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: Minotaur Books 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 season…
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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: Minotaur Books / 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 right…
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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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I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Recorded Books Published: September 2, 2008 Summary: When the daughter of a powerful businessman dies as a result of her meth addiction, her father, strong-willed and brutal Buck Reinhardt, vows revenge. His target is the Red Boyz, a gang of Ojibwe youths accused of supplying the girl’s fatal drug dose. When the head of the Red Boyz and his wife are murdered in…
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Thank you Tin House / Zando, #partner for the advanced e-copy and finished copy of Immersions in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Tin House Published: May 5, 2026 Summary: Taut and spellbinding, Immersions follows the aftermath of a celebrated dancer’s abrupt decision to quit her company and join an enclosed convent in France, and her younger sister’s obsessive conviction that her sister’s ex-husband is responsible. Frances’s older sister Charley was a…
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I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Recorded Books Published: July 24, 2007 Summary: Henry Meloux, Cork’s friend and spiritual advisor, asks the Minnesota sheriff turned private investigator to find Henry’s long-lost son. Cork tracks the man to the Canadian town of Thunder Bay, Ontario, where it turns out he’s a prominent (if reclusive) industrialist. When someone tries to kill Henry, and the evidence points to his son, Cork digs…
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Thank you Atria Books, #partner for the advanced copy of Two Kinds of Stranger in exchange for my honest review. I obtained the audiobook via one of my audiobook subscriptions. Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: March 24, 2026 Summary: SHE HELPED A PERFECT A STRANGER. SHE DIDN’T KNOW HE WAS THE PERFECT KILLER… Elly Parker had everything. Perfect husband. Perfect apartment. Perfect friends and the…
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Thank you PRH Audio for the ALC and Bantam #partner, for the advanced and finished copies of The Library After Dark in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Bantam / Random House Audio Published: May 5, 2026 Summary: A bookseller must escape the infamously haunted library that holds her darkest secrets, but with a murderer in her tour group, escaping alive is not as simple as it seems, in this…
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Thank you Minotaur Books, #partner for the advanced copy of This Weekend Doesn’t End Well for Anyone in exchange for my honest review. I obtained the audiobook via one of my audiobook subscriptions. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: April 28, 2026 Summary: The third in the witty and captivating series following bestselling author Eleanor Dash, who once again has to swap her sun hat for her detective hat, when…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Minotaur Books, #partner for the advanced copy of Dark Is When the Devil Comes in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: April 28, 2026 Summary: Unrelentingly scary and thrilling, Dark Is When the Devil Comes is an ambitious and chilling novel from acclaimed horror author Daisy Pearce. The woods are known as the place to…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Minotaur Books, #partner for the advanced copy of Shaw Connolly Lives to Tell in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: June 17, 2025 Summary: A page-turning, compelling thriller about a woman who will stop at nothing to uncover the truth behind her sister’s disappearance. Shaw Connolly is no stranger to trauma. As a fingerprints analyst, she’s…
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I purchased this book for my own collection. Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Published: February 1, 2011 (first published 1949) Summary: Described by the queen of mystery herself as one of her favorites of her published work, Crooked House is a classic Agatha Christie thriller revolving around a devastating family mystery. The Leonides are one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That is until the head of the household,…
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Thank you PRH Audio for the ALC and Crown #partner, for the finished copy of A Gift Before Dying in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Dutton / Random House Audio Published: January 20, 2026 Summary: In a hauntingly atmospheric novel set against the unforgiving landscape of the Arctic Circle, a disgraced police investigator discovers that his path to redemption is paved with ice—and blood. After a botched high-profile murder…
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Thank you Crooked Lane Books, #partner for the advanced copy of Everything Has Happened in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Crooked Lane Books Published: April 28, 2026 Summary: A disappearance from the past echoes in the future in this ambitious and wrenching mystery, perfect for readers of The God of the Woods. In 1986, a child disappeared. Nearly forty years later, a tip line rings. It’s been almost…
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Thank you Spiegel and Grau, #partner for the advanced copy of The Calamity Club in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Spiegel and Grau Published: May 5, 2026 Summary: The multimillion-copy-selling author of The Help returns with a bold, big-hearted novel about a group of unbreakable women, fighting for what’s rightfully theirs—and the power of friendship to change everything. “A must-read.”—Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry Oxford, Mississippi, 1933. Abandoned by her…
