Thank you Fringe Press, #partner for the advanced copy of Hail Holy Queens in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Fringe Press Published: July 28, 2026 Summary: It’s 1887. High in the snow-swept Berkshires sits an old Romanesque convent where the nuns turn out bottles of their potent Italian amaro. They pray. They work. They pray some more. It’s an isolated place where little gets in the way of…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Flatiron Books, #partner for the advanced copy of Indie Darling in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Flatiron Books / Macmillan Audio Published: July 28, 2026 Summary: A brilliant breakout novel from ITW Thriller Award–winning author Lauren Nossett—a mystery set in Nashville, where a Dolly Parton–loving private detective is drawn into the disappearance of an enigmatic pop star. Nashville…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio, Libro.fm, Simon Audio and Harper Audio for the ALCs and Minotaur Books, Scout Press and William Morrow Books, #partner for the physical copies in exchange for my honest reviews. Not that I don’t read thrillers all year long, but they just seem to hit a little different in the summer. Fast-paced, dark, thrilling reads that get your adrenaline running, am I right? These were all 5…
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I purchased this book for my own collection. Publisher: Kensington Published: January 27, 2026 Summary: Amidst the devastation of Ireland’s Great Famine, a young woman is salvaged from certain death when offered a mysterious position at a remote manor house haunted by a strange power and the horror of her own memories in this chillingly evocative historical novel braided with gothic horror and supernatural suspense for readers of Katherine…
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Thank you Atria Books, #partner for the advanced copy of Habits of the Sea in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books Published: July 7, 2026 Summary: The second adult novel from New York Times bestselling author Shea Ernshaw, in which a woman rediscovers the mythical island she stumbled upon as a child—and the man she once met who apparently hasn’t aged—and must choose between the life she’s built and a…
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Thank you Scribner, #partner for the advanced copy of Daughters of the Sun and Moon in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Scribner Published: June 9, 2026 Summary: Beloved New York Times bestselling author Lisa See draws on the vibrancy and turmoil of post-Civil War Los Angeles to tell the story of three Chinese women who managed to survive and, eventually, thrive, despite all odds. In 1870, three Chinese women arrive in the…
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Thank you Ballantine Books, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of Liberty Street in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Ballantine Books Published: June 16, 2026 Summary: From the #1 internationally bestselling author of Looking for Jane comes a riveting novel about one journalist’s harrowing journey into an infamous real-life 1960s women’s prison—and the detective who uncovers her story decades later. 1961: Emily Radcliffe works as an editorial assistant at Chatelaine magazine, surrounded by the…
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I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Recorded Books Published: August 30, 2011 Summary: With his family caught in the crosshairs of a group of brutal killers, detective Cork O’Connor must solve the murder of a young girl in the latest installment of William Kent Krueger’s unforgettable New York Times bestselling series. During a houseboat vacation on the remote Lake of the Woods, a violent gale sweeps through unexpectedly, stranding Cork and…
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Thank you to MBC Books / St. Martin’s Press , #partner, for an advanced copy of The Forest Becomes Her in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Published: July 14, 2026 Summary: The perfect choice for your next book club. Julie Carrick Dalton’s The Forest Becomes Her is a gorgeous, hopeful novel about three women from different generations navigating the complexities of family, the impacts of our choices, and…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Minotaur Books, #partner for the advanced copy of Hot Girl Murder Club in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: July 14, 2026 Summary: From national bestselling author Ashley Winstead comes a buzzy, bloody new thriller about success, sisterhood, and demanding justice…by any means necessary. What’s a girl got to do to get some fame, a few million…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Minotaur Books, #partner for the advanced copy of Killer Vibes in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: July 14, 2026 Summary: Meet Peter Key: self-proclaimed “laziest private investigator in Texas” (it’s harder than it looks), full-time bisexual, dedicated stoner, and the surprised recipient of a windfall inheritance from an uncle he barely knew. Peter’s life…
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Thank you PRH Audio for the ALC and Bantam Books, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of Scary Movie Night in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Bantam Books / Random House Audio Published: July 14, 2026 Summary: In this nail-biting thriller, a horror-themed birthday party turns deadly when guests start disappearing—and the birthday girl realizes that she must face a long-buried secret to make it out alive. Tippi is…
