Title: Chase Author: James Patterson Series: Michael Patterson, #9.5 Published: August 2016, BookShots Format: Paperback, 115 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  “This was no suicide,” says Detective Michael Bennett. A man plunges to his death from the roof of a Manhattan hotel. It looks like a suicide–except the victim has someone else’s fingerprints and $10,000 in cash. Enter Detective Michael Bennett. ***Short & Sweet Reviews are short, quick reviews. These will…

Title: The Favorite Daughter Author: Kaira Rouda Published: May 2019, Graydon House Format: ARC Paperback, 368 pages Source: Publisher via Wunderkind PR Summary:  From the author of the page-turning domestic suspense Best Day Ever, comes another gripping novel of psychological suspense set in an upscale Southern California community, for fans of B.A. Paris and Shari Lapena. The perfect home. The perfect family. The perfect lie. Jane Harris lives in a…

Title: Your Life Is Mine Author: Nathan Ripley Published: June 2019, Atria Books Format: ARC Paperback, 304 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  Instant national bestseller Nathan Ripley follows up the success of Find You in the Dark with another suspenseful page-turner—this time about a woman whose notorious father died when she was a child, but whose legacy comes back to haunt her. Blanche Potter never expected to face her past again—but…

Title: Count to Ten Author: James Patterson Series: Private, #10 Published: November 2017, Grand Central Publishing Format: Paperback, 400 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  From the world’s #1 bestselling author comes the newest book in the blockbuster PRIVATE series… Santosh Wagh quit his job as head of Private India after harrowing events in Mumbai almost got him killed. But Jack Morgan, global head of the world’s finest investigation agency, needs…

Title: The First Mistake Author: Sandie Jones Published: June 2019, Minotaur Books Format: ARC Paperback, 304 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  From Sandie Jones, the author of the Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller The Other Woman, comes an addictively readable new domestic suspense about a wife, her husband, and the woman who is supposedly her best friend. THE WIFE: For Alice, life has…

Title: The Island Author: Ragnar Jonasson Series: Hidden Iceland Published: May 2019, Minotaur Books Format: ARC Paperback, 352 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  Elliðaey is an isolated island off the coast of Iceland. It is has a beautiful, unforgiving terrain and is an easy place to vanish. The Island is the second thrilling book in Ragnar Jonasson’s Hidden Iceland trilogy. This time Hulda is at the peak of her career and…

Title: The Royal Secret Author: Lucinda Riley Published: May 2019, Atria Books (first published July 2000) Format: ARC E-copy, 528 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary:  Note to readers: In the UK, this book is published under the title The Love Letter. In this suspenseful and heart-pounding novel from New York Times bestselling author Lucinda Riley, an ambitious young journalist unravels a dangerous mystery that threatens to devastate the British…

Title: The Disappeared Author: Kristina Ohlsson Series: Fredrika Bergman & Alex Recht, #3 Published: March 2015, Atria/Emily Bestler Books Format: Paperback, 432 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  The body of a young woman is found carved up and buried in a forest glade in an innocuous Stockholm suburb. As Fredrika Bergman and her colleagues in the Stockholm Police continue to excavate the site, several more bodies are unearthed. Meanwhile, the…

Title: The Night Before Author: Wendy Walker Published: May 2019, St. Martin’s Press Format: ARC Paperback, 320 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  First dates can be murder. Riveting and compulsive, national bestselling author Wendy Walker’s The Night Before “takes you to deep, dark places few thrillers dare to go” as two sisters uncover long-buried secrets when an internet date spirals out of control. Laura Lochner has never been lucky in love.…

Title: Out East: Memoir of a Montauk Summer Author: John Glynn Published: May 2019, Grand Central Publishing Format: Hardcover, 256 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  A gripping portrait of life in a Montauk summer house–a debut memoir of first love, identity and self-discovery among a group of friends who became family. They call Montauk the end of the world, a spit of land jutting into the Atlantic. The house was a…

Title: The Way of All Flesh Author: Ambrose Parry Series: Will Raven, #1 Published: October 2018, Canongate Books Format: ARC Paperback, 416 pages Source: Publisher Summary: Edinburgh, 1847. City of Medicine, Money, Murder. Young women are being discovered dead across the Old Town, all having suffered similarly gruesome ends. In the New Town, medical student Will Raven is about to start his apprenticeship with the brilliant and renowned Dr Simpson.…

