Thank you Libro.fm / Recorded Books, for the ALC and @NovelSuspects & Atlantic Monthly, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of A World of Hurt in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press / Recorded Books Published: August 6, 2024 Summary: When someone dies to save your life, how do you ever forgive them? A World of Hurt is Mindy Mejia’s highly-anticipated follow-up to the “propulsive” USA Today…
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Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers The Pulse, #partner, and the author for an advanced e- copy and print copy of Running Cold in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Lake Union Publishing Published: October 8, 2024 Summary: In this heart-pounding story of deception, murder, and survival, a former Olympian retreats to the Canadian wilderness for a fresh start, only to find out that the past will always catch up to…
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Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Atria Books #partner, for the advanced copy of The Chamber in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: August 6, 2024 Summary: And Then There Were None meets The Last Breath in this tense and suspenseful locked-room thriller that takes place inside a hyperbaric chamber from the author of the “brilliant, twisted, and oh so…
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Thank you Brilliance Audio for the ALC and Over The River PR, #partner, for the advanced copy of Dear Hanna in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer / Brilliance Audio Published: August 13, 2024 Summary: Zoje Stage delivers another knockout with a blood-chilling follow-up to international sensation Baby Teeth, taking readers back into the unsteady world of a young sociopath who’s all grown up. Hanna is no…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Tin House Books Published: May 2, 2023 Summary: In 1983, deep in New Mexico’s Gila National Forest, the bodies of a young woman and two children were found. Who were they? How did they get there? Thirty years later, two women find themselves drawn to the cold case. Librarian Laura MacDonald begins her own investigation as a way to…
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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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Thank you Hanover Square Press/Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Kill List in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Hanover Square Press Published: August 6, 2024 Summary: He will come for them, one by one…Five shocking murders Twenty-five years ago, DCI Harry Rhimes arrested Andrew Streeter for the brutal murders of five young people. Streeter’s ‘kill list’ of victims was found in his home, and he was convicted…
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Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Scribner Books #partner, for the finished copy of Fire and Bones in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Scribner Books / Simon and Schuster Audio Published: August 6, 2024 Summary: It’s never easy working fire scenes. Called to Washington, DC to analyse the victims of a mysterious arson attack, Tempe quickly finds her misgivings justified. The fire site is in…
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Thank you to Dreamscape Media for the ALC and ThrillerBookLovers The Pulse, Severn House, #partner, for an advanced e- copy of The House on Cold Creek Lane in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Severn House / Dreamscape Media Published: August 6, 2024 Summary: An unflinching examination of motherhood and the dark side of domesticity set against a suburban backdrop that’s anything but blissful. This twisty tale invites readers…
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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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Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers The Pulse, Rising Action, #partner, for an advanced e- copy of Between Lies and Revenge in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Rising Action Published: September 3, 2024 Summary: For fans of Megan Miranda and Sally Hepworth, BETWEEN LIES AND REVENGE by Hannah D Sharpe is a gripping debut of domestic suspense, where a daring jewel heist becomes a lifeline for two women entangled in…
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Thank you Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Shades of Mercy in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Recorded Books Published: July 16, 2024 Summary: In the usually quiet high desert of Nevada, Sheriff Porter Beck faces one of his greatest challenges—a series of unlikely, disturbing and increasingly deadly events of unknown origins. Porter Beck is the…
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Thank you PRH Audio, partner for the ALC of What Have You Done and Knopf, partner for the advanced e-copy of Like Mother, Like Daughter in exchange for my honest reviews. It’s been a while since I’ve read either of these authors & I’m not sure why…but after flying through both these books, you can bet I’ll be checking out both authors’ backlist to see what I missed! …
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Thank you Hachette Audio for the ALC and @NovelSuspects & Grand Central Publishing, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Haters in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Grand Central Publishing / Hachette Audio Published: July 2, 2024 Summary: The bestselling author of The Party and The Drowning Woman returns with a twisted tale of fame, obsession, and the dark recesses of social media. Camryn Lane is living her dream. After years of struggle…
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Thank you Blackstone Publishing, #partner for both the ALC and advanced copy of Shadowheart in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Blackstone Publishing / Blackstone Publishing Published: June 18, 2024 Summary: What happens when two serial killers begin to compete with each other? From #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Gardiner comes a new high-octane thriller in the acclaimed UNSUB series. FBI Special Agent Caitlin Hendrix faces a case from…
