Thank you St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the advanced copy of Mad Mabel in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Published: April 21, 2026 Summary: There are two kinds of people no one ever expects to be little girls and old ladies. Meet Mad Mabel. Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick is eighty-one years old. She’s lived on her idyllic street, Kenny Lane, for sixty years–longer than anyone else.…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the advanced copy of The Lake Escape in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: July 15, 2025 Summary: The next riveting summer suspense by the author of THE BLOCK PARTY and ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY, Jamie Day. WILL THIS BE THE BEST WEEK OF THEIR LIVES… OR THE LAST? JULIA,…
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Thank you Over the River PR, #partner, for the advanced copy of Last Seen in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Published: August 1, 2025 Summary: From New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison comes a twisted psychological thriller about the bonds of family and the disconnect between memory and the truth. Come here. Come closer. Halley James knows her marriage is over. But she’s not prepared for the…
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Thank you Crooked Lane Book, #partner, for the advanced copy of Spider to The Fly in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Crooked Lane Books Published: September 2, 2025 Summary: A true crime author helps in a desperate hunt for a killer in this dark and twisted thriller from the deviously inventive horror author that Peter Farris calls the “clear heir to Stephen King.” Perfect for fans of cat and mouse…
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I purchased this book for my own collection. Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Published: September 27, 2011 (first published 1936) Summary: It is clear to Amy Leatheran that something sinister is going on at the Hassanieh dig in Iraq; something associated with the presence of “Lovely Louise,” wife of celebrated archaeologist Dr. Leidner. In a few days’ time Hercule Poirot is due to drop in at the excavation site. But with Louise…
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Thank you LibroFm / Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Atria Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Devil’s Advocate in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: August 5, 2025 Summary: This high-octane legal thriller from the international bestselling author of Kill for Me, Kill for You will “make your palms sweat and your blood run cold” (The Times, London) as…
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Thank you Atlantic Crime, #partner, for the finished copy of The Treasure Hunters Club in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press Published: October 24, 2024 Summary: A murder mystery set in a seaside town filled with pirate lore, family secrets, unforgiveable grudges, secret societies, and of course, a treasure lost to time. WELCOME TO MAPLE BAY, NOVA SCOTIA For nearly a century, people have ventured to the idyllic…
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Thank you Atlantic Crime, #partner, for the advanced copy of What About the Bodies in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atlantic Crime Published: September 2, 2025 Summary: In this propulsive crime novel from Edgar Award nominee Ken Jaworowski, three lives collide in a gritty rust-belt town—a single mother covering up a deadly mistake, a young man on a mission to honor a dying wish, and a musician racing to escape…
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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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Thank you PRH Audio for the ALC of She Didn’t See It Coming in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Penguin Audio Published: July 29, 2025 Summary: When a beloved wife and mother disappears, a luxurious condo building transforms into a potential crime scene, and the investigation begins: can the detectives find her before it’s too late? Bryden and Sam have it all: thriving careers, a smart apartment in…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio, #partner, for the ALC of Vantage Point in exchange for my honest review. I purchased the physical copy for own my copy. Publisher: MCD / Macmillan Audio Published: January 14, 2025 Summary: Succession meets Megan Abbott in this seductive Gothic suspense novel about the dramatic downfall of one of America’s most affluent families. The old-money Wieland family has it all—wealth, status, power. They’re also famously cursed.…
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Thank you PRH Audio for the ALC and Kathleen Carter Communications/Berkley, #partner, for the finished copy of Too Old for This in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Berkley / Penguin Audio Published: August 12, 2025 Summary: A retired serial killer’s quiet life is upended by an unexpected visitor. To protect her secret, there’s only one option left—what’s another murder? From bestselling author Samantha Downing. Lottie Jones thought her crimes were…
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Thank you Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Next of Kin in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: April 23, 2024 Summary: From the Tony Hillerman Prize-winning author of Pay Dirt Road comes Samantha Jayne Allen’s mesmerizing new novel set in a hardscrabble Texas town dealing with disaster. At a gathering for her cousin’s wedding party, newly-licensed PI Annie McIntyre gets asked an age-old question, the answer…
