Goodbye August …Hello September!!! So, this was a funny month – between being on vacation at the beach for a week and then coming home only to realize I had a stress fracture in my foot and needed to stay off it for 2 weeks, I suddenly found myself with tons of reading time on my hands 🙂 Not that I’m complaining – those piles of books aren’t going to…
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Title: The Daughters of Ireland Author:Santa Montefiore Series:The Deverill Chronicles, #2 Narrator:Genevieve Swallow Published:August 2017, HarperAudio / William Morrow Paperbacks Length:18 hours 33 minutes / 576 pages Source: Audio – personal copy via Audible / ARC Paperback – Publisher via TLC Book Tours Ireland. 1925. The war is over. But life will never be the same… In the green hills of West Cork, Ireland, Castle Deverill has burned to the…
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Title:Emma in the Night Author:Wendy Walker Published:August 2017, St. Martin’s Press Format:ARC Paperback, 320 pages Source:Publisher From the bestselling author of All Is Not Forgotten comes a thriller about two missing sisters, a twisted family, and what happens when one girl comes back… One night three years ago, the Tanner sisters disappeared: fifteen-year-old Cass and seventeen-year-old Emma. Three years later, Cass returns, without her sister Emma. Her story is…
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Title: A Beautiful Poison Author:Lydia Kang Published:August 2017, Lake Union Publishing Format:ARC Paperback, 350 pages Source:Publisher Just beyond the Gilded Age, in the mist-covered streets of New York, the deadly Spanish influenza ripples through the city. But with so many victims in her close circle, young socialite Allene questions if the flu is really to blame. All appear to have been poisoned—and every death was accompanied by a mysterious note.…
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Title:Everything We Left Behind Author:Kerry Lonsdale Series:Everything We Keep, #2 Narrator:Timothy Andres Pabon Published:July 2017, Brilliance Audio / Lake Union Publishing Length:9 hours 14 minutes / 348 pages Source:Audio -Brilliance Audio / Print – Lake Union Publishing From the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Everything We Keep comes the highly anticipated sequel. Told from one man’s two perspectives, Everything We Left Behind effortlessly blends suspense, mystery, and romance…
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Title:The Goddesses Author:Swan Huntley Narrator:Hillary Huber Published:July 2017, Random House Audio / Doubleday Books Length:11 hours 38 minutes / 320 pages Source:Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – ARC E-copy via Netgalley The Descendants meets Single White Female in this captivating novel about a woman who moves her family to Hawaii, only to find herself wrapped up in a dangerous friendship, from the celebrated author of We Could…
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Title:The People at Number 9 Author:Felicity Everett Published:August 2017, HQ Format:ARC Paperback, 315 pages Source:Publisher Have you met them yet, the new couple? When Gav and Lou move into the house next door, Sara spends days plucking up courage to say hello. The neighbours are glamorous, chaotic and just a little eccentric. They make the rest of Sara’s street seem dull by comparison. When the hand of friendship is extended,…
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Title:The End of Temperance Dare Author:Wendy Webb Published:June 2017, Lake Union Publishing Format:Paperback, 336 pages Source:Publisher Haunting and atmospheric, The End of Temperance Dare is another thrilling page-turner from the author reviewers are calling the Queen of the Northern Gothic. When Eleanor Harper becomes the director of a renowned artists’ retreat, she knows nothing of Cliffside Manor’s dark past as a tuberculosis sanatorium, a “waiting room for death.” After years…
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Title:The Other Girl Author:Erica Spindler Published:August 2017, St. Martin’s Press Format:ARC E-copy, 256 pages Source:Netgalley via Publisher From the New York Times bestselling author of Justice for Sara and The First Wife comes a chilling new thriller about a ritualistic murder of a college professor that sends a small town cop back into the trauma she thought she’d put behind her. A horrific crime. One witness—a fifteen year old…
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Title:Unraveling Oliver Author:Liz Nugent Published:August 2017, Gallery/Scout Press Format:ARC Paperback, 272 pages Source:Publisher “I expected more of a reaction the first time I hit her.” So begins Liz Nugent’s astonishing debut novel—a chilling, elegantly crafted, and psychologically astute exploration of the nature of evil. Oliver Ryan, handsome, charismatic, and successful, has long been married to his devoted wife, Alice. Together they write and illustrate award-winning children’s books; their life together…
