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Review: Florence Adler Swims Forever by Rachel Beanland

Review: Florence Adler Swims Forever by Rachel Beanland

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks Published: June 1, 2021 (First published July 2020) Source: Saichek Publicity   Summary: Over the course of one summer that begins with a shocking tragedy, three generations of the Adler family grapple with heartbreak, romance, and the weight of family secrets in this stunning debut novel that’s perfect for fans of Manhattan Beach and The Dollhouse. Atlantic City, 1934. Every summer, Esther and Joseph Adler rent their house…

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Review: Five Strangers by E.V. Adamson

Review: Five Strangers by E.V. Adamson

Publisher: Scarlet Suspense Published: October 5, 2021 Source: ARC Paperback via Publisher   Summary: With its grassy hills and breathtaking city views, London’s Hampstead Heath is the perfect place to spend an afternoon with friends and loved ones—and on an unseasonably warm Valentine’s Day, the lawns are especially full. So when an aggressive lovers’ quarrel breaks out, there’s an audience of park goers nearby to hear the shouts traded back…

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Review: The Good Lie by A.R. Torre

Review: The Good Lie by A.R. Torre

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Published: July 20, 2021 Source: ARC Paperback via Publisher   Summary: Six teens murdered. A suspect behind bars. A desperate father. In a case this shadowy, the truth is easy to hide. Six teenagers dead. Finally, the killer behind bars. But are the games just beginning? Psychiatrist Dr. Gwen Moore is an expert on killers. She’s spent a decade treating California’s most depraved predators and unlocking their…

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Review: Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult

Review: Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult

Publisher: Ballantine Books Published: November 30, 2021 Source: ARC E-copy via Publisher/Netgalley   Summary: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a deeply moving novel about the resilience of the human spirit in a moment of crisis. Diana O’Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional…

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Cover Reveal: NEVER COMING HOME by Hannah Mary McKinnon

Cover Reveal: NEVER COMING HOME by Hannah Mary McKinnon

⁣ I’m thrilled to be part of this cover reveal for 𝗡𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗛𝗢𝗠𝗘 by @hannahmarymckinnon…I’m such a big fan of this author!!! This book pubs on May 24th & I can’t wait for this twisted, darkly humorous thriller.⁣ ⁣ ⁣ 𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗼𝗽𝘀𝗶𝘀 ⁣ First comes love. Then comes murder.⁣ ⁣ Lucas Foster didn’t hate his wife. Michelle was brilliant, sophisticated & beautiful. Sure, she had extravagant spending habits, that petty…

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Review: Last One Out Shut Off the Lights by Stephanie Soileau

Review: Last One Out Shut Off the Lights by Stephanie Soileau

Publisher: Little Brown and Company Published: July 7, 2020 Source: Personal copy   Summary: This “outstanding” debut story collection from a rising star reveals Louisiana and its characters with stark honesty and empathy as they grapple with homesickness, desperation, and desire (Peter Orner). Last One Out Shut Off the Lights is a vivid portrait of the last-chance towns of southwest Louisiana, where oil development, industrial pollution, dying wetlands, and the ever-present…

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Blog Tour & Review: Into the Sound by Cara Reinard (audio)

Blog Tour & Review: Into the Sound by Cara Reinard (audio)

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer / Brilliance Audio Published: December 1, 2021 Source: ARC Paperback via Publisher via TLC Booktours / Audio via Brilliance Audio   Summary: A terrified voice on the phone. The line goes dead. The mystery begins. During a superstorm, Holly Boswell receives a panicked call from her sister, Vivian: Come get me…There’s somebody coming. But when Holly arrives at a Long Island marina, there’s only her sister’s abandoned car.…

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Review: And the Bridge is Love by David Biro

Review: And the Bridge is Love by David Biro

Publisher: Lake Union Publishing Published: October 12, 2021 Source: TLC Booktours   Summary: Three friends, two secrets, one love—and the journey of a lifetime. Every week for twenty years, three friends meet in a leafy enclosure under the Verrazzano Bridge: Gertie, a feisty Norwegian divorcée and former athlete; Maria, a family-obsessed Italian American widow; and Corinna, a book-loving, hash-smoking eccentric. Together they sit and watch the sea as the ships—and…

