Thank you Flatiron Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of All the Sinners Bleed in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Flatiron Books Published: June 6, 2023 Summary: A Black sheriff. A serial killer. A small town ready to combust. Titus Crown is the first Black sheriff in the history of Charon County, Virginia. In recent decades, Charon has had only two murders. After years of working as an…
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Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers Promotions, Crooked Lane Books, #partner, for an advanced e- copy of Since She’s Been Gone in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Crooked Lane Books Published: February 6, 2024 Summary: An emotionally charged, dual-timeline suspense set between L. A. and NYC, this debut novel is perfect for fans of The Last Thing He Told Me and Luckiest Girl Alive. A clinical psychologist is thrown into her dark past as…
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Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers Promotions, Thomas & Mercer, #partner, for an advanced e- copy of Under the Palms in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Published: May 21, 2024 Summary: During a weekend retreat, a powerful family plays a dangerous game of dark secrets and cold-blooded ambition in a novel by Kaira Rouda, USA Today bestselling author of Beneath the Surface. Under the direction of the Kingsleys’…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books / Macmillan Audio Published: April 16, 2019 Summary: A literary courtroom thriller about an immigrant family and a young single mother accused of killing her autistic son, Miracle Creek is a powerhouse debut about how far we’ll go to protect our families, and our deepest secrets. In rural Miracle Creek, Virginia, Young…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons Published: January 19, 2021 Summary: In this propulsive locked-room thriller debut, a reunion weekend in the French Alps turns deadly when five friends discover that someone has deliberately stranded them at their remote mountaintop resort during a snowstorm. When Milla accepts an off-season invitation to Le Rocher, a cozy ski resort in the French Alps, she’s expecting…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark / Highbridge Audio Published: February 21, 2023 Summary: It’s New Year’s Eve, and the stage is set for a lavish party in one of Edinburgh’s best postcodes. It’s a moment for old friends to set the past to rights – and move on. And yet, the celebration fails to materialize. Because…
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Thank you to the author for the advanced copy of Devils at the Door in exchange for my honest opinion. Publisher: Severn House Published: December 5, 2023 Summary: A suspicious drowning throws New York State senior investigator Shana Merchant’s life into turmoil in this taut, thrilling small-town mystery – perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and Ruth Ware. Sixteen-year-old Henrietta used to be happy. But that was before her family…
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Thank you Harper Perennial, #partner, for the finished copy of Five Bad Deeds in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Harper Perennial Published: December 5, 2023 Summary: A gripping tale of revenge, loyalty, and the secrets hidden between the walls of the most beautiful home in town. Ellen Walsh has done something very, very bad. If only she knew what it was… Teacher, mother, wife, and all-around good citizen…
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Thank you Berkley, #partner, for the finished copy of The Beautiful and the Wild in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Berkley Published: November 7, 2023 Summary: The dangers of Alaska aren’t limited to storms, starvation, and grizzly bears. Sometimes the most dangerous thing is the person you love. It’s summer in Alaska and the light surrounding the shipping-container-turned-storage shed where Liv Russo is being held prisoner is fuzzy…
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Thank you Libro.fom / Macmillan Audio, for the ALC and Celadon Books, #partner for the advanced copy of The Fury in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Celadon Books / Macmillan Audio Published: January 16, 2024 Summary: A masterfully paced thriller about a reclusive ex–movie star and her famous friends whose spontaneous trip to a private Greek island is upended by a murder ― from the #1 New York Times bestselling author…
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Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers Promotions, Forge Books, #partner, for an advanced e- copy of One Wrong Word in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Forge Books Published: February 6, 2024 Summary: A heart-racing new psychological thriller from USA Today bestselling and multiple award-winning author, Hank Phillippi Ryan. One wrong word can ruin your life. And no one knows that better than savvy crisis management expert Arden Ward. Problem is, she’s now forced…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Highbridge Audio, for the ALC of This Is How We End Things in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Highbridge Audio Published: September 12, 2023 Summary: Riley Sager meets If We Were Villains in a compelling new psychological thriller by RJ Jacobs, following a tight-knit group of graduate students studying the psychology of lying. When one of them is discovered dead after an experiment, everything the group…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Published: November 22, 2021 Summary: Alex Cross enters the final showdown with the relentless killer who has stalked him and his family for years. Dr. Alex Cross and Detective John Sampson venture into the rugged Montana wilderness—where they will be the prey. They’re not on the job, but on a personal mission. Until they’re attacked by two rival…