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Thank you to Bookouture, #partner, for the ALC and e-copy of The Girls in the Dark in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Bookouture Published: April 24, 2026 Summary: I stare at the security footage, heart pounding in my chest. I know who broke into my home—she has a face just like my own. Twenty years ago, my sister was killed and I survived. So how can she be here…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Atria Books, #partner for the advanced copy of The Caretaker in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books/Emily Bestler Books/12:01 Books / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: April 21, 2026 Summary: Follow the Rites… Nothing less than the survival of humanity is at stake. From Marcus Kliewer, a new “titan of the macabre and unsettling” (Erin…
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Thank you Harlequin Audio for the ALC and HTP Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Japanese Gothic in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Hanover Square Press / Harlequin Audio Published: April 14, 2026 Summary: In this lyrical, wildly inventive horror novel interwoven with Japanese mythology, two people living centuries apart discover a door between their worlds. October, 2026: Lee Turner doesn’t remember how or why he killed his…
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Thank you to Recorded Books for the ALC and MBC Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of A Spell for Saints and Sinners in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Kensington Books/ Recorded Books Published: March 31, 2026 Summary: Like a gender-flipped You but dripping with Southern Gothic atmosphere, a young psychic on the verge of losing everything becomes obsessed with a wealthy, beautiful heiress in this clever, darkly atmospheric novel of…
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Thank you Chris Bucci and St. Martin’s Press, #partner, for the advanced copy and finished copy of These Familiar Walls in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Published: April 14, 2026 Summary: A spine-chilling, heart-pounding suburban horror novel at the heart of the genre, perfect for fans of T. Kingfisher, Cassandra Khaw, and Catriona Ward. In 1998, desperate loneliness pushes preteen Amber to ignore the misgivings of…
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I purchased the print copy for my personal collection. Publisher: Simon & Schuster Published: November 4, 2025 Summary: A century of American history unfolds through the eyes of a giant tortoise with a heightened awareness for live music, the location of edible flowers, and the nuances of human behavior in this spellbinding debut novel. Snatched from her ancestral lands, a giant tortoise finds herself in an exclusive estate in…
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Thank you Mulholland Books, #partner for the advanced e-copy of Guide Me Home in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Mulholland Books Published: September 3, 2024 Summary: In the final novel in the “timely and evocative” (NPR) Highway 59 trilogy, from Edgar Award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author Attica Locke, Darren Matthews is pulled out of an early retirement to investigate the disappearance of a Black college student from an…
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Thank you William Morrow, #partner for the advanced and finished copies of The Astral Library in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: William Morrow / William Morrow Published: February 17, 2026 Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Kate Quinn comes a gorgeously written fantastical adventure which poses the question: Have you ever wished you could live inside a book? Welcome to the Astral Library,…
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Thank you Dutton #partner, for the finished copy of Mother Is Watching in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Dutton Published: March 17, 2026 Summary: An internationally bestselling author’s chilling horror debut in which an art conservator’s obsession with a mysterious painting spirals into a nightmarish descent, where the line between reality and the supernatural shatters, threatening both her sanity and her life. Mathilde “Tilly” Crewson, a thirty-nine-year-old mother and…
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I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Recorded Books Published: November 27, 2006 Summary: Desperately avoiding the clutches of professional hit men who have already put a bullet in his leg, Cork finds sanctuary outside the small Michigan town of Bodine. But while he’s hiding out in an old resort owned by his cousin Jewell DuBois, a bitter widow with a fourteen-year-old son named Ren, the body of a…
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Thank you Atlantic Crime, #partner for the advanced copy of Ruby Falls in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atlantic Crime Published: March 3, 2026 Summary: One body. Five suspects. Total darkness. A tense, claustrophobic historical mystery set almost entirely underground at the onset of the Great Depression about the discovery of a 150-foot waterfall in the middle of a mountain, the unthinkable crime that happens in its caves, and…
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Thank you William Morrow, #partner for the finished copy of Missing Sister in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Published: March 3, 2026 Summary: Revenge. It’s all relative. Born three minutes apart, Penny and Nix Albright grew up doing everything together, close as only twins can be. But when Nix dies in a tragic accident soon after college, she leaves behind a cryptic voicemail that has Penny guilt-ridden…
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