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Title: Cross My Heart Author: James Patterson Series: Alex Cross, #21 Published: November 2013, Little, Brown & Company Format: Hardcover, 419 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  James Patterson raises the stakes to their highest level, ever-when Alex Cross becomes the obsession of a genius of menace set on proving that he is the greatest mind in the history of crime. Detective Alex Cross is a family man at heart–nothing matters…

Title: Meg & Jo  Author: Virginia Kantra Published: December 2019, Berkley Format: ARC E-copy, 400 pages Source: Netgalley Summary:  The timeless classic Little Women inspired this heartwarming modern tale of four sisters from New York Times bestselling author Virginia Kantra. The March sisters—reliable Meg, independent Jo, stylish Amy, and shy Beth—have grown up to pursue their separate dreams. When Jo followed her ambitions to New York City, she never thought…

Title: Vendetta Author: Iris Johansen Series: Catherine Ling, #5 Published: October 2018, St. Martin’s Press Format: Hardcover, 404 pages Source: Library Summary:  From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen comes a new explosive, compelling thriller. With his dying breath, Carl Venable, head of the CIA task force on terrorism and Jude Brandon’s final link to terrorist ringleader Max Huber, gives Brandon a mandate: to keep his daughter,…

Title: Would Like To Meet Author: Rachel Winters Published: December 2019, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Format: ARC E-copy, 336 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary:  In this charming, feel-good debut novel, a cynical assistant at a screenwriting agency must reenact the meet-cute scenes from classic romantic comedy movies in order to help her #1 client get his scriptwriting mojo back–but can a real-life meet-cute be in store for someone who doesn’t…

Title: The 18th Abduction Author: James Patterson Series: Women’s Murder Club Published: April 2019, Little, Brown and Company Format: Hardcover, 383 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  The #1 bestselling female detective of the past 50 years is back. Detective Lindsay Boxer and her husband Joe Molinari team up to protect San Francisco from an international war criminal in the newest Women’s Murder Club thriller. Three female schoolteachers go missing in…

Title: Thin Ice Author: Paige Shelton Series: Alaska Wild Mysteries, #1 Published: December 2019, Minotaur Books Format: ARC Paperback, 288 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  First in a new series set in Alaska from beloved author Paige Shelton, Thin Ice will chill your bones. Beth Rivers is on the run – she’s doing the only thing she could think of to keep herself safe. Known to the world as thriller author…

Title: Nine Elms Author: Robert Bryndza Series: Kate Marshall, #1 Published: December 2019, Thomas & Mercer Format: Hardcover, 396 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  From the breakthrough international bestselling author of The Girl in the Ice, a breathtaking, page-turning novel about a disgraced female detective’s fight for redemption. And survival… Kate Marshall was a promising young police detective when she caught the notorious Nine Elms serial killer. But her greatest victory…

Title: Woman on the Edge Author: Samantha M. Bailey Published: E-book: November 2019/Paperback: March 2020, Simon Schuster (these are US Dates) Format: ARC Paperback, 272 pages Source: Author Summary:  A moment on the subway platform changes two women’s lives forever—a debut thriller that will take your breath away. A total stranger on the subway platform whispers, “Take my baby.” She places her child in your arms. She says your name.…

Title: A Girl Named Anna Author: Lizzy Barber Published: September 2019, Mira Books Format: ARC Paperback, 329 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  A compulsive suspense debut for fans of Megan Miranda, Wendy Walker and Kimberly Belle, about two teens–one sheltered by her strict and reclusive mamma, one living in the shadow of the missing sister who was snatched from a theme park as a toddler–and their search for the truth about…

Title: The Liar’s House Author: Carla Kovach Series:  Detective Gina Harte, #4 Published: July 2019, Bookouture Format: E-copy, 337 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  Samantha stumbled out of the party and on to a busy street only ten minutes away from her home. But she never made it home… Seven years after Samantha’s disappearance, on what would have been her thirty-fifth birthday, her best friend Diane is shocked to find…

