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Title: Perfectly Famous Author: Emily Liebert Published: June 2020, Gallery Books Format: ARC E-copy, 320 pages Source: Netgalley Summary:  From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Pretty Revenge—a “gripping tale of subterfuge, betrayal, and retribution” (Liv Constantine, bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish)—comes the story of a journalist obsessed with finding a crime novelist who disappears after a deadly attack on her beloved daughter. As a mother and a…

Title: Ali Cross Author: James Patterson Series: Ali Cross, #1 Published: November 2019, jimmy patterson Format: Hardcover, 320 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  Alex’s son Ali is eager to follow in his father’s footsteps as a detective, but when his best friend goes missing, what price will he have to pay to solve the mystery? Ali Cross has always looked up to his father, former detective and FBI agent Alex…

Title: White Bodies Author: Jane Robin Published: September 2017, Atria Books Format: ARC E-copy, 297 pages Source: Netgalley Summary:  This chilling psychological suspense novel–think Strangers on a Train for the modern age–explores the dark side of love and the unbreakable ties that bind two sisters together. Felix and Tilda seem like the perfect couple: young and in love, a financier and a beautiful up-and-coming starlet. But behind their flawless facade,…

Title: The Silence Author: Susan Allott Published: May 2020, William Morrow Format: Hardcover, 304 pages Source: Publisher via TLC Booktours Summary:  Combining the emotional power and dual narrative style of Before We Were Yours with the nuanced, layered, and atmospheric mystery of , a powerful debut novel revolving around a shocking disappearance, two neighbor families, and shameful secrets from the past that refuse to stay buried. It is 1997, and…

Title: The Murder List Author: Hank Phillippi Ryan Published: August 2019, Forge Books Format: E-book, 304 pages Source: Author/Publicist Summary:  “An exhilarating thrill ride that keeps you turning pages.. Ryan deftly delivers a denouement as shocking as it is satisfying.”–Liv Constantine, bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish and The Last Time I Saw You Law student Rachel North will tell you, without hesitation, what she knows to be true.…

Title: Buried Angels Author: Patricia Gibney Series: D.I. Lottie Parker, #8 Published: May 2020, Bookouture Format: ARC E-copy, 451 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary:  Bubbles of cold sweat trickled down Faye’s spine. The hole wasn’t empty. Before she could turn and run, she caught the two sightless eyes staring up at her. Only then did she scream. When Faye Baker discovers a fragile child’s skull behind the walls of…

Title: The Echo Killing Author: Christi Daugherty Series: Harper McClain, #1 Published: March 2018, Minotaur Books Format: Hardcover, 356 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  When a murder echoing a fifteen-year-old cold case rocks the Southern town of Savannah, crime reporter Harper McClain risks everything to find the identity of this calculated killer. A city of antebellum architecture, picturesque parks, and cobblestone streets, Savannah moves at a graceful pace. But for…

Title: The 19th Christmas Author: James Patterson Series: Women’s Murder Club, #19 Published: October 2019, Little, Brown & Company Format: Hardcover, 344 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: It’s not sleigh beels that are ringing this Christmas. As the holidays approach, Detective Lindsay Boxer and her friends in the Women’s Murder Club have much to celebrate. Crime is down. The medical examiner’s office is quiet. Even the courts are showing some…

Title: The Summer Set Author: Aimee Agresti Published: May 2020, Graydon House Format: ARC E-copy, 384 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary:  The real drama happens backstage in this juicy novel about an idyllic summer theater where hot stars, has-beens and hopefuls chase roles—and each other. Charlie Savoy was once Hollywood’s hottest A-lister. Now, ten years later, she’s pushing forty, exiled from the film world and back at the summer…

Title: The Sunday Girl Author: Pip Drysdale Published: May 2020, Sourcesbook Landmark Format: ARC E-copy, 288 pages Source: Netgalley Summary:  Any woman who’s ever been involved with a bad, bad man and been dumped will understand what it feels like to be broken, broken-hearted and bent on revenge. Taylor Bishop is hurt, angry and wants to destroy Angus Hollingsworth in the way he destroyed her: Insidiously. Irreparably. Like a puzzle,…

Title: The Ingredients of You and Me Author: Nina Bocci Series: Hopeless Romantics, #3 Published: April 2020, Gallery Books Format: ARC E-copy, 320 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary:  From the USA TODAY bestselling author of the “heartwarming and refreshingly sweet” (Lauren Layne, New York Times bestselling author) On the Corner of Love and Hate comes a sizzling and sweet small-town love story that follows a bakery store owner who…

Title: The German Heiress Author: Anika Scott Published: April 2020, William Morrow Paperbacks Format: ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  For readers of The Alice Network and The Lost Girls of Paris, an immersive, heart-pounding debut about a German heiress on the run in post-World War II Germany. Clara Falkenberg, once Germany’s most eligible and lauded heiress, earned the nickname “the Iron Fräulein” during World War II for her…

Title: Criss Cross Author: James Patterson Series: Alex Cross, #27 Published: November 2019, Little, Brown & Company Format: Hardcover, 389 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  A killer with all the skills of a master detective has made Alex Cross the subject of his deranged “investigation.” In a Virginia penitentiary, Alex Cross and his partner, John Sampson, witness the execution of a killer they helped convict. Hours later, they are called…

