Always With a Book

Title: Private: The Royals Author: James Patterson Series: Private, #12.5 Published: December 2016, BookShots Format: Paperback, 138 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment.Jack Morgan is visiting Peter Knight and the team in the London branch of his investigation agency, Private.At a cocktail party the night before the Trooping the Colour parade for the Queen’s 90th birthday, Jack receives a phone call from the Duke…

Title: Watching You Author: Lisa Jewell Published: December 2018, Atria Books Format: ARC Paperback, 320 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  “Page one intrigued me. Page three hooked me. By page five, I was consumed. This compulsive, propulsive novel is both a seize-you-by-the-throat thriller and a genuinely moving family drama. Stellar.” — A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window The instant New York Times and…

Title: The Masterpiece Author: Fiona Davis Published: August 2018, Dutton Format: ARC Paperback, 368 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  In her latest captivating novel, nationally bestselling author Fiona Davis takes readers into the glamorous lost art school within Grand Central Terminal, where two very different women, fifty years apart, strive to make their mark on a world set against them.    For the nearly nine million people who live in New…

Title: The Drowned Girl Author: Sara Blaedel Series: Louise Rick, #3 Published: December 2018, Grand Central Publishing Format: Paperback, 384 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  Detective Louise Rick must race against the clock to stop a violent killer targeting immigrants in this disturbing and timely thriller, perfect for readers of Lisa Gardner, Tami Hoag, Tess Gerritsen, or Jo Nesbo. It’s clearly no ordinary drowning. When a young girl is pulled from…

Title: The Lost for Words Bookshop Author: Stephanie Butland Published: June 2018, St. Martin’s Press Format: ARC Paperback, 352 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  The Lost for Words Bookshop is a compelling, irresistible, and heart-rending audiobook from author Stephanie Butland Loveday Cardew prefers books to people. If you look carefully, you might glimpse the first lines of the novels she loves most tattooed on her skin. But there are some things…

Title: Missing Author: James Patterson Series: Private, #12 Published: October 2016, Grand Central Publishing Format: Paperback, 384 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  Even for Private Investigations, the world’s top detective agency, it’s tough to find a man who doesn’t exist . . .  Craig Gisto has promised Eliza Moss that his elite team at Private Sydney will investigate the disappearance of her father. After all, as CEO of a high-profile…

Title: Where the Crawdads Sing Author: Delia Owens Published: August 2018, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Format: ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source: Publisher Summary: Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open.     For years,…

Title: The Surrogate Author: Louise Jensen Published: December 2018, Grand Central Publishing Format: ARC E-copy, 324 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary:  “You know that feeling? When you want something so badly, you almost feel you’d kill for it?” Be careful what you wish for… Kat and her husband Nick have tried everything to become parents, and are on the point of giving up. Then a chance encounter with Kat’s…

Title: One Day in December Author: Josie Silver Published: October 2018, Broadway Books (Crown Publishing) Format: ARC Paperback Source: Publisher Summary:  A love story about what happens after you meet, or rather, don’t meet the one.    Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn’t exist anywhere but the movies. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly…

Title: Tell Nobody Author: Patricia Gibney Series: Detective Lottie Parker, #5 Published: October 2018, Bookouture Format: ARC E-copy, 458 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary:  A killer close to home. A town full of secrets…    One hot summer evening, eleven-year-old Mikey Driscoll is on the way home from playing with friends. Two days later, his broken body is discovered on a bed of wild flowers by some local teenagers.…

Title: The Silent Women Author: Sara Blaedel Series: Louise Rick, #2 Published: November 2018, Grand Central Publishing Format: Paperback, 384 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  Homicide detective Louise Rick chases a terrifying serial rapist who meets women on a popular online dating website in this fast-paced #1 internationally bestselling thriller from Sara Blaedel, whose books have sold over 3 million copies worldwide. An online flirtation can have horrific consequences, as Detective…

Title: Her Final Hour Author: Carla Kovach Series: Detective Gina Harte, #2 Published: August 2018, Bookouture Format: ARC E-copy, 319 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary:  Anything can happen behind closed doors… The gripping new novel from the author of bestseller THE NEXT GIRL. Her Final Hour will have you hooked! Melissa Sanderson is the perfect wife and mother. She dotes on her daughter, and lives in her dream home…

Title: Lost Lake Author: Emily Littlejohn Series: Detective Gemma Monroe (#3) Published: November 2018, Minotaur Books Format: Hardcover, 320 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  An enthralling, atmospheric new novel from the author of acclaimed debut Inherit the Bones, featuring Colorado police officer Gemma Monroe. On a bright Saturday in early spring, Detective Gemma Monroe responds to a missing person call at Lost Lake, near the small town of Cedar Valley, Colorado.…

Title: Not Our Kind Author: Kitty Zeldis Published: September 2018, Harper Format: ARC Paperback, 352 pages Source: Author via Publisher Summary:  With echoes of The Rules of Civility and The Boston Girl, a compelling and thought-provoking novel set in postwar New York City, about two women—one Jewish, one a WASP—and the wholly unexpected consequences of their meeting One rainy morning in June, two years after the end of World War…

Title: Unlucky 13 Author: James Patterson, Maxine Paetro Series: Women’s Murder Club, #13 Published: May 2014, Little, Brown & Company Format: Hardcover, 384 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  When two dead bodies are found inside a wrecked car on the Golden Gate Bridge, Detective Lindsay Boxer doubts that it will be anything as simple as a traffic accident. The scene is more gruesome than anything she has seen before. It…

