Always With a Book

Title: Her Father’s Secret Author: Sara Blaedel Series: Ilka/The Family Secrets series, #2 Published: March 2019, Grand Central Publishing Format: Hardcover, 320 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  A woman’s murder is only the beginning as a daughter races to unravel the maze of secrets her father left behind–before she becomes the next victim–in the latest emotionally gripping novel from Sara Blaedel, #1 internationally bestselling author with over 3 million copies sold…

Title: The Library of Lost and Found Author: Phaedra Patrick Published: March 2019, Park Row Books Format: ARC Paperback, 352 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  A librarian’s discovery of a mysterious book sparks the journey of a lifetime in the delightful new novel from the international bestselling author of The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper Librarian Martha Storm has always found it easier to connect with books than people—though not for…

Title: Where the Forest Meets the Stars Author: Glendy Vanderah Published: March 2019, Lake Union Publishing Format: ARC Paperback, 332 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  In this gorgeously stunning debut, a mysterious child teaches two strangers how to love and trust again. After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove…

Title: Her Pretty Bones Author: Carla Kovach Series: Detective Gina Harte, #3 Published: January 2019, Bookouture Format: ARC E-copy, 330 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary:  She’s just the girl he’s looking for… A young woman falls from a van speeding down a quiet road. Battered and bruised, she turns her head to the person who comes to her aid. ‘Help her’, she whispers before her eyes close. Days later,…

Title: The Trial Author: James Patterson Series: Women’s Murder Club, #15.5 Published: July 2016, BookShots Format: Paperback, 110 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  “I’m not on trial. San Francisco is.” An accused murderer called Kingfisher is about to go on trial for his life. Or is he? By unleashing unexpected violence on the lawyers, jurors, and police involved in the case, he has paralyzed the city. Detective Lindsay Boxer and…

Title: Unwanted Author: Kristina Ohlsson Series:Fredrika Bergman & Alex Recht, #1 Published: November 2012, Atria/Emily Bestler Books Format: Paperback, 368 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: In the middle of a rainy Swedish summer, a little girl is abducted from a crowded train. Despite hundreds of potential witnesses, no one noticed when the girl was taken, and, in what seems to be merely a coincidence, her mother has been left behind…

Title: The Wolf and the Watchman Author: Niklas Natt och Dag Published: March 2019, Atria Books Format: Hardcover, 384 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  In this breathtakingly bold, intricately constructed novel set in 18th century Stockholm, a dying man searches among the city’s teeming streets, dark corners, and intriguing inhabitants to unmask a ruthless murderer—perfect for fans of Perfume and The Alienist. It is 1793. Four years after the storming of…

Title: The Woman in the Dark Author: Vanessa Savage Published: March 2019, Grand Central Publishing Format: Hardcover, 352 pages Source: Publishing   Summary:  A debut psychological thriller about a woman who moves with her family to the gothic seaside house where her husband grew up–and where 15 years ago another family was brutally slaughtered. Sarah and Patrick are happy. But after her mother’s death, Sarah spirals into depression and overdoses…

Title: The Winter Sister Author: Megan Collins Published: February 2019, Touchstone Format: ARC E-copy, 336 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary:  In this spellbinding and suspenseful debut, a young woman haunted by the past returns home to care for her ailing mother and begins to dig deeper into her sister’s unsolved murder. Sixteen years ago, Sylvie’s sister Persephone never came home. Out too late with the boyfriend she was forbidden…

Title: What Doesn’t Kill Her Author: Christina Dodd Series: Cape Charade, #2 Published: January 2019, HQN Format: ARC Paperback, 400 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  One secret, one nightmare, one lie. You guess which is which. 1. I have the scar of a gunshot on my forehead. 2. I have willfully misrepresented my identity to the US military. 3. I’m the new mother of a seven-year-old girl. Kellen Adams suffers from…

Title: Blood Orange Author: Harriet Tyce Published: February 2019, Grand Central Publishing Format: ARC Paperback, 352 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  A young lawyer’s outwardly perfect life spirals out of control as she takes on her first murder case in this dark and twisty debut thriller for readers of Paula Hawkins, A.J. Finn, or Shari Lapena.   Alison has it all. A doting husband, adorable daughter, and a career on the…

Title: Never Tell Author: Lisa Gardner Series: Detective D.D. Warren, #10 Published: February 2019, Dutton Books Format: ARC Paperback, 416 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  #1 New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner returns with an unpredictable thriller that puts fan favorites D. D. Warren and Flora Dane on a shocking new case that begins with a vicious murder and gets darker from there.  A man is dead, shot three times in…

  Title: Last Lullaby Author: Carol Wyer Series: Detective Natalie Ward, #2 Published: December 2018, Bookouture Format: ARC E-copy, 338 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary:  Charlotte’s baby is safe. But is she? When the body of young mother Charlotte Brannon is discovered by her husband in their immaculate, silver bedroom, Detective Natalie Ward is first on the scene. The killer has left a chilling calling card: the word ‘Why?’…

