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Review: The Therapist by B.A. Paris (audio)

Review: The Therapist by B.A. Paris (audio)

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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Blog Tour & Review: Kill All Your Darlings by David Bell

Blog Tour & Review: Kill All Your Darlings by David Bell

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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Review: Falling by T.J. Newman (audio)

Review: Falling by T.J. Newman (audio)

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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Review: Silver Tears by Camilla Lackberg

Review: Silver Tears by Camilla Lackberg

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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Blog Tour & Review: A Cut for a Cut by Carol Wyer (print/audio)

Blog Tour & Review: A Cut for a Cut by Carol Wyer (print/audio)

  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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Review: Survive the Night by Riley Sager

Review: Survive the Night by Riley Sager

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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Review: The Bullet by Iris Johansen (audio)

Review: The Bullet by Iris Johansen (audio)

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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Review: The North Face of Heart by Dolores Redondo (audio)

Review: The North Face of Heart by Dolores Redondo (audio)

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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Review: What’s Done in Darkness by Laura McHugh

Review: What’s Done in Darkness by Laura McHugh

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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Review: One Year Gone by Avery Bishop

Review: One Year Gone by Avery Bishop

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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Review: Hairpin Bridge by Taylor Adams

Review: Hairpin Bridge by Taylor Adams

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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Review: Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay

Review: Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay

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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Review: The Maidens by Alex Michaelides (audio)

Review: The Maidens by Alex Michaelides (audio)

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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Review: Far Gone by Danielle Girard

Review: Far Gone by Danielle Girard

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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Review: A Dark and Secret Place by Jen Williams

Review: A Dark and Secret Place by Jen Williams

Publisher: Crooked Lane Books Published: June 8, 2021 Source: Publisher   Summary: For readers of Jane Harper and Rachel Caine comes a chilling thriller from award-winning author Jen Williams about a woman who discovers her late mother had been secretly corresponding with a serial killer for decades. When prodigal daughter Heather Evans returns to her family home after her mother’s baffling suicide, she makes an alarming discovery–stacks and stacks of…

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Review: The Dark Corners of the Night by Meg Gardiner

Review: The Dark Corners of the Night by Meg Gardiner

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Published: February 18, 2020 Source: Personal Copy   Summary: I am the legion of the night … He appears in the darkness like a ghost, made of shadows and fear—the Midnight Man. He comes for the parents but leaves the children alive, tiny witnesses to unspeakable horror. The bedroom communities of Los Angeles are gripped with dread, and the attacks are escalating. Still reeling from her best…

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Review: Beneath Devil’s Bridge by Loreth Anne White

Review: Beneath Devil’s Bridge by Loreth Anne White

Publisher: Montlake Published: June 1, 2021 Source: Publisher   Summary: A true crime podcast yields new revelations about a shocking murder in a riveting novel of suspense by Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestselling author Loreth Anne White. True crime podcaster Trinity Scott is chasing breakout success, and her brand-new serial may get her there. Her subject is Clayton Jay Pelley. More than two decades ago, the respected family man…

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Review: Dear Seraphina by Avery Bisphop (audio)

Review: Dear Seraphina by Avery Bisphop (audio)

Publisher: Audible Original Stories Published: May 20, 2021 Source: Personal copy   Summary: For fans of Pretty Things and The Guest List comes a shocking novella of psychological suspense following a glamorous young actress and an obsessed fan. Dear Seraphina, I hope you’ll write back someday soon. I know I might be asking too much: you, a Hollywood star; me, a cashier at this small-town grocery store. But the thing…

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Review: Every Vow You Break by Peter Swanson

Review: Every Vow You Break by Peter Swanson

Publisher: William Morrow Published: March 23, 2021 Source: Publisher   Summary: A bride’s dream honeymoon becomes a nightmare when a man with whom she’s had a regrettable one-night stand shows up in this psychological thriller from the author of Eight Perfect Murders. Abigail Baskin never thought she’d fall in love with a millionaire. Then she met Bruce Lamb. But right before the wedding, Abigail has a drunken one-night stand on…