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Thank you Scribner, #partner for the advanced copy of The Top of the World in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Scribner Published: June 30, 2026 Summary: A heartbreaking, life-affirming new novel by Ethan Joella—author of the Read with Jenna Bonus Pick A Little Hope—about a young woman searching for answers about her brother’s last days. June 1975. Maggie Bishop has just graduated high school, the future hers to embrace—but she’s…
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Thank you Poisoned Pen Press #partner, for the advanced e-copy of The Secret Attic in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: The Secret Attic Published: June 2, 2026 Summary: The past isn’t just haunting her—it’s hunting her. Addison Lowe knew her mother-in-law despised her, but inheriting Barb’s massive estate after her death feels less like closure and more like a trap. Barb’s hoarded rooms aren’t just filled with clutter—they’re filled…
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Thank you Scribner #partner, for the finished copy of Helpless in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Scribner Published: July 7, 2026 Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of Luckiest Girl Alive and Bright Young Women comes a smoldering psychological thriller with a singular, mind-bending last page. It’s been twelve years since Faye Heron broke Henry Spalding’s heart. Henry was her college boyfriend, her first intense love, but Faye…
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Thank you Harper #partner, for the advanced copy of Hide and Seek in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Harper Published: July 7, 2026 Summary: The author of The Chestnut Man and creator of the hit television series The Killing returns with a twisty, breakneck psychological thriller that takes an innocent children’s game to its most terrifying and diabolical extreme. Count to one, count to two . . . A strange voice from inside…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the advanced copy of Beach Thriller in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: June 9, 2026 Summary: The next riveting summer suspense by the author of THE BLOCK PARTY, ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY, and THE LAKE ESCAPE Jamie Day. Holly Sinclair, a struggling writer, is forced from her cherished New York…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio for the ALC of Tell Your Friends in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Flatiron Books: Pine and Cedar / Macmillan Audio Published: June 2, 2026 Summary: A former child star and an envious fan collide in this cat-and-mouse psychological thriller about obsession, self-invention, and the dark side of internet fame. University was meant to be Crystal’s way out. Growing up, there was nothing in…
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Thank you PRH Audio for the ALC and Ballantine Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Under the Stars in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Ballantine Books / Random House Audio Published: July 29, 2025 Summary: When a daughter and her famous mother return to Winthrop Island to confront their complicated past, they discover a secret trove of paintings that connect them to a mysterious woman who vanished on…
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Thank you Sourcebooks Landmark, #partner for the advanced e-copy of The Bridesmaid in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark / Tantor Audio Published: November 4, 2025 / December 16, 2025 Summary: From the acclaimed author of The Clinic comes a pulse-pounding thriller about a society wedding turned deadly, for fans of The Unwedding. The Kensingtons invite you to the society wedding of the…
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I purchased this book for my own collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Ballantine Books / Random House Audio Published: June 25, 2024 Summary: Two women—separated by decades and continents, and united by an exotic family heirloom—reclaim secrets and lost loves in this sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives. New England, 2022. Three years ago, single mother Mallory Dunne received the telephone…
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I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Recorded Books Published: September 7, 2010 Summary: Some nights, Corcoran O’Connor dreams his father’s death. William Kent Krueger’s gripping tale of suspense begins with a recurring nightmare, a gun, and a wound in the earth so deep and horrific that it has a name, Vermilion Drift. When the Department of Energy puts an underground iron mine on its short list of potential…
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Thank you to Hachette Audio, #partner for the ALC of Wait and See in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Grand Central Publishing / Hachette Audio Published: June 23, 2026 Summary: Investigator Kendra Michaels—formerly blind and now with uniquely insightful observational skills in the tradition of Sherlock Holmes—returns in this action-packed novel from the #1 New York Times and Edgar Award-winning writing duo Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen. When Kendra Michaels receives…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the advanced copy of When I Kill You in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: February 17, 2026 Summary: Who is watching Nell Masters? Nell Masters is certain someone is following her. The hairs on the back of her neck rise when she travels to and from work, there are…
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Thank you Knopf #partner, for the finished copy of Someone Else’s Husband in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Knopf Published: June 16, 2026 Summary: New York Times bestselling author Kimberly McCreight delivers a tour de force of character-driven suspense: the story of two women whose secrets and desires entrap them in a deadly love triangle. You had to rely on the power of love. That he loved you enough not…