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Thank you Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Lost Victim in exchange for my honest review. I purchased the audiobook for my own collection. Publisher: Raven Street Publishing / Raven Street Publishing Published: July 11, 2024 Summary: When school girl Janey Macklin disappeared from the seedy side of London in 1988, her case went cold, with no body and no witnesses. Now, thirty years later, private detective…
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Thank you PRH Audio for the ALC and Viking #partner, for the advanced copy of Trust Her in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Viking / Penguin Audio Published: June 25, 2024 Summary: Two sisters find they can’t outrun their past in the riveting new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Northern Spy Three years after they narrowly escaped the IRA’s worst punishment for informing, Northern…
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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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I purchased this audiobook for my own collection. Publisher: Bookouture Published: November 9, 2023 Summary: The little girl looked like an angel in her thin white robe, her long black hair spread around her head like a dark halo on the snow. Her hands rested on her chest, fingers interlaced as if she had fallen asleep while praying. But she would never wake up again… When Detective Lottie Parker receives…
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I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Recorded Books Published: July 18, 2023 Summary: In the tradition of Craig Johnson and C. J. Box, Bruce Borgos’s The Bitter Past begins a compelling series set in the high desert of Nevada featuring Sheriff Porter Beck… Porter Beck is the sheriff in the high desert of Nevada, north of Las Vegas. Born and raised there, he left to join the Army, where…
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Thank you Hachette Audio, #partner for the ALC of The Unwedding in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Hachette Audio Published: June 4, 2024 Summary: The White Lotus meets Agatha Christie in this bold novel from a #1 New York Times bestselling author: a recent divorcee’s exclusive Big Sur resort vacation unravels when she discovers a dead body on the day of a wedding. Ellery Wainwright is alone at the edge of the…
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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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Thank you Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced copy of A Talent for Murder in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Published: June 11, 2024 Summary: A newlywed librarian begins to suspect the man she married might be a murderer—in this spectacularly twisty and deviously clever novel by Peter Swanson, New York Times bestselling author of The Kind Worth Killing and Eight Perfect Murders. Martha Ratliff conceded long ago that she’d likely spend her…
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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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Thank you Libro.fm / Blackstone Publishing, for the ALC and Quirk Books, #partner for the advanced copy of Such a Bad Influence in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Quirk Books / Blackstone Publishing Published: June 4, 2024 Summary: A razor-sharp debut about what happens when one of the first child stars of the social media age grows up . . . and goes missing. Hazel Davis is drifting: she’s…
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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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Thank you BookSparks, #partner for the advanced copy of Anna Bright is Hiding Something in exchange for my honest review. I purchased the audiobook for my personal collection. Publisher: Spark Press / Dreamscape Media Published: June 4, 2024 Summary: The Dropout meets Inventing Anna in this cinematic and page-turning summer read! A ripped-from-the-headlines story set in the glossy offices of Silicon Valley startups and NYC new media, Anna Bright Is Hiding Something explores our…
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Thank you PRH Audio for the ALC of Sisters of the Lost Nation in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Penguin Audio Published: April 18, 2023 Summary: A young Native girl’s hunt for answers about the women mysteriously disappearing from her tribe’s reservation lead her to delve into the myths and stories of her people, all while being haunted herself, in this atmospheric and stunningly poignant debut. Anna Horn is…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Pamela Dorman Books / Penguin Audio Published: February 6, 2024 Summary: A mother is forced to the breaking point when her life and the lives of her children are threatened by an intruder Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the…
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Thank you @GetRedPrBooks #partner, for the advanced copy of Five Days in Bogota in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: She Writes Press Published: May 14, 2024 Summary: A fast-paced art thriller in the spirit of Gabriel Allon from the Daniel Silva thriller series and Laura Dave’s The Last Thing He Told Me. Ally Blake risks everything to exhibit at an art fair in Bogotá in 1990. She needs…
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Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Simon Books #partner, for the finished copy of The Return of Ellie Black in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Simon and Schuster / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: May 7, 2024 Summary: Detective Chelsey Calhoun’s life is turned upside down when she gets the call Ellie Black, a girl who disappeared years earlier, has resurfaced in the woods…
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Thank you Brilliance Audio for the ALC and Lavender Public Relations, #partner, for the advanced copy of In a Dark Mirror in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer / Brilliance Audio Published: June 1, 2024 Summary: A decade-old crime unites its devoted fans in a haunting novel about delusions in the dark and the dangerous games children play. Twelve-year-old Maddie Thompson and her friend Lana share…
