Always With a Book

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…

Title: The Kennedy Debutante Author: Kerri Maher Published: October 2018, Berkley Books Format: ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source: Publisher Summary: A captivating novel following the exploits of Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy, the forgotten and rebellious daughter of one of America’s greatest political dynasties.      London, 1938. The effervescent “It girl” of London society since her father was named the ambassador, Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy moves in rarified circles, rubbing satin-covered elbows…

Title: Under My Skin Author: Lisa Unger Published: October 2018, Park Row Books Format: ARC Paperback, 368 pages Source: Publisher Summary: New York Times bestselling author and master of suspense Lisa Unger comes an addictive psychological thriller about a woman on the hunt for her husband’s killer   What if the nightmares are actually memories? It’s been a year since Poppy’s husband, Jack, was brutally murdered during his morning run…

Title: The Christmas Sisters Author: Sarah Morgan Published: September 2018, HQN Format: ARC Paperback, 416 pages Source: Publisher via Publicist Summary: In the snowy Highlands of Scotland, Suzanne McBride is dreaming of the perfect cozy Christmas. Her three adopted daughters are coming home for the holidays and she can’t wait to see them. But tensions are running high… Workaholic Hannah knows she can’t avoid spending the holidays with her family…

Title: The Girl Made of Clay Author: Nicole Meier Published: September 2018, Lake Union Publishing Format: Paperback, 304 pages Source: Author Summary: An emotional exploration of the frayed bond between a father and daughter…and what it takes to mend it.  After Sara’s father, famous sculptor Thomas “TR” Harlow, is badly injured in a fire, she’s suddenly forced to care for a man who is more of a stranger than a…

Title: Private Vegas Author: James Patterson Series: Private, #9 Published: January 2015, Little, Brown & Company Format: Hardcover, 361 pages Source: Personal copy Summary:  What happens in Vegas…stays Private. Las Vegas is a city of contradictions: seedy and glamorous, secretive and wild, Vegas attracts people of all kinds–especially those with a secret to hide, or a life to leave behind. It’s the perfect location for Lester Olsen’s lucrative business. He…

Title: Pieces of Her Author: Karin Slaughter Published: August 2018, William Morrow Format: ARC Paperback, 480 pages Source: Publisher Summary: The #1 internationally bestselling author returns with a new novel in the vein of her New York Times bestsellers Pretty Girls and The Good Daughter—a story even more electrifying, provocative, and suspenseful than anything she’s written before.  What if the person you thought you knew best turns out to be someone…

Title: I Know You Know Author: Gilly Macmillan Published: September 2018, William Morrow Paperbacks Format: ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source: Publisher Summary: Twenty years ago, eleven-year-olds Charlie Page and Scott Ashby were murdered in the city of Bristol, their bodies dumped near a dog racing track. A man was convicted of the brutal crime, but decades later, questions still linger. For his whole life, filmmaker Cody Swift has been haunted…

Title: The Impossible Girl Author: Lydia Kang Published: September 2018, Lake Union Publishing Format: ARC Paperback, 364 pages Source: Publisher Summary: Two hearts. Twice as vulnerable.    Manhattan, 1850. Born out of wedlock to a wealthy socialite and a nameless immigrant, Cora Lee can mingle with the rich just as easily as she can slip unnoticed into the slums and graveyards of the city. As the only female resurrectionist in…

Title: The Kitty Committee Author: Kathryn Berla Published: August 2018, Amberjack Publishing Format: Paperback, 234 pages Source: Publisher via Publicist Summary: Every year, it comes. And every year, it reminds Grace that someone knows her deepest secret—the secret whose silence has tormented Grace over the years. That secret began with an innocent gang of teenage friends who called themselves The Kitty Committee. The Kitty Committee of Grace’s youth was ostensibly…

Title: The Dinner List Author: Rebecca Serle Published: September 2018, Flatiron Books Format: ARC Paperback, 288 pages Source: Publisher Summary: We’ve been waiting for an hour. That’s what Audrey says. She states it with a little bit of an edge, her words just bordering on cursive. That’s the thing I think first. Not: Audrey Hepburn is at my birthday dinner, but Audrey Hepburn is annoyed. At one point or another, we’ve…

Title: Lies Author: T.M Logan Published: September 2018, St. Martin’s Press Format: ARC Paperback, 432 pages Source: Publisher Summary: What if you have the perfect life, the perfect wife and the perfect child—then, in one shattering moment, you discover nothing is as it seems? Now you are in the sights of a ruthless killer determined to destroy everything you treasure. It’s the evening drive home from work on a route…

Title: Leverage in Death Author: J.D. Robb Series: In Death, #47 Published: September 2018, St. Martin’s Press Format: Hardcover, 400 pages Source: Publisher Summary: Lieutenant Eve Dallas puzzles over a bizarre suicide bombing in a Wall St. office building in the latest in the #1 New York Times bestselling series… For the airline executives finalizing a merger that would make news in the business world, the nine a.m. meeting would…

Title: Tell Me You’re Mine Author: Elisabeth Noreback Published: September 2018, G. P. Putnam’s Sons Format: ARC Paperback, 368 pages Source: Publisher Summary: In this riveting domestic suspense debut, a woman’s life shatters when she meets a girl she believes is the daughter she lost years ago–and she finds that reclaiming the life she lost might cost her the life she has. Tell Me You’re Mine is a story of…

