Title: The Silent Children Author: Carol Wyer Series: DI Robyn Carten, #4 Published: December 2017, Bookouture Format: ARC E-book, 360 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: The boy studied the bruise turning yellow at the base of his neck. With quick fingers his mother tightened his tie, and pulled his collar high above it. Her eyes alone said, We will not speak of this… Years later, a man is found…
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Title: No Easy Target Author: Iris Johansen Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers Published: April 2017, Recorded Books Length: 13 hours 8 minutes Source: Personal copy via Audible Summary: New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen returns with another thriller, No Easy Target Margaret Douglas has worked hard to put her painful past behind her. Raised off the grid in an abusive home, her only escape was the nearby forest where she sought…
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Title: The Wake Up Author: Catherine Ryan Hyde Published: December 2017, Lake Union Publishing Format: Paperback, 332 pages Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes a hauntingly emotional novel of how one man’s life changes forever when he rediscovers his ability to feel the pain of others. Something has been asleep in forty-year-old cattle rancher Aiden Delacorte for a long time. It all comes back in…
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Title: Stillhouse Lake Author: Rachel Caine Series: Stillhouse Lake, #1 Narrator: Emily Sutton-Smith Published: July 2017, Brilliance Audio / Thomas & Mercer Length: 10 hours 4 minutes / 300 pages Source: Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – Paperback via Publisher Summary: Gina Royal is the definition of average—a shy Midwestern housewife with a happy marriage and two adorable children. But when a car accident reveals her husband’s…
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Title: The Birthday Girl Author: Sue Fortin Narrator: Penelope Rawlins Published: November 2017, HarperCollins / HarperImpulse Length: 10 hours 23 minutes / 364 pages Source: Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – ARC E-copy via Netgalley Summary: Dear Carys, Zoe and Andrea Come and join me for my fortieth birthday adventure weekend, full of mysteries and surprises the like of which you can’t imagine. When Joanne’s friends reluctantly…
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Title: Close to Me Author: Amanda Reynolds Published: December 2017, Quercus Format: ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source: Publisher Summary: Jo Harding can’t remember the last year of her life. And her husband wants to keep it that way. When Jo falls down the stairs at home, she wakes up in the hospital with partial amnesia. In fact, she finds that she’s lost an entire year of memories. She can’t remember…
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Title: Sunshine Beach Author: Wendy Wax Series: Ten Beach Road, #4 Narrator: Amy Rubinate Published: June 2016, Penguin Audio / Berkley Length: 12 hours 52 minutes / 420 pages Source: Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – ARC Paperback via Publicist Summary: In this brand-new summer read by the USA Today bestselling author of The House on Mermaid Point, three women join forces to bring a historic seaside…
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Goodbye November … Hello December!!! I can’t believe it’s December already … 1 month left in 2017! How is that possible? This past month was used as a catch-up month – I got some review written that were long past due and read/listened to some books that had been sitting on my shelves for a while. But the biggest news is that I gave my blog a make-over … and…
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Title: I Know a Secret Author: Tess Gerritsen Series: Rizzoli & Isles, #12 Narrator: Tanya Eby Published: August 2017, Brilliance Audio Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Source: Personal copy via Audible Summary: In the twelfth gripping novel featuring Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles, the crime-solving duo—featured in the smash-hit TNT series Rizzoli & Isles—are faced with the gruesomely staged murder of a horror film producer. The crime scene is unlike…
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Title: Dying Breath Author: Helen Phifer Series: Detective Lucy Harwin, #2 Published: November 2017, Bookouture Format: ARC E-copy, 285 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: Take a breath. Pray it’s not your last. Just a few months after a terrifying case that nearly took her life, Detective Lucy Harwin is back with her squad in the coastal town of Brooklyn Bay – and this time, she’s faced with a case…