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Thank you Atria Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Astrology House in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books Published: July 16, 2024 Summary: A group of wealthy Manhattanites escapes to an astrology-themed retreat, where simmering resentments and long-held secrets lead to a shocking death. Margot needs a minute. She’s been working eighty-hour weeks as a newly minted partner at her law firm. She’s disconnected from her…
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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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Thank you G.P. Putnam’s Sons, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of All the Other Mothers Hate Me in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: G. P. Putnam’s Sons Published: March 11, 2025 Summary: “The missing boy is 10-year-old Alfie Risby, and to be perfectly honest with you, he’s a little shit.” Florence Grimes, age thirty-one, always takes the easy way out. Single, broke and unfulfilled after the humiliating end to her…
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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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Thank you Simon Maverick, #partner, for the ALC of Such Quiet Girls in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Simon Maverick Audio Published: April 29, 2025 Summary: Ten children, abducted in broad daylight—and buried alive. Sage and her sister won’t make it home from school today. Neither will the other children on Bus 315. But that’s only the beginning of the nightmare. New bus driver Jessa blames herself for what…
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Thank you Atlantic Crime, #partner, for the finished copies of To Catch a Storm & A World of Hurt in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobooks from the library. I am loving Mindy Mejia’s new Iowa Mystery series so much and I’m not sure why I haven’t seen more people reading these!! Books 1 & 2 are now available & book 3 is due out in September…
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Thank you Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Blue Horse in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: July 8, 2025 Summary: A controversial wild horse round-up in the high desert of Nevada results in two murders and too many suspects for Sheriff Porter Beck to deal with. A helicopter driving a controversial round-up of wild horses suddenly crashes and the pilot is found…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio for the ALCs and Minotaur Books, #partner for the advanced copies of So Happy Together & Party of Liars in exchange for my honest reviews. Summer reading is in full effect and I’m all about the twisty, addictive, unpredictable thrillers. And if I can get them on audio, even better! These are just 2 that I think would make great additions to your summer reading…
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Thank you Atria Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Nowhere in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books Published: March 25, 2025 Summary: Mare of Easttown meets The Outsider in this spine-tingling and twisty debut about a series of disappearances in a small, fundamentalist town and what one broken family must do to remain together as dark forces close in. After losing her young son in an accident, Rachel Kennan throws…
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Thank you Atlantic Crime, #partner, for the finished copy of Holy City in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Grove Press Published: June 10, 2025 Summary: No one innocent. No one free. Nothing sacred. Holy City is the captivating debut from Henry Wise about a deputy sheriff who must work alongside an unpredictable private detective after he finds himself on the outs from his sheriff’s department over his unwillingness to look the…
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Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers The Pulse, Thomas & Mercer, #partner, for an advanced e- copy of Close Call in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Published: August 19, 2025 Summary: In a hard-hitting thriller from the author of Lights Out and Dangerous Play, reporter Kate Green courts danger once again when the famous subject of her next story is kidnapped during the US Open. With a hard-won Emmy now gracing…
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Thank you Scribner, #partner, for the advanced copy of The White Crow in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Scribner Published: July 1, 2025 Summary: Ambitious young police officer Philomena McCarthy, the daughter of London’s most notorious mob boss, returns in the latest propulsive thriller by author Michael Robotham. Philomena McCarthy has defied the odds to become a young officer with the Metropolitan Police because her father and her uncles are…
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I purchased this book for my own collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Flatiron Books / Macmillan Audio Published: November 1, 2022 Summary: White Horse is a gritty, vibrant debut from Erika T. Wurth about an Indigenous woman who must face her past when she discovers a bracelet haunted by her mother’s spirit. Some people are haunted in more ways than one. Heavy metal, ripped jeans, Stephen King…