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Thank you Hachette Audio for the ALC and @NovelSuspects & Mulholland Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Before She Finds Me in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Mulholland Books / Hachette Audio Published: June 27, 2023 Summary: In this shocking thriller, two unlikely mothers race to uncover the truth behind a horrific attack—even after it becomes clear that the truth will destroy one of their families. Julia…
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Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC of #CrimeTime in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Simon and Schuster Audio Published: December 12, 2023 Summary: The first audio original from Jeneva Rose, the author of blockbuster bestseller The Perfect Marriage, #CrimeTime is a full-cast mystery written with her husband, Drew Pyne, perfect for fans of Only Murders in the Building and Finley Donovan Is Killing It. Going viral has never been so dangerous. Nadiya loves…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Harper Audio, for the ALC and Bibliolifestyle, William Morrow, #partner, for a finished copy of The Anatomy of Desire in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow / Harper Audio Published: May 11, 2021 Summary: A modern tale of American striving, social media stardom, a fatal love triangle, and a young woman on trial for murder—a mesmerizing reimagining of Theodore Dreiser’s classic novel of…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Published: September 19, 2023 Summary: It’s been more than a decade since the world has come undone, and Sasha Severn has returned to her childhood home with one goal in mind―find the mythic research her father, the infamous Last Beekeeper, hid before he was incarcerated. There, Sasha is confronted with a group of squatters who have claimed the…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Published: September 19, 2023 Summary: A shocking thriller about a cold case, a fictional true crime series, and the family caught in the middle. SIX EPISODES. ONE KILLER. It was a case that gripped the nation. In December 2003, Luke Ryder, the stepfather of acclaimed filmmaker Guy Howard (then aged 10), was found dead in the garden…
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I got this book through the Penguin Readers Rewards Program. Publisher: Doubleday Published: July 25, 2023 Summary: A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for twenty years, reckon with the terrifying events of the summer that changed their lives. In the seaside village of Kinlough, on Ireland’s west coast, three old friends meet for the first time in years. They—Helen, Joe and Mush—were…
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Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC of The Sanctuary in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Simon and Schuster Audio Published: February 7, 2023 Summary: From internationally bestselling author Katrine Engberg, the series that is a “gripping addition to the Scandinavian crime fiction pantheon” ( Oprah Daily ) comes to a stunning conclusion as Jeppe Kørner and Anette Werner rush to untangle a long-simmering mystery before a brutal killer strikes…
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Thank you to Knopf Books, #partner, for a finished copy of The Spider in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group Published: July 25, 2023 Summary: A killer is spinning a sinister web and the police are caught dead center. Three years ago, Saga Bauer received a postcard with a threatening message. It mentioned a gun and nine white bullets–one of which was intended for Detective Joona Linna.…
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Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers Promotions, #partner, for an advanced e- copy of If You See Me in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Counterplay Press Published: December 5, 2023 Summary: When Leighton Marx is taken at a festival in front of her loved ones, police are quick to label it a random trafficking incident, but Leighton’s husband, Owen, and her ex-best-friend, Marnie, suspect there’s more to the story. After Marnie…
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Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers Promotions, William Morrow, #partner, for an advanced e- copy of The Engagement Party in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Published: December 5, 2023 Summary: And Then There Were None meets I Know What You Did Last Summer in #1 international bestseller Darby Kane’s latest gripping and twisty thriller set on a private island in Maine where secrets piled upon secrets and lies…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio, for the ALC and Flatiron Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Professor in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Flatiron Books / Macmillan Audio Published: November 14, 2022 Summary: For fans of Tana French, The Professor investigates the darkest corners of academic ambition, lies, and obsession. On a spring afternoon in Athens, Georgia, Ethan Haddock is discovered in his apartment, dead, apparently…
