Publisher: Dutton Books Published: June 30, 2020 Source: Personal copy Summary: What was it like? Living in that house. Maggie Holt is used to such questions. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a nonfiction book…
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Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: November 2, 2021 Source: Print: ARC Paperback via Atria Books / Print: ALC via Simon & Schuster Audio Summary: From the author of Little Broken Things, a “race-to-the-finish family drama” (People) following a mother who must confront the dark summer that changed her life forever in order to reclaim the daughter she left behind. Juniper Baker had just graduated from…
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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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Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark Published: August 3, 2021 Source: Personal copy Summary: Six friends. One college reunion. One unsolved murder. A college reunion turns dark and deadly in this chilling and propulsive suspense novel about six friends, one unsolved murder, and the dark secrets they’ve been hiding from each other—and themselves—for a decade. Ten years after graduation, Jessica Miller has planned her triumphant return to southern, elite Duquette University, down…
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Publisher: Brilliance Audio Published: April 9, 2019 Source: Personal copy Summary: Two sisters raised in fear are about to find out why in a chilling novel of psychological suspense from the author of The Thinnest Air. Ignorant of civilization and cautioned against its evils, nineteen-year-old Wren and her two sisters, Sage and Evie, were raised in off-the-grid isolation in a primitive cabin in upstate New York. When the youngest grows…
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Publisher: Audible Originals Published: September 9, 2021 Source: Personal copy Summary: From the best-selling author of The Secrets of Us and The Best of Friends comes a novella of deceit, desperation, and how one little mistake can unravel a life. When overwhelmed stay-at-home mom Alexis finds herself at odds with her husband after she’s charged with a DUI, she is given one chance to get her family back: complete AA and admit her…
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Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for The Mother Next Door by Tara Laskowski. Thank you Graydon House for inviting me to participate. Publisher: Graydon House Published: October 12, 2021 Source: ARC E-copy via Publisher Summary: GOOD MOTHERS… Never show their feelings. Never spill their secrets. Never admit to murder. The annual Halloween block party is the pinnacle of the year on idyllic…
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Publisher: William Morrow Published: October 12, 2021 Source: ARC E-copy via Publisher Summary: A smart, witty, crackling novel of psychological suspense in which a girl from a hardscrabble small town meets a gorgeous Instagram influencer from the big city, with a murderous twist that will shock even the most savvy reader. On a beautiful October morning in rural Maine, a homicide investigator from the big city pulls into the…
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Publisher: Park Row Books Published: October 5, 2021 Source: ARC Paperback via Publisher Summary: Secrets, obsession and vengeance converge in this riveting thriller about an online dating match turned deadly cat-and-mouse game, from the New York Times bestselling author of Confessions on the 7:45. Think twice before you swipe. She met him through a dating app. An intriguing picture on a screen, a date at a downtown bar. What…
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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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Publisher: William Morrow Published: September 14, 2021 Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: A pulse-pounding and deviously dark debut, written with the psychological acuity and emotional punch of Luckiest Girl Alive and All the Missing Girls, that explores the hungry, angry, dark side of girlhood and dares to ask what is most dangerous to a woman: showing the world what it wants to see, or who she really is? What…
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Publisher: Berkley Books Published: October 5, 2021 Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: Two sisters go missing on a remote Scottish island. Twenty years later, one is found–but she’s still the same age as when she disappeared. The secrets of witches have reached across the centuries in this chilling Gothic thriller from the author of the acclaimed The Nesting. When single mother Liv is commissioned to paint a mural in…
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Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Published: October 5, 2021 Source: ARC Paperback via Publisher / Audio via Netgalley Summary: One secret. Eight cryptic words. Lifetimes of ruin. Wayland Maynard is just eight years old when he sees his father kill himself, finds a note that reads I am not who you think I am, and is left reeling with grief and shock. Who was his father if not the loving man…
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Publisher: Lake Union Publishing / Brilliance Audio Published: October 5, 2021 Source: ARC E-copy via GetRedPR & Netgalley / ALC via Brilliance Audio Summary: The death of a look-alike stranger leads a grieving woman down a troubling path in this riveting novel by A. J. Banner, bestselling author of The Poison Garden. Three years ago mortuary cosmetologist Phoebe Glassman lost her husband in a tragic accident. No longer the…
