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k2reader January 28, 2022

Review: The Latecomer by Jean Hanff Korelitz

Publisher: Celadon Books Published: May 31, 2022 Source: ARC Paperback via Publisher Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot, Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Latecomer is a layered and immersive literary novel about three siblings, desperate to escape one another, and the upending of their family by the late arrival of a fourth. The Latecomer follows the story of the wealthy, New York City-based Oppenheimer family, from the first meeting of parents…

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k2reader January 27, 2022

Blog Tour & Review: The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf

Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf. Thank you Park Row Books for inviting me to participate. Publisher: Park Row Books Published: January 25, 2022 Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: A woman receives an unexpected visitor during a deadly snowstorm in this chilling thriller from New York Times bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf She thought she was alone… True…

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k2reader January 27, 2022

Blog Tour & Review: The Appeal by Janice Hallett

Publisher: Atria Books Published: January 25, 2022 Source: ARC Paperback via Publisher Summary: This murder mystery follows a community rallying around a sick child—but when escalating lies lead to a dead body, everyone is a suspect. The Fairway Players, a local theatre group, is in the midst of rehearsals for an Arthur Miller play, when tragedy strikes the family of director Martin Haywood and his wife Helen, the play’s…

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k2reader January 26, 2022

Review: We Know You Remember by Tove Alsterdal

Publisher: Harper Published: October 28, 2021 Source: Personal copy Summary: A missing girl, a hidden body, a decades-long cover-up, and old sins cast in new light: the classic procedural meets Scandinavian atmosphere in this rich, character-driven mystery, awarded Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year, that heralds the American debut of a supremely skilled international writer. It’s been more than twenty years since Olof Hagström left home. Returning to…

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k2reader January 25, 2022

Review: When You Are Mine by Michael Robotham

Publisher: Scribner Books Published: January 4, 2022 Source: ARC Paperback via Publisher Summary: In this page-turning psychological thriller from an author who Stephen King called “an absolute master,” a young female police officer faces danger on all fronts—from a clever victim of abuse, her colleagues on the force, and even her own mobster father. Philomena McCarthy is a young, ambitious police office with the elite Metropolitan Police in London.…

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k2reader January 23, 2022

Review: The Last House on the Street by Diane Chamberlain (audio)

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: January 11, 2022 Source: Print – ARC Paperback via St. Martin’s Press / Audio via library Summary: A community’s past sins rise to the surface in New York Times bestselling author Diane Chamberlain’s The Last House on the Street when two women, a generation apart, find themselves bound by tragedy and an unsolved, decades-old mystery. 1965 Growing up in the well-to-do town of Round Hill,…

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k2reader January 23, 2022

Review: As the Wicked Watch by Tamron Hall

Publisher: William Morrow Published: October 26, 2021 Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: The first in a thrilling new series from Emmy Award–winning journalist Tamron Hall, in which a reporter unravels the disturbing mystery around the deaths of two black girls, the work of a serial killer terrorizing Chicago. When crime reporter Jordan Manning leaves her hometown in Texas to take a job at a television station in Chicago, she’s…

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k2reader January 21, 2022

Review: Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka (audio)

Publisher: William Morrow/Harper Audio Published: January 25, 2022 Source: Print – ARC Paperback via William Morrow / Audio – ALC via Netgalley Summary: In the tradition of ‘Long Bright River’ and ‘The Mars Room’, a gripping and atmospheric work of literary suspense that deconstructs the story of a serial killer on death row, told primarily through the eyes of the women in his life – from the best-selling author of ‘Girl in Snow’.…

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k2reader January 21, 2022

Review: The Redbreast by Harry Hole

Publisher: Harper Perennial Published: 2006 (First published January 2000) Source: Personal copy Summary: Detective Harry Hole embarrassed the force, and for his sins he’ been reassigned to mundane surveillance tasks. But while monitoring neo-Nazi activities in Oslo, Hole is inadvertently drawn into a mystery with deep roots in Norway’s dark past, when members of the government willingly collaborated with Nazi Germany. More than sixty years later, this black mark…

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k2reader January 20, 2022

Blog Tour & Excerpt: The Ex-Husband by Karen Hamilton

Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for The Ex-Husband by Karen Hamilton – I have an excerpt for you to read thanks to Graydon House Books. Publisher: Graydon House Published: January 18, 2022 Summary: From international bestselling author Karen Hamilton comes another pulse-pounding domestic thriller set against a lush, tropical backdrop as a woman fleeing her past as a con artist…

