Always With a Book

Title: Private India: City on Fire Author: James Patterson Series: Private #8 Published: November 2014, Grand Central Publishing Format: Paperback, 384 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  When Santosh Wagh isn’t struggling out of a bottle of whisky he’s head of Private India, the Mumbai branch of the world’s finest PI agency. In a city of over thirteen million he has his work cut out at the best of times. But…

Title: The Party Author: Robyn Harding Published: June 2017, Gallery/Scout Press Format: Hardcover, 352 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: In this stunning and provocative domestic drama about a sweet sixteen birthday party that goes horribly awry, a wealthy family in San Francisco finds their picture-perfect life unraveling, their darkest secrets revealed, and their friends turned to enemies. One invitation. A lifetime of regrets. Sweet sixteen. It’s an exciting coming of…

Title: The Summer I Met Jack Author: Michelle Gable Published: May 2018, St. Martin’s Press Format: ARC Paperback, 448 pages Source: Publisher Summary: New York Times bestselling author imagines the affair between JFK and Alicia Corning Clark – and the child they may have had. Based on a real story – in 1950, a young, beautiful Polish refugee arrives in Hyannisport, Massachusetts to work as a maid for one of…

Title: The Death of Mrs. Westaway Author: Ruth Ware Published: May 2018, Gallery/Scout Press Format: ARC E-copy, 384 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, and The Lying Game comes Ruth Ware’s highly anticipated fourth novel.  On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a…

Title: Dead Girl Running Author: Christina Dodd Series: Cape Charade, #1 Published: April 2018, HQN Format: Paperback, 368 pages Source: Harlequin Publicity Team Summary: I have three confessions to make: 1. I’ve got the scar of gunshot on my forehead. 2. I don’t remember an entire year of my life. 3. My name is Kellen Adams…and that’s half a lie.  Girl running…from a year she can’t remember, from a husband…

Title: The Good Twin Author: Marti Green Published: May 2018, Thomas & Mercer Format: ARC E-copy, 263 pages Source: Netgalley via Publicist Summary:  In Marti Green’s twisting novel of psychological suspense, twin sisters become engaged in a dangerous deception… Mallory Holcolm is an unfulfilled waitress and aspiring artist living in a Queens boardinghouse when she learns something astonishing about her past: she has an identical twin sister named Charly she…

Title: Then She Was Gone Author: Lisa Jewell Published: April 2018, Atria Books Format: ARC E-copy, 368 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: Ten years after her teenage daughter goes missing, a woman connects with a charming single father, but she is still haunted by her child’s disappearance in this “deeply emotional and incredibly clever” (Mail Online) thriller from the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of I Found You. Ellie Mack was…

Title: Wicked River Author: Jenny Milchman Published: May 2018, Sourcebooks Landmark Format: ARC E-copy, 464 pages Source: Netgalley Summary: Six million acres of Adirondack forest separate Natalie and Doug Larson from civilization. For the newlyweds, an isolated, back country honeymoon seems ideal: a chance to start their lives together with an adventure, on their own.  But just as Natalie and Doug begin to explore the dark interiors of their own…

Title: Our Kind of Cruelty Author: Araminta Hall Published: May 2018, MCD/Farrar, Straus & Giroux Format: ARC Paperback, 288 pages Source: Publisher Summary: This is a love story. Mike’s love story. Mike Hayes fought his way out of a brutal childhood and into a quiet, if lonely life, before he met Verity Metcalf. V taught him about love, and in return, Mike has dedicated his life to making her happy.…

Title: The Girl I Used to Be Author: Mary Torjussen Published: April 2018, Berkley Format: ARC E-copy, 368 pages Source: Netgalley Summary: The acclaimed author of Gone Without a Trace returns with a new novel of twisting psychological suspense in which a woman is forced to face down her blackmailer. Someone’s been sending Gemma compromising photos. Photos she doesn’t remember. She can’t recall much about that night during a work…

Title: All the Beautiful Lies Author: Peter Swanson Published: April 2018, William Morrow Format: Hardcover, 287 pages Source: Publisher Summary: Harry Ackerson has always considered his step-mother Alice to be sexy and beautiful, in an “other worldly” way. She has always been kind and attentive, if a little aloof in the last few years. Days before his college graduation, Alice calls with shocking news. His father is dead and the…