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Review: The Crow Girl by Erik Axl Sund

Review: The Crow Girl by Erik Axl Sund

Publisher: Harvill Secker Published: April 14, 2016 Source: Personal copy   Summary: The most terrifying thriller you’ll read this year It starts with just one body – the hands bound, the skin covered in marks. Detective Superintendent Jeanette Kihlberg is determined to find out who is responsible, despite opposition from her superiors. When two more bodies are found, it becomes clear that she is hunting a serial killer. With her…

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Review: Death Deserved by Jorn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger

Review: Death Deserved by Jorn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger

Publisher: Orenda Books Published: February 20, 2020 (first published July 2, 2018) Source: Personal copy   Summary: Police officer Alexander Blix and celebrity blogger Emma Ramm join forces to track down a serial killer with a thirst for attention and high-profile murders, in the first episode of a gripping new Nordic Noir series… Oslo, 2018. Former long-distance runner Sonja Nordstrøm never shows at the launch of her controversial autobiography, Always…

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Review: The Jealousy Man and Other Stories by Jo Nesbo

Review: The Jealousy Man and Other Stories by Jo Nesbo

Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group Published: October 5, 2021 Source: Publisher   Summary: A veritable crime lover’s delight from a true master of mystery and suspense. Experience the #1 New York Times best-selling author as never before in this dark and thrilling short story collection that takes us on a journey of twisted minds and vengeful hearts. Jo Nesbø is known the world over as a consummate mystery/thriller writer. Famed for his deft…

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Blog Tour & Excerpt: Nanny Dearest by Flora Collins

Blog Tour & Excerpt: Nanny Dearest by Flora Collins

  Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for Nanny Dearest by Flora Collins – I have an excerpt for you to read thanks to MIRA books.   Publisher: MIRA Published: November 30, 2021 Source: Netgalley via Publisher   Summary: In this compulsively readable novel of domestic suspense, a young woman takes comfort in reconnecting with her childhood nanny after her father’s death, until she starts…

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Review: A Blizzard of Polar Bears by Alice Henderson (audio)

Review: A Blizzard of Polar Bears by Alice Henderson (audio)

Publisher: William Morrow / Harper Audio Published: November 9, 2021 Source: Print – William Morrow / Audio – ALC via Harper Audio   Summary: Wildlife biologist Alex Carter is back, fighting for endangered species in the Canadian Arctic and battling for her life in this action-packed follow-up to A Solitude of Wolverines, “a true stunner of a thriller debut” (James Rollins) and “a great read” (Nevada Barr). Fresh off her wolverine…

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Review: A Solitude of Wolverines by Alice Henderson (print/audio)

Review: A Solitude of Wolverines by Alice Henderson (print/audio)

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks / Harper Audio Published: October 27, 2021 / October 27, 2020 (audio) Source: Paperback via William Morrow / Audio via library   Summary: The first book in a thrilling series featuring an intrepid wildlife biologist who’s dedicated to saving endangered species…and relies on her superior survival skills to thwart those who aim to stop her. While studying wolverines on a wildlife sanctuary in Montana, biologist Alex…

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Review: Why Did You Lie by Yrsa Sigurdardottir

Review: Why Did You Lie by Yrsa Sigurdardottir

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Published: August 11, 2016 Source: Personal copy   Summary: A journalist on the track of an old case attempts suicide. An ordinary couple return from a house swap in the states to find their home in disarray and their guests seemingly missing. Four strangers struggle to find shelter on a windswept spike of rock in the middle of a raging sea. They have one thing in…

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Review: The Ice Beneath Her by Camilla Grebe (reread)

Review: The Ice Beneath Her by Camilla Grebe (reread)

Publisher: Random House Audio Published: December 27, 2016 Source: Library   Summary: Acclaimed Swedish author Camilla Grebe makes her solo American debut with a psychological thriller as cunning in its twists as it is captivating in its storytelling – for fans of the celebrated crime fiction of Camilla Läckberg, Jo Nesbø, Ruth Ware, and Fiona Barton. Winter’s chill has descended on Stockholm as police arrive at the scene of a…

