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Title: The Drowning Girls Author: Paula Treick DeBoard Narrator:David Atlas, Amy McFadden Published:April 2016, Brilliance Audio Length:10 hours 45 minutes Source:Publisher   Critically acclaimed author of The Mourning Hours and The Fragile World, Paula Treick DeBoard returns with a tale of dark secrets, shocking lies and a dangerous obsession that will change one neighborhood forever. Liz McGinnis never imagined herself living in a luxurious gated community like The Palms. Ever…

Title:Hide Away Author:Iris Johansen Series:Eve Duncan, #20 Narrator:Elisabeth Rodgers Published:April 2016,Recorded Books Length:11 hours 6 minutes Source:Personal copy via Audible Iris Johansen’s beloved forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is back and now the stakes are higher than ever. Dramatic changes are on the horizon for Eve and Joe Quinn and their relationship may never be the same. Faced with the task of protecting Cara Delaney, a young girl with ruthless enemies…

Title:The Newsmakers Author:Lis Weihl Series:Newmakers, #1 Narrator:Devon O’Day Published:January 2016, Thomas Nelson Publishers Length:9 hours 32 minutes Source:Publisher What if it turns out that the newsmakers are actually making the news happen? Television reporter Erica Sparks has just landed her dream job at Global News Network. Beautiful, talented, and ambitious, Erica grew up dirt poor, worked her way through Yale, and is carrying a terrible secret. She moves to Manhattan…

Title:The Island House Author:Nancy Thayer Narrator:Emily Sutton-Smith Published:May 2016, Brilliance Audio Length:10 hours 11 minutes Source:Publisher   The charms of Nantucket tempt a woman to leave her established life in Kansas City—but with a piece of her heart, and a love interest, in each world, she discovers she must look within to choose the right path. Every summer since college, twenty-nine-year-old Jenny has traded the familiarity of the Midwest for…

Title:The Girl from the Savoy Author:Hazel Gaynor Narrator:Jennifer Jones, Lucy Rayner, Paul Fox Published:June 2016, Harper Audio / William Morrow Paperbacks Length:14 hours 20 minutes / 448 pages Source:Personal copy via Audible / Paperback via Publisher   Presenting a dazzling new historical novel … The Girl From The Savoy is as sparkling as champagne and as thrilling as the era itself. Sometimes life gives you cotton stockings. Sometimes it gives…

Title:Crooked Little Lies Author:Barbara Taylor Sissel Narrator:Natalie Ross Published:December 2015, Brilliance Audio Length:12 hours 24 minutes Source:Publisher On a cool October morning, Lauren Wilder is shaken when she comes close to striking Bo Laughlin with her car as he’s walking along the road’s edge. A young man well known in their small town of Hardys Walk, Texas, Bo seems fine, even if Lauren’s intuition says otherwise. Since the accident two…

Title:After Perfect: A Daughter’s Memoir Author:Christina McDowell Narrator:Christina McDowell Published:June 2015, Audible Studios / Gallery Books Length:9 hours 55 minutes / 224 pages Source:Personal copy via Audible / Netgalley via Publicist In the tradition of New York Times bestsellers What Remains by Carole Radziwill and Oh the Glory of It All by Sean Wilsey, Christina McDowell’s unflinching memoir is a brutally honest, cautionary tale about one family’s destruction in the…

Title:Find Her Author:Lisa Garnder Series:Detective D.D. Warren, #8 Narrator:Kirsten Potter Published:February 2016, Brilliance Audio Length:12 hours, 16 minutes Source:Publisher Flora Dane is a victim. Seven years ago, carefree college student Flora was kidnapped while on spring break. For 472 days, Flora learned just how much one person can endure. Flora Dane is a survivor. Miraculously alive after her ordeal, Flora has spent the past five years reacquainting herself with the…

Title:The Obsession Author:Nora Roberts Narrator:Shannon McManus Published:April 2016, Brilliance Audio Length:14 hours 19 minutes Source:Publisher The riveting new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Liar. Naomi Bowes lost her innocence the night she followed her father into the woods. In freeing the girl trapped in the root cellar, Naomi revealed the horrible extent of her father’s crimes and made him infamous. Now a successful photographer…

Title: The Winter Girl Author:Matt Marinovich Narrator:Quincy Dunn-Baker Published:January 2016, Recorded Books Length:6 hours 26 minutes Source:Publisher A scathing and exhilarating thriller that begins with a husband’s obsession with the seemingly vacant house next door. It’s wintertime in the Hamptons, where Scott and his wife, Elise, have come to be with her terminally ill father, Victor, to await the inevitable. As weeks turn to months, their daily routine—Elise at the…

Title:Sweet Forgiveness Author:Lori Nelson Spielman Narrator:Tavia Gilbert Published:June 2015, Blackstone Audio / Plume Length:9 hours 50 minutes / 336 pages Source:Personal copy via Audible / Netgalley #1 international bestselling author Lori Nelson Spielman follows The Life List with Sweet Forgiveness, in which a woman’s receipt of two “forgiveness stones” sends her searching for atonement The Forgiveness Stones craze is sweeping the nation—instantly recognizable pouches of stones that come with a…