Review: The Sleeping Beauty Killer by Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke (audio)

Title: The Sleeping Beauty Killer Author: Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke Series: Under Suspicion, #3 Narrator: Jan Maxwell Published: November 2016, Simon & Schuster Audio Length: 8 hours 39 minutes Source: Library Summary:  The third thrilling installment in the bestselling Under Suspicion series from #1 New York Times bestselling author and “Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke—television producer Laurie Moran puts everything on the line to…

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Review: A Simple Favor by Darcey Bell (audio)

Title: A Simple Favor  Author: Darcey Bell  Narrator: Andi Arndt, Xe Sands, Matthew Waterson  Published: March 2017, HarperAudio  Length: 8 hours 55 minutes  Source: Library Summary: She’s your best friend. She knows all your secrets. That’s why she’s so dangerous. A single mother’s life is turned upside down when her best friend vanishes in this chilling debut thriller in the vein of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train.…

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Review: Little Secrets by Anna Snoekstra

Title: Little Secrets  Author: Anna Snoekstra  Published: October 2017, MIRA  Format: ARC E-copy, 336 pages  Source: Netgalley  Summary: What happens when ambition trumps the truth? A town reeling in the wake of tragedy An arsonist is on the loose in Colmstock, Australia, most recently burning down the town’s courthouse and killing a young boy who was trapped inside.. An aspiring journalist desperate for a story The clock is ticking for…

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Review: Winter Solstice by Elin Hildebrand (audio)

Title: Winter Solstice Author: Elin Hilderbrand Series: Winter, #4 Narrator: Erin Bennett Published: October 2017, Hachette Audio Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Source: Library Summary: Raise one last glass with the Quinn Family at the Winter Street Inn. It’s been too long since the entire Quinn family has been able to celebrate the holidays under the same roof, but that’s about to change. With Bart back safe and sound from Afghanistan,…

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Review: The Watcher by Ross Armstrong

Title: The Watcher  Author: Ross Armstrong Published: April 2017, MIRA Books Format: Hardcover, 370 pages Source: Publisher Summary:   She’s watching you, but who’s watching her?   Lily Gullick lives with her husband Aiden in a new-build flat opposite an estate which has been marked for demolition. A keen birdwatcher, she can’t help spying on her neighbours. Until one day Lily sees something suspicious through her binoculars and soon her elderly…

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Review: Odd Child Out by Gilly Macmillan

Title:Odd Child Out Author:Gilly Macmillan Series:Jim Clemo, #2 Published:October 2017, William Morrow Paperbacks Format:ARC Paperback, 432 pages Source:Publisher How well do you know the people you love…? Best friends Noah Sandler and Abdi Mahad have always been inseparable.  But when Noah is found floating unconscious in Bristol’s Feeder Canal, Abdi can’t–or won’t–tell anyone what happened. Just back from a mandatory leave following his last case, Detective Jim Clemo is now…

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Review: Until I Met Her by Natalie Barelli (audio)

Title:Until I Met Her Author:Natalie Barelli Series:Emma Fern, #1 Narrator:Kate Rudd Published:July 2017, Brilliance Audio / Thomas & Mercer Length:8 hours 42 minutes / 304 pages Source:Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – ARC E-copy via Netgalley Beatrice Johnson Greene, a bestselling crime writer, has an unusual favor to ask. When a chance encounter brings Emma Fern into her life, she thinks she’s found just the person for…

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Review: Persons Unknown by Susie Steiner (audio)

Title:Persons Unknown Author:Susie Steiner Series:DS Manon, #2 Narrator:Juanita McMahon Published:July 2017, Random House Audio / Random House Length:11 hours 46 minutes / 368 pages Source:Audio – Personal copy via Audio / Print – ARC Paperback via Publisher In this brilliant crime novel from the author of Missing, Presumed, a detective investigates her most personal case yet: a high-profile murder in which her own family falls under suspicion.   As dusk…