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Thank you William Morrow Books, #partner, for the finished copy of The Beach at Summerly in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Published: June 27, 2023 Summary: New York Times bestseller Beatriz Williams returns with a ravishing summer read, taking readers back to a mid-century New England rich with secrets and Cold War intrigue. June 1946. As the residents of Winthrop Island prepare for the first summer…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the advanced copy of The Final Target in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: May 26, 2026 Summary: A young author becomes the object of a fan’s desire―and rage―in the gripping new thriller by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Hidden Nature. He showed up at Arden Bowie’s debut…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Celadon Books, #partner for the advanced copy of Heather in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Celadon Books / Macmillan Audio Published: June 9, 2026 Summary: For readers of Liz Moore’s The God of the Woods, a small-town detective reopens an unsolved case, sending shock waves across generations of women in this gripping new mystery from the Edgar Award–winning author…
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Thank you Atria Books, #partner for the advanced copy of The Wasp Trap in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books Published: September 16, 2025 Summary: A dinner party in a beautiful Notting Hill townhouse turns into a sinister game, as six old friends are forced to spill their darkest secrets…or else. Six friends reunite in London to celebrate the life of their recently deceased ex-employer, a professor…
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Thank you Hachette Audio for the ALC and Grand Central Publishing, HTP the Hive and Park Row Books, #partner for the physical copies in exchange for my honest reviews. With June being audiobook month, it was the perfect time to pull out some nonfiction…& these 2 books were fantastic!! I WANNA BE LOVED BY YOU: Marilyn Monroe A Life in 100 Takes by Andrew Wilson Published: June…
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I purchased this book for my own collection. Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Published: July 15, 2025 Summary: Ben Weissenbach—an L.A. native with little prior wilderness experience—treks through the Alaskan tundra with a series of eccentric environmental scientists, and returns with a new perspective on technology and a revitalized sense of wonder for the natural world. At the age of twenty-one, college student Ben Weissenbach set out into the Alaskan wilderness…
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Thank you Bantam #partner, for the advanced and finished copies of Backstabbers in exchange for my honest review. I obtained the audiobook from one of my subscriptions. Publisher: Bantam / Random House Audio Published: June 2, 2026 Summary: When three friends lose their way in a serial killer’s old hunting ground, they must fight to survive the threat in the woods—and each other—in this spiky, heart-pounding slasher. Never turn your back…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the advanced copy of Daughter of Egypt in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: March 24, 2026 Summary: From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Marie Benedict comes an extraordinary story of the woman who helped uncover Tutankhamun’s tomb and the mystery behind Egypt’s first woman Pharaoh. 1920’s London was enthralled by…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the advanced copy of I’ll Watch Your Baby in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: May 26, 2026 Summary: A suffocating and sharp narrative horror novel for fans of Victor LaValle and The Reformatory, I’ll Watch Your Baby is a haunting reimagining of Linda Taylor -known as…
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Thank you to Harper Perennial #partner, for the advanced copies of Murder Most Delicious in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Harper Perennial Published: May 26, 2026 Summary: Starting over in Paris was supposed to be the opportunity of a lifetime for American sommelier Olivia Beech—until her dream job ends in murder. Once a rising star in the wine world, Olivia was one of a handful of women in the…
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Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers The Pulse and Putnam, #partner, for an advanced copy of Keep Them Close in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: G. P. Putnam’s Sons Published: June 30, 2026 Summary: From the bestselling author of Look Closer comes a new domestic thriller about betrayal and murder inside one twisted family Siblings Allison and Luke have been through a lot together. They’ve always stood by each other. They’d do anything for each…
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I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Recorded Books Published: January 1, 2009 Summary: Intrepid hero Cork O’Connor faces the most harrowing mission of his life when a charter plane carrying his wife, Jo, goes missing in a snowstorm over the Wyoming Rockies. Months after the tragedy, two women show up on Cork’s doorstep with evidence that the pilot of Jo’s plane was not the man he claimed to…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Minotaur Books, #partner for the advanced copy of I, Spy in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: May 5, 2026 Summary: Ex-spy Kendal was one of the best, but now she’s wearing the toughest disguise of her career: Mom. Kendal Carter is out in the cold and she wouldn’t have it any other way. It’s been…