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Title:Cockroaches Author:Jo Nesbo Series:Harry Hole, #2 Published:February 2014, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Format:Paperback, 368 pages Source:Personal copy When the Norwegian ambassador to Thailand is found dead in a Bangkok brothel, Inspector Harry Hole is dispatched from Oslo to help hush up the case. But once he arrives Harry discovers that this case is about much more than one random murder. There is something else, something more pervasive, scrabbling around behind…
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Title:Girl in Snow Author:Danya Kukafka Published:August 2017, Simon & Schuster Format:ARC Paperback, 368 pages Source:Publisher Who Are You When No One Is Watching? When a beloved high schooler named Lucinda Hayes is found murdered, no one in her sleepy Colorado suburb is untouched—not the boy who loved her too much; not the girl who wanted her perfect life; not the officer assigned to investigate her murder. In the aftermath of…
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Title:In the Shadow of Lakecrest Author:Elizabeth Blackwell Narrator:Teri Clark Linden Published:February 2017, Brilliance Audio / Lake Union Publishing Length:9 hours 48 minutes / 282 pages Source:Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – Paperback via Publisher The year is 1928. Kate Moore is looking for a way out of the poverty and violence of her childhood. When a chance encounter on a transatlantic ocean liner brings her face-to-face with…
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Title:The Salt House Author:Lisa Duffy Published:June 2017, Touchstone Format:Paperback, 304 pages Source:Publisher In the tradition of Jodi Picoult and Lisa Genova, this gorgeously written, heartbreaking, yet hopeful debut set during a Maine summer traces the lives of a young family in the aftermath of tragedy. In the coastal town of Alden, Maine, Hope and Jack Kelly have settled down to a life of wedded bliss. They have a beautiful family,…
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Title:Last Breath Author:Karin Slaughter Published:July 2017, Witness Impulse (HarperCollins Imprint) Format:E-book, 176 pages Source:Personal copy Protecting someone always comes at a cost. At the age of thirteen, Charlie Quinn’s childhood came to an abrupt and devastating end. Two men, with a grudge against her lawyer father, broke into her home – and after that shocking night, Charlie’s world was never the same. Now a lawyer herself, Charlie has made it…
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Title:The Sleepwalker Author:Chris Bohjalian Series:Sleepwalker, #1 Narrator:Cady McClain, Grace Experience Published:January 2017, Random House Audio Length:9 hours 35 minutes Source:Library From the New York Times bestselling author of The Guest Room comes a spine-tingling novel of lies, loss, and buried desire–the mesmerizing story of a wife and mother who vanishes from her bed late one night. When Annalee Ahlberg goes missing, her children fear the worst. Annalee is a…
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Title:The Perfect Stranger Author:Megan Miranda Published:April 2017, Simon & Schuster Format:ARC E-book, 352 pages Source:Netgalley In the masterful follow-up to the New York Times bestseller All the Missing Girls—“think: Luckiest Girl Alive, The Girl on the Train, Gone Girl” (TheSkimm)—a journalist sets out to find a missing friend, a friend who may never have existed at all. Confronted by a restraining order and the threat of a lawsuit, failed journalist…
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Title: The Guineveres Author:Sarah Domet Published:July 2017, Flatiron Books Format:Paperback, 352 pages To four girls who have nothing, their friendship is everything: they are each other’s confidants, teachers, and family. The girls are all named Guinevere–Vere, Gwen, Ginny, and Win–and it is the surprise of finding another Guinevere in their midst that first brings them together. They come to The Sisters of the Supreme Adoration convent by different paths,…
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Title:Ginny Moon Author:Benjamin Ludwig Narrator:Em Eldridge Published:May 2017, Harlequin Audio Length:9 hours 1 minute Source:Library Told in an extraordinary and wholly unique voice that will candidly take you into the mind of a curious and deeply human character. For the first time in her life, Ginny Moon has found her “forever home”—a place where she’ll be safe and protected, with a family that will love and nurture her. It’s exactly…
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Title:Secrets of the Dead Author:Carol E. Wyer Series:DI Robyn Carter, #2 Published:May 2017, Bookouture Format:ARC E-book, 316 pages Source:Netgalley via Publisher Three murders. Three innocent victims. What secrets did they share with their killer? A bottle of bubble bath and colourful, plastic boats were scattered in small puddles on the floor. In the bathtub lay Linda Upton, fully-clothed, her lips a shade of blue, and her bloodshot eyes wide open.…