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Series Review: The Rainer Series by Jamie McGillen

Series Review: The Rainer Series by Jamie McGillen

  This month, the online bookclub I co-host, #mommaleighellenbookclub, selected In the Heart of Paradise as one of our selections. Because it is the third book in Jamie McGillen’s series and I had not read the previous two, and me being me, I knew I had to read them first and I’m so glad I did. That being said, I decided to do all three reviews in one post, rather…

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Review: The Cartographer’s Secret by Tea Cooper

Review: The Cartographer’s Secret by Tea Cooper

Publisher: Harper Muse Published: November 16, 2021 Source: ARC Paperback via TLC Booktours   Summary: A map into the past. A long-lost young woman. And a thirty-year family mystery. The Hunter Valley, 1880. Evie Ludgrove loves to chart the landscape around her home—hardly surprising since she grew up in the shadow of her father’s obsession with the great Australian explorer Dr. Ludwig Leichhardt. So when an advertisement appears in The Bulletin magazine offering…

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Review: No Hiding in Boise by Kim Hooper (audio)

Review: No Hiding in Boise by Kim Hooper (audio)

Publisher: Turner Publishing Company / Dreamscape Media Published: June 15, 2021 Source: Print – ARC via Turner Publishing / Audio – via library   Summary: When Angie is awakened by a midnight call from an officer with the Boise Police Department, she thinks there must be a misunderstanding. The officer tells her that her husband was involved in a shooting at a local bar, but how can that be possible when her…

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Review: November 9 by Colleen Hoover

Review: November 9 by Colleen Hoover

Publisher: Atria Books Published: November 10, 2015 Source: ARC Paperback via Publisher   Summary: Beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover returns with an unforgettable love story between a writer and his unexpected muse. Fallon meets Ben, an aspiring novelist, the day before her scheduled cross-country move. Their untimely attraction leads them to spend Fallon’s last day in L.A. together, and her eventful life becomes the creative inspiration Ben has…

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Review: Home Before Dark by Riley Sager (reread)

Review: Home Before Dark by Riley Sager (reread)

Publisher: Dutton Books Published: June 30, 2020 Source: Personal copy   Summary: What was it like? Living in that house. Maggie Holt is used to such questions. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a nonfiction book…

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Review: The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles (audio)

Review: The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles (audio)

Publisher: Viking Books / Penguin Audio Published: October 5, 2021 Source: Print – Personal copy via BOTM / Audio – Personal copy via Libro.fm   Summary: The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of…

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Review: The Wicked Widow by Beatriz Williams

Review: The Wicked Widow by Beatriz Williams

Publisher: William Morrow Published: October 26, 2021 Source: Publisher   Summary: Gin Kelly, the wicked redhead, is back! Readers will delight in next installment of the Wicked City series by New York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams.  June 1925. Audacious Appalachian flapper Geneva “Gin” Kelly prepares to trade her high-flying ways for respectable marriage to Oliver Anson Marshall, a steadfast Prohibition agent who happens to hail from one of New York’s most distinguished…

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Review: The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman (audio)

Review: The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman (audio)

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Published: October 12, 2021 Source: ALC via Publisher   Summary: Master storyteller Alice Hoffman brings us the conclusion of the Practical Magic series in a spellbinding and enchanting final Owens novel brimming with lyric beauty and vivid characters. The Owens family has been cursed in matters of love for over three-hundred years but all of that is about to change. The novel begins in a…

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Review: Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman (audio)

Review: Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman (audio)

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Published: November 6, 2012 Source: Library   Summary: Alice Hoffman’s enchanting witch’s brew of suspense, romance and magic – now a major motion picture from Warner Bros. When the beautiful and precocious sisters Sally and Gillian Owens are orphaned at a young age, they are taken to a small Massachusetts town to be raised by their eccentric aunts, who happen to dwell in the darkest,…

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Review: In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead

Review: In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead

Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark Published: August 3, 2021 Source: Personal copy   Summary: Six friends. One college reunion. One unsolved murder. A college reunion turns dark and deadly in this chilling and propulsive suspense novel about six friends, one unsolved murder, and the dark secrets they’ve been hiding from each other—and themselves—for a decade. Ten years after graduation, Jessica Miller has planned her triumphant return to southern, elite Duquette University, down…

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Review: Christmas in Peachtree Bluff by Kristy Woodson Harvey

Review: Christmas in Peachtree Bluff by Kristy Woodson Harvey

Publisher: Gallery Books Published: October 26, 2021 Source: UplitReads via Galley Books   Summary: In the newest installment of New York Times bestselling author Kristy Woodson Harvey’​s Peachtree Bluff series, three generations of the Murphy women must come together when a hurricane threatens to destroy their hometown—and the holiday season in the process. When the Murphy women are in trouble, they always know they can turn to their mother, Ansley.…

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Review: The Stillwater Girls by Minka Kent (audio)

Review: The Stillwater Girls by Minka Kent (audio)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio Published: April 9, 2019 Source: Personal copy   Summary: Two sisters raised in fear are about to find out why in a chilling novel of psychological suspense from the author of The Thinnest Air. Ignorant of civilization and cautioned against its evils, nineteen-year-old Wren and her two sisters, Sage and Evie, were raised in off-the-grid isolation in a primitive cabin in upstate New York. When the youngest grows…

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Blog Tour & Review: The Mother Next Door by Tara Laskowski

Blog Tour & Review: The Mother Next Door by Tara Laskowski

Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for The Mother Next Door by Tara Laskowski. Thank you Graydon House for inviting me to participate. Publisher: Graydon House Published: October 12, 2021 Source: ARC E-copy via Publisher   Summary: GOOD MOTHERS… Never show their feelings. Never spill their secrets. Never admit to murder. The annual Halloween block party is the pinnacle of the year on idyllic…

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Review: Last Girl Ghosted by Lisa Unger

Review: Last Girl Ghosted by Lisa Unger

Publisher: Park Row Books Published: October 5, 2021 Source: ARC Paperback via Publisher   Summary: Secrets, obsession and vengeance converge in this riveting thriller about an online dating match turned deadly cat-and-mouse game, from the New York Times bestselling author of Confessions on the 7:45. Think twice before you swipe. She met him through a dating app. An intriguing picture on a screen, a date at a downtown bar. What…

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Review: The Corpse Flower by Anne Mette Hancock (audio)

Review: The Corpse Flower by Anne Mette Hancock (audio)

Publisher: Crooked Lane Books / Dreamscape Media LLC Published: October 12, 2021 Source: ARC Paperback – Let’s Talk Books Promo & Publisher / Audio – ALC via Netgalley   Summary: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo meets Sharp Objects in this internationally bestselling psychological thriller, for fans of Jo Nesbø and Henning Mankell, now for the first time in English A Danish journalist digs deep to uncover a web of…

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Review: No One Goes Alone by Erik Larson (audio)

Review: No One Goes Alone by Erik Larson (audio)

Publisher: Random House Audio Published: September 28, 2021 Source: ALC via Libro.fm   Summary: From New York Times best-selling author Erik Larson comes his first venture into fiction, an otherworldly tale of intrigue and the impossible that marshals his trademark approach to nonfiction to create something new: a ghost story thoroughly grounded in history. Pioneering psychologist William James leads an expedition to a remote isle in search of answers after…

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Review: What’s Mine and Yours by Naima Coster (audio)

Review: What’s Mine and Yours by Naima Coster (audio)

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing / Hachette Audio Published: March 2, 2021 Source: Finished copy via Grand Central Publishing / ALC via Hachette Audio   Summary: From the author of Halsey Street, a sweeping novel of legacy, identity, the American family-and the ways that race affects even our most intimate relationships. A community in the Piedmont of North Carolina rises in outrage as a county initiative draws students from the largely…

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Blog Tour & Review: The Lighthouse Witches by C.J. Cooke

