Title:The Bat Author:Jo Nesbo Series:Harry Hole, #1 Published:July 2013, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Format:Paperback, 369 pages Source:Personal copy Before Harry took on the neo-Nazi gangs of Oslo, before he met Rakel, before The Snowman tried to take everything he held dear, he went to Australia. Harry Hole is sent to Sydney to investigate the murder of Inger Holter, a young Norwegian girl, who was working in a bar. Initially sidelined as…
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Today, In the Shadow of Lakecrest, the latest book by Elizabeth Blackwell is being published and to celebrate, I am helping the publisher get the word out. I will be reading this book soon, and may even have a giveaway when I post my review, so stay tuned! For now, please enjoy this spotlight and let me know if you plan on reading this book – it sounds like a…
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How is it that January is already over? This month passed rather quickly, but it was a busy month! I’m in the middle of training for a BIG walk – I’m doing the Challege Walk MS in Savannah, GA the first weekend in March – it’s a three-day, 50 mile walk. Since I’m not really a music fan, I tend to listen to audio books when I walk, so during…
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Title:Killing Kate Author:Alex Lake Published:January 2017, Harper Format:Paperback, 416 pages Source:Publisher A serial killer is stalking your home town. He has a type: all his victims look the same. And they all look like you. Kate returns from a post break-up holiday with her girlfriends to news of a serial killer in her home town – and his victims all look like her. It could, of course, be a simple…
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Title:Behind Her Eyes Author:Sarah Pinborough Published:January 2017, Flatiron Books Format:ARC Paperback, 320 pages Source:Publisher Why is everyone talking about the ending of Sarah Pinborough’s Behind Her Eyes? Louise is a single mom, a secretary, stuck in a modern-day rut. On a rare night out, she meets a man in a bar and sparks fly. Though he leaves after they kiss, she’s thrilled she finally connected with someone. When Louise…
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Title:Duplicity Author:Sibel Hodge Narrator:Simon Vance, Henrietta Meire Published:December 2016, Brilliance Audio Length:8 hours 5 minutes Source:Publisher There are three sides to every story: Yours. Mine. And the truth… Max and Alissa have a fairy tale life—newlywed, madly in love and enviously rich. Then Max is brutally stabbed to death at their home and Alissa, miraculously, escapes with her life. But why was she spared? The hunt for the killer begins,…
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Title:Right Behind You Author:Lisa Gardner Series:Quincy & Rainie, #7 Published:January 2017, Dutton Format:ARC E-book, 400 pages Source:Netgalley via Publisher Is he a hero? Eight years ago, Sharlah May Nash’s older brother beat their drunken father to death with a baseball bat in order to save both of their lives. Now thirteen years old, Sharlah has finally moved on. About to be adopted by retired FBI profiler Pierce Quincy and…
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#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About It was another good week…my training is going well for the BIG walk…only 33 days to go!!! I just ordered a new pair of sneakers – they should be arriving by the end of the week. I’m a huge creature of habit, so I went with the same pair of sneakers (new color, though) that…
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Title:Lost Girls Author:Angela Marsons Series:DI Kim Stone, #3 Narrator:Jan Cramer Published:November 2015, Bookouture Length:10 hours, 34 minutes Source:Publisher Two girls go missing. Only one will return. The couple that offers the highest amount will see their daughter again. The losing couple will not. Make no mistake. One child will die…. When nine-year-old best friends Charlie and Amy disappear, two families are plunged into a living nightmare. A text message confirms…
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Title:The Hidden Child Author:Camilla Lackberg Series:Patrik Hedstrom/Fjallbacka, #5 Narrator:Simon Vance Published:May 2014, HighBridge, a Division of Recorded Books Length:14 hours 58 minutes Source:Library Crime writer Erica Falck is shocked to discover a Nazi medal among her late mother’s possessions. Haunted by a childhood of neglect, she resolves to dig deep into her family’s past and finally uncover the reasons why. Her enquiries lead her to the home of a retired…