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#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About We are back from our week at the beach…boy did that week go fast! I took the week to just recharge…and it was heavenly!!! Sure I still wore my Fitbit – I have just gotten into the habit of putting it on first thing in the morning and I like the clock feature,…
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Title:Stealing Snow Author:Danielle Paige Series:Stealing Snow, #1 Published:September 2016, Bloomsbury USA Childrens Format:Hardcover, 375 pages First kisses sometimes wake slumbering princesses, undo spells, and spark happily ever afters. Mine broke Bale. Seventeen-year-old Snow has spent her life locked in Whittaker Psychiatric—but she isn’t crazy. And that’s not the worst of it. Her very first kiss proves anything but innocent…when Bale, her only love, turns violent. Despite Snow knowing that Bale…
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Title:The Separatists Author:Lis Wiehl Series:Newsmakers, #3 Narrator:Devon O’Day Published:June 2017, Thomas Nelson Length:9 hours 10 minutes Source:Publisher Journalist and newscaster Erica Sparks is planning only to report on an explosive story – until she gets caught in the middle of it. After getting the green light from her network to launch an investigative news show, Erica flies to Bismarck, North Dakota, to investigate Take Back Our Homeland, the largest…
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Title:Truly Madly Guilty Author:Liane Moriarty Published:July 2017, Flatiron Books Format:Paperback, 512 pages Six responsible adults. Three cute kids. One small dog. It’s just a normal weekend. What could possibly go wrong? In Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty turns her unique, razor-sharp eye towards three seemingly happy families. Sam and Clementine have a wonderful, albeit, busy life: they have two little girls, Sam has just started a new dream job,…
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Title:The Book of Summer Author:Michelle Gable Narrator:Cassandra Campbell Published:May 2017, Brilliance Audio Length:12 hours 56 minutes Source:Publisher Physician Bess Codman has returned to her family’s Nantucket compound, Cliff House, for the first time in four years. Her great-grandparents built Cliff House almost a century before, but due to erosion, the once-grand home will soon fall into the sea. Though she s purposefully avoided the island, Bess must now pack up…
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Title: Sour Heart Author: Jenny Zheng Published: August 2017, Lenny Books Format: Hardcover, 320 pages A debut story collection that plunges readers into the hearts of adolescent girls growing up in New York City, from poet and National Magazine Award nominee Jenny Zhang. Centered on a community of immigrants who have traded their endangered lives as artists in China and Taiwan for the constant struggle of life at the poverty…
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Title:The Alice Network Author:Kate Quinn Published:June 2017, William Morrow Paperbacks Format:ARC Paperback, 503 pages Source:Publisher In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women—a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947—are brought together in a mesmerizing story of courage and redemption. 1947. In the chaotic aftermath of…
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Title:The Lost Ones Author:Sheena Kamal Series:Nora Watts, #1 Published:July 2017, William Morrow Format:Hardcover, 352 pages Source:Publisher via TLC Book Tours A dark, compulsively readable psychological suspense debut, the first in a new series featuring the brilliant, fearless, chaotic, and deeply flawed Nora Watts—a character as heartbreakingly troubled, emotionally complex, and irresistibly compelling as Stieg Larsson’s Lisbeth Salander and Jo Nesbø’s Harry Hole. It begins with a phone call that Nora…
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Goodbye July…Hello August!!! This was one of the best reading months for me in a long time…both in print books and with audio books. If the rest of the year can go this way, I just may make a good dent in all those books piling up around my house! There are some really good books coming up, so I have some good reads coming my way 🙂 Here are…
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Title:The Address Author:Fiona Davis Published:August 2017, Dutton Books Format:ARC Paperback, 368 pages Source:Publisher Fiona Davis, author of The Dollhouse, returns with a compelling novel about the thin lines between love and loss, success and ruin, passion and madness, all hidden behind the walls of The Dakota, New York City’s most famous residence. After a failed apprenticeship, working her way up to head housekeeper of a posh London hotel is more…
