of a brutally murdered landlady. Mrs. McGinty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head. Suspicion falls immediately on her shifty lodger, James Bentley, whose clothes reveal traces of…
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Thank you Scribner Books #partner, for the finished copy of Postmortem in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Scribner Books / Recorded Books Published: February 17, 2026 (first published 1990) Summary: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell comes Postmortem, the groundbreaking thriller that introduced Dr. Kay Scarpetta and redefined the crime genre. A killer is stalking the streets of…
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Thank you Poisoned Pen Press, #partner, for the advanced copy of Imposter in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Published: February 3, 2026 (first published 2019) Summary: There’s a killer inside all of us… In the remote hills of western Ireland, fear spreads as the locals struggle to make sense of a killer who is seemingly one of their own… Dr. Alexander Gregory, a psychologist recovering from the…
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I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Recorded Books Published: January 31, 2007 Summary: When a high school student’s body is found and her boyfriend goes missing, tough-as-nails former sheriff Cork O’Connor is forced into the center of an eerie mystery with a shocking twist in this “vivid and realistic” ( Booklist ), Anthony Award-winning novel from New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger. When the body of a…
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I purchased this book for my own collection. Publisher: Zaffre Published: January 11, 2024 Summary: The tenth thrilling installment in Lars Kepler’s bestselling series— acclaimed for “smart psychological suspense,” “explosive conclusions,” and “gritty portrayals of human evil” (Booklist)—is tense and terrifying. An emergency call comes in the middle of the night. There is an ongoing burglary at a closed campsite in Bredäng, outside Stockholm. When the police respond to…
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I purchased this book for my own collection. Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Published: December 3, 2024 (first published 1929) Summary: A practical joke goes chillingly, murderously wrong in Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie’s classic detective story, The Seven Dials Mystery. Gerry Wade had proved himself to be a champion sleeper, so the other houseguests decided to play a practical joke on him. Eight alarm clocks were set to go off, one…
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Thank you Scribner Books #partner, for the advanced copy of Punished in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Scribner Books Published: February 4, 2025 (first published January 2023) Summary: From the internationally bestselling author of the “extraordinary” (Fredrik Backman) novel Stolen comes a harrowing story—inspired by true events—of five Indigenous children forced to attend a government-run boarding school in 1950s Sweden, revealing the emotional scars they carry thirty years later. In…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Minotaur Books, #partner for the advanced copy of Inside Man in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: January 13, 2026 Summary: In this sequel to McMahon’s electrifying series debut, Head Cases, Gardner Camden and the PAR team return to investigate potentially connected cases. FBI Agent Gardner Camden is an analytical genius with an affinity for puzzles.…
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I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Recorded Books Published: March 28, 2011 Summary: Winner of the prestigious Loft-McKnight Fiction Award and the Anthony Award for Best First Novel, William Kent Krueger has established himself as a startlingly original voice in thriller fiction. With Purgatory Ridge he cements his standing as a suspense writer of the highest caliber. Not far from the small town of Aurora (population 3,752) lies…
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