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Thank you Netgalley / Recorded Books, for the ALC and Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Blood Betrayal in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Recorded Books Published: November 7, 2023 Summary: A complex and timely mystery, Blood Betrayal proves once again that Ausma Zehanat Khan is a writer at the peak of her powers. In Blackwater Falls, Colorado, veteran police officer Harry Cooper is…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Harper Collins UK Published: April 10, 2014 Summary: Easter, 1974. A family vanishes without a trace from the island of Valö outside of Fjällbacka. The dinner table has been exquisitely set, but everyone except the one year-old daughter Ebba is gone. Are they victims of a crime or have they voluntarily disappeared? Years later Ebba returns to the island and…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Berkley / Penguin Audio Published: October 25, 2022 Summary: A darkly humorous, surprisingly poignant, and utterly gripping debut novel about a guy who works in Hell (literally) and is on the cusp of a big promotion if only he can get one more member of the wealthy Harrison family to sell their soul.…
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Thank you to Wunderkind PR, Podium Publishing, #partner, for an advanced copy of Darkness Calls in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Podium Publishing Published: May 16, 2023 Summary: When a newly promoted police inspector becomes the target of a blackmailer, she struggles to clear her name. But is she fighting for justice—or revenge? Police inspector Cecilie Mars is a different kind of cop. She has a heavy cocaine…
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Thank you Tor Nightfire, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of Just Like Mother in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Tor Nightfire / Macmillan Audio Published: May 17, 2022 Summary: A girl would be such a blessing… The last time Maeve saw her cousin was the night she escaped the cult they were raised in. For the past two decades, Maeve has…
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I purchased this book and audiobook for my own personal collection. Publisher: Lake Union Publishing / Brilliance Audio Published: September 12, 2023 Summary: A desperate woman. An irresistible invitation. An escalating nightmare of secrets, lies, and murder. Bree’s new home is luxurious and private, with a fancy Beverly Hills address. What a shame it’s not hers. Widowed, penniless, living in her car, and out of options, she’s climbed the fence…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin Published: December 27, 2022 Summary: An American documentarian travels a haunted highway across the frozen tundra of Siberia in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden’s Road of Bones, a “tightly wound, atmospheric, and creepy as hell” (Stephen King) supernatural thriller. Surrounded by barren trees in a snow-covered wilderness with a dim, dusky sky forever overhead, Siberia’s…
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Thank you St. Martin’s Press / Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of The Prisoner in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Published: November 1, 2022 Summary: With Behind Closed Doors, B.A. Paris takes the psychological thriller to shocking new heights. Now she’ll hold you captive with this stunning new thriller about one woman wed into a family with deadly intentions. THEN Amelie has always been a survivor,…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Ballantine Books Published: November 8, 2022 Summary: The debut short story collection from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man, featuring ten bone-chilling and mind-bending tales. Timeslips. Doomsday scenarios. Killer butterflies. C. J. Tudor’s novels are widely acclaimed for their dark, twisty suspense plots, but with A Sliver of Darkness, she pulls us even further into her dizzying imagination. In Final Course,…
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I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: HighBridge Published: October 17, 2023 Summary: Victoria Tate has had enough of her controlling, incompetent husband Warren. But planning the perfect murder is more difficult than she expected. When the social event of the year, an over-the-top costume ball, is rescheduled for the date she has selected for her crime, Victoria has to scramble to make sure she will still be…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio, for the ALC and Minotaur Books, #partner for the advanced copy of When I’m Dead in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: October 31, 2023 Summary: One girl murdered. Another one missing. And a medical examiner desperate to uncover the truth in the latest Black Harbor mystery by acclaimed author Hannah Morrissey. On a bone-chilling October night,…
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Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers Promotions, Thomas & Mercer, #partner, for an advanced e- copy of Lights Out in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Published: November 1, 2023 Summary: In this exciting debut novel comes a fast-paced thriller that follows a sports reporter’s journey off the court…and into a world of murder and deception. Former Olympic athlete and current semi-disgraced sports reporter Kate Green isn’t sure how…
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Thank you PRH Audio for the ALC and Berkley #partner, for the finished copy of Blood Sisters in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Berkley / Random House Audio Published: October 31, 2023 Summary: A visceral and compelling mystery about a Cherokee archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs who is summoned to rural Oklahoma to investigate the disappearance of two women…one of them her sister. There are secrets in…
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Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers Promotions, Thomas & Mercer, #partner, for an advanced e- copy of A Friend in the Dark in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Published: March 1, 2024 Summary: A digital romance turns deadly in this sensual domestic thriller from USA Today bestselling author Samantha M. Bailey. Eden Miller’s world is crumbling. Her husband blindsided her with divorce, and her daughter barely speaks to…