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Title: The Girl Who Was Taken Author: Charlie Done Narrator: Nina Alvamar Published: April 2017, Recorded Books Length: 10 hours 48 minutes Source: Personal copy via Audible Summary: Charlie Donlea, one of the most original new voices in suspense, returns with a haunting novel, laden with twists and high tension, about two abducted girls one who returns, one who doesn’t and the forensics expert searching for answers. Nicole Cutty and…
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Title: The Sleeping Beauty Killer Author: Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke Series: Under Suspicion, #3 Narrator: Jan Maxwell Published: November 2016, Simon & Schuster Audio Length: 8 hours 39 minutes Source: Library Summary: The third thrilling installment in the bestselling Under Suspicion series from #1 New York Times bestselling author and “Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke—television producer Laurie Moran puts everything on the line to…
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Title: A Simple Favor Author: Darcey Bell Narrator: Andi Arndt, Xe Sands, Matthew Waterson Published: March 2017, HarperAudio Length: 8 hours 55 minutes Source: Library Summary: She’s your best friend. She knows all your secrets. That’s why she’s so dangerous. A single mother’s life is turned upside down when her best friend vanishes in this chilling debut thriller in the vein of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train.…
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Title: Little Secrets Author: Anna Snoekstra Published: October 2017, MIRA Format: ARC E-copy, 336 pages Source: Netgalley Summary: What happens when ambition trumps the truth? A town reeling in the wake of tragedy An arsonist is on the loose in Colmstock, Australia, most recently burning down the town’s courthouse and killing a young boy who was trapped inside.. An aspiring journalist desperate for a story The clock is ticking for…
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Title: Winter Solstice Author: Elin Hilderbrand Series: Winter, #4 Narrator: Erin Bennett Published: October 2017, Hachette Audio Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Source: Library Summary: Raise one last glass with the Quinn Family at the Winter Street Inn. It’s been too long since the entire Quinn family has been able to celebrate the holidays under the same roof, but that’s about to change. With Bart back safe and sound from Afghanistan,…
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Title: The Watcher Author: Ross Armstrong Published: April 2017, MIRA Books Format: Hardcover, 370 pages Source: Publisher Summary: She’s watching you, but who’s watching her? Lily Gullick lives with her husband Aiden in a new-build flat opposite an estate which has been marked for demolition. A keen birdwatcher, she can’t help spying on her neighbours. Until one day Lily sees something suspicious through her binoculars and soon her elderly…
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Title:Odd Child Out Author:Gilly Macmillan Series:Jim Clemo, #2 Published:October 2017, William Morrow Paperbacks Format:ARC Paperback, 432 pages Source:Publisher How well do you know the people you love…? Best friends Noah Sandler and Abdi Mahad have always been inseparable. But when Noah is found floating unconscious in Bristol’s Feeder Canal, Abdi can’t–or won’t–tell anyone what happened. Just back from a mandatory leave following his last case, Detective Jim Clemo is now…
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Title:Until I Met Her Author:Natalie Barelli Series:Emma Fern, #1 Narrator:Kate Rudd Published:July 2017, Brilliance Audio / Thomas & Mercer Length:8 hours 42 minutes / 304 pages Source:Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – ARC E-copy via Netgalley Beatrice Johnson Greene, a bestselling crime writer, has an unusual favor to ask. When a chance encounter brings Emma Fern into her life, she thinks she’s found just the person for…
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Title:Persons Unknown Author:Susie Steiner Series:DS Manon, #2 Narrator:Juanita McMahon Published:July 2017, Random House Audio / Random House Length:11 hours 46 minutes / 368 pages Source:Audio – Personal copy via Audio / Print – ARC Paperback via Publisher In this brilliant crime novel from the author of Missing, Presumed, a detective investigates her most personal case yet: a high-profile murder in which her own family falls under suspicion. As dusk…
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Title:Flight of Dreams Author:Ariel Lawhon Narrator:John Lee Published:February 2016, Random House Audio / Doubleday Length:12 hours 45 minutes / 336 pages Source:Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – ARC E-copy via Netgalley On the evening of May 3rd, 1937, ninety-seven people board the Hindenburg for its final, doomed flight to Lakehurst, New Jersey. Among them are a frightened stewardess who is not what she seems; the steadfast…
