Always With a Book

  Title: Never Turn Back Author: Christopher Swann Published: October 2020, Crooked Lane Books Format: ARC Paperback, 278 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  Linwood Barclay meets Michael Farris Smith in this Southern-set domestic thriller about family, vengeance, and atonement from critically acclaimed Southern mystery novelist Christopher Swann. The bonds of family never truly let go. In fact, its grip only tightens the further you try to run: crushing and crippling. Ethan…

  Title: The Nesting Author: C.J. Cooke Published: September 2020, Gallery Books Format: ARC E-copy, 368 pages Source: Netgalley Summary:  The woods are creeping in on a nanny and two young girls in this chilling modern Gothic thriller. Architect Tom Faraday is determined to finish the high-concept, environmentally friendly home he’s building in Norway–in the same place where he lost his wife, Aurelia, to suicide. It was their dream house,…

  Title: The Gone Dead Author: Chanelle Benz Published: March 2020, Ecco Books Format: Paperback, 304 pages Source: Publisher via TLC Booktours Summary:  An electrifying first novel from “a riveting new voice in American fiction” (George Saunders): A young woman returns to her childhood home in the American South and uncovers secrets about her father’s life and death Billie James’ inheritance isn’t much: a little money and a shack in…

Title: The Royal Governess Author: Wendy Holden Published: August 2020, Berkley Format: ARC E-copy, 368 pages Source: Netgalley Summary:  Sunday Times bestselling author Wendy Holden brings to life the unknown childhood years of one of the world’s most iconic figures, Queen Elizabeth II, and reveals the little-known governess who made Britain’s queen into the monarch we know today. In 1933, twenty-two-year-old Marion Crawford accepts the role of a lifetime, tutoring…

  Title: Little Disasters Author: Sarah Vaughan Published: August 2020, Atria/Emily Bestler Books Format: ARC E-copy, 432 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary:  A new thought-provoking novel exploring the complexity of motherhood and all that connects and disconnects us. You think you know her…but look a little closer. She is a stay-at-home mother-of-three with boundless reserves of patience, energy, and love. After being friends for a decade, this is how…

  Title: Home for the Holidays Author: Sara Richardson Published: September 2020, Forever Format: ARC E-copy, 320 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary:  Sara Richardson writes unputdownable, unforgettable stories from the heart” in this emotional holiday novel, where three sisters have one last Christmas to confront their pasts before their lives change forever (Jill Shalvis, New York Times bestselling author). The Buchanan sisters all share special childhood memories of their Aunt Sassy’s beloved…

  Title: A Mother’s Secret Author: Tess Stimson Published: May 2020, Avon Format: Papberback, 416 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  Of course you trust your family… But should you? When every mother’s worst nightmare becomes Maddie’s reality, her first instinct is to turn to those closest to her for support: her loving husband, her brilliant children, her caring mother. But as the truth about what happened to her baby starts to…

Title: The Vacation Author: T.M. Logan Published: July 2020, St. Martin’s Press Format: ARC Paperback, 374 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  Seven days. Three families. One killer. It was supposed to be the perfect holiday – a group of families enjoying a week together in the sun. Four women who have been best friends for as long as they can remember making the most of a luxurious villa in the south…

  Title: Don’t Look for Me Author: Wendy Walker Published: September 2020, St. Martin’s Press Format: ARC Paperback, 352 pages Source: Publisher via Publicist Summary:  In Wendy Walker’s thrilling novel Don’t Look for Me, the greatest risk isn’t running away. It’s running out of time. One night, Molly Clarke walked away from her life. She doesn’t want to be found. Or at least, that’s the story. The car abandoned miles…

  Title: The Vanishing Half Author: Brit Bennett Published: June 2020, Riverhead Books Format: Hardcover, 343 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  From the New York Times -bestselling author of The Mothers , a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white. The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together…

Title: Chaos Author: Iris Johansen Published: September 2020, Grand Central Publishing Format: Hardcover, 416 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  The #1 New York Times bestselling author introduces CIA agent Alisa Flynn, who is willing to go rogue if it means catching the most heartless band of criminals she’s ever encountered. When CIA agent Alisa Flynn flaunts the rules by breaking into a mansion in the middle of the night, she skillfully…

Title: The Silent House Author: Nell Pattison Series: Paige Northwood, #1 Published: September 2020, Avon Format: ARC Paperback, 400 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  If someone was in your house, you’d know . . . Wouldn’t you?  But the Hunter family are deaf, and don’t hear a thing when a shocking crime takes place in the middle of the night. Instead, they wake up to their worst nightmare: the murder of…

