Always With a Book

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,…

Title: Sunrise on Half Moon Bay Author: Robyn Carr Published: April 2020, MIRA Format: ARC E-copy, 336 pages Source: Netgalley via Little Bird Publicity Summary:  Sometimes the happiness we’re looking for has been there all along… Adele and Justine have never been close. Born twenty years apart, Justine was already an adult when Addie was born. The sisters love each other but they don’t really know each other. When Addie…

Title: The New Husband Author: D.J. Palmer Published: April 2020, St. Martin’s Press Format: ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  What makes Simon Fitch so perfect? -He knows all her favorite foods, music, and movies. -Her son adores him. He was there when she needed him most. -He anticipates her every need. -He would never betray her like her first husband. The perfect husband. He checks all the boxes.…

Title: In Plain Sight Author: Laurie Holbrook Series: Mabel Peters, #2 Published: April 2020, Frisson Publishing Format: ARC E-book, 314 pages Source: Author Summary:  Across Colorado, girls are disappearing. Mabel Peters and her partner, Frankie Dowdy, have dedicated their lives to bring them home before they are gone for good. Thirteen-year-old Isabel Dumel is no longer a child, but not yet an adult. Her mom is dead and her dad…

Title: The Secret Admirer Author: Carol Wyer Series: Detective Natalie Ward, #6 Published: April 2020, Bookouture Format: ARC E-copy, 413 pages Source: Netgalley Summary:  ‘I tried to talk to you today but you snubbed me and walked away. It wasn’t wise to give me the brush-off, Gemma. I can be a truly good friend but I also make the perfect enemy.’ Sasha’s eighteen-year-old daughter Gemma was all she had in…

Title: Watching From the Dark Author: Gytha Lodge Series: DCI Jonah Sheens, #2 Published: February 2020, Random House Format: Hardcover, 352 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  One crime. One witness. One question . . . Why didn’t he call the police? When a vibrant young woman is murdered while on a video chat, a small-town detective wades into a circle of friends and lovers with dangerous secrets—in the new novel from…

Title: A Mother’s Lie Author: Sarah Zettel Published: April 2020, Grand Central Publishing Format: Paperback, 416 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  Beth Fraiser finally has her life together. She’s built a successful career in the tech sector, has a bright fifteen-year-old daughter, and she’s completely put all evidence of her troubled past behind her. At least that’s what she thought. Dana Fraiser loves her mom. But the backup phones, emergency drills,…

Title: The Third Sister Author: Sara Blaedel Series: Ilka/Family Secrets series, #3 Published: April 2020, Grand Central Publishing Format: Hardcover, 304 pages Source: Publisher   Summary:  Family drama, deadly secrets, and deception come to a head in the explosive conclusion of #1 internationally bestselling author Sara Blaedel’s Family Secrets trilogy. Ilka Jensen’s life is in chaos following the tumultuous events of Her Father’s Secret. The funeral home she inherited after…

Title: The Last Bathing Beauty Author: Amy Sue Nathan Published: April 2020, Lake Union Publishing Format: Paperback, 304 pages Source: Author Summary:  A former beauty queen faces the secrets of her past—for herself and the sake of her family’s future—in a heartfelt novel about fate, choices, and second chances.   Everything seemed possible in the summer of 1951. Back then Betty Stern was an eighteen-year-old knockout working at her grandparents’…

Title: Summer of ’79: A Summer of ’69 Story Author: Elin Hilderbrand Published: February 2020, Little, Brown & Company Format: E-book, 61 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  AVAILABLE FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY! Elin Hilderbrand’s brief, irresistible postscript to her #1 New York Times bestselling novel Summer of ’69.   Catch up with Blair, Jessie, and Kirby ten years after the summer everything changed. This “Summer of ’69 story” by…