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Thank you to Bibliolifestyle, William Morrow, #partner, for a finished copy of The Christmas Guest in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Published: October 17, 2023 Summary: New York Times bestselling author Peter Swanson pens a spectacularly spine-chilling novella in which an American art student in London is invited to join a classmate for the holidays at Starvewood Hall, her family’s Cotswold manor house. But behind the holly…
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Thank you Blackstone Publishing, #partner for the advanced copy of American Girl in exchange for my honest review. I got the audiobook as part of my Audible Subscription. Publisher: Blackstone Publishing / Audible Originals Published: October 17, 2023 / December 16, 2021 Summary: A pulse-pounding novel about a small-town business owner found dead and the teenage girl caught in the crosshairs, American Girl is the latest thriller from international best-selling author…
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Thank you Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Lost Village in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: March 23, 2021 Summary: The Blair Witch Project meets Midsommar in this brilliantly disturbing thriller from Camilla Sten, an electrifying new voice in suspense. Documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt has been obsessed with the vanishing residents of the old mining town,…
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Thank you Atria Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Last One in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books Published: August 8, 2023 Summary: When Caz steps onboard the exclusive cruise liner RMS Atlantica, it’s the start of a vacation of a lifetime with her new love, Pete. On their first night they explore the ship, eat, dance, make friends, but when Caz wakes the next…
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Thank you Hachette Audio for the ALC and @NovelSuspects & Mulholland Books, #partner, for the e-copy of In the Clearing in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Mulholland Books / Hachette Audio Published: August 4, 2020 Summary: A ticking-clock thriller that braids together the stories of a girl raised in a terrifying cult, and of an overprotective single mother whose fears for her child are about to come true.…
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Thank you to William Morrow, #partner, for an advanced copy of The Leftover Woman in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Published: October 10, 2023 Summary: An evocative family drama and a riveting mystery about the ferocious pull of motherhood for two very different women–from the New York Times bestselling author of Searching for Sylvie Lee and Girl in Translation. Jasmine Yang arrives in New York City from her rural Chinese village…
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Thank you St. Martin’s Press / Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of The Intern in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Published: October 3, 2023 Summary: A young Harvard law student falls under the spell of a charismatic judge in this timely and thrilling novel about class, ambition, family and murder. Madison Rivera lands the internship of a lifetime working for Judge Kathryn Conroy. But…
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I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Berkley Books / Penguin Audio Published: February 22, 2022 Summary: From the USA Today bestselling and Edgar-nominated author of Darling Rose Gold comes a dark, thrilling novel about two sisters–one trapped in the clutches of a cult, the other in a web of her own lies. Welcome to Wisewood. We’ll keep your secrets if you keep ours.…
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Thank you Harper Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Kill Show in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Harper Published: October 3, 2023 Summary: When sixteen-year-old Sara Parcell goes missing, it’s an utter tragedy—and an entertaining national obsession—in this thoughtful and addictively readable novel that offers a fresh and provocative take on whodunits and true crime. Sara Parcell disappeared without a trace on a crisp April morning in…
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Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers Promotions, William Morrow Paperbacks, #partner, for an advanced copy of The Death of Us in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Published: October 3, 2023 Summary: From the award-winning author of Death at Greenway and The Lucky One comes a chilling suspense novel in which the discovery of a submerged car in a murky pond reveals betrayals and family secrets that will tear a small town…
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Thank you Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Golden Gate in exchange for my honest review. I purchased the audiobook for my own collection. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: September 19, 2023 Summary: Amy Chua’s debut novel, The Golden Gate, is a sweeping, evocative, and compelling historical thriller that paints a vibrant portrait of a California buffeted by the turbulent crosswinds of a world at…
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Thank you to Kathleen Carther Communications, Lake Union Publishing, #partner, for an advanced copy of Salthouse Place in exchange for my honest review. I purchased the audiobook. Publisher: Lake Union Publishing / Brilliance Audio Published: September 1, 2023 Summary: From debut author Jamie Sogn comes a twisty thriller about the allure of the past and the danger of the truth as a young woman dives headlong into a cult…
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