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Title:Playing With Fire Author:Tess Gerritsen Narrator:Julia Whelan & Will Damron Published:October 2015, Brilliance Audio Length:6 hours 56 minutes Source:Personal copy via Audible In a masterly new thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of the Rizzoli & Isles series, a beautiful violinist is haunted by a very old piece of music she finds in a strange antique shop in Rome. The first time Julia Ansdell picks up “The Incendio…
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Title:The Girl Before Author:J.P. Delaney Published:January 2017, Ballantine Books Format:ARC E-copy, 352 pages Source:Netgalley Please make a list of every possession you consider essential to your life. The request seems odd, even intrusive—and for the two women who answer, the consequences are devastating. Emma Reeling from a traumatic break-in, Emma wants a new place to live. But none of the apartments she sees are affordable or feel safe. Until…
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Title:Midwinter Blood Author:Mons Kallentoft Series:Malin Fors, #1 Published:January 2013, Atria/Emily Bestler Books Format:Paperback, 464 pages Source:Personal copy Meet police superintendent Malin Fors: Talented. Troubled. With a sixth sense for the truth. In the early hours of one of the coldest February nights anyone in Linköping, Sweden, can remember, the bloody body of an obese man, stripped bare and horribly mutilated, is found hanging from a lone oak tree in the…
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#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About It was a great week!!! I pulled out one of my Leslie Sansane walking DVD’s and ended up doing them 3X’s – I forgot what a great overall workout they are!!! I think I am going to do them on the days I am not doing my distance walks leading up to the BIG…
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Title:Little Girl Lost Author:Carol Wyer Series:DI Robyn Carter, #1 Published:January 2017, Bookouture Format:ARC E-book, 274 pages Source:Netgalley via Publisher A perfect family hiding disturbing secrets. A killer who wants the truth to be told. A teacher goes missing under suspicious circumstances. A millionaire is murdered at a local reservoir. For Detective Robyn Carter, there’s no obvious link between the men. But as she starts to delve into the cases, her…
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Last January, I read The Things We Keep by Sally Hepworth when it was first released in hardcover, and I really enjoyed 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. I also have 1 copy of the book to giveaway – be sure to read all the way…
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Today, The Wicked City, the latest book by Beatriz Williams comes out and I’m super excited about this one. This is the first book in her newest series. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Beatriz quite a few times and will be seeing her again next week. She’s delightful and I have really enjoyed all the books I’ve read of hers, and I love that familiar characters have a habit…
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#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About This cold I have is one stubborn cold! But, I think it’s finally easing up – and I am starting to feel more like myself!!! While I’ve been sick, I’ve been pretty much housebound, so I’ve been looking around Pinterest for workouts and found a ton of yoga flows. I’m hoping to start doing…
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Title: The Perfect Girl Author:Gilly Macmillan Published:September 2016, William Morrow Paperbacks Format:Paperback, 464 pages Source:Personal copy Zoe Maisey is a seventeen-year-old musical prodigy with a genius IQ. Three years ago, she was involved in a tragic incident that left three classmates dead. She served her time, and now her mother, Maria, is resolved to keep that devastating fact tucked far away from their new beginning, hiding the past even from…
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Title:Two Days Gone Author:Randall Silvas Series:Ryan DeMarco Mystery, #1 Published:January 2017, Sourcebooks Landmark Format:ARC E–book, 400 pages Source:Netgalley A literary page-turner about a beloved college professor accused of murdering his entire family, and one small-town cop’s dangerous search for answers. Thomas Huston, a beloved professor and bestselling author, is something of a local hero in the small Pennsylvania college town where he lives and teaches. So when Huston’s wife…