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k2reader January 19, 2022

Review: A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner (audio)

Publisher: NAL / ChristianAudio.com Published: Print – February 4, 2014 / Audio – March 11, 2015 Source: Print – Personal copy / Audio via Library Summary: A beautiful scarf, passed down through the generations, connects two women who learn that the weight of the world is made bearable by the love we give away…. September 1911. On Ellis Island in New York Harbor, nurse Clara Wood cannot face returning…

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k2reader January 18, 2022

Review: The Mirror Man by Lars Kepler

Publisher: Knopf Published: January 18, 2022 Source: Publisher Summary: In the latest internationally best-selling installment of the Killer Instinct series, Detective Joona Linna is on the trail of a kidnapper who targets teenage girls and makes their worst nightmares a reality. Seventeen-year-old Jenny is abducted in broad daylight and taken to a dilapidated, isolated house where she is chained and caged along with several other girls. Their captor is…

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k2reader January 18, 2022

Review: The Village by Caroline Mitchell (audio)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio Published: January 18, 2022 Source: ALC via Brilliance Audio Summary: From the bestselling author of the DI Amy Winter series comes a thriller about a shocking disappearance—and the village that has conspired to keep the truth buried. Ten years ago, the Harper family disappeared. Their deserted cottage was left with the water running, the television playing cartoons, the oven ready for baking. The doors were locked…

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k2reader January 17, 2022

Review: One Step Too Far by Lisa Gardner (audio)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio Published: January 18, 2022 Source: ALC via Brilliance Audio Summary: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner, a thrilling new novel that sends Frankie Elkin into the woods in search of a lost man–and the shocking truth about why he went missing in the first place. Frankie Elkin, who readers first met in Before She Disappeared, learns of a young man who has gone missing in a…

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k2reader January 17, 2022

Review: Count to Three by T.R. Ragan (audio)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio Published: December 14, 2021 Source: ALC via Brilliance Audio Summary: For a private investigator on the trail of a missing girl, every second counts in a gripping thriller by New York Times bestselling author T.R. Ragan. On her first day of kindergarten, five-year-old Tinsley disappeared without a trace… Five agonizing years later, her divorced mother, Dani Callahan, is a private investigator. She and Quinn Sullivan, a promising young…

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k2reader January 16, 2022

Review: The Family Tree by Steph Mullin & Nicole Mabry

Publisher: Avon Published: June 10, 2021 Source: Publisher Summary: The DNA results are back. And there’s a serial killer in her family tree… Liz Catalano is shocked when an ancestry kit reveals she’s adopted. But she could never have imagined connecting with her unknown family would plunge her into an FBI investigation of a notorious serial killer… The Tri-State Killer has been abducting pairs of women for forty years,…

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k2reader January 14, 2022

Review: Wahala by Nikki May (audio)

Publisher: Custom House / Harper Audio Published: January 11, 2022 Source: Print – ARC E-copy via Netgalley / Audio – ALC via Libro.fm Summary: An incisive and exhilarating debut novel of female friendship following three Anglo-Nigerian best friends and the lethally glamorous fourth woman who infiltrates their group—the most unforgettable girls since Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda. Ronke wants happily ever after and 2.2. kids. She’s dating Kayode and…

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k2reader January 14, 2022

Review Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado

Publisher: Graywolf Press Published: October 3, 2017 Source: Personal copy Summary: In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape…

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k2reader January 13, 2022

Review: Secrets of Our House by Rea Frey (audio)

Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin / Macmillan Audio Published: February 8, 2022 Source: Print – ARC Paperback via GetRedPR / Audio – ALC via Netgalley Summary: A thrilling domestic drama set against the power of the wilderness, Secrets of Our House is a deeply-felt novel of long-held secrets and the strength of family. Desi is the mastermind behind her dream getaway house. Nestled high into the mountains of North Carolina, it is…

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k2reader January 13, 2022

Review: Once a Liar by A.F. Brady

Publisher: Park Row Books Published: January 19, 2019 Source: Publisher Summary: From the author of The Blind comes an electrifying story of deception, duplicity and suspense Peter Caine, a cutthroat Manhattan defense attorney, is extremely adept at his job. On the surface, he is charming and handsome, but inside he is cold and heartless. A sociopath practically incapable of human emotions, he has no remorse when he fights to acquit murderers,…