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Review: Flight of Dreams by Ariel Lawhon (audio)

Title:Flight of Dreams Author:Ariel Lawhon Narrator:John Lee Published:February 2016, Random House Audio / Doubleday Length:12 hours 45 minutes / 336 pages Source:Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – ARC E-copy via Netgalley   On the evening of May 3rd, 1937, ninety-seven people board the Hindenburg for its final, doomed flight to Lakehurst, New Jersey. Among them are a frightened stewardess who is not what she seems; the steadfast…

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Review: Three Days and a Life by Pierre Lemaitre

Title:Three Days and a Life Author:Pierre Lemaitre Published:November 2017, MacLehose Press/Quercus Format:ARC Paperback, 208 pages Source:Publisher   In 1999, in the small provincial town of Beauval, France, twelve-year-old Antoine Courtin accidentally kills a young neighbor boy in the woods near his home. Panicked, he conceals the body and to his relief–and ongoing shame–he is never suspected of any connection to the child’s disappearance.  But the boy’s death continues to haunt…

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Review: The Missing by C.L. Taylor

Title: The Missing Author: C.L. Taylor Published: November 2017, William Morrow Paperbacks Format: ARC Paperback, 496 pages Source: Publisher A harrowing psychological thriller about a missing teenage boy whose mother must expose the secrets within their own family if she wants to find her son—perfect for fans of Reconstructing Amelia. You love your family. They make you feel safe. You trust them. Or do you…? When fifteen-year-old Billy Wilkinson goes…

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Review: Little Deaths by Emma Flint (audio)

Title:Little Deaths Author:Emma Flint Narrator:Lauren Fortgang, Graham Halstead Published:January 2017, Hachette Audio Length:10 hours 17 minutes Source:Library Inspired by a true story, Little Deaths, like celebrated novels by Sarah Waters and Megan Abbott, is compelling literary crime fiction that explores the capacity for good and evil in us all. It’s 1965 in a tight-knit working-class neighborhood in Queens, New York, and Ruth Malone – a single mother who works long…

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Review: Sleep Tight by Caroline Mitchell (audio)

Title:Sleep Tight Author:Caroline Mitchell Series:Detective Ruby Preston, #2 Narrator:Emma Newman Published:July 2017, Audible Studios Length:10 hours 10 minutes Source:Personal copy via Audible Close your eyes … Just pray you don’t wake up. A killer stalks the streets of East London. All over the area, murdered young women are discovered, their bodies posed into disturbing recreations of fairytale princesses. Detective Ruby Preston is determined to hunt down the murderer who is…

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Month in Review: October 2017

Goodbye October … Hello November!!! I can’t believe it’s November already … 2 months left in 2017! This year is flying by!!! It was another good month of reading and I did a pretty good job of balancing it between review books and library books/audio books I’ve been wanting to read. Now I just just to add in some of my own physical books into the mix and I’ll be…

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Review: Even If It Kills Her by Kate White

Title:Even If It Kills Her Author:Kate White Series:Bailey Weggins, #7 Published:October 2017, Harper Paperbacks Format:ARC Paperback, 448 pages Source:Publisher   Kate White returns to her New York Times bestselling Bailey Weggins’ Mystery series, with this favorite true-crime journalist turned sleuth’s most chilling case to date. Bailey Weggins’ great new friend in college, Jillian Lowe, had everything going for her. Pretty, popular, and whip-smart, she lit up any room that she…

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Review: The Stolen Marriage by Diane Chamberlain (audio)

Title:The Stolen Marriage Author:Diane Chamberlain Narrator:Susan Bennett Published:October 2017, Macmillan Audio / St. Martin’s Press Length:14 hours 6 minutes / 384 pages Source:Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – ARC E-copy via Netgalley; Finished copy via Publisher   In 1944, twenty-three-year-old Tess DeMello abruptly ends her engagement to the love of her life when she marries a mysterious stranger and moves to Hickory, North Carolina, a small town…