Title: Stone Mothers Author: Erin Kelly Published: April 2019, Minotaur Books Format: Hardcover, 368 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  Erin Kelly, the masterful author of He Said/She Said, delivers another irresistible, unputdownable novel of psychological suspense. You can’t keep the secret. You can’t tell the truth. You can’t escape the past… Marianne was seventeen when she fled her home in Nusstead – leaving behind her family, her boyfriend, Jesse, and the…

Title: Death on the River Author: Diane Fanning Published: April 2019, St. Martin’s True Crime Format: Paperback, 304 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  It seemed like the perfect romantic afternoon: a kayaking trip for two on the Hudson River. But it ended in tragedy when Angelika Graswald called 911 to report that her fiancé, Vincent Viafore, had fallen into the choppy frigid waters. Authorities assumed it was an accident, but when…

Title: Final Betrayal Author: Patricia Gibney Series: Detective Lottie Parker, #6 Published: April 2019, Bookouture Format: ARC E-copy, 484 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary:  ‘She lifted the flap of the envelope and pulled out the single white page. As she opened it up she stared, open mouthed. Four words were typed on the page. I am watching you.’ When Amy Whyte and Penny Brogan leave a local nightclub in…

Title: The Southern Side of Paradise Author: Kristy Woodsen Harvey Series: Peachtree Bluff, #3 Published: May 2019, Gallery Books Format: ARC Paperback, 400 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  From internationally bestselling author and “rising star of Southern fiction” (Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author) Kristy Woodson Harvey comes the third novel in her Peachtree Bluff series, in which a secret threatens the tight-knit bond between a trio of sisters…

Title: The Lost History of Dreams Author: Kris Waldherr Published: April 2019, Atria Format: ARC Paperback, 320 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  A post-mortem photographer unearths dark secrets of the past that may hold the key to his future, in this captivating debut novel in the gothic tradition of Wuthering Heights and The Thirteenth Tale. All love stories are ghost stories in disguise. When famed Byronesque poet Hugh de Bonne is…

Title: The Darkness Author: Ragnar Jonasson Series: Hidden Iceland, #1 Published: October 2018, Minotaur Books Format: Hardcover, 310 pages Source: Library Summary:  Spanning the icy streets of Reykjavik, the Icelandic highlands and cold, isolated fjords, The Darkness is an atmospheric thriller from Ragnar Jonasson, one of the most exciting names in Nordic Noir. The body of a young Russian woman washes up on an Icelandic shore. After a cursory investigation,…

Title: The Island of Sea Women Author: Lisa See Published: March 2019, Scribner Format: Hardcover, 374 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  A new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island. Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very…

Title: I Know Who You Are Author: Alice Feeney Published: April 2019, Flatiron Books Format: ARC Paperback, 304 pages Source: Publisher Summary: From the New York Times and international bestselling author of Sometimes I Lie comes a brand new, highly anticipated, dark and twisted thriller: I Know Who You Are.   Meet Aimee Sinclair: the actress everyone thinks they know but can’t remember where from. Except one person. Someone knows…

Title: The Mother-in-Law Author: Sally Hepworth Published: April 2019, St. Martin’s Press Format: ARC Paperback, 352 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  Someone once told me that you have two families in your life – the one you are born into and the one you choose. Yes, you may get to choose your partner, but you don’t choose your mother-in-law. The cackling mercenaries of fate determine it all. From the moment Lucy…

  Title: Bullseye Author: James Patterson Series: Michael Bennett, #9 Published: August 2016, Little, Brown & Company Format: Hardcover, 339 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  Caught in the crossfire of a deadly standoff, Detective Michael Bennett must kill…or be killed. Tensions between America and Russia are the highest they’ve been since the Cold War. As the countries’ Presidents travel to the United Nations to iron out their differences, a fashionable…

Title: Silenced Author: Kristina Ohlsson Series:Fredrika Bergman & Alex Recht, #2 Published: December 2013, Atria/Emily Bestler Books Format: Paperback, 352 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  Fifteen years ago: A teenage girl is viciously assaulted as she picks flowers in a field one night in midsummer. The crime is never reported. Present day: A man with no identification on his person is killed in a hit-and-run. He is never reported missing.…