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Review: The Photographer by Mary Dixie Carter (audio)

Review: The Photographer by Mary Dixie Carter (audio)

  Publisher: Macmillan Audio via Netgalley / Minotaur Books Published: May 25, 2021 Source: Audio: ALC via Macmillan Audio / Print: ARC Paperback via Minotaur Books   Summary: Mary Dixie Carter’s The Photographer is a slyly observed, suspenseful story of envy and obsession, told in the mesmerizing, irresistible voice of a character who will make you doubt that seeing is ever believing. WHEN PERFECT IMAGES As a photographer, Delta Dawn…

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Blog Tour & Excerpt: You Will Remember Me by Hannah Mary McKinnon

Blog Tour & Excerpt: You Will Remember Me by Hannah Mary McKinnon

Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for You Will Remember Me by Hannah Mary McKinnon  – I have an excerpt for you to read thanks to MIRA Books. I had the opportunity to read this book already – and spoiler alert…it’s fantastic! You can find my review here. Publisher: MIRA Books Published: May 25, 2021   Summary: Forget the truth. Remember the lies.…

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Review: The Girl Who Died by Ragnar Jonasson

Review: The Girl Who Died by Ragnar Jonasson

    Title: The Girl Who Died Author: Ragnar Jonasson, translated by Victoria Cribb Published: May 2021, Minotaur Books Format: ARC Paperback, 320 pages Source: Publisher   Summary: Teacher Wanted At the Edge of the WorldUna wants nothing more than to teach, but she has been unable to secure steady employment in Reykjavík. Her savings are depleted, her love life is nonexistent, and she cannot face another winter staring at…

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Blog Tour & Review: The Jigsaw Man by Nadine Matheson

Blog Tour & Review: The Jigsaw Man by Nadine Matheson

Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for The Jigsaw Man by Nadine Matheson. Thank you Hanover Square Press for inviting me to participate.   Title: The Jigsaw Man Author: Nadine Matheson Published: March 2021, Hanover Square Press Format: ARC E-copy, 413 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher   Summary:  Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery… When body parts are found on the banks…

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Review: The Butterfly House by Katrine Engberg (audio)

Review: The Butterfly House by Katrine Engberg (audio)

  Title: The Butterfly House Author: Katrine Engberg Series: Korner & Werner, #2 Narrator: Graeme Malcolm Published: January 2021, Simon Schuster Audio / Gallery/Scout Press Length: 10 hours 1 minutes / 352 pages Source: Audio via Simon Schuster Audio / Print – ARC E-copy via Netgalley Summary: Detectives Jeppe Korner and Anette Werner return in this thriller as they race to solve a series of sordid murders linked to some…

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Review: Girl in the Mirror by Rose Carlyle

Review: Girl in the Mirror by Rose Carlyle

Title: Girl in the Mirror Author: Rose Carlyle Published: October 2020, William Morrow Format: Hardcover, 304 pages Source: Publisher via TLC Booktours Summary:  Written with the chilling, twisty suspense of The Wife Between Us and Something in the Water, a seductive debut thriller about greed, lust, secrets, and deadly lies involving identical twin sisters. Twin sisters Iris and Summer are startlingly alike, but beyond what the eye can see lies…

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Review: Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

Review: Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

Title: Home Before Dark Author: Riley Sager Published: June 2020, Dutton Books Format: ARC E-copy, 384 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher 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…

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Review: The Tenant by Katrine Engberg

Review: The Tenant by Katrine Engberg

Title: The Tenant Author: Katrine Engberg Series: Korner/Werner, #1 Published: January 2020, Gallery/Scout Press Format: ARC Paperback, 368 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  An electrifying work of literary suspense from international bestselling author KatrineEngberg, this stunning debut introduces two police detectives struggling to solve a shocking murder and stop a killer hell-bent on revenge. When a young woman is discovered brutally murdered in her own apartment, with an intricate pattern of…

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