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Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: November 30, 2021 Source: ARC Paperback via Author / Publisher Summary: Hannah Morrissey’s Hello, Transcriber is a captivating mystery suspense debut featuring a female police transcriber who goes beyond the limits to solve a harrowing case. Every night, while the street lamps shed the only light on Wisconsin’s most crime-ridden city, police transcriber Hazel Greenlee listens as detectives divulge Black Harbor’s gruesome secrets. As an…
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Publisher: Mobius Books Published: November 9, 2021 Source: Publisher Summary: Swan Lake is divided into the black acts and the white acts. The Prince is on stage for most of the ballet, but it’s the swans audiences flock to see. In early productions, Odette and Odile were performed by two different dancers. These days, it is usual for the same dancer to play both roles. Because of the faultless…
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Publisher: Berkley Books Published: September 28, 2021 Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: Investigator Jessica Niemi is in a race against time to find the link between a body with strange markings that has washed up on a frigid shore in Finland and two mysterious disappearances in this terrifying new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Witch Hunter. Six months have passed since Jessica’s encounter with the mysterious…
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Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Published: May 4, 2021 Source: Publisher Summary: We all have stories we never tell. Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers: Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely…
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Publisher: Thomas & Mercer / Brilliance Audio Published: September 1, 2021 Source: Print – Finished copy via Amazon Publishing / Audio – ALC via Brilliance Audio Summary: A dead woman’s cherished trinkets become pieces to a terrifying puzzle. Mickie Lambert creates “digital scrapbooks” for clients, ensuring that precious souvenirs aren’t forgotten or lost. When her latest client, Nadia Denham, a curio shop owner, dies from an apparent suicide, Mickie…
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Publisher: Thomas & Mercer / Brilliance Audio Published: September 21, 2021 Source: Print – ARC Paperback via Amazon Publishing / Audio – ALC via Brilliance Audio Summary: A troubled woman becomes consumed by a past she’s desperate to forget in this unsettling psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Year. Strung between two teenagers, an unemployed husband, and a tenuous career, Penelope Cox barely has her life…
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Publisher: Berkley Books Published: September 14, 2021 Source: E-copy via Netgalley /Publisher Summary: Paloma thought her perfect life would begin once she was adopted and made it to America, but she’s about to find out that no matter how far you run, your past always catches up to you… Ever since she was adopted from a Sri Lankan orphanage, Paloma has had the best of everything—schools, money, and parents so perfect…
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Publisher: Forge Books Published: September 14, 2021 Source: ARC Paperback via Publisher Summary: The next thrilling standalone novel by USA Today bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan. Everyone knows Lily Atwood—and that may be her biggest problem. The beloved television reporter has it all—fame, fortune, Emmys, an adorable seven-year-old daughter, and the hashtag her loving fans created: #PerfectLily. To keep it, all she has to do is protect one life-changing secret. Her…
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Publisher: Grand Central Publishing / Hachette Audio Published: September 7, 2021 Source: Publisher Summary: All bets are off as #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen introduces gambler Logan Tanner, a man with a secret past that’s about to come back to haunt him. Logan Tanner lives the exhilarating life of a professional gambler, taking risks with nerves of steel. From casinos in Macau to Monte Carlo to Milan, he’s…
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Publisher: Flatiron Books Published: August 7, 2021 Source: ARC Paperback via Publisher Summary: Think you know the person you married? Think again… Things have been wrong with Mr. and Mrs. Wright for a long time. When Adam and Amelia win a weekend away to Scotland, it might be just what their marriage needs. Self-confessed workaholic and screenwriter Adam Wright has lived with face blindness his whole life. He can’t…
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Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: August 17, 2021 Source: Publisher Summary: Retired detective Konrad returns to a haunting cold case in The Darkness Knows by Arnaldur Indridason, the “undisputed King of the Icelandic thriller.” —The Guardian (UK) A frozen body is discovered in the icy depths of Langjökull glacier, apparently that of a businessman who disappeared thirty years before. At the time, an extensive search and police investigation yielded no results—one of the…