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Title:Three Days and a Life Author:Pierre Lemaitre Published:November 2017, MacLehose Press/Quercus Format:ARC Paperback, 208 pages Source:Publisher In 1999, in the small provincial town of Beauval, France, twelve-year-old Antoine Courtin accidentally kills a young neighbor boy in the woods near his home. Panicked, he conceals the body and to his relief–and ongoing shame–he is never suspected of any connection to the child’s disappearance. But the boy’s death continues to haunt…
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Title: The Missing Author: C.L. Taylor Published: November 2017, William Morrow Paperbacks Format: ARC Paperback, 496 pages Source: Publisher A harrowing psychological thriller about a missing teenage boy whose mother must expose the secrets within their own family if she wants to find her son—perfect for fans of Reconstructing Amelia. You love your family. They make you feel safe. You trust them. Or do you…? When fifteen-year-old Billy Wilkinson goes…
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Title:Little Deaths Author:Emma Flint Narrator:Lauren Fortgang, Graham Halstead Published:January 2017, Hachette Audio Length:10 hours 17 minutes Source:Library Inspired by a true story, Little Deaths, like celebrated novels by Sarah Waters and Megan Abbott, is compelling literary crime fiction that explores the capacity for good and evil in us all. It’s 1965 in a tight-knit working-class neighborhood in Queens, New York, and Ruth Malone – a single mother who works long…
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Title:Sleep Tight Author:Caroline Mitchell Series:Detective Ruby Preston, #2 Narrator:Emma Newman Published:July 2017, Audible Studios Length:10 hours 10 minutes Source:Personal copy via Audible Close your eyes … Just pray you don’t wake up. A killer stalks the streets of East London. All over the area, murdered young women are discovered, their bodies posed into disturbing recreations of fairytale princesses. Detective Ruby Preston is determined to hunt down the murderer who is…
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Goodbye October … Hello November!!! I can’t believe it’s November already … 2 months left in 2017! This year is flying by!!! It was another good month of reading and I did a pretty good job of balancing it between review books and library books/audio books I’ve been wanting to read. Now I just just to add in some of my own physical books into the mix and I’ll be…
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Title:Even If It Kills Her Author:Kate White Series:Bailey Weggins, #7 Published:October 2017, Harper Paperbacks Format:ARC Paperback, 448 pages Source:Publisher Kate White returns to her New York Times bestselling Bailey Weggins’ Mystery series, with this favorite true-crime journalist turned sleuth’s most chilling case to date. Bailey Weggins’ great new friend in college, Jillian Lowe, had everything going for her. Pretty, popular, and whip-smart, she lit up any room that she…
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Title:The Stolen Marriage Author:Diane Chamberlain Narrator:Susan Bennett Published:October 2017, Macmillan Audio / St. Martin’s Press Length:14 hours 6 minutes / 384 pages Source:Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – ARC E-copy via Netgalley; Finished copy via Publisher In 1944, twenty-three-year-old Tess DeMello abruptly ends her engagement to the love of her life when she marries a mysterious stranger and moves to Hickory, North Carolina, a small town…
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Title:Dead Souls Author:Angela Marsons Series:DI Kim Stone, #6 Narrator:Jan Cramer Published:May 2017, Bookouture Length:10 hours 14 minutes Source:Personal copy via Audible The truth was dead and buried…until now. When a collection of human bones is unearthed during a routine archaeological dig, a Black Country field suddenly becomes a complex crime scene for Detective Kim Stone. As the bones are sorted, it becomes clear that the grave contains more than…
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Title:The Dark Lake Author:Sarah Bailey Series:Gemma Woodstock, #1 Published:October 2017, Grand Central Publishing Format:ARC Paperback, 400 pages Source:Publisher In a suspense thriller to rival Paula Hawkins and Tana French, a detective with secrets of her own hunts the killer of a woman who was the glamorous star of their high school. Rose was lit by the sun, her beautiful face giving nothing away. Even back then, she was a…
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Title:The Lost Child Author:Patricia Gibney Series:Detective Lottie Parker, #3 Published:October 2017, Bookouture Format:ARC E-copy, 483 pages Source:Netgalley via Publisher They placed me in here and threw away the key. I look down at the gown they’ve put on me. I want my own clothes. I don’t know how long I’ve been here. An elderly woman is found murdered in her own home, and Detective Lottie Parker and her partner…
