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  Title: Local Woman Missing Author: Mary Kubica Published: May 2021, Park Row Books Format: ARC Paperback, 352 pages Source: Publisher via Kathleen Carter Communications Summary: People don’t just disappear without a trace…Shelby Tebow is the first to go missing. Not long after, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, vanish just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen, striking fear into their once-peaceful community. Are these incidents connected?…

  Title: Little Pieces of Me Author: Alison Hammer Published: April 2021, William Morrow Paperbacks Format: Paperback, 400 pages Source: Publisher via GetRedPR Summary: Following her acclaimed debut novel, You and Me and Us, Alison Hammer offers a deeply moving story of family and identity. When a DNA test reveals a long-buried secret, a woman must look to the past to understand her mother and herself.When Paige Meyer gets an…

  Title: You Will Remember Me Author: Hannah Mary McKinnon Published: May 2021, MIRA Books Format: ARC E-copy, 352 pages Source: Netgalley Summary: Forget the truth. Remember the lies. He wakes up on a deserted beach in Maryland with a gash on his head and wearing only swim trunks. He can’t remember who he is. Everything–his identity, his life, his loved ones–has been replaced by a dizzying fog of uncertainty.…

  Title: The Whispering Dead Author: Darcy Coates Series: Gravekeeper, #1 Published: May 2021, Poisoned Pen Press Format: ARC Paperback, 256 pages Source: Publisher Summary: USA Today bestseller and rising queen of atmospheric horror Darcy Coates returns with a ghost story that will haunt you long after the final page. She hears them whispering…Homeless, hunted, and desperate to escape a bitter storm, Keira takes refuge in an abandoned groundskeeper’s cottage.…

  Title: The Dead Husband Author: Carter Wilson Published: May 2021, Poisoned Pen Press Format: Paperback, 400 pages Source: Publisher Summary: A murderer, a victim, and a witness… but no one in this house is innocentTwenty years ago an unspeakable tragedy rocked Rose Yates’s small, affluent hometown… and only Rose and her family know the truth about what happened. Haunted by guilt, Rose escaped into a new life. Now she…

   Title: The Next Wife Author: Kaira Rouda Published: May 2021, Thomas & Mercer Format: ARC Paperback, 312 pages Source: Publisher via MB Communications Summary: There is no limit to the lies, suspicion, and secrets that can poison the perfect marriage in this twisting novel of suspense by USA Today bestselling author Kaira Rouda.Kate Nelson had it all. A flourishing company founded with her husband, John; a happy marriage; and…

    Title: Good  Neighbors Author: Sarah Langan Published: February 2021, Atria Books Format: Hardcover, 304 pages Source: Publisher Summary: Celeste Ng’s enthralling dissection of suburbia meets Shirley Jackson’s creeping dread in this propulsive literary noir, when a sudden tragedy exposes the depths of deception and damage in a Long Island suburb—pitting neighbor against neighbor and putting one family in terrible danger.Welcome to Maple Street, a picture-perfect slice of suburban…

  Title: Leonora in the Morning Light Author: Michaela Carter Published: April 2021, Avid Reader Press Format: ARC Paperback, 416 pages Source: Publisher Summary: For fans of Amy Bloom’s White Houses and Colm Tóibín’s The Master, a page-turning novel about Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington and the art, drama, and romance that defined her coming-of-age during World War II.1940. A train carrying exiled German prisoners from a labor camp arrives in…

  Title: Reunion Beach: Stories Inspired by Dorothea Benton Frank Author: Elin Hilderbran, Adriana Trigiani, Patti Callahan, Mary Alice Monroe & more Published: April 2021, William Morrow Format: Hardcover, 416 pages Source: Publisher Summary: In this warm and moving anthology, a group of bestselling authors and writers pay tribute to legendary, larger-than-life New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank and her literary legacy.Inspired by the title Dorothea Benton Frank planned for…

    Title: The Sanatorium Author: Sarah Pearse Published: Feburary 2021, Pamela Dorman Books Format: Hardcover, 400 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: You won’t want to leave. . . until you can’t.Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Long plagued by troubling rumors, the former abandoned sanatorium has since been renovated into a five-star minimalist hotel. An imposing, isolated getaway spot…