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Publisher: Ballantine Books / Random House Audio Published: August 3rd, 2021 Source: Print & Audio – Personal copy Summary: An annual backpacking trip has deadly consequences in a chilling new novel from the bestselling author of The Lost Night and The Herd. Emily is having the time of her life–she’s in the mountains of Chile with her best friend, Kristen, on their annual reunion trip, and the women are feeling closer than…
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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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Publisher: Brilliance Audio Published: August 24, 2021 Source: Publisher Summary: Amazon Charts bestselling author Vivian Barz reunites Special Agent Susan Marlan with Professor Eric Evans in a riveting installment in the Dead Remaining series. It’s been a year since Special Agent Susan Marlan and Professor Eric Evans worked a taxing missing persons case together on the Olympic Peninsula. Though the couple have since separated, Eric must reluctantly turn to…
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Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Published: August 4, 2020 Source: Publisher Summary: There are good reasons to fear the dark… Former Sergeant Ryan DeMarco’s life has been spent in defiance–he’s defied death, loneliness, and betrayal all while fighting the worst parts of humanity. He’s earned a break, and following the devastation of their last case, DeMarco and his girlfriend Jayme want nothing more than to live quietly in each other’s…
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Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: August 17, 2021 Source: Print: ARC Paperback via Atria Books / Print: ALC via Simon & Schuster Audio Summary: When a family obsessed with true crime gathers to bury their patriarch, horrifying secrets are exposed upon the discovery of another body in his grave in this chilling novel from the author of Behind the Red Door and The Winter Sister . At twenty-six, Dahlia Lighthouse has…
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Publisher: Hachette Audio Published: August 16, 2021 Source: ALC via Hachette Audio / Libro.fm Summary: If you hear it, it’s too late. Can two sisters save us all? In the shadow of Mount Hood, sixteen-year-old Tennant is checking rabbit traps with her eight-year-old sister Sophie when the girls are suddenly overcome by a strange vibration rising out of the forest, building in intensity until it sounds like a deafening…
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Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Published: July 6, 2021 Source: Netgalley Summary: In the tradition of Daphne du Maurier and Shari Lapena, comes the newest mystery thriller from New York Times bestselling author Carol Goodman—a twisty, chilling story set in a former Magdalen Laundry in Manhattan that explores today’s #MeToo complexities. You’re never really alone Journalist Joan Lurie has written a seething article exposing a notorious newspaper tycoon as a sexual predator. But the…
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Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: August 3, 2021 Source: Print: ARC Paperback via Publisher / Audio: ALC via Netgalley Summary: The acclaimed and beloved author of Still Missing is back with her most breathtaking thriller yet. The Cold Creek Highway stretches close to five hundred miles through British Columbia’s rugged wilderness to the west coast. Isolated and vast, it has become a prime hunting ground for predators. For…
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Publisher: HQ Digital Published: April 23, 2021 Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: From the USA Today bestselling author, comes the second explosive thriller about attorney Olivia Sinclair who must solve a cold-case murder to clear an innocent man’s name… HE SAW WHAT YOU DID… Teenager Ebby Engstrom witnesses a murder – and then passes out. The next morning, he wakes in his bed with no memory of how he…
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Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: July 20, 2021 Source: Print: ARC Paperback via Atria Books / Print: ALC via Simon & Schuster Audio Summary: The “queen of the sucker-punch twist” (Ruth Ware, number-one New York Times best-selling author) and author of Our House weaves an unputdownable pause-resister about a commuter who becomes a suspect in his friend’s mysterious disappearance. It all happens so quickly. One day you’re living the…
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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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Publisher: Macmillan Audio / St. Martin’s Press Published: July 13, 2021 Source: Audio: ALC via Macmillan Audio / ARC Paperback via St. Martin’s Press Summary: The multimillion-copy New York Times best-selling author B.A. Paris returns to her heartland of gripping psychological suspense in The Therapist – a powerful tale of a house that holds a shocking secret. When Alice and Leo move into a newly renovated house in The Circle, a gated community…
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Publisher: Berkley Books Published: July 6, 2021 Source: Netgalley via Publisher/GetRedPr Summary: When a student disappears and is presumed dead, her professor passes off her manuscript as his own—only to find out it implicates him in an unsolved murder in this new thriller from the USA Today bestselling author of The Request. After years of struggling to write following the deaths of his wife and son, English professor Connor Nye publishes his…