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Thank you Viking Books / Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of The Inheritance in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Viking/Pamela Dorman Books Published: January 21, 2025 Summary: Most family reunions end in tears. This one will end in murder. Meet the Agarwals, who have gathered on a private, luxury island off the west coast of Scotland for a much-anticipated family reunion. Raj, the patriarch and a business…
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Thank you Knopf, #partner, for the advanced copy of Our Last Resort in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Knopf Published: July 8, 2025 Summary: From the bestselling author of The Quiet Tenant comes an immersive new suspense novel: Fifteen years ago, Frida and her brother escaped a cult. Now her brother is the prime suspect in a murder investigation—and it isn’t the first time. Innocence doesn’t bail you out;…
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I found this book in my Little Free Library. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Penguin Books / Penguin Audio Published: May 29, 2018 Summary: In this neighborhood, danger lies close to home. Karen and Tom Krupp are happy—they’ve got a lovely home in upstate New York, they’re practically newlyweds, and they have no kids to interrupt their comfortable life together. But one day, Tom returns home…
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I purchased this book for my own collection. Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Published: February 22, 2022 (first published 1942) Summary: Now with a beautiful new series look, the iconic Miss Marple must investigate the case of a girl found dead in Agatha Christie’s classic mystery. It’s seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing an evening dress and heavy…
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Thank you Atria Books / Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of Coram House in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books Published: April 15, 2025 Summary: A haunting novel—inspired by a true story—about a crime writer who risks everything as she investigates the mystery of two deaths, decades apart, at a crumbling Vermont orphanage. On a blistering summer day in 1968, nine-year-old Tommy vanishes without a trace…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Flatiron Books / Pine and Cedar Books, #partner for the advanced copy of King of Ashes in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Pine and Cedar / Macmillan Audio Published: June 10, 2025 Summary: A son returning home. A dangerous debt. Secrets about to ignite . . . and a family consumed by flames. Roman Carruthers left the smoke and fire…
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Thank you HTP / Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of The Dark Hours in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: MIRA Published: January 28, 2025 Summary: For fans of Tana French and Jane Harper, this debut crime thriller follows a retired police detective who must face down a vicious killer and the memories that haunt her—thirty years after bringing down one of Ireland’s most prolific serial killers. Julia…
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I purchased this audiobook for my own personal collection. Publisher: Audible Originals Published: April 10, 2025 Summary: A seemingly ordinary book group holds deadly secrets in this collection of connected stories from Karin Slaughter, Lee Child, B. A. Paris, and more of the world’s leading thriller writers. Dr. Margaret Richter has it all. She’s rich, thanks to her best-selling self-help books. She has a beautiful home in Cape Cod overlooking…
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I purchased this book for my own collection. Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Published: December 24, 2018 (first published 1936) Summary: Agatha Christie’s beloved classic novel sets Hercule Poirot on the trail of a serial killer—now a limited streaming series starring John Malkovich, Rupert Grint, and Tara Fitzgerald. “Let us see, Mr. Clever Poirot, just how clever you can be.” There’s a serial killer on the loose, working his way through the alphabet…
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Thank you Atlantic Crime, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Surf House in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press Published: June 10, 2025 Summary: WISH YOU WERE HERE? THINK AGAIN… High on the wave-pounded cliffs, far from the bustling souks of Marrakech, sits The Surf House. A hidden gem on Morocco’s shores, the house is a sanctuary for the surfers, travellers and dreamers who wash in. But the…
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Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Atria Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Fifty-Fifty in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: June 3, 2025 Summary: Two sisters on trial for murder. They accuse each other. Who do you believe? From Steve Cavanagh, the “wickedly clever” (The New York Times) master of twisty psychological thrillers. “911 what’s your…