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k2reader January 12, 2022

Audiobook Roundup

I’m a huge audiobook fan…I always have one on the go. And today I’m featuring three that all involve a protagonist who faces something completely unexpected while traveling. Thanks @Booksforwardpr for putting these on my radar! THE LIGHTHOUSE by Christopher Parker, narrated by Braden Wright Pub Date: October 21, 2021, Audio Publisher – Christopher Parker Summary: Enchanting, mysterious, and deeply romantic, The Lighthouse follows a young woman’s breathtaking journey…

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k2reader January 12, 2022

Review: The Last to Die by Kelly Garrett (audio)

Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire / Tantor Audio Published: Print – December 5, 2019 / Audio – March 17, 2020 Source: Print via Publisher / Audio via Library Summary: It all started out as a game. Just a way to have fun. We figured as long as we had rules, it wouldn’t be a problem. RULE #1: Only break into one another’s houses. RULE #2: Only take stuff that can be…

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k2reader January 11, 2022

Review: The Sweetest Remedy by Jane Igharo

Publisher: Berkley Books Published: September 28, 2021 Source: Personal copy Summary: When a woman travels to Nigeria to attend the funeral of the father she never knew, she meets her extravagant family for the first time, a new and inspiring love interest, and discovers parts of herself she didn’t know were missing, from Jane Igharo, the acclaimed author of Ties That Tether. Hannah Bailey has never known her father, the…

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k2reader January 11, 2022

Blog Tour & Spotlight: Legends of the North Cascades by Jonathan Evison

Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for Legends of the North Cascades by Jonathan Evison . This is out in paperback today and I’m happy to help the publisher get the word out. Read about the book and see what everyone has to say about it. Publisher: Algonquin Books Published: January 11, 2022 (Paperback Release) Summary: “A beautifully rendered and cinematic portrait of…

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k2reader January 10, 2022

Most Anticipated Releases: January 2022

Happy New Year…a little late. One of these months, I will have this feature up right at the beginning of the month, but…in my defense, I was waiting on one book to arrive so that I could include. I try to only include books I have in these posts. With that being said, here are the 5 books I am most excited for this month…that I have either read…

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k2reader January 10, 2022

Blog Tour & Excerpt: The Sorority Murder by Allison Brennan

Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for The Sorority Murder by Allison Brennan – I have an excerpt for you to read thanks to MIRA books. Publisher: MIRA Published: December 28, 2021 Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: A popular sorority girl. An unsolved murder. A campus podcast with chilling repercussions. Lucas Vega is obsessed with the death of Candace Swain, who left a…

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k2reader January 9, 2022

Review: These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant

Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: November 16, 2021 Source: Personal copy Summary: A father and daughter living in the remote Appalachian mountains must reckon with the ghosts of their past in Kimi Cunningham Grant’s These Silent Woods, a mesmerizing novel of suspense. No electricity, no family, no connection to the outside world. For eight years, Cooper and his young daughter, Finch, have lived in isolation in a remote cabin in the…

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k2reader January 8, 2022

Review: A Million Things by Emily Spurr

Publisher: Berkley Published: August 24, 2021 Source: Personal copy Summary: A bursting, heartfelt, debut following fifty-five days in the life of ten-year-old Rae, who must look after herself and her dog when her mother disappears. For as long as Rae can remember, it’s been her and Mum, and their dog, Splinter; a small, deliberately unremarkable, family. They have their walks, their cooking routines, their home. Sometimes Mum disappears for…

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k2reader January 8, 2022

Blog Tour & Book Spotlight: Honor by Thrity Umrigar

Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for Honor by Thrity Umrigar. Thank you Algonquin Books for inviting me to participate. *** Reese Witherspoon has selected Thrity Umrigar’s HONOR as her January Book Club Pick! I’ve really come to enjoy Reese’s picks and will definitely be reading along this month! Publisher: Algonquin Books Published: January 4, 2022 Summary: In this riveting and immersive novel, bestselling author Thrity…

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k2reader January 7, 2022

Blog Tour & Review: The Tenderest of Strings by Steven Schwartz

Publisher: Regal House Publishing Published: January 4, 2022 Source: ARC Paperback via Over the River PR Summary: In search of a new life, Reuben and Ardith Rosenfeld and their two children move from Chicago to the small town of Welton, Colorado, looking for all the hope that the burgeoning West has to offer—its abundance of jobs, space, sunshine, prosperity, and the promise of reinvention. Reuben, a former copyeditor at…