Title: Blindside Author: James Patterson Series: Michael Bennett, #12 Published: February 2020, Little, Brown & Company Format: Hardcover, 384 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  The mayor of New York has a daughter who’s missing and in danger. Detective Michael Bennett has a son who’s in prison. The two strike a deal. Bennett and the mayor have always had a tense relationship, but now the mayor sees in Bennett a discreet…

Title: The Girl Beneath the Sea Author: Andrew Mayne Series: Underwater Investigation Unit, #1 Published: May 2020, Thomas Mercer Format: ARC Paperback, 332 pages Source: Publisher via MB Communications Summary:  For a Florida police diver, danger rises to the surface in an adventurous thriller by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Naturalist. Coming from scandalous Florida treasure hunters and drug smugglers, Sloan McPherson is forging her own path,…

Title: My Kind of People Author: Lisa Duffy Published: May 2020, Atria Books Format: ARC E-copy, 336 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  From the author of The Salt House and This Is Home comes a profound novel about the power of community and a small town’s long-buried secrets as a group of New England islanders come together for a recently orphaned girl. On Ichabod Island, a jagged strip of land thirteen…

Title: Take Me Apart Author: Sara Sligar Published: April 2020, MCD Format: ARC Paperback, 368 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  A young archivist’s obsession with her subject’s mysterious death threatens to destroy her fragile grasp on sanity, in a riveting debut novel of psychological suspense. When the famed photographer Miranda Brand died mysteriously at the height of her career, it sent shock waves through Callinas, California. Decades later, old wounds are…

Title: A Good Neighborhood Author: Therese Anne Fowler Published: March 2020, St. Martin’s Press Format: ARC Paperback, 311 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  In Oak Knoll, a verdant, tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood, professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son. Xavier is headed to college in the fall, and after years of single parenting, Valerie is facing the prospect of an empty nest. All…

Title: Target: Alex Cross Author: James Patterson Series: Alex Cross, #26 Published: November 2018, Little, Brown & Company Format: Hardcover, 414 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  TARGET: HEAD OF STATE A leader has fallen, and the procession route from Capitol Hill to the White House is lined with hundreds of thousands of mourners. None feel the loss of a President more keenly than Alex Cross, who has devoted his life…

Title: Little Family Author: Ishmael Beah Published: April 2020, Riverhead Books Format: Hardcover, 272 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  A powerful novel about young people in a conflict-scarred land, struggling to replace the homes they have lost with the one they have created together. Hidden away from a harsh outside world, five young people have improvised a home in an abandoned airplane, a relic of their country’s chaos. Elimane, the bookworm,…

Title: The Sweeney Sisters Author: Lian Dolan Published: April 2020, William Morrow Format: ARC E-copy, 304 pages Source: Netgalley via Wunderkind PR Summary:  An accomplished storyteller returns with her biggest, boldest, most entertaining novel yet—a hilarious, heartfelt story about books, love, sisterhood, and the surprises we discover in our DNA that combines the wit of Jonathan Tropper with the heart of Susan Wiggs. Maggie, Eliza, and Tricia Sweeney grew up…

Title: The Love Story of Missy Carmichael Author: Beth Morrey Published: April 2020, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Format: ARC E-copy, 352 pages Source: Netgalley Summary:  For readers of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and A Man Called Ove, a life-affirming, deeply moving “coming-of-old” story, a celebration of how ordinary days are made extraordinary through friendship, family, and the power of forgiving yourself–at any age. Boy meets girl. Girl meets boy. Woman…

Title: Strike Me Down Author: Mindy Mejia Published: April 2020, Atria/Emily Bestler Books Format: ARC E-copy, 352 pages Source: Negalley via Publisher Summary:  From the critically acclaimed author of Leave No Trace, the “nail-biting page-turner that grabs you early and never lets go” (The Real Book Spy), comes a visceral thriller where a high stakes crime triggers a woman’s complicated and potentially deadly search for the truth. Nora Trier catches…

Title: Little Secrets Author: Jennifer Hillier Published: April 2020, Minotaur Books Format: ARC Paperback, 352 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  From the author of Jar of Hearts, a mother driven to the edge by the disappearance of her son learns her husband is having an affair with the woman who might have kidnapped him. Four hundred and eighty seconds. That’s how long it took for someone to steal Marin Machado’s four-year-old…

Title: Hold Your Breath Author: B.P. Walter Published: April 2020, Avon Books UK Format: ARC E-copy, 400 pages Source: Publisher via Netgalley Summary:  If you go down to the woods today, you’re in for a big surprise… Kitty Marchland has always known that her family aren’t like others. But when her father uproots them to a remote cottage in the woods, she realises that her parents are keeping secrets from…

Title: Sister Dear Author: Hannah Mary McKinnon Published: May 2020, MIRA Format: ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source: Author Summary:  Beauty. Wealth. Success. She’s got it all. And it all should’ve been mine. When Eleanor Hardwicke’s beloved father dies, her world is further shattered by a gut-wrenching secret: the man she’s grieving isn’t really her dad. Eleanor was the product of an affair and her biological father is still out there,…