Title: Regretting You Author: Colleen Hoover Published: December 2019, Montlake Romance Format: ARC E-copy, 365 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary:  From #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us comes a poignant novel about family, first love, grief, and betrayal that will touch the hearts of both mothers and daughters. Morgan Grant and her sixteen-year-old daughter, Clara, would like nothing more than to be nothing alike.…

Title: Broken Souls Author: Patricia Gibney Series: D.I. Lottie Parker, #7 Published: October 2019, Bookouture Format: ARC E-copy, 446 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary:  ‘She shivered, though the kitchen was warm. Icicles of foreboding trickled down her spine. With trembling hands she whipped back her hair at the nape of her neck. As she turned away from the window, she missed the shadow passing by.’ One dark winter’s morning,…

Title: The Other Windsor Girl Author: Georgie Blalock Published: November 2019, William Morrow Paperbacks Format: ARC Paperback, 400 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  In a historical debut evoking the style of The Crown, the daughter of an impoverished noble is swept into the fame and notoriety of the royal family and Princess Margaret’s fast-living friends when she is appointed as Margaret’s second Lady-in-Waiting. Diana, Catherine, Meghan…glamorous Princess Margaret outdid them all. Springing…

Title: Saint X Author: Alexis Schaitkin Published: February 2020, Celadon Books Format: ARC Paperback, 352 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  Hailed as a “marvel of a book” and “brilliant and unflinching,” Alexis Schaitkin’s stunning debut Saint X is a haunting portrait of grief, obsession, and the bond between two sisters never truly given the chance to know one another. Claire is only seven years old when her college-age sister, Alison, disappears…

Title: The Golden Hour Author: Beatriz Williams Published: July 2019, William Morrow Format: Hard Cover, 480 pages Source: Publisher   Summary:  The New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives and A Certain Age creates a dazzling epic of World War II-era Nassau—a hotbed of spies, traitors, and the most infamous couple of the age, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. The Bahamas, 1941. Newly-widowed Leonora “Lulu” Randolph arrives…

Title: The Vanishing Season Author: Joanna Schaffhausen Series: Ellery Hathaway, #1 Published: December 2017, Minotaur Books Format: E-copy, 288 pages Source: Netgalley Summary:  Ellery Hathaway knows a thing or two about serial killers, but not through her police training. She’s an officer in sleepy Woodbury, MA, where a bicycle theft still makes the newspapers. No one there knows she was once victim number seventeen in the grisly story of serial…

Title: Double Blind Author: Iris Johansen & Roy Johansen Series: Kendra Michaels, #6 Published: July 2018, St. Martin’s Press Format: Hardcover, 325 pages Source: Library Summary:  Kendra Michaels, formerly blind and now a hired gun for law enforcement agencies who relies on her razor-sharp powers of observation, is reluctant to help the FBI with the most recent case they’ve brought to her. But then she hears the details: the body…

Title: The Sleepover Author: Carol Wyer Series: Detective Natalie Ward, #4 Published: September 2019, Bookouture Format: ARC E-copy, 376 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary:  Roxy had a secret. Now she’s gone. When fourteen-year-old Roxy says she’s going for a sleepover at her best friend Ellie’s house, Cathy sees no reason to check her daughter’s story. The two families are neighbours, and the girls are in and out of each…

Title: Before We Were Yours Author: Lisa Wingate Published: June 2017, Ballantine Books Format: Hardcover, 347 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge—until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar…

Title: Strangers at the Gate Author: Catriona McPherson Published: October 2019, Minotaur Books Format: ARC Paperback, 368 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  From the Agatha-award winning author of Quiet Neighbors comes a twisty, fascinating standalone that begs the question: how well can we ever know the people around us? When Finn and Paddy decide to move from their home in the city to the small town of Simmerton, it feels like…

Title: Our Little Secret Author: Darren O’Sullivan Published: February 2019, HQ Format: Paperback, 368 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  A deserted train station: A man waits. A woman watches. Chris is ready to join his wife. He’s planned this moment for nearly a year. The date. The time. The train. But he hadn’t factored in Sarah. So when Sarah walks on to the platform and sees a man swaying at the…

