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Review: Beneath Devil’s Bridge by Loreth Anne White

Review: Beneath Devil’s Bridge by Loreth Anne White

Publisher: Montlake Published: June 1, 2021 Source: Publisher   Summary: A true crime podcast yields new revelations about a shocking murder in a riveting novel of suspense by Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestselling author Loreth Anne White. True crime podcaster Trinity Scott is chasing breakout success, and her brand-new serial may get her there. Her subject is Clayton Jay Pelley. More than two decades ago, the respected family man…

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Review: Dear Seraphina by Avery Bisphop (audio)

Review: Dear Seraphina by Avery Bisphop (audio)

Publisher: Audible Original Stories Published: May 20, 2021 Source: Personal copy   Summary: For fans of Pretty Things and The Guest List comes a shocking novella of psychological suspense following a glamorous young actress and an obsessed fan. Dear Seraphina, I hope you’ll write back someday soon. I know I might be asking too much: you, a Hollywood star; me, a cashier at this small-town grocery store. But the thing…

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Review: The Last One Home by Victoria Helen Stone

Review: The Last One Home by Victoria Helen Stone

Publisher: Lake Union Publishing Published: March 30, 2021 Source: Publisher   Summary: A razor-sharp novel of suspense about the lies families tell—and those we choose to believe—by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of Jane Doe. Lauren Abrams wants nothing to do with her damaged mother, whose spurious testimony sent Lauren’s father to prison for murder years ago. After a serial killer’s confession to the crime restored justice, Lauren chose to live…

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Review: It Had To Be