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k2reader January 6, 2022

Review: Somebody’s Home by Kaira Rouda (audio)

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer / Brilliance Audio Published: January 18, 2022 Source: Netgalley via GetRedPR / Audio via Brilliance Audio Summary: A quiet neighborhood. A lovely home. A promising new beginning. In a heartbeat everything can change in this propulsive novel of suspense by USA Today bestselling author Kaira Rouda. Julie Jones has left her suffocating marriage. With her teenage daughter, Jess, she’s starting over. Their new house in Oceanside is…

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k2reader January 5, 2022

Review: The Maid by Nita Prose

Publisher: Ballantine Books Published: January 4, 2022 Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: “The Maid is a masterful, charming mystery that will touch your heart in ways you could never expect. . . . This is the smart, quirky, uplifting read we need.” –Ashley Audrain, #1 bestselling author of The Push A dead body is one mess she can’t clean up on her own. Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles…

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k2reader January 5, 2022

Review: A Peculiar Combination by Ashley Weaver

Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: May 25, 2021 Source: ARC Paperback via Publisher Summary: The first in the Electra McDonnell series from Edgar-nominated author Ashley Weaver, set in England during World War II, A Peculiar Combination is a delightful mystery filled with spies, murder, romance, and the author’s signature wit. Electra McDonnell has always known that the way she and her family earn their living is slightly outside of the law. Breaking…

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k2reader January 4, 2022

Review: The Removed by Brandon Hobson

Publisher: Ecco Published: February 2, 2021 Source: Personal copy Summary: Steeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic death of their son long ago—from National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson In the fifteen years since their teenage son, Ray-Ray, was killed in a police shooting, the Echota family has been suspended in private grief. The mother, Maria, increasingly struggles to manage…

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k2reader January 3, 2022

Review: Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins (audio)

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: January 4, 2022 Source: Netgalley via the Publisher Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wife Upstairs comes a deliciously wicked gothic suspense, set on an isolated Pacific island with a dark history, for fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware. When Lux McAllister and her boyfriend, Nico, are hired to sail two women to a remote island in the South Pacific,…

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k2reader January 3, 2022

Review: The Last Debutantes by Georgie Blalock

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Published: August 24, 2021 Source: Publisher Summary: Fans of The Kennedy Debutante and Last Year in Havana will love Georgie Blalock’s new novel of a world on the cusp of change…set on the eve of World War II in the glittering world of English society and one of the last debutante seasons. They danced the night away, knowing their world was about to change forever. They were the debutantes…

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k2reader January 2, 2022

Review: Dark Night by Paige Shelton

Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: December 7, 2021 Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: Dark Night is the third book in the gripping, atmospheric Alaska Wild series by beloved cozy author Paige Shelton, in which Beth is met with an unexpected visitor: her mom… Winter is falling in the remote town of Benedict, Alaska, and with the cold comes an uninvited guest. The dreaded “census man,” seemingly innocuous, is an unwelcome…

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k2reader January 1, 2022

First Book of the Year 2022

Each year, Sheila over at Book Journey makes a big deal over what the first book she’ll read will be for the new year and once again she’s asked us to join her. I have joined in for the last 7 years and it’s always a lot of fun seeing what book everyone selects. Be sure to stop by Sheila’s post to see the collage she makes of everyone participating! For…

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k2reader January 1, 2022

Month in Review: December 2021

I cannot believe the year is over! December flew by…even faster than I thought it would and yet, I managed to read more than I have in a while. So strange how that happens. This year we were spoiled by all the incredible books that were published and even still, I was able to read quite a few backlist books and even some of my own. I am going…

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k2reader December 31, 2021

Review: The Ballerinas by Rachel Kapelke-Dale

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Published: December 7, 2021 Source: ARC Paperback via Publisher Summary: Dare Me meets Black Swan and Luckiest Girl Alive in a captivating, voice-driven debut novel about a trio of ballerinas who meet as students at the Paris Opera Ballet School. Fourteen years ago, Delphine abandoned her prestigious soloist spot at the Paris Opera Ballet for a new life in St. Petersburg––taking with her a secret that could upend the lives…

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k2reader December 30, 2021

Blog Tour & Review: The Good Son by Jacqueline Mitchard

Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for The Good Son by Jacqueline Mitchard. Thank you Mira Books for inviting me to participate. Publisher: MIRA Books Published: January 18, 2022 Source: ARC E-copy via Netgalley Summary: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard comes the gripping, emotionally charged novel of a mother who must help her son after he is…