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I purchased this book for my own collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Flatiron Books / Macmillan Audio Published: April 2020 (first published 2018) Summary: The serial killer isn’t on trial. He’s on the jury. It’s the murder trial of the century. And Joshua Kane has killed to get the best seat in the house – and to be sure the wrong man goes down for…
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Thank you HarperAudio for the ALC and William Morrow, #partner, for the finished copy of The Black Highway in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow / HarperAudio Published: June 24, 2025 Summary: Laughton Rees is back in the latest novel from the bestselling author of the Sanctus trilogy—this time, with a case that hits uncomfortably close to home and threatens the thing Laughton values most: her daughter.…
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Thank you ThrillerbookloversThePulse / HTP Books, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of A Killer Motive in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: MIRA Published: September 9, 2025 Summary: You never know who’s listening. To Stella Dixon, sneaking her teenage brother out of their parents’ house for a beach party was harmless fun—until Max disappeared without a trace. Six years later, Stella’s family is still broken, and she can’t let go…
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Thank you Sourcebooks Landmark, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Ghostwriter in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark Published: June 3, 2025 Summary: June, 1975. The Taylor family shatters in a single night when two teenage siblings are found dead in their own home. The only surviving sibling, Vincent, never shakes the whispers and accusations that he was the one who killed them. Decades later, the legend…
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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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Thank you Atria Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Our Last Wild Days in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books Published: May 20, 2025 Summary: From the author of the “irresistible” (Paula Hawkin, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Where the Truth Lies, an atmospheric novel about a young woman who searches for answers after her estranged friend is found dead in the bayou of their rural Louisiana hometown. The…
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Thank you Hachette Audio for the ALC and Grand Central Publishing, #partner, for the finished copy of The Death Mask in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Grand Central Publishing / Hachette Audio Published: June 24, 2025 Summary: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen comes a new thriller starring Eve Duncan as she races against time to protect her beloved family from a merciless killer. World-renowned forensic sculptor…
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I purchased these books for my own collection. I borrowed the audiobooks from the library. I have a new obsession…Eddie Flynn! And I’m devouring this series…and loving it!!! And yes, I’m well aware that you do not need to read these books in order, I do…it’s just how I prefer to read series. So, who is Eddie Flynn? He’s an ex-con turned lawyer who surprises you…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Celadon Books, #partner for the advanced copy of The Man Made of Smoke in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Celadon Books / Macmillan Audio Published: May 13, 2025 Summary: The latest gripping serial killer thriller from the New York Times bestselling author Alex North. Dan Garvie’s life has been haunted by the crime he witnessed as a child—narrowly escaping an encounter with…
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Thank you to Netgalley/Brilliance Publishing for the ALC and to Booksparks for the finished copy of One in Four in exchange for my honest opinion. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer / Brilliance Publishing Published: May 13, 2025 Summary: When a reality show about former child stars overcoming addiction culminates in murder, their therapist must take a closer look into their lives—and her own, from USA Today bestselling author Lucinda Berry. Dr. Laurel…
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Thank you William Morrow, #partner for the advanced copy of The Vanishing Kind and Minotaur Books, #partner for the advanced copies of White King & The Unlucky Ones, in exchange for my honest reviews. Thank you also to Macmillan Audio for the gifted ALC. You all know how much I love my series and these books are the latest installments in 3 series I really love! …
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Thank you Ballantine Books #partner, for the finished copy of The Last Ferry Out in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Ballantine Books / Random House Audio Published: May 20, 2025 Summary: On a trip to the tropical paradise where her fiancée died, a young woman begins to suspect the death was no accident—and the killer’s still on the island—in this twisty…
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I purchased this book and audiobook for my own collection. Publisher: Mysterious Press / Highbridge Audio Published: May 7, 2024 Summary: Rune Sarasin is about to learn just how quickly the life of a jewel thief can spiral out of control.… Seven days are all it takes for Rune Sarasin’s life to completely derail. It starts with a typical lifting a pouch of rubies from the Bangkok hotel room of…
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