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Thank you Sourcebooks Audio for the ALC and Sourcebooks Landmark, #partner for the advanced copy of The Last Time We Drowned in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Cosmo Reads / Sourcebooks Audio Published: June 2, 2026 Summary: Six influencers. One luxury yacht. Nowhere to hide. Charlie Engels is broke and desperate when her bookstagram account lands her the offer of a lifetime: join Empress, a state-of-the-art yacht houseboat…
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I purchased this book for my own collection. Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Published: September 27, 2011 (first published 1947) Summary: In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet—reasoned the detective—like Hercules he had been responsible for ridding society of some of its most unpleasant monsters. So, in the period leading up to his retirement, Poirot makes up his mind to accept just twelve more cases: his self-imposed “Labors.”…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Minotaur Books, #partner for the advanced copy of The Anniversary in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: May 12, 2026 Summary: Every Year He Comes For Them. On one fateful night in 1992, the lives of two seventeen-year-olds are changed and intertwined forever. Quinn Riley, a boy from the wrong side of the tracks,…
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Thank you to Hachette Audio for the ALC and Grand Central Publishing, #partner, for the advanced copy of Night Objects in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Grand Central Publishing / Hachette Audio Published: May 26, 2026 Summary: In this “vivid and immersive” (Liz Moore) debut, Eli Raphael conjures the windswept coast of Washington State and a boarding school steeped in privilege and deadly secrets—a remarkable story of grief, power,…
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Thank you Libro.fm / William Morrow for the ALC and William Morrow, #partner for the advanced e-copy of Caller Unknow in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow / William Morrow Published: May 5, 2026 Summary: How far would you go to rescue your child? A mother races against the clock—and finds herself on the wrong side of the law—in a desperate fight to save her teenage daughter…
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Thank you PRH Audio for the ALC and Crown #partner, for the finished copy of The Beheading Game in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Bantam / Random House Audio Published: March 24, 2026 Summary: Disgraced. Beheaded. And out for revenge . . . We all know what happened to Henry VIII’s second wife, Anne Boleyn. But what if she woke up the day after her execution and took it upon…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio for the ALC of Dead Weight in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Tor Nightfire / Macmillan Audio Published: May 26, 2026 Summary: An Icelandic night may hide secrets and affairs—or even bodies—in this gruesomely cathartic horror thriller from the author of The Night Guest. Unnur was living a normal, if lonely, life until a black cat showed up at her door. Trying to do the…
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Thank you Libro.fm and Macmillan Audio for the ALCs and Poisoned Pen Press, Minotaur Books, Flatiron Books/Pine & Cedar and Atria Books #partner for the physical copies in exchange for my honest reviews. Thrillers will always be my go-to and these all hit the mark for me! FINDERS KEEPERS by Natalie Barelli Published: February 24, 2026, Poisoned Pen Press Summary: Dear Diary. Today I’m going to…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Dreamscape Media for the ALC and Lavender Public Relations/Flatiron Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Everything Lost Returns in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Flatiron Books / Dreamscape Media Published: February 17, 2026 Summary: The poignant, utterly original story of two women separated across time but united by the arrival of Halley’s comet, as blazing and as daring as their stories. 1986. The…
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Thank you Libro.fm / William Morrow for the ALC and William Morrow, #partner, for the finished copy of The Murder at World’s End in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow / William Morrow Published: January 6, 2026 Summary: Secrets, murder, and mayhem collide as this unlikely sleuthing duo—an under-butler and a foul-mouthed octogenarian—hunt a killer in a manor sealed against the end of the world. Cornwall, 1910. On a…
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Thank you Atlantic Crime, #partner, for the advanced copy of Last Seen in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atlantic Crime Published: May 19, 2026 Summary: The Survivors meets Disappearing Earth in this psychologically acute thriller about a seaside community grappling with its dark past as long-hidden secrets begin to inflict new wounds, from million-copy and internationally bestselling author Lucy Clarke Seven years ago, two boys went missing at sea – and only…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and SimonBooksBuddy, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Burning Side in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Simon Books / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: May 19, 2026 Summary: From the author of The Bright Years, the story of April and Leo, a couple on the brink of collapse. When their house goes up in flames, family secrets…
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