Title: The Chestnut Man Author: Soren Sveistrup Published: September 2019, Harper Format: ARC Paperback, 528 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  The heart-pounding debut from the creator of the hit Scandinavian television show The Killing. If you find one, he’s already found you. A psychopath is terrorizing Copenhagen. His calling card is a “chestnut man”—a handmade doll made of matchsticks and two chestnuts—which he leaves at each bloody crime scene. Examining the…

Title: Christmas Shopaholic Author: Sophie Kinsella Series: Shopaholic, #9 Published: October 2019, The Dial Press Format: ARC E-copy, 427 pages Source: Netgalley Summary:  ’Tis the season for change and Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) is embracing it, returning from the States to live in the charming village of Letherby and working with her best friend, Suze, in the gift shop of Suze’s stately home. Life is good, especially now that Becky…

Title: Princess Author: James Patterson Series: Private, #14 Published: November 2018, Grand Central Publishing Format: Paperback, 368 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  Jack Morgan receives an offer he cannot refuse… When the head of the world’s foremost investigation agency receives at invitation to meet Princess Caroline, third in line to the British throne, he boards his Gulfstream jet and flies straight to London. The Princess needs Morgan’s skills, and his…

Title: The Daughters of Temperance Howe Author: Katherine Howe Series: The Physick Book, #2 Published: June 2019, Henry Holt & Company Format: ARC Paperback, 338 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe returns to the world of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane with a bewitching story of a New England history professor who must race against time to free her family from a curse Connie…

Title: Hostage Author: Kristina Ohlsson Series: Fredrika Bergman & Alex Recht, #4 Published: November 2015, Atria/Emily Bestler Books Format: Paperback, 387 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  Investigative analyst Fredrika Bergman tackles a new case—this time involving the US government—in the next pulse-pounding book in Kristina Ohlsson’s internationally acclaimed crime series. Shortly after a crowded New York-bound Boeing 747 takes off from Stockholm, a bomb threat is found in one of…

Title: What Rose Forgot Author: Nevada Barr Published: September 2019, Minotaur Books Format: ARC Paperback, 291 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  In New York Times bestselling author Nevada Barr’s gripping standalone, a grandmother in her sixties emerges from a mental fog to find she’s trapped in her worst nightmare Rose Dennis wakes up in a hospital gown, her brain in a fog, only to discover that she’s been committed to an…

Title: Never Never Author: James Patterson Series: Detective Harriet Blue, #1 Published: January 2017, Little, Brown & Company Format: Hardcover, 363 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  When Sydney police department sex crimes detective Harriet Blue is called into her boss’s office, she never imagined it would be to tell her that her brother is the prime suspect in the brutal murders of three women. Shocked and in denial, Harry is…

Title: 29 Seconds Author: T.M. Logan Published: September 2019, St. Martin’s Press Format: ARC Paperback, 368 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  From the bestselling author of LIES comes 29 SECONDS, a sensational new thriller that explores what happens when a split second thought of revenge takes on a life of its own. “Give me one name. One person. And I will make them disappear.” Sarah is a young professor struggling to…

Title: Black & Blue Author: James Patterson Series: Detective Harriet Blue, #0.5 Published: December 2016, BookShots Format: Paperback, 144 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  Is Harriet Blue as great a detective as Lindsay Boxer? Harriet Blue, the most single-minded detective since Lindsay Boxer, won’t rest until she stops a savage killer targeting female university students. But new clues point to a more chilling predator than she ever could have imagined.…

Title: The Butterfly Girl Author: Rene Denfeld Series: Naomi Cottle, #2 Published: October 2019, Harper Format: ARC Paperback, 272 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  The Butterfly Girl is a riveting novel that ripples with truth, exploring the depths of love and sacrifice in the face of a past that cannot be left dead and buried. Margaret Atwood raved on twitter about this “heartbreaking, finger-gnawing, yet ultimately hopeful novel.”   A year…

Title: Little Voices Author: Vanessa Lillie Published: October 2019, Thomas & Mercer Format: Paperback, 336 pages  Source: Author / Little Bird Publicity Summary:  The voice in her head says he’s guilty. She knows he’s innocent. Devon Burges is in the throes of a high-risk birth when she learns of her dear friend’s murder. The police quickly name another friend as the chief suspect, but Devon doesn’t buy it—and despite her…