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Title:Come Sundown Author:Nora Roberts Narrator:Elisabeth Rodgers Published:May 2017, Brilliance Audio Length:17 hours 17 minutes Source:Publisher A saga of love, family ties, and twisted passions from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Obsession… The Bodine ranch and resort in western Montana is a family business, an idyllic spot for vacationers. A little over thirty thousand acres and home to four generations, it’s kept running by Bodine Longbow with…
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#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About So I challenged myself to walk a minimum of 100 miles this month – and while the month isn’t quite over, I’m psyched that I already hit the goal as of Friday!!! And to think, I wasn’t even training for a race 😉 I think this is something that I will definitely do again,…
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Title:Shadow Girl Author:Gerry Schmitt Series:Afton Tangler Thriller, #2 Published:August 2017, Berkley Books Format:ARC Paperback, 336 pages Source:Author The brutal murder of a business tycoon leaves Afton Tangler and the Twin Cities reeling, but that s just the beginning of a gruesome crime spree… Leland Odin made his fortune launching a home shopping network, but his millions can t save his life. On the list for a transplant, the ailing…
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Title:The Captain’s Daughter Author:Meg Mitchell Moore Narrator:Coleen Marlo Published:July 2017, Random House Audio / Doubleday Books Length:11 hours 11 minutes / 304 pages Source:Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – ARC Paperback via Publisher For fans of Elin Hilderbrand and Emma Straub comes an emotionally gripping novel about a woman who returns to her hometown in coastal Maine and finds herself pondering the age-old question of what could…
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Title:The Weight of Lies Author:Emily Carpenter Narrator:Kate Orsini Published:June 2017, Brilliance Audio Length:11 hours 58 minutes Source:Publisher In this gripping, atmospheric family drama, a young woman investigates the forty-year-old murder that inspired her mother’s bestselling novel, and uncovers devastating truths—and dangerous lies. Reformed party girl Meg Ashley leads a life of privilege, thanks to a bestselling horror novel her mother wrote decades ago. But Meg knows that the glow of…
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Title:It Happens All the Time Author:Amy Hatvany Narrator:Julia Whelan, Kirby Heyborne Published:March 2017, Simon & Schuster Audio / Atria Books Length:10 hours 2 minutes / 320 pages Source:Audio – Personal copy via Audible / ARC E-copy – Netgalley via Publisher I want to rewind the clock, take back the night when the world shattered. I want to erase everything that went wrong. Amber Bryant and Tyler Hicks have been best…
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Title:The Almost Sisters Author:Joshilyn Jackson Narrator:Joshilyn Jackson Published:July 2017, Harper Audio / William Morrow Length:12 hours 39 minutes /352 pages Source:Audio – personal copy via Audible / ARC Paperback -Publisher via TLC Book Tours With empathy, grace, humor, and piercing insight, the author of gods in Alabama pens a powerful, emotionally resonant novel of the South that confronts the truth about privilege, family, and the distinctions between perception and reality—the…
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Title:The Lying Game Author:Ruth Ware Published:July 2017, Gallery/Scout Press Format:ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source:Publisher From the instant New York Times bestselling author of blockbuster thrillers In a Dark, Dark Wood and The Woman in Cabin 10 comes Ruth Ware’s chilling new novel. On a cool June morning, a woman is walking her dog in the idyllic coastal village of Salten along a tidal estuary known as the Reach. Before…
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Title:Cocoa Beach Author:Beatriz Williams Published:June 2017, William Morrow Format:ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source:Publisher The author of A Certain Age transports readers to sunny Florida in this lush and enthralling historical novel—an enchanting blend of love, suspense, betrayal, and redemption set among the rum runners and scoundrels of Prohibition-era Cocoa Beach Burdened by a dark family secret, Virginia Fortescue flees her oppressive home in New York City for the battlefields of…
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#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About I found this new yoga app, Asana Rebel, that I downloaded and I’ve been doing some of their workouts here and there. I really like it – they are short, easy yoga flows and the instructions are easy to follow. I am just using the free version for now and there are enough flows…