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k2reader December 28, 2021

Blog Tour & Review: My Darling Husband by Kimberly Belle

Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for My Darling Husband by Kimberly Belle. Thank you Park Row Books for inviting me to participate. ***Please note that this book is being released today, December 28th in e-book and audio format. The paperback original format will be published on March 8th, 2022. Publisher: Park Row Books Published: December 28, 2021 Source: ARC Paperback via…

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k2reader December 28, 2021

Review: The Distant Dead by Heather Young

Publisher: Custom House Published: August 4, 2021 Source: Paperback via Publisher Summary: A BookPage Best Book of 2020 * A People Magazine Best Book of Summer * A Parade Best Book of Summer * A Crime Reads Most Anticipated Book of Summer “[A] second stunning piece of redemptive fiction… An ideal recommendation for fans of Kate Atkinson and Jodi Picoult.” – Booklist, Starred Review A body burns in the high desert hills. A boy walks into…

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k2reader December 27, 2021

Review: A Man of Honor by Barbara Taylor Bradford

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Published: December 28, 2021 Source: ARC Paperback via Publisher Summary: The prequel to Barbara Taylor Bradford’s New York Times bestselling and dazzling saga A Woman of Substance. Opening five years before the start of A Woman of Substance, A Man of Honor begins with 13-year-old Blackie O’Neill facing an uncertain future in rural County Kerry. Orphaned and alone, he has just buried his sister, Bronagh, and must leave his home to…

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k2reader December 27, 2021

Blog Tour & Excerpt: Cry Wolf by Hans Rosenfeldt

Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for Cry Wolf by Hans Rosenfeldt – I have an excerpt for you to read thanks to Hanover Square Press. Publisher: Hanover Square Press Published: December 28, 2021 Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: A DEAD WOLF A DRUG DEAL GONE WRONG A LETHAL FEMALE ASSASSIN The first book in a new series by Hans Rosenfeldt, creator of the TV…

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k2reader December 26, 2021

Review: The Night Portrait by Laura Morelli (audio)

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks / Harper Audio Published: September 8, 2020 Source: ARC Paperback via William Morrow / Audio via library Summary: An exciting, dual-timeline historical novel about the creation of one of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous paintings, Portrait of a Lady with an Ermine, and the woman who fought to save it from Nazi destruction during World War II. Milan, 1492: When a 16-year old beauty becomes the mistress…

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k2reader December 26, 2021

Review: The Return by Nicholas Sparks (audio)

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing / Hachette Audio Published: September 29, 2020 Source: Print – Hardcover via Grand Central Publishing / Audio via Library Summary: In the romantic tradition of Dear John and The Lucky One, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks returns with the story of an injured Navy doctor — and two women whose secrets will change the course of his life. Trevor Benson never intended to move back to New…

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k2reader December 23, 2021

Review: The Secret of Snow by Viola Shipman

Publisher: Graydon House Published: October 26, 2021 Source: Paperback via Kathleeen Carter Communications Summary: As comforting and familiar as a favorite sweater, Viola Shipman’s first holiday novel is a promise of heartfelt family traditions, humorously real experience, and the enduring power of love and friendship. Sonny Dunes, a SoCal meteorologist who knows only sunshine and seventy-two-degree days, is being replaced by an AI meteorologist, which the youthful station manager reasons “will…

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k2reader December 23, 2021

Review: The Holiday Swap by Maggie Knox

Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons Published: October 5, 2021 Source: Personal copy Summary: The International Bestseller–A feel-good, holiday rom com about identical twins who swap lives twelve days before Christmas–perfect for fans of Christina Lauren’s In a Holidaze and Josie Silver’s One Day in December All they want for Christmas is a different life. When chef Charlie Goodwin gets hit on the head on the L.A. set of her reality baking show, she…

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k2reader December 23, 2021

Review: Darkness Falls by Robert Bryndza

***There are different covers for the UK & US books. The first cover shown is the US cover, and at the bottom of the post, the UK cover is show. Publisher: Sphere Books (UK) / Thomas & Mercer (US) Published: December 7, 2021 Source: Netgalley via Sphere Books Summary: THE UNMISSABLE NEW THRILLER FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE GIRL IN THE ICE, NINE ELMS AND SHADOW…

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