Title: The Reckoning Author: Yrsa Sigurdardottir Series: Children’s House, #2 Published: February 2019, Minotaur Books Format: ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  The Reckoning is the stunning follow-up to The Legacy, which was the start of a thrilling new series that Booklist (starred) recommends for fans of Tana French. Vaka sits, regretting her choice of coat, on the cold steps of her new school. Her father appears to have…

  Title: The Burning Island Author: Hester Young Series: Charlie Cates, #3 Published: February 2019, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Format: Hardcover, 416 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  The newest haunting mystery from the beloved author of The Gates of Evangeline, featuring Charlie Cates, a headstrong heroine who must confront her unwanted supernatural gift and bring dark secrets to light if she ever wants to leave the Big Island . . .   …

Title: I Invited Her In Author: Adele Parks Published: February 2019, MIRA Format: ARC Paperback, 432 Source: Publisher Summary:  Imagine the worst thing a friend could ever do.   This is worse.      When Mel receives an unexpected email from her oldest friend Abi, it brings back memories she thought she had buried forever. Their friendship belonged in the past. To those carefree days at university. But Abi is…

Title: The Silent Patient Author: Alex Michaelides Published: February 2019, Celadon Books Format: ARC Paperback, 336 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  Promising to be the debut novel of the season The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive…  Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she…

Title: As Bright As Heaven Author: Susan Meissner Published: February 2018, Berkley Books Format: Hardcover, 387 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  From the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and A Bridge Across the Ocean comes a new novel set in Philadelphia during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, which tells the story of a family reborn through loss and love. In 1918, Philadelphia was a city teeming with…

Title: No Exit Author: Taylor Adams Published: January 2019, William Morrow Format: Hardcover, 352 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  A brilliant, edgy thriller about four strangers, a blizzard, a kidnapped child, and a determined young woman desperate to unmask and outwit a vicious psychopath.A kidnapped little girl locked in a stranger’s van. No help for miles. What would you do? On her way to Utah to see her dying mother, college…

Title: The Smiling Man Author: Joseph Knox Series: Aidan Waits, #2 Published: January 2019, Crown Format: ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  From the bestselling author of Sirens, Detective Aidan Waits is on the hunt to find the identity of The Smiling Man.    Disconnected from his history and careless of his future, Detective Aidan Waits has resigned himself to the night shift. An endless cycle of meaningless emergency…

Title: 15th Affair Author: James Patterson Series: Women’s Murder Club, #15 Published: May 2016, Little, Brown & Company Format: Hardcover, 351 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  Detective Lindsay Boxer has everything she could possibly want. Her marriage and baby daughter are perfect, and life in Homicide in the San Francisco Police Department is going well. But all that could change in an instant. Lindsay is called to a crime scene…

Title: The Wartime Sisters Author: Lynda Cohen Loigman Published: January 2019, St. Martin’s Press Format: ARC Paperback, 304 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  Two estranged sisters, raised in Brooklyn and each burdened with her own shocking secret, are reunited at the Springfield Armory in the early days of WWII. While one sister lives in relative ease on the bucolic Armory campus as an officer’s wife, the other arrives as a war…

Title: The Suspect Author: Fiona Barton Series: Kate Waters, #3 Published: January 2019, Berkley Books Format: ARC Paperback, 416 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  The New York Times bestselling author of The Widow returns with a brand new novel of twisting psychological suspense about every parent’s worst nightmare… When two eighteen-year-old girls go missing in Thailand, their families are thrust into the international spotlight: desperate, bereft, and frantic with worry. What…

Title: The Birthday Author: Carol Wyer Series: Detective Natalie Ward, #1 Published: September 2018, Bookouture Format: ARC E-copy, 304 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary:  One hot summer’s afternoon, five-year-old Ava Sawyer went to a party. She never came home …When five-year-old Ava Sawyer goes missing from a birthday party at a local garden centre, the police are bewildered by the lack of leads. That is until two years later,…

Title: Anna Karenina Author: Leo Tolstoy Published: August 2004, Barnes & Noble (first published April 1877) Format: Hardcover, Barnes & Noble Classics Series, 803 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  Married to a powerful government minister, Anna Karenina is a beautiful woman who falls deeply in love with a wealthy army officer, the elegant Count Vronsky. Desperate to find truth and meaning in her life, she rashly defies the conventions of…

Title: The Last Lie Author: Alex Lake Published: December 2018, HarperCollins Format: Paperback, 368 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  THE TWISTY NEW PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF AFTER ANNA, KILLING KATE AND COPYCAT Everyone lies…but some lies are deadly.    For Claire Daniels, life is good. She has everything she’s ever wanted – a career she loves, friends she can rely on and a husband who dotes on her.…