Title: Our Little Secret Author: Roz Nay Published: April 2018, St. Martin’s Press Format: ARC Paperback, 272 pages Source: Publisher Summary: “A cracking read…Our Little Secret builds to a deliciously dark conclusion.” —Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in Cabin 10   Our Little Secret is a twisted tale of love, pain, and revenge that will stay with the reader long after they turn the last…

Title: The New Neighbors Author: Simon Lelic Published: April 2018, Berkley Format: ARC E-copy, 328 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: The Girl Before meets The Couple Next Door in a Hitchcockian thriller about a couple who moves into their dream neighborhood only to discover nothing is as it seems… The perfect couple. The perfect house. The perfect crime. Londoners Jack and Syd found their dream home: lots of space,…

Title: Before I Let You In Author: Jenny Blackhurst Published: April 2018, Atria/Emily Bestler Books Format: ARC E-copy, 352 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: The next gripping psychological thriller by the author of How I Lost You, Jenny Blackhurst’s #1 international bestseller, about a psychiatrist and patient relationship that turns not only toxic…but deadly. Karen, Eleanor, and Bea have been best friends since childhood. They know everything about each…

Title:  The Secret to Southern Charm Author: Kristy Woodson Harvey Series: The Peachtree Bluff series, #2 Published: April 2018, Gallery Books Format: ARC Paperback, 400 pages Source: Author Summary: Leaving fans “practically [begging] for a sequel” (Bookpage), critically acclaimed author Kristy Woodson Harvey returns with the second novel in her beloved Peachtree Bluff series, featuring a trio of sisters and their mother who discover a truth that will change not…

Title: The Next Girl Author: Carla Kovach Series: Detective Gina Harte, #1 Published: April 2018, Bookouture Format: ARC E-copy, 300 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: She thought he’d come to save her. She was wrong. Deborah Jenkins pulls her coat around her as she sets out on her short walk home in the pouring rain. But she never makes it home that night. And she is never seen again…

Title: If I Die Tonight Author: Alison Gaylin Published: March 2018, William Morrow Paperbacks Format: ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source: Publisher Summary: Late one night in the quiet Hudson Valley town of Havenkill, a distraught woman stumbles into the police station—and lives are changed forever. Aimee En, once a darling of the ’80s pop music scene, claims that a teenage boy stole her car, then ran over another young man…

Title: Private Down Under Author: James Patterson Series: Private #7 Published: May 2013, Century Format: Paperback, 368 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: The world’s most exclusive detective agency opens a new office – in Australia! With the best detectives in the business, cutting edge technology and offices around the globe, there is no investigation company quite like Private. Now, at a glittering launch party overlooking the iconic Opera House, Private…

Title: No Safe Place Author: Patricia Gibney Series: Detective Lottie Parker, #4 Published: March 2018, Bookouture Format: ARC E-copy, 488 pages Source: Publisher via Netgalley Summary: There’s nothing more dangerous than a familiar face…As funeral mourners stand in silence at Ragmullin cemetery, a deafening cry cuts through the air. Lying crumpled at the bottom of an open grave is the bloodied body of a young woman, and Detective Lottie Parker…

Title: The Italian Party Author: Christina Lynch Published: March 2018, St. Martin’s Press Format: Hardcover, 336 pages Source: Publisher Summary: A delicious and sharply funny page-turner about “innocent” Americans abroad in 1950s Siena, Italy. Newly married, Scottie and Michael are seduced by Tuscany’s famous beauty. But the secrets they are keeping from each other force them beneath the splendid surface to a more complex view of ltaly, America and each…

Title: The Broken Girls Author: Simone St. James Published: March 2018, Berkley Books Format: ARC Paperback, 336 pages Source: Publisher Summary: A breakout suspense novel from the award-winning author of The Haunting of Maddy Clare. Vermont, 1950. There’s a place for the girls whom no one wants–the troublemakers, the illegitimate, the too smart for their own good. It’s called Idlewild Hall. And in the small town where it’s located, there…