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Title:Before He Finds Her Author:Michael Kardos Narrator:Julia Whelan Published:February 2015, HighBridge, a Division of Recorded Books Length:10 hours 30 minutes Source:Personal copy via Audible Everyone in the quiet Jersey Shore town of Silver Bay knows the story: on a Sunday evening in September 1991, Ramsey Miller threw a blowout block party, then murdered his beautiful wife and three-year-old daughter. But everyone is wrong. The daughter got away. Now she is…
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Title:The Last Girl Author:Jane Casey Series:Maeve Kerrigan, #3 Narrator:Sarah Coomes Published:May 2013, Brilliance Audio Length:15 hours 21 minutes Source:Personal copy via Audible Vast wealth offers London defense attorney Philip Kennford a lot of things: a gorgeous house with a pool in the backyard, connections in the top echelons of society, a wardrobe worthy of Milan runways. But his money doesn’t provide a happy marriage, or good relationships with his twin…
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#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About So, January is off to a somewhat good start…I’ve been active everyday, but I’ve also been fighting a cold, so I haven’t really been going crazy with my training for the BIG walk I’m doing in March. I’m not too worried, though, since I have been training since August and have been pretty active all…
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Title: Under the Harrow Author: Flynn Berry Narrator: Fiona Hardingham Published: June 2016, Blackstone Audio Length: 6 hours 5 minutes Source: Library When Nora takes the train from London to visit her sister in the countryside, she expects to find her waiting at the station, or at home cooking dinner. But when she walks into Rachel’s familiar house, what she finds is entirely different: her sister has been the…
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Title:The Stepmother Author:Claire Seeber Narrator:Karina Fernandez Published:July 2016, Bookouture Length:9 hours 42 minutes Source:Audible via Publisher The perfect wife. A fairytale family. Don’t believe your eyes… Jeanie and Matthew are a happily married couple who both have teenage children from previous relationships. No one said it would be easy to raise a blended family under one roof but Jeanie and Matthew are strong. They will make it work. And whilst…
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The 2017 Audio Book Challenge is hosted by Hot Listens & Caffeinated Book Reviewer, and it goes from January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2017. I love listening to audio books and have been doing this challenge for the past few years. I’m joining at the Marathoner level, which means I need to listen to 50+ audio books in 2017. I’ll keep track of them here. ***As of 7/31/17, I…
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The 2017 E-Book Challenge is hosted by Book Dragon’s Lair and it goes from January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2017. I’ve done this challenge for the past couple years and primarily use it to track just how much I end up reading on my iPad. I’m joining once again at the Megabytes level, which means I need to read at least 25 e-books in 2017. I’ll keep track…
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The 2017 New Authors Reading Challenge is hosted by Literary Escapism, and it goes from January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2017. The goal of this reading challenge is to read new-to-you authors. There’s no levels to join at for this challenge – which means that we get to pick how many new authors we want to read. I join this challenge primarily to keep track of how many…
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The 2017 Library Love Challenge is being co-hosted by Bea’s Book Nook and Angel’s Guilty Pleasures, and it goes from January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2017. I love my local library and love doing this challenge. This is my eighth year participating in the library challenge! I’m joining at the Thrifty Reader level, which means I need to borrow at least 24 books from the library in 2017. I’ll…
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I am once again signing up for the #ReadMyOwnDamnBooks Reading Challenge, being hosted by Andi over at Estella’s Revenge. I participated in this challenge last year and actually did pretty well – while I didn’t make the goal I had set, I did read more than I usually do of my own books. What I love about this challenge is that we can make our own rules for it. Books…
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The 2017 You Read How Many Books? Reading Challenge is hosted by Book Dragon’s Lair, and it goes from January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2017. This is a reading challenge where we are challenged to read, read, read!!! I am going to join this challenge at Level 2, where I hope to read 150 books. Midwinter Blood — Mons Kallentoft The Witnesses — James Patterson (e-book) Two Days Gone…