  Title: The Last Night in London Author: Karen White Published: April 2021, Berkley Books Format: Hardcover, 480 pages Source: Publisher via UplitReads Summary: New York Times bestselling author Karen White weaves a story of friendship past and present, love, and betrayal that moves between war-torn London during the Blitz and the present day. A captivating story of friendship, love and betrayal – and finding hope in the darkness of…

  Title: The Perfect Daughter Author: D.J. Palmer Published: April 2021, St. Martin’s Press Format: ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source: Publisher Summary: The Perfect Daughter is a thriller that explores the truth or lies behind a teenage girl’s multiple personality disorder, from D.J. Palmer, the author of The New Husband.Grace never dreamt she’d visit her teenaged daughter Penny in the locked ward of a decaying state psychiatric hospital, charged with…

Title: The Boy in the Headlights Author: Samuel Bjork Series: Holger Munch & Mia Kruger, #3 Published: October 2019, Corgi Format: Paperback, 384 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: The bestselling series, a former Richard and Judy bookclub pick, returns with another chilling case.Munch and Krüger. An unexpected pairing. A brilliant team. Winter 19996 An old man is driving home when his headlights catch an animal on the empty road up…

  Title: Under the Southern Sky Author: Kristy Woodson Harvey Published: April 2021, Gallery Books Format: ARC Paperback, 400 pages Source: Author Summary: Two childhood friends discover that love—and family—can be found in unconventional ways in this timely, moving novel from the USA TODAY bestselling author of the “beautifully Southern, evocative Peachtree Bluff series” (Kristin Harmel, internationally bestselling author of The Winemaker’s Wife). Recently separated Amelia Buxton, a dedicated journalist,…

  Title: Into the Black Nowhere Author: Meg Gardiner Series: UNSUB, #2 Published: January 2018, Dutton Format: Hardcover, 368 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: Inspired by real-life serial killer Ted Bundy, an exhilarating thriller in which FBI profiler Caitlin Hendrix faces off against a charming, merciless serial killerIn southern Texas, on Saturday nights, women are disappearing. One vanishes from a movie theater. Another is ripped from her car at a…

  Title: The Lies You Told Author: Harriet Tyce Published: December 2020, Grand Central Publishing Format: Hardcover, 384 pages Source: Publisher Summary: In the playground it’s the law of the jungle But at the school gate, there are no rules at all…  When Sadie Roper moves back to London, she’s determined to pick up the pieces of her shattered life. First, she needs to get her daughter settled into a…

  Title: Our Darkest Night Author: Jennifer Robson Published: January 2021, William Morrow Paperbacks Format: Paperback, 384 pages Source: Publisher Summary: To survive the Holocaust, a young Jewish woman must pose as a Christian farmer’s wife in this unforgettable novel from USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Robson—a story of terror, hope, love, and sacrifice, inspired by true events, that vividly evokes the most perilous days of World War II.It is…

  Title: The Vines Author: Shelley Nolden Series: The Vines, #1 Published: March 2021, Freiling Publishing Format: ARC E-copy, 391 pages Source: Netgalley Summary: In the shadows of New York City lies forbidden North Brother Island, where the remains of a shuttered hospital hide the haunting memories of century-old quarantines and human experiments. The ruins conceal the scarred and beautiful Cora, imprisoned by contagions and the doctors who torment her.…

  Title: Libertie Author: Kaitlyn Greenidge Published: March 2021, Algonquin Books Format: Hardcover, 336 pages Source: Publisher Summary: The critically acclaimed and Whiting Award–winning author of We Love You, Charlie Freeman returns with an unforgettable story about the meaning of freedom.   Coming of age as a free-born Black girl in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, Libertie Sampson was all too aware that her purposeful mother, a practicing physician, had a vision for…

  Title: When I Ran Away Author: Ilona Bannister Published: March 2021, Doubleday Books Format: Hardcover, 336 pages Source: Publisher via Author Summary: A rich, bighearted debut that takes us from working-class Staten Island in the wake of the September 11th attacks to moneyed London a decade later, revealing a story of loss, motherhood, and love, perfect for fans of Gail Honeyman and Ann Napolitano.As the Twin Towers collapse, Gigi…

  Title: One in Three Author: Tess Stimson Published: January 2021, Avon Format: Paperback, 448 pages Source: Publisher Summary: Both of them loved him. One of them killed him . . . Louise has had to watch her husband, Andrew, start a new family in the four years since he left her. The ‘other woman’ is now his wife – but Louise isn’t ready to let Caz enjoy the life…