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Review: Dead Souls by Angela Marsons (audio)

Title:Dead Souls Author:Angela Marsons Series:DI Kim Stone, #6 Narrator:Jan Cramer Published:May 2017, Bookouture Length:10 hours 14 minutes Source:Personal copy via Audible   The truth was dead and buried…until now. When a collection of human bones is unearthed during a routine archaeological dig, a Black Country field suddenly becomes a complex crime scene for Detective Kim Stone. As the bones are sorted, it becomes clear that the grave contains more than…

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Review: The Dark Lake by Sarah Bailey

Title:The Dark Lake Author:Sarah Bailey Series:Gemma Woodstock, #1 Published:October 2017, Grand Central Publishing Format:ARC Paperback, 400 pages Source:Publisher   In a suspense thriller to rival Paula Hawkins and Tana French, a detective with secrets of her own hunts the killer of a woman who was the glamorous star of their high school. Rose was lit by the sun, her beautiful face giving nothing away. Even back then, she was a…

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Review: The Lost Child by Patricia Gibney

Title:The Lost Child Author:Patricia Gibney Series:Detective Lottie Parker, #3 Published:October 2017, Bookouture Format:ARC E-copy, 483 pages Source:Netgalley via Publisher   They placed me in here and threw away the key. I look down at the gown they’ve put on me. I want my own clothes. I don’t know how long I’ve been here. An elderly woman is found murdered in her own home, and Detective Lottie Parker and her partner…

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Review: Snowblind by Ragnar Jonasson

Title:Snowblind Author:Ragnar Jonasson Series:Dark Iceland, #1 Published:June 2015, Orenda Books Format:Paperback, 252 pages Source:Personal copy Siglufjörður: an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland, where no one locks their doors – accessible only via a small mountain tunnel. Ari Thór Arason: a rookie policeman on his first posting, far from his girlfriend in Reykjavik – with a past that he’s unable to leave behind. When a young woman is found…

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Review: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Title: Murder on the Orient Express Author: Agatha Christie Series: Hercule Poirot, #10 Published: January 2011, William Morrow Paperbacks, (1st published 1934) Format: Paperback, 265 pages Source: Publisher The most widely-read mystery of all time, now a major motion picture directed by Kenneth Branagh and produced by Ridley Scott “The murderer is with us—on the train now . . .” Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in…

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Review: Good Me, Bad Me by Ali Land

Title:Good Me, Bad Me Author:Ali Land Published:September 2017, Flatiron Books Format:ARC Paperback, 292 pages Source:Publisher Milly’s mother is a serial killer. Though Milly loves her mother, the only way to make her stop is to turn her in to the police. Milly is given a fresh start: a new identity, a home with an affluent foster family, and a spot at an exclusive private school. But Milly has secrets, and…

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Review: The Stolen Girls by Patricia Gibney

Title:The Stolen Girls Author:Patricia Gibney Series:Detective Lottie Parker, #2 Published:July 2017, Bookouture Format:ARC E-copy, 452 pages Source:Netgalley via Publisher The young woman standing on Lottie’s step was a stranger. She was clutching the hand of a young boy. ‘Help me,’ she said to Lottie. ‘Please help me.’ One Monday morning, the body of a young pregnant woman is found. The same day, a mother and her son visit the house…

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Review: The Blind by A.F. Brady

Title:The Blind Author:A.F. Brady Published:September 2017, Park Row Books Format:ARC Paperback, 400 pages Source:Publisher Sam James has spent years carefully crafting her reputation as the best psychologist at Typhlos, Manhattan’s most challenging psychiatric institution. She boasts the highest success rates with the most disturbed patients, believing if she can’t save herself, she’ll save someone else. It’s this savior complex that serves her well in helping patients battle their inner demons,…

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Blog Tour & Review: Without Merit by Colleen Hoover

Title:Without Merit Author:Colleen Hoover Published:October 2017, Atria Books Format:ARC E-book, 384 pages Source:Netgalley via Publisher Not every mistake deserves a consequence. Sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness. The Voss family is anything but normal. They live in a repurposed church, newly baptized Dollar Voss. The once cancer-stricken mother lives in the basement, the father is married to the mother’s former nurse, the little half-brother isn’t allowed to do…

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Review: Hide and Seek by M.J. Arlidge

Title:Hide and Seek Author:M.J. Arlidge Series:Helen Grace, #6 Published:October 2016, Penguin Books Format:Paperback, 372 pages Source:Personal copy    Prison is no place for a detective Helen Grace was one of the country’s best police investigators. Now she’s behind bars with the killers she caught. Framed for murder She knows there is only way out: stay alive until her trial and somehow prove her innocence. Locked up with a killer But…

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Review: The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine

Title:The Last Mrs. Parrish Author:Liv Constantine Published:October 2017, Harper Format:ARC Paperback, 400 pages Source:Publisher   A mesmerizing debut psychological thriller full of delicious twists about a coolly manipulative woman who worms her way into the lives of a wealthy “golden couple” from Connecticut to achieve the privileged life she wants. Amber Patterson is fed up. She’s tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background.…

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Book Spotlight: Next of Kin by James Tucker

Today, Next of Kin, the debut book by James Tucker is being published and to celebrate, I am helping the publisher get the word out. I will be reading this book and sharing my review soon! For now, please enjoy this spotlight and let me know if you will be reading this book 🙂 I’m always excited to find a new  crime thriller series to read and one that’s set…

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Review: Blood Wedding by Pierre Lemaitre

Title: Blood Wedding Author: Pierre Lemaitre Published: June 2016, MacLehose Press Quercus Format: Paperback, 288 pages Source: Publisher Sophie Duguet–young, successful, and happily married–thought at first she was becoming absentminded when she started misplacing her mail and forgetting where she’d parked her car the night before. But then, as her husband and colleagues pointed out with increasing frustration, she began forgetting things she’d said and done, too. And when she…

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Short & Sweet Review: The Lost Boy by Camilla Lackberg (audio)

Title:The Lost Boy Author:Camilla Lackberg Series:Patrik Hedstrom/Fjallbacka, #7 Narrator:Simon Vance Published:October 2016, Blackstone Audio Length:12 hours 56 minutes Source:Library From internationally best-selling Swedish crime sensation Camilla Läckberg comes a new psychological thriller – irresistible for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbø.  Mats Sverin was Fjällbacka’s financial director on a regeneration project worth millions. When he’s found dead, detective Patrik Hedström must find answers.  It seems Mats was a man…

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Review: Friend Request by Laura Marshall (audio)

Title:Friend Request Author:Laura Marshall Narrator:Elaine Claxton Published:September 2017, Hachette Audio Length:11 hours 9 minutes Source:Publisher A paranoid single mom is forced to confront the unthinkable act she committed as a desperate teenager in this addictive thriller with a social media twist. Maria Weston wants to be friends. But Maria Weston is dead. Isn’t she? 1989. When Louise first notices the new girl who has mysteriously transferred late into their senior…

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Review: Last Christmas in Paris by Hazel Gaynor & Heather Webb

Title:Last Christmas in Paris Author:Hazel Gaynor & Heather Webb Published:October 2017, William Morrow Paperbacks Format:ARC Paperback, 40 pages Source:Publisher   New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor has joined with Heather Webb to create this unforgettably romantic novel of the Great War. August 1914. England is at war. As Evie Elliott watches her brother, Will, and his best friend, Thomas Harding, depart for the front, she believes—as everyone does—that it…

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Review: When We Were Worthy by Marybeth Mayhew Whalen (audio)

Title:When We Were Worthy Author:Marybeth Mayhew Whalen Narrator:Joshilyn Jackson Published:September 2017, Brilliance Audio / Lake Union Publishing Length:9 hours 11 minutes / 276 pages Source:Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – ARC Paperback via Publisher   A win brought them together, but loss may tear them apart. When the sound of sirens cuts through a cool fall night, the small town of Worthy, Georgia, hurtles from triumph to…

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Book Spotlight: Right Behind You by Lisa Gardner

Last January, I read Right Behind You by Lisa Gardner, the latest book in her Quincy & Rainie series, when it was first released in hardcover, and I loved it! You can find my thoughts on the book here. Today the book is being released in paperback and to celebrate, I am helping the publishers get the word out.  Are you a fan of this series? If not, now’s the…

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Month in Review: September 2017

Goodbye September …Hello October!!! I can’t believe it’s already October…3 months left in 2017…this year is flying by!!! So, I’ve been doing well reading-wise the last few months, but I’m trying to balance it more with library books and my own books. As much as I love reading all these review books, I do have a stack of my own books that I’ve either been buying or have had laying…

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Review: The Names of Dead Girls by Eric Rickstad (audio)

Title:The Names of Dead Girls Author:Eric Rickstad Series:Canaan Crime, #3 Narrator: Jeffrey Kafer Published:September 2017, Harper Audio / William Morrow Paperbacks Length:9 hours 11 minutes /434 pages Source: Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – ARC Paperback via William Morrow Paperbacks New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Eric Rickstad delivers the electrifying sequel to The Silent Girls, and features once again detectives Frank Rath and Sonja Test…

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Review: The Cottingley Secret by Hazel Gaynor (audio)

Title:The Cottingley Secret Author:Hazel Gaynor Narrator:Karen Cass, Billie Fullford-Brown Published:August 2017, Harper Audio / William Morrow Paperbacks Length:11 hours 2 minutes / 416 pages Source:Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – ARC Paperback via Publisher The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home turns the clock back one hundred years to a time when two young girls from Cottingley, Yorkshire, convinced the world that…

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Review: Lies She Told by Cate Holahan

Title:Lies She Told  Author:Cate Holahan Published:September 2017, Crooked Lane Books Format:ARC E-copy, 288 pages Source:Netgalley   From the author of the USA Today bestselling novel, The Widower’s Wife, comes an electrifying story of love and deceit. The truth can be darker than fiction. Liza Cole, a once-successful novelist whose career has seen better days, has one month to write the thriller that could land her back on the bestseller list.…

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Review: The Blackbird Season by Kate Moretti

Title:The Blackbird Season Author:Kate Moretti Published:September 2017, Atria Books Format:ARC E-copy, 304 pages Source:Netgalley via Publisher “Where did they come from? Why did they fall? The question would be asked a thousand times… Until, of course, more important question arose, at which time everyone promptly forgot that a thousand birds fell on the town of Mount Oanoke at all.” In a quiet Pennsylvania town, a thousand dead starlings fall onto…

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Review: The Wildling Sisters by Eve Chase (audio)

Title:The Wildling Sisters Author:Eve Chase Narrator:Clare Corbett, Emilia Fox Published:July 2017, Penguin Audio Length:10 hours 46 minutes Source:Library Four sisters. One summer. A lifetime of secrets. When fifteen-year-old Margot and her three sisters arrive at Applecote Manor in June 1959, they expect a quiet English country summer. Instead, they find their aunt and uncle still reeling from the disappearance of their daughter, Audrey, five years before. As the sisters become…

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Review: Working Fire by Emily Bleeker

Title:Working Fire Author:Emily Bleeker Published:August 2017, Lake Union Publishing Format:Paperback, 320 pages Source:Publisher   From the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of When I’m Gone comes a compelling novel of a bond between sisters, tested by tragedy… Ellie Brown thought she’d finally escaped her stifling hometown of Broadlands, Illinois; med school was supposed to be her ticket out. But when her father has a stroke, she must return home to…

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Review: The Missing Girls by Carol Wyer

Title:The Missing Girls Author:Carol Wyer Series:DI Robyn Carter, #3 Published:September 2017, Bookouture Format:ARC E-book, 392 pages Source:Netgalley via Publisher One girl found dead. Another girl gone… Long shadows danced on the tin walls. Inside the trunk lay Carrie Miller, wrapped in plastic, arms folded across her ribcage, lips sealed tight forever… When, a girl’s body is found at a Midlands storage unit, it is too decomposed for Detective Robyn Carter…

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Review: The Summer that Made Us by Robyn Carr (audio)

Title:The Summer That Made Us Author:Robyn Carr Narrator:Therese Plummer Published:September 2017, Recorded Books / Mira Books Length:10 hours 21 minutes / 336 pages Source:Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – ARC Paperback via Little Bird Publicity   Mothers and daughters, sisters and cousins–they lived for summers at the lake house until a tragic accident changed everything. The Summer That Made Us is an unforgettable story about a family…

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Review: Best Day Ever by Kaira Rouda

Title: Best Day Ever Author: Kaira Rouda Published: September 2017, Graydon House Format: ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source: Publisher   I glance at my wife as she climbs into the passenger seat, and I am bursting with confidence. Today will be everything I’ve promised her…and more… Paul Strom has the perfect life: a glittering career as an advertising executive, a beautiful wife, two healthy boys and a big house in…

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Review: The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld

Title:The Child Finder Author:Rene Denfeld Published:September 2017, Harper Format:ARC Paperback, 288 pages Source:Publisher Three years ago, Madison Culver disappeared when her family was choosing a Christmas tree in Oregon’s Skookum National Forest. She would be eight years old now—if she has survived. Desperate to find their beloved daughter, certain someone took her, the Culvers turn to Naomi, a private investigator with an uncanny talent for locating the lost and missing.…

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Review: The Good Widow by Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke (audio)

Title:The Good Widow Author:Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke Narrator:Dara Rosenberg Published:June 2017, Brilliance Audio Length:9 hours 35 minutes Source:Publisher Bestselling authors Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke make their suspense debut in this twisty, emotional thriller. Elementary school teacher Jacqueline “Jacks” Morales’s marriage was far from perfect, but even in its ups and downs it was predictable, familiar. Or at least she thought it was…until two police officers showed up at…

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#FitReaders: Weekly Check-in September 15

  #FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog  and That’s What I’m Talking About   It was a good week.  One thing I’ve been really conscious of since coming back from my injury is trying to change things up in regards to my workouts. Since I’m still on a restricted workout regiment, and will be for another week or two, I can’t go too crazy, but still I am…

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Cover Reveal & Book Spotlight: The Secret to Southern Charm by Kristy Woodson Harvey

I am so excited to help Kristy Woodsen Harvey spread the news today about her newest book – and share the cover!!! I have adored Kristy’s previous books and will be anxiously waiting until I can get my hands on this next one…Kristy writes from the heart and that definitely comes across in her writing! This is the second book in her Peachtree Bluff series, and let me just tell…

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Review: The Scarred Woman by Jussi Adler-Olsen

Title:The Scarred Woman Author:Jussi Adler-Olsen Series:Department Q, #7 Published:September 2017, Dutton Books Format:ARC Paperback, 486 pages Source:Publisher   The New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Causes delivers his most captivating and suspenseful Department Q novel yet—perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson.   Detective Carl Mørck of Department Q, Copenhagen’s cold cases division, meets his toughest challenge yet when the dark, troubled past of one of…

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Review: Mrs. Saint and the Defectives by Julie Lawson Timmer (audio)

Title:Mrs. Saint and the Defectives Author:Julie Lawson Timmer Narrator:Elizabeth Wiley Published:August 2017, Brilliance Audio / Lake Union Publishing Length:10 hours 31 minutes / 366 pages Source: Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – Paperback via Publisher Critically acclaimed author Julie Lawson Timmer returns with a tale of how community can heal the brokenness in all of us. Markie, a fortysomething divorcée who has suffered a humiliating and very…

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