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Thank you Scarlet Suspense, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Man on the Train in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Scarlet Suspense Published: May 7, 2024 Summary: One man is about to have a midlife crisis like no man has ever had before. But for his wife, the nightmare is just beginning… Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Linda Haley is awakened early one morning by two police officers at…
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Thank you Brilliance Audio for the ALC and Over the River PR, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Alone Time in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer / Brilliance Audio Published: May 1, 2024 Summary: For two sisters, confronting the past could come at a terrible price in a riveting novel about a family tragedy—and family secrets—by the #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author Elle Marr. Fiona…
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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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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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Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers-The Pulse, #partner, for an advanced e- copy of Hush, Dear Sister in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Counterplay Press Published: June 11, 2024 Summary: After a tragic accident she can’t quite remember, forty-something-year-old beloved Hollywood actress Annette Taylor finds herself bound to a wheelchair with several injuries. Living in Crawford Manor, the Gothic Hollywood mansion from the film that made her famous, has become too…
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Thank you Random House / Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of Safe and Sound in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Random House Published: April 23, 2024 Summary: Six years after their cousin vanished from their home while they were sleeping, two sisters set out to learn the truth behind what happened—even if it puts their own lives in danger—in this haunting thriller from the internationally bestselling author…
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Thank you Knopf #partner, for the finished copy of Killing Moon in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Published: April 30, 2024 (first published 2022) Summary: THE HUNT IS ON AND THE POLICE ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME. Two young women are missing, their only connection a party they both attended, hosted by a notorious real-estate magnate. When one of the women is found murdered, the police…
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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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Thank you HTP Books / Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of The Vacancy in Room 10 in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Graydon House Published: April 9, 2024 Summary: When Anna Hartley’s husband, Henry, calls her with a terrible, guilty confession, she can’t believe what she hears. It has to be a bad joke—the mild, predictable artist she married would…
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Thank you Brilliance Audio/Netgalley, #partner for the ALC of Follow Her Down in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Brilliance Audio Published: June 4, 2024 Summary: Decades of doubt, fear, and suspicion won’t let a woman overcome her trauma in a riveting novel of suspense by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of Jane Doe and The Hook. The murder of Elise Rockwood’s sister shattered her family. Their mother’s anxiety kept…
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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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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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This month I attended Hamptonswhodunit, a Mystery and crime festival, and in prepping for it, I picked a few books from my shelves by some of the authors I knew would be attending. Not only did this help me get to know some of these authors better but it also allowed me to read some books that had been sitting on my shelf for a while. And now I’m quite…
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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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Thank you ThrillerBookLoversThePulse & Oceanview Publishing #partner, for the advanced e-copy of Don’t Ask, Don’t Follow in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Oceanview Publishing Published: June 4, 2024 Summary: Murder, dark family secrets, and the unwavering bond of sisterhood— regardless of the cost Beth Ralston, a paralegal in Portland, Oregon, would rather be racking up billable hours than mingling at an office party— especially when her sister Lindsay, aka…
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Thank you to the author, MB Communications & Thomas Mercer #partner, for the advanced copy of Lost to Dune Road in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Published: April 16, 2024 Summary: For a disgraced reporter, unraveling a conspiracy of murder could mean redemption in a powerful novel of suspense by the bestselling author of Out of the Ashes. Reporter Lee Ellerin’s investigation into a young woman’s…
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Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Atria Books #partner, for the advanced copy of Daughter of Mine in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Marysue Rucci Books / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: April 9, 2024 Summary: The new thrilling novel from Megan Miranda, the instant New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls, The Last to Vanish, and The Only Survivors. When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror…
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Thank you HTP Books / Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of She’s Not Sorry in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Park Row Books Published: April 2, 2024 Summary: An ICU nurse accidentally uncovers a patient’s frightening past in this chilling thriller. Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom to a teenage daughter and working as a full time nurse. While on duty at…
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