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Title:Everything You Want Me To Be Author:Mindy Mejia Published:January 2017, Atria/Emily Bestler Books Format:ARC E-copy, 352 pages Source:Netgalley via Publisher Full of twists and turns, Everything You Want Me to Be reconstructs a year in the life of a dangerously mesmerizing young woman, during which a small town’s darkest secrets come to the forefront…and she inches closer and closer to her death. High school senior Hattie Hoffman has spent her…
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Each year, Sheila over at Book Journey makes a big deal over what the first book she’ll read will be for the new year and once again she’s asked us to join her. I have joined in for the last 2 years and it’s always a lot of fun seeing what book everyone selects. Be sure to stop by Sheila’s post to see the collage she makes of everyone participating!…
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Here are my reading stats for December! Books read: 15 Books I read: Love You To Death — Caroline Mitchell (audio book) The 4th Man — Lisa Gardner (e-book) Evil Games — Angela Marsons (audio book) The Christmas Gate — T.A. Cline The Marriage Lie — Kimberly Belle (e-book) Little Black Dress — James Patterson The Hidden Child — Camilla Lackberg (audio book) The Chosen — Kristina Ohlsson…
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#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About Here’s my post for the last two weeks as I was away last week. My husband surprised me with a trip away for Christmas this year – and didn’t tell me where we were going until 2 weeks before we left!!! So where did we go? London and it was a fantastic trip…
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Title:Winter Storms Author:Elin Hilderbrand Series:Winter, #3 Narrator:Erin Bennett Published:October 2016, Hachette Audio Length:6 hours 31 minutes Source:Library Gather under the mistletoe for one last round of caroling with the Quinn family in this heartwarming conclusion to Elin Hilderbrand’s bestselling Winter Street Trilogy. Some of the stormy weather of the past few seasons seems to have finally lifted for the Quinns. After a year apart, and an ill-fated affair with…
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Title:The Invisible Guardian Author:Dolores Redondo Series:The Baztan Trilogy, #1 Narrator:Coleen Marlo Published:March 2016, Brilliance Audio / Atria Books Length:11 hours 59 minutes / 384 pages Source:Personal copy via Audible / Netgalley Already a #1 international bestseller, this tautly written and gripping psychological thriller forces a police inspector to reluctantly return to her hometown in Basque Country—a place engulfed in mythology and superstition—to solve a series of eerie murders. When…
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Title:While you Were Sleeping Author:Kathryn Croft Published:November 2016, Bookouture Format:ARC E-book, 326 pages Source:Netgalley via Publisher You wake up to find the man beside you is dead. He is not your husband. This is not your bed. What do you do? Tara Logan lives a quiet life with her husband, Noah, and two children, teenager Rosie and eleven-year-old Spencer. But her peace is shattered when she wakes in her…
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Title:Stalked Author:Elizabeth Heiter Series:The Profiler, #4 Published:December 2016, MIRA Format:ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source:Publisher If you’re reading this, I’m already dead… That’s the note seventeen-year-old Haley Cooke leaves behind when she disappears from inside her high school. FBI profiler Evelyn Baine is called in to figure out who had reason to hurt her. On the surface, the popular cheerleader has no enemies, but as Evelyn digs deeper, she discovers that…
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Please join me in welcoming Elizabeth Heiter back to Always With a Book. Elizabeth’s latest book, Stalked, the 4th book in her Profiler series, will be published at the end of the month. This is one of my favorite series and I’m so glad to have more Evelyn! I’ll be posting my review of Stalked later today, but for now, please enjoy this guest post and excerpt. Title: Stalked Author:Elizabeth…
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Next week, Kimberly Belle’s novel, The Marriage Lie, comes out and I’m pleased to offer you, my readers, a chance to win a copy here! I’ve already read this book and really liked it – you can read my review here. You can also see what others have to say and then be sure to enter the giveaway below!!! Title:The Marriage Lie Author:Kimberly Belle Published:December 2016, MIRA Format:Paperback, 352 pages…