Title: When the Lights Go Out Author: Mary Kubica Published: September 2018, Park Row Books Format: ARC Paperback, 336 pages Source: Publisher Summary: A woman is forced to question her own identity in this riveting and emotionally charged thriller by the blockbuster bestselling author of The Good Girl, Mary Kubica   Jessie Sloane is on the path to rebuilding her life after years of caring for her ailing mother. She…

Title: Leave No Trace Author: Mindy Mejia Published: September 2018, Atria/Emily Bestler Books Format: ARC E-copy, 336 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: From the author of the “compelling” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis) and critically acclaimed Everything You Want Me to Be, a riveting and suspenseful thriller about the mysterious disappearance of a boy and his stunning return ten years later.  There is a place in Minnesota with hundreds of miles…

Title: Trust Me Author: Hank Phillippi Ryan Published: August 2018, Forge Books Format: ARC Paperback, 400 pages Source: Publisher Summary: An accused killer insists she’s innocent of a heinous murder. A grieving journalist surfaces from the wreckage of her shattered life. Their unlikely alliance leads to a dangerous cat and mouse game that will leave you breathless. Who can you trust when you can’t trust yourself? Trust Me is the…

Title: The Waiting Room Author: Emily Bleeker Published: August 2018, Lake Union Publishing Format: ARC Paperback, 260 pages Source: Publisher via Publicist Summary: From the bestselling author of When I’m Gone and Working Fire comes a gripping novel about a mother, her missing daughter, and the dark secrets that engulf them.  Ever since her husband’s death collided with the birth of her daughter, postpartum depression has taken hold of Veronica…

Title: Jane Doe Author: Victoria Helen Stone Published: August 2018, Lake Union Publishing Format: ARC Paperback,  258 pages Source: Publisher Summary: A double life with a single purpose: revenge.    Jane’s days at a Midwest insurance company are perfectly ordinary. She blends in well, unremarkably pretty in her floral-print dresses and extra efficient at her low-level job. She’s just the kind of woman middle manager Steven Hepsworth likes—meek, insecure, and…

Title: Under a Dark Sky Author: Lori Rader-Day Published: August 2018, William Morrow Paperbacks Format: ARC Paperback, 416 pages Source: Publisher Summary: Only in the dark can she find the truth . . .    Since her husband died, Eden Wallace’s life has diminished down to a tiny pinprick, like a far-off star in the night sky. She doesn’t work, has given up on her love of photography, and is…

Title: The Other Woman Author: Sandie Jones Published: August 2018, Minotaur Books Format: ARC Paperback, 304 pages Source: Publisher Summary: A deliciously disturbing, compulsively readable debut domestic suspense–prepare to meet The Other Woman: there’s nothing she won’t do to keep you away from her son … Emily thinks Adam’s perfect; the man she thought she’d never meet. But lurking in the shadows is a rival; a woman who shares a…

Title: Rust & Stardust Author: T. Greenwood Published: August 2018, St. Martin’s Press Format: ARC Paperback, 368 pages Source: Publisher Summary: Camden, NJ, 1948. When 11 year-old Sally Horner steals a notebook from the local Woolworth’s, she has no way of knowing that 52 year-old Frank LaSalle, fresh out of prison, is watching her, preparing to make his move. Accosting her outside the store, Frank convinces Sally that he’s an…

Title: The Coroner Author: Jennifer Graeser Dornbush Published: August 2018, Crooked Lane Books Format: Hardcover, 336 pages Source: Publisher via Publicist Summary: Summoned from her promising surgical career first to her estranged father’s bedside, and then his post as medical examiner when his small town needs urgent help with a suspicious death, Emily Hartford discovers home is where the bodies are in this pitch perfect mystery debut. Recently engaged and…

Title: The Bucket List Author: Georgia Clark Published: August 2018, Atria/Emily Bestler Books Format: ARC E-copy, 352 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: From the author of the critically acclaimed “lively and engrossing parable for women of all generations” (Harper’s Bazaar) The Regulars­ comes a deeply funny and thoughtful tale of a young woman who, after discovering she has the breast cancer gene, embarks on an unforgettable bucket list adventure.…

Title: Everything That Follows Author: Meg Little Reilly Published: May 2018, MIRA Format: ARC E-copy, 320 pages Source: Netgalley Summary: CAUGHT IN THE BACKWASH, THEY HAVE LOST CONTROL OF THEIR LIVES… For fans of Megan Abbott and Chris Bohjalian comes a novel of moral complexity about friends who must choose between self-preservation and doing the right thing in the wake of a fatal boating accident. Set in the moody off-season…

Title: When Life Gives You Lululemons Author: Lauren Weisberger Series: The Devil Wears Prada, #3 Published: June 2018, Simon Schuster Format: ARC E-copy, 320 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: New York Times bestselling author Lauren Weisberger returns with a novel starring one of her favorite characters from The Devil Wears Prada—Emily Charlton, first assistant to Miranda Priestly, now a highly successful image consultant who’s just landed the client of…

Title: The Last Thing I Told You Author: Emily Arsenault Published: July 2018, William Morrow Paperbacks Format: ARC Paperback, 416 pages Source: Publisher Summary: I hear myself whispering. Not again. Not again. Why did I ever come back here? Surely because of you. Because I thought of something I’d always meant to tell you. Because you were the only one I ever really wanted to tell it to. Therapist Dr.…

Title: With You Always Author: Rena Olsen Published: August 2018, G.P. Putnam’s Sons Format: ARC Paperback, 352 pages Source: Publisher Summary: From the author of The Girl Before comes a tense and incisive work of psychological suspense that examines how easy it is to fall into the wrong relationship . . . and how impossible it can be to leave. In the wake of a painful breakup and struggling to…