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Title:Snowblind Author:Ragnar Jonasson Series:Dark Iceland, #1 Published:June 2015, Orenda Books Format:Paperback, 252 pages Source:Personal copy Siglufjörður: an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland, where no one locks their doors – accessible only via a small mountain tunnel. Ari Thór Arason: a rookie policeman on his first posting, far from his girlfriend in Reykjavik – with a past that he’s unable to leave behind. When a young woman is found…
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Title: Murder on the Orient Express Author: Agatha Christie Series: Hercule Poirot, #10 Published: January 2011, William Morrow Paperbacks, (1st published 1934) Format: Paperback, 265 pages Source: Publisher The most widely-read mystery of all time, now a major motion picture directed by Kenneth Branagh and produced by Ridley Scott “The murderer is with us—on the train now . . .” Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in…
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Title:Good Me, Bad Me Author:Ali Land Published:September 2017, Flatiron Books Format:ARC Paperback, 292 pages Source:Publisher Milly’s mother is a serial killer. Though Milly loves her mother, the only way to make her stop is to turn her in to the police. Milly is given a fresh start: a new identity, a home with an affluent foster family, and a spot at an exclusive private school. But Milly has secrets, and…
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Title:The Stolen Girls Author:Patricia Gibney Series:Detective Lottie Parker, #2 Published:July 2017, Bookouture Format:ARC E-copy, 452 pages Source:Netgalley via Publisher The young woman standing on Lottie’s step was a stranger. She was clutching the hand of a young boy. ‘Help me,’ she said to Lottie. ‘Please help me.’ One Monday morning, the body of a young pregnant woman is found. The same day, a mother and her son visit the house…
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Title:The Blind Author:A.F. Brady Published:September 2017, Park Row Books Format:ARC Paperback, 400 pages Source:Publisher Sam James has spent years carefully crafting her reputation as the best psychologist at Typhlos, Manhattan’s most challenging psychiatric institution. She boasts the highest success rates with the most disturbed patients, believing if she can’t save herself, she’ll save someone else. It’s this savior complex that serves her well in helping patients battle their inner demons,…
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Title:Without Merit Author:Colleen Hoover Published:October 2017, Atria Books Format:ARC E-book, 384 pages Source:Netgalley via Publisher Not every mistake deserves a consequence. Sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness. The Voss family is anything but normal. They live in a repurposed church, newly baptized Dollar Voss. The once cancer-stricken mother lives in the basement, the father is married to the mother’s former nurse, the little half-brother isn’t allowed to do…
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Title:Hide and Seek Author:M.J. Arlidge Series:Helen Grace, #6 Published:October 2016, Penguin Books Format:Paperback, 372 pages Source:Personal copy Prison is no place for a detective Helen Grace was one of the country’s best police investigators. Now she’s behind bars with the killers she caught. Framed for murder She knows there is only way out: stay alive until her trial and somehow prove her innocence. Locked up with a killer But…
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Title:The Last Mrs. Parrish Author:Liv Constantine Published:October 2017, Harper Format:ARC Paperback, 400 pages Source:Publisher A mesmerizing debut psychological thriller full of delicious twists about a coolly manipulative woman who worms her way into the lives of a wealthy “golden couple” from Connecticut to achieve the privileged life she wants. Amber Patterson is fed up. She’s tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background.…
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Today, Next of Kin, the debut book by James Tucker is being published and to celebrate, I am helping the publisher get the word out. I will be reading this book and sharing my review soon! For now, please enjoy this spotlight and let me know if you will be reading this book 🙂 I’m always excited to find a new crime thriller series to read and one that’s set…
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Title: Blood Wedding Author: Pierre Lemaitre Published: June 2016, MacLehose Press Quercus Format: Paperback, 288 pages Source: Publisher Sophie Duguet–young, successful, and happily married–thought at first she was becoming absentminded when she started misplacing her mail and forgetting where she’d parked her car the night before. But then, as her husband and colleagues pointed out with increasing frustration, she began forgetting things she’d said and done, too. And when she…