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Title: Evil Games Author:Angela Marsons Series:DI Kim Stone, #2 Narrator:Jan Cramer Published:June 2015, Bookouture Length:8 hours 43 minutes Source:Publisher The greater the Evil, the more deadly the game… When a rapist is found mutilated in a brutal attack, Detective Kim Stone and her team are called in to bring a swift resolution. But, as more vengeful killings come to light, it soon becomes clear that there is someone far…
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Title:Black Rabbit Hall Author:Eve Chase Narrator:Nathalie Buscombe, Katie Scarfe, Cassandra Campbell Published:February 2016, Penguin Audio Length:12 hours 6 minutes Source:Library For fans of Kate Morton and Sarah Waters, here’s a magnetic debut novel of wrenching family secrets, forbidden love, and heartbreaking loss housed within the grand gothic manor of Black Rabbit Hall. Ghosts are everywhere, not just the ghost of Momma in the woods, but ghosts of us too, what we…
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#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About Another good week. We had some really cold weather and some snow – winter is definitely making it’s appearance early this year! The dogs love being out in the snow – it’s times like this that I so wish our yard was fenced in so the dogs could just go out and play! But,…
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Title: Love You To Death Author:Caroline Mitchell Series:Detective Ruby Preston, #1 Narrator:Emma Newman Published:November 2016, Bookouture Length:10 hours 59 minutes / 315 pages Source:Publisher / Netgalley ‘I’m not your mother. You’re a monster. I don’t want you’ Women who gave a child up for adoption are being killed. A knock at their front door begins a nightmare from which they will never wake up. For Detective Ruby Preston and…
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Title: Small Admissions Author: Amy Poeppell Published:December 2016, Atria/Emily Bestler Books Format:Hardcover, 368 pages For fans of The Nanny Diaries and Sophie Kinsella comes a whip-smart and deliciously funny debut novel about Kate, a young woman unexpectedly thrust into the cutthroat world of New York City private school admissions as she attempts to understand city life, human nature, and falling in love. Despite her innate ambition and Summa Cum…
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Title: In Twenty Years Author:Allison Winn Scotch Narrator:Julia Whelan Published:July 2016, Brilliance Audio Length:9 hours 57 minutes Source:Publisher Twenty years ago, six Penn students shared a house, naively certain that their friendships would endure—until the death of their ringleader and dear friend Bea splintered the group for good. Now, mostly estranged from one another, the remaining five reluctantly gather at that same house on the eve of what would have…
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Title:Missing Pieces Author:Heather Gudenkauf Narrator:Christina Traister Published:February 2016, Brilliance Audio / MIRA Length:9 hours 9 minutes /288 pages Source:Personal copy via Audible / Netgalley A woman uncovers earth-shattering secrets about her husband’s family in this chilling page-turner from New York Times bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf Sarah Quinlan’s husband, Jack, has been haunted for decades by the untimely death of his mother when he was just a teenager, her body…
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Title:The Chosen Author:Kristina Ohlsson Series:Fredrika Bergman & Alex Recht, #5 Published:December 2016, Atria/Emily Bestler Books Format:Paperback, 496 pages Source:Publicist In her phenomenal #1 international bestseller—fifth in the critically acclaimed and award-winning Fredrika Bergman series—“one of Sweden’s best younger writers” (Los Angeles Times Magazine) delivers a tense, atmospheric mystery featuring an enigmatic killer rooted in folklore. On a cold winter’s day, a pre-school teacher is shot to death in front…
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Title:Fractured Author:Catherine McKenzie Narrator:Teri Clark Linden, Scott Merriman, Amy McFadden & James Foster Published:October 2016, Brilliance Audio Length:9 hours 37 minutes Source:Publisher Welcome, neighbor! Julie Prentice and her family move across the country to the idyllic Mount Adams district of Cincinnati, hoping to evade the stalker who’s been terrorizing them ever since the publication of her bestselling novel, The Murder Game. Since Julie doesn’t know anyone in her new town,…
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