Title: The Games: A Private Novel Author: James Patterson & Mark Sullivan Series: Private, #11 Published: June 2016, Little, Brown & Company Format: Hardcover, 366 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  Two years ago Jack Morgan – the head of the renowned worldwide investigation firm Private – was in charge of security for the World Cup in Brazil. During the championship final, the action nearly spilled from the field into the…

Title: Inhuman Resources Author: Pierre Lemaitre Published: November 2018, MacLehose Press Format: ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  Alain Delambre is a fifty-seven-year-old former HR executive, drained by four years of hopeless unemployment. The only job offers he gets are for low-level, demoralizing positions. He has reached rock bottom and can see no way out. So when a major company finally invites him in for an interview, Alain is…

Title: The Daughters of the Lake Author: Wendy Webb Published: November 2018, Lake Union Publishing Format: ARC Paperback, 294 pages Source: Publisher Summary: The ghosts of the past come calling in a spellbinding heart-stopper from the “Queen of the Northern Gothic.”    After the end of her marriage, Kate Granger has retreated to her parents’ home on Lake Superior to pull herself together—only to discover the body of a murdered…

Title: 12th of Never Author: James Patterson, Maxine Paetro Series: Women’s Murder Club, #12 Published: April 2013, Little, Brown & Company Format: Hardcover, 394 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  It’s finally time! Detective Lindsay Boxer is in labor–while two killers are on the loose. Lindsay Boxer’s beautiful baby is born! But after only a week at home with her new daughter, Lindsay is forced to return to work to face…

Title: Private Paris Author: James Patterson Series: Private #10  Published: March 2016, Little, Brown & Company Format: Hardcover, 411 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  Paris is burning–and only Private’s Jack Morgan can put out the fire. When Jack Morgan stops by Private’s Paris office, he envisions a quick hello during an otherwise relaxing trip filled with fine food and sightseeing. But Jack is quickly pressed into duty after a call…

Title: River Bodies Author: Karen Katchur Series: Northampton County, #1 Published: November 2018, Thomas & Mercer Format: ARC Paperback, 290 pages Source: Publisher Summary: In this dark, gripping mystery, a brutal murder unearths old secrets that should have stayed buried.  A body just turned up in the small town of Portland, Pennsylvania. The crime is eerily similar to a twenty-year-old cold case: another victim, brutally murdered, found in the Delaware…

Title: The Spite Game Author: Anna Snoekstra Published: October 2018, MIRA Books Format: ARC E-book, 336 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: Everyone does bad things when no one is watching   Mercilessly bullied in high school, Ava knows she needs to put the past behind her and move on, but she can’t—not until she’s exacted precise, catastrophic revenge on the people who hurt her the most. First, she watches…

Title: Marilla of Green Gables Author: Sarah McCoy Published: October 2018, William Morrow Format: ARC Paperback, 320 pages Source: Publisher Summary: A bold, heartfelt tale of life at Green Gables . . . before Anne: A marvelously entertaining and moving historical novel, set in rural Prince Edward Island in the nineteenth century, that imagines the young life of spinster Marilla Cuthbert, and the choices that will open her life to…

Title: Go to My Grave Author: Catriona McPherson Published: October 2018, Minotaur Books Format: ARC Paperback, 304 pages Source: Publisher Summary: Donna Weaver has put everything into The Breakers, a Bed and Breakfast that she and her mother are opening on a remote stretch of beach. Now it waits – freshly painted, richly furnished, filled with flowers. But as the guests arrive, they feel like they’ve been here before. Amid…

Title: The Midnight Witness Author: Sara Blaedel Series: Louise Rick, #1 Published: October 2018, Grand Central Publishing Format: ARC Paperback, 336 pages Source: Publisher Summary: #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Sara Blaedel returns with another thrilling novel in her series featuring homicide detective Louise Rick–a strong-willed police investigator perfect for readers of Lisa Gardner, Tami Hoag, Tess Gerritsen, or Jo Nesbo.  A young woman is found strangled in a park, and a…

Title: The Glass Ocean Author: Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig & Karen White Published: September 2018, William Morrow Format: ARC Paperback, 416 pages Source: Publisher Summary: From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Forgotten Room comes a captivating historical mystery, infused with romance, that links the lives of three women across a century—two deep in the past, one in the present—to the doomed passenger liner, RMS Lusitania. May 2013…

Title: The Clockmaker’s Daughter Author: Kate Morton Published: October 2018, Atria Books Format: ARC Paperback, 496 pages Source: Publisher Summary: A rich, spellbinding new novel from the author of The Lake House—the story of a love affair and a mysterious murder that cast their shadow across generations, set in England from the 1860’s until the present day.  My real name, no one remembers. The truth about that summer, no one…

Title: Your Second Life Begins When You Realize You Only Have One Author: Raphaelle Giordano Published: July 2018, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Format: Paperback, 256 pages Source: Publisher Summary: The feel-good #1 bestselling French novel about a woman whose mission to cure her “routine-itis” leads her to lasting joy and true fulfillment, for fans of The Alchemist and Hector and the Search for Happiness    At thirty-eight and a quarter years…

Title: When the Men Were Gone Author: Marjorie Herrera Lewis Published: October 2018, William Morrow Paperbacks Format: ARC Paperback, 240 pages Source: Publisher Summary: In Marjorie Herrera Lewis’s debut historical novel the inspiring true story of high school teacher Tylene Wilson—a woman who surprises everyone as she breaks with tradition to become the first high school football coach in Texas—comes to life. “A wonderfully touching and beautiful story…Tylene makes me…