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Title:The Lost Boy Author:Camilla Lackberg Series:Patrik Hedstrom/Fjallbacka, #7 Narrator:Simon Vance Published:October 2016, Blackstone Audio Length:12 hours 56 minutes Source:Library From internationally best-selling Swedish crime sensation Camilla Läckberg comes a new psychological thriller – irresistible for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbø. Mats Sverin was Fjällbacka’s financial director on a regeneration project worth millions. When he’s found dead, detective Patrik Hedström must find answers. It seems Mats was a man…
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Title:Friend Request Author:Laura Marshall Narrator:Elaine Claxton Published:September 2017, Hachette Audio Length:11 hours 9 minutes Source:Publisher A paranoid single mom is forced to confront the unthinkable act she committed as a desperate teenager in this addictive thriller with a social media twist. Maria Weston wants to be friends. But Maria Weston is dead. Isn’t she? 1989. When Louise first notices the new girl who has mysteriously transferred late into their senior…
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Title:Last Christmas in Paris Author:Hazel Gaynor & Heather Webb Published:October 2017, William Morrow Paperbacks Format:ARC Paperback, 40 pages Source:Publisher New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor has joined with Heather Webb to create this unforgettably romantic novel of the Great War. August 1914. England is at war. As Evie Elliott watches her brother, Will, and his best friend, Thomas Harding, depart for the front, she believes—as everyone does—that it…
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Title:When We Were Worthy Author:Marybeth Mayhew Whalen Narrator:Joshilyn Jackson Published:September 2017, Brilliance Audio / Lake Union Publishing Length:9 hours 11 minutes / 276 pages Source:Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – ARC Paperback via Publisher A win brought them together, but loss may tear them apart. When the sound of sirens cuts through a cool fall night, the small town of Worthy, Georgia, hurtles from triumph to…
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Last January, I read Right Behind You by Lisa Gardner, the latest book in her Quincy & Rainie series, when it was first released in hardcover, and I loved it! You can find my thoughts on the book here. Today the book is being released in paperback and to celebrate, I am helping the publishers get the word out. Are you a fan of this series? If not, now’s the…
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Goodbye September …Hello October!!! I can’t believe it’s already October…3 months left in 2017…this year is flying by!!! So, I’ve been doing well reading-wise the last few months, but I’m trying to balance it more with library books and my own books. As much as I love reading all these review books, I do have a stack of my own books that I’ve either been buying or have had laying…
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Title:The Names of Dead Girls Author:Eric Rickstad Series:Canaan Crime, #3 Narrator: Jeffrey Kafer Published:September 2017, Harper Audio / William Morrow Paperbacks Length:9 hours 11 minutes /434 pages Source: Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – ARC Paperback via William Morrow Paperbacks New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Eric Rickstad delivers the electrifying sequel to The Silent Girls, and features once again detectives Frank Rath and Sonja Test…
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Title:The Cottingley Secret Author:Hazel Gaynor Narrator:Karen Cass, Billie Fullford-Brown Published:August 2017, Harper Audio / William Morrow Paperbacks Length:11 hours 2 minutes / 416 pages Source:Audio – Personal copy via Audible / Print – ARC Paperback via Publisher The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home turns the clock back one hundred years to a time when two young girls from Cottingley, Yorkshire, convinced the world that…
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Title:Lies She Told Author:Cate Holahan Published:September 2017, Crooked Lane Books Format:ARC E-copy, 288 pages Source:Netgalley From the author of the USA Today bestselling novel, The Widower’s Wife, comes an electrifying story of love and deceit. The truth can be darker than fiction. Liza Cole, a once-successful novelist whose career has seen better days, has one month to write the thriller that could land her back on the bestseller list.…
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Title:The Blackbird Season Author:Kate Moretti Published:September 2017, Atria Books Format:ARC E-copy, 304 pages Source:Netgalley via Publisher “Where did they come from? Why did they fall? The question would be asked a thousand times… Until, of course, more important question arose, at which time everyone promptly forgot that a thousand birds fell on the town of Mount Oanoke at all.” In a quiet Pennsylvania town, a thousand dead starlings fall onto…
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