Title: For the Best Author: Vanessa Lillie Published: September 2020, Thomas & Mercer Format: ARC Paperback, 320 pages Source: Publicist Summary:  Suspected of a murder she can’t remember, a troubled woman takes an unusual approach to proving her innocence in this gripping thriller from the bestselling author of Little Voices. When Jules Worthington-Smith’s wallet is found next to a dead man, she becomes the prime suspect in his murder. After…

Title: One by One Author: Ruth Ware Published: September 2020, Scout Press Format: ARC E-copy, 384 pages Source: Netgalley Summary:  The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Turn of the Key and In a Dark Dark Wood returns with another suspenseful thriller set on a snow-covered mountain. Getting snowed in at a beautiful, rustic mountain chalet doesn’t sound like the worst problem in the world, especially when there’s…

Title: The Woman in the Mirror Author: Rebecca James Published: March 2020, Minotaur Books Format: ARC Paperback, 368 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  Rebecca James unveils a chilling modern gothic novel of a family consumed by the shadows and secrets of its past in The Woman in the Mirror. For more than two centuries, Winterbourne Hall has stood atop a bluff overseeing the English countryside of Cornwall and the sea beyond.…

Title: Girl Gone Mad Author: Avery Bishop Published: September 2020, Lake Union Publishing Format: ARC Paperback, 412 pages Source: Publicist Summary:  They say everything is fun and games until someone gets hurt. Well, someone did—and now the game has changed… Emily Bennett works as a therapist in Pennsylvania, helping children overcome their troubled pasts—even as she struggles to forget her own. Once upon a time, Emily was part of a…

Title: White Out Author: Danielle Girard Series: Badlands Thriller, #1 Published: August 2020, Thomas & Mercer Format: ARC Paperback, 364 pages Source: Author Summary:  After surviving a car accident on an icy road in Hagen, North Dakota, Lily Baker regains consciousness with no idea where or who she is. Scattered Bible verses and the image of a man lying in a pool of blood haunt her memory. The same night…

Title: The Lions of Fifth Avenue Author: Fiona Davis Published: August 2020, Dutton Books Format: ARC E-copy, 368 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary:  A Good Morning America Book Club Pick! “A page-turner for booklovers everywhere! . . . A story of family ties, their lost dreams, and the redemption that comes from discovering truth.”—Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Shoemaker’s Wife In nationally bestselling author Fiona Davis’s latest historical…

Title: The Friendship List Author: Susan Mallery Published: August 2020, HQN Format: Hardcover, 384 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  [ ] Dance till dawn [ ] Go skydiving [ ] Wear a bikini in public [ ] Start living   Two best friends jump-start their lives in a summer that will change them forever… Single mom Ellen Fox couldn’t be more content—until she overhears her son saying he can’t go to…

Title: The Woods Author: Vanessa Savage Published: August 2020, Grand Central Publishing Format: ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source: Publisher   Summary:  Two girls went down to the woods… But only one came back There’s a lot from Tess’s childhood that she would rather forget. The family who moved next door and brought chaos to their quiet lives. The two girls who were murdered, their killer never found. But the only…

Title: The Daughters of Foxcote Manor Author: Eve Chase Published: July 2020, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Format: ARC E-copy, 386 pages Source: Netgalley Summary:  Readers of Lisa Jewell and Simone St. James will delight in this haunting, touching story of mothers, daughters, and belonging–and the devastating lies families tell themselves in order to survive. An isolated forest estate. A family with a terrible secret. The discovery that changes everything. England, 1970.…

  Title: Her Last Flight Author: Beatriz Williams Published: June 2020, William Morrow Format: Hardcover, 400 pages Source: Publisher via TLC BookTours   Summary:  In 1947, photographer and war correspondent Janey Everett arrives at a remote surfing village on the Hawaiian island of Kauai to research a planned biography of forgotten aviation pioneer Sam Mallory, who joined the loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War and never returned. Obsessed with…

Title: Until I Find You Author: Rea Frey Published: August 2020, St. Martin’s Griffin Format: ARC E-copy, 320 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  In Until I Find You, celebrated author Rea Frey brings you her most explosive, emotional, taut domestic drama yet about the powerful bond between mothers and children…and how far one woman will go to bring her son home.  “Frey is a rising star in the suspense scene” –…

Title: What You Wish For Author: Katherine Center Published: July 2020, St. Martin’s Press Format: ARC Paperback, 320 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  Samantha Casey is a school librarian who loves her job, the kids, and her school family with passion and joy for living. But she wasn’t always that way. Duncan Carpenter is the new school principal who lives by rules and regulations, guided by the knowledge that bad things…