Blog Tour & Review: The Lighthouse Witches by C.J. Cooke

Publisher: Berkley Books Published: October 5, 2021 Source: Netgalley via Publisher   Summary: Two sisters go missing on a remote Scottish island. Twenty years later, one is found–but she’s still the same age as when she disappeared. The secrets of witches have reached across the centuries in this chilling Gothic thriller from the author of the acclaimed The Nesting. When single mother Liv is commissioned to paint a mural in…

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Review: Watch Her Fall by Erin Kelly

Review: Watch Her Fall by Erin Kelly

Publisher: Mobius Books Published: November 9, 2021 Source: Publisher   Summary: Swan Lake is divided into the black acts and the white acts. The Prince is on stage for most of the ballet, but it’s the swans audiences flock to see. In early productions, Odette and Odile were performed by two different dancers. These days, it is usual for the same dancer to play both roles. Because of the faultless…

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Review: The Hive by Melissa Scholes Young (audio)

Review: The Hive by Melissa Scholes Young (audio)

Publisher: Turner Publishing Company / Dreamscape Media Published: June 8, 2021 Source: Print – ARC via Turner Publishing / Audio – via library   Summary: A story of survival, sisters, and secrets. The Fehler sisters wanted to be more than bug girls but growing up in a fourth- generation family pest control business in rural Missouri, their path was fixed. The family talked about Fehler Family Exterminating at every meal,…

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Review: The Second Home by Christina Clancy (audio)

Review: The Second Home by Christina Clancy (audio)

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: June 2, 2020 Source: Print: ARC E-copy via Netgalley / Audio via Library   Summary: Some places never leave you… After a disastrous summer spent at her family’s home on Cape Cod when she is seventeen, Ann Gordon is very happy to never visit Wellfleet again. If only she’d stayed in Wisconsin, she might never have met Anthony Shaw, and she would…

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Review: Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty (audio)

Review: Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty (audio)

Publisher: Henry & Holt Co / Macmillan Audio Published: September 14, 2021 Source: Print – ARC Paperback via Henry & Holt Co / Audio – ALC via Libro.fm   Summary: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Liane Moriarty comes a novel that looks at marriage, siblings, and how the people we love the most can hurt us the deepest The Delaney family love one another dearly—it’s just that sometimes they want…

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Review: Her Perfect Life by Hank Phillippi Ryan

Review: Her Perfect Life by Hank Phillippi Ryan

Publisher: Forge Books Published: September 14, 2021 Source: ARC Paperback via Publisher   Summary: The next thrilling standalone novel by USA Today bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan. Everyone knows Lily Atwood—and that may be her biggest problem. The beloved television reporter has it all—fame, fortune, Emmys, an adorable seven-year-old daughter, and the hashtag her loving fans created: #PerfectLily. To keep it, all she has to do is protect one life-changing secret. Her…

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Book Spotlight: Catch Us When We Fall by Juliette Fay

Book Spotlight: Catch Us When We Fall by Juliette Fay

This book is coming out in a few weeks and I’m so excited to share it with you today. I’ll be reading it soon, but in the meantime, read a little bit about the book and see what everyone has to say about it.   Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Published: September 21, 2021 Source: GetRed PR   Summary: If you love the emotionally complex novels of JoJo Moyes and the…

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Blog Tour & Excerpt: What Passes As Love by Trisha R. Thomas – with link to #BookGiveaway

Blog Tour & Excerpt: What Passes As Love by Trisha R. Thomas – with link to #BookGiveaway

Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for What Passes as Love by Trisha R. Thomas. Thank you @OTRPR for inviting me to participate. As part of the book tour, there is a giveaway…but the giveaway is happening on my Instagram page!!! Enjoy this spotlight and the excerpt and then you can find out where to enter the giveaway below!   Publisher: Lake Union Publishing…

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Review: The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia (audio book)

Review: The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia (audio book)

Publisher: Amazon Crossing/ Brilliance Audio Published: August 16, 2019 Source: Personal Copy (print & audio)   Summary: From a beguiling voice in Mexican fiction comes an astonishing novel—her first to be translated into English—about a mysterious child with the power to change a family’s history in a country on the verge of revolution. From the day that old Nana Reja found a baby abandoned under a bridge, the life of…

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Blog Tour & Review: Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney

Blog Tour & Review: Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney

Publisher: Flatiron Books Published: August 7, 2021 Source: ARC Paperback via Publisher   Summary: Think you know the person you married? Think again… Things have been wrong with Mr. and Mrs. Wright for a long time. When Adam and Amelia win a weekend away to Scotland, it might be just what their marriage needs. Self-confessed workaholic and screenwriter Adam Wright has lived with face blindness his whole life. He can’t…

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Review: The Riviera House by Natasha Lester (audio)

Review: The Riviera House by Natasha Lester (audio)

Publisher: Forever / Hachette Audio Published: August 31, 2021 Source: Print: ARC Paperback via Forever / Audio: ALC via Libro.fm via Hachette Audio   Summary: The New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Secret weaves a lush and engrossing novel of World War II inspired by a true story and perfect for fans of Kate Quinn and Pam Jenoff. Paris, 1939: The Nazis think Éliane can’t understand German. They’re wrong. They think she’s merely…

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Review: The Darkness Knows by Arnaldur Indridason

Review: The Darkness Knows by Arnaldur Indridason

Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: August 17, 2021 Source: Publisher   Summary: Retired detective Konrad returns to a haunting cold case in The Darkness Knows by Arnaldur Indridason, the “undisputed King of the Icelandic thriller.” —The Guardian (UK) A frozen body is discovered in the icy depths of Langjökull glacier, apparently that of a businessman who disappeared thirty years before. At the time, an extensive search and police investigation yielded no results—one of the…

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Review: Two Truths and a Lie by Meg Mitchell Moore (audio)

Review: Two Truths and a Lie by Meg Mitchell Moore (audio)

Publisher: William Morrow / Harper Audio Published: June 16, 2020 Source: Print – Hardcopy via Publisher / Audio via Library   Summary:  From the author of The Islanders comes a warm, witty and suspenseful novel filled with small-town secrets, summer romance, big time lies and spiked seltzer, in the vein of Liane Moriarty. Truth: Sherri Griffin and her daughter, Katie, have recently moved to the idyllic beach town of Newburyport, Massachusetts. Rebecca…

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Review: 56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard (audio)

Review: 56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard (audio)

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Published: August 17, 2021 Source: Print & Audio via Publisher   Summary: No one knew they’d moved in together. Now one of them is dead. Could this be the perfect murder? 56 DAYS AGO Ciara and Oliver meet in a supermarket queue in Dublin the same week Covid-19 reaches Irish shores. 35 DAYS AGO When lockdown threatens to keep them apart, Oliver suggests that Ciara move in…

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Review: My Mistress’ Eyes are Raven Black by Terry Roberts

Review: My Mistress’ Eyes are Raven Black by Terry Roberts

  Publisher: Turner Publishing Company Published: July 27, 2021 Source: Publisher   Summary: Ellis Island, 1920. New York Harbor’s immigration and public health authorities are slowly recovering from the war years when a young, pregnant Irish woman disappears from the Isolation Hospital on Ellis Island. Stephen Robbins, a specialist in finding missing persons, is assigned the case. Yet when he arrives at the isolation hospital, he discovers an inexplicable string…

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Review: Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson (print/audio)

Review: Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson (print/audio)

Publisher: Scribner / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: August 3, 2021 Source: Print – ARC Paperback via Publisher / Audio – ALC via Publisher   Summary: An epic, immersive debut, Damnation Spring is the deeply human story of a Pacific Northwest logging town wrenched in two by a mystery that threatens to derail its way of life. For generations, Rich Gundersen’s family has chopped a livelihood out of the redwood forest along…

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Review: Sisters in Arms by Kaia Alderson (audio)

Review: Sisters in Arms by Kaia Alderson (audio)

Publisher: William Morrow / Harper Audio Published: August 3, 2021 Source: Print – Personal Copy / Audio via Library   Summary: Kaia Alderson’s debut historical fiction novel reveals the untold, true story of the Six Triple Eight, the only all-Black battalion of the Women’s Army Corps, who made the dangerous voyage to Europe to ensure American servicemen received word from their loved ones during World War II. Grace Steele and…

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