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Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio / Avid Reader Press Published: July 6, 2021 Source: Audio: ALC via Libro.fm/Simon & Schuster Audio / Print: ARC Paperback via Avid Reader Press Summary: You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone…
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Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group Published: July 6, 2021 Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: A spine-tingling novel of revenge, betrayal, and sisterhood from the internationally celebrated author of The Golden Cage. She’s had to fight for it every step of the way, but Faye finally has the life she believes she deserves: she is rich, the business she built has become a global brand, and she has carefully hidden away her…
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Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for A Cut for a Cut by Carol Wyer. Thank you #ZooloosBookTours for inviting me to participate. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer / Brilliance Audio Published: June 29, 2021 Source: Print via Author / Audio via Brilliance Audio Summary: DI Kate Young can’t trust anybody. Not even herself. In the bleak countryside around Blithfield Reservoir, a…
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Publisher: Dutton Books Published: June 29, 2021 Source: Publisher Summary: It’s November 1991. George H. W. Bush is in the White House, Nirvana’s in the tape deck, and movie-obsessed college student Charlie Jordan is in a car with a man who might be a serial killer. Josh Baxter, the man behind the wheel, is a virtual stranger to Charlie. They met at the campus ride board, each looking to…
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Publisher: Hachette Audio / Grand Central Publishing Published: June 8, 2021 Source: Audio: ALC via Libro.fm / Print: Hardcover via Publisher Summary: Eve Duncan and Joe Quinn must protect the life of a brilliant scientist so that she can live long enough to bring her discovery to the world, in this fast-paced thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen. Diane Connors is a dedicated doctor with…
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Publisher: Brilliance Audio / Amazon Crossing Published: June 1, 2021 Source: Audio via Brilliance Publishing / Print via MB Communications Summary: In a propulsive thriller by the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Baztán Trilogy, a female detective follows a psychopathic killer into the eye of a storm. Amaia Salazar, a young detective from the north of Spain, has joined a group of trainees at the FBI Academy in…
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Publisher: Random House Published: June 22, 2021 Source: Publisher Summary: Abducted as a teenager, a woman must now confront her past and untangle the truth of what really happened to her in this dark thriller from the author of The Wolf Wants In. “Laura McHugh expertly delivers a harrowing tale of a world where little is what it first appears to be.”–Ron Rash, bestselling author of Serena Seventeen-year-old Sarabeth has become…
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Publisher: Lake Union Publishing Published: August 10, 2021 Source: ARC Paperback via Author / ARC E-copy via Let’s Talk Books Promo Summary: A mother will risk everything to find her missing daughter in this twisty thriller from the author of Girl Gone Mad. “Sometimes teenagers run away…Give her a few days. She’ll be back.” That’s what the police tell Jessica Moore when her seventeen-year-old daughter, Wyn, vanishes. All signs point…
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Publisher: William Morrow Published: June 15, 2021 Source: Netgalley via Scene of the Crime/Publisher Summary: From the author of the “full-throttle thriller” (A. J. Finn) No Exit—a riveting new psychological page-turner featuring a fierce and unforgettable heroine. Three months ago, Lena Nguyen’s estranged twin sister, Cambry, drove to a remote bridge sixty miles outside of Missoula, Montana, and jumped two hundred feet to her death. At least, that is the…
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Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: March 2, 2021 Source: Publisher Summary: “They found the bodies on a Tuesday.” So begins this twisty and breathtaking novel that traces the fate of the Pine family, a thriller that will both leave you on the edge of your seat and move you to tears. After a late night of partying, NYU student Matt Pine returns to his dorm room to devastating news: nearly…
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Publisher: Macmillan Audio / Celadon Books Published: June 15, 2021 Source: Audio: ALC via Librofm / Print: ARC Paperback via Celadon Books Summary: Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek Tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike—particularly by the members of a secret society of female students known as The Maidens.…
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Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Published: June 15, 2021 Source: Publisher Summary: From the USA Today bestselling author of White Out comes a story of two heroines with shattered pasts and a town with blood on its hands. When a North Dakota couple is shot down in their home in cold blood, the sleepy town of Hagen wakes with a jolt. After all, it’s usually such a peaceful place. But…
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