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Title:American Family Author:Catherine Marshall-Smith Published:June 2017, She Writes Press Format:Paperback, 360 pages Richard and Michael, both three years sober, have just decided to celebrate their love by moving in together when Richard driven by the desire to do the right thing for his ten-year-old-daughter, Brady, whom he has never met impulsively calls his former father-in-law to connect with her. With that phone call, he jeopardizes the one good thing…
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Title:Bring Her Home Author:David Bell Published:July 2017, Berkley Books Format:ARC E-copy, 464 pages Source:Netgalley via Publisher In the breathtaking new thriller from David Bell, bestselling author of Since She Went Away and Somebody I Used to Know, the fate of two missing teenage girls becomes a father’s worst nightmare…. Just a year and a half after the tragic death of his wife, Bill Price’s fifteen-year-old daughter, Summer, and her…
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Title:Eden Author:Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg Narrator:Marnye Young Published:May 2017, Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg / She Writes Press Length:9 hours 56 minutes / 336 pages Source:Personal copy via Audible / Netgalley via Publisher Becca Meister Fitzpatrick—wife, mother, grandmother, and pillar of the community—is the dutiful steward of her family’s iconic summer tradition . . . until she discovers her recently deceased husband squandered their nest egg. As she struggles to accept that this…
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Title:The Breakdown Author:B.A. Paris Published:July 2017, St. Martin’s Press Format:ARC Paperback, 336 pages Source:Publisher If you can’t trust yourself, who can you trust? Cass is having a hard time since the night she saw the car in the woods, on the winding rural road, in the middle of a downpour, with the woman sitting inside―the woman who was killed. She’s been trying to put the crime out of her mind;…
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Title:Last Breath Author:Robert Bryndza Series:Detective Erika Foster, #4 Narrator:Jan Cramer Published:April 2017, Bookouture Length:9 hours 5 minutes Source:Personal copy via Audible He’s your perfect date. You’re his next victim. When the tortured body of a young woman is found in a dumpster, her eyes swollen shut and her clothes soaked with blood, Detective Erika Foster is one of the first at the crime scene. The trouble is, this time, it’s…
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#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About I seem to have found a good routine and it is working…good workouts, good meals, and I’m feeling good – so I must be doing something right!!! We leave for our beach vacation in 3 weeks and I am really looking forward to it. I just hope the weather cooperates 🙂 July…
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Title:A Work of Art Author:Micayla Lally Published:May 2017, She Writes Press Format:Paperback, 256 pages Letting go after her abrupt break-up with Samson is harder than Julene thought it would be, especially since her ex has wasted no time in burying himself in the local dating scene. But during an extended visit to her parents overseas, Julene rediscovers her love of art, and a burgeoning career develops. Samson, on the…
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Title:The Dollhouse Author:Fiona Davis Narrator:Tavia Gilbert Published:August 2016, Penguin Audio Length:9 hours 53 minutes Source:Library Fiona Davis’s stunning debut novel pulls readers into the lush world of New York City’s glamorous Barbizon Hotel for Women, where a generation of aspiring models, secretaries, and editors lived side-by-side while attempting to claw their way to fairy-tale success in the 1950s, and where a present-day journalist becomes consumed with uncovering a dark secret…
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Title:The Child Author:Fiona Barton Published:June 2017, Berkley Books Format:ARC E-copy, 36 pages Source:Netgalley via Publisher The author of the stunning New York Times bestseller The Widow returns with a brand-new novel of twisting psychological suspense. As an old house is demolished in a gentrifying section of London, a workman discovers a tiny skeleton, buried for years. For journalist Kate Waters, it s a story that deserves attention. She cobbles…
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Title:Hello, Sunshine Author:Laura Dave Published:July 2017, Simon & Schuster Format:ARC E-book, 256 pages Source:Netgalley via Publisher From Laura Dave—the author of the “addictive” (Us Weekly), “winning” (Publishers Weekly) and critically acclaimed bestseller Eight Hundred Grapes—comes a new novel about the secrets we keep…even from ourselves. Sunshine Mackenzie has it all…until her secrets come to light. Sunshine Mackenzie is living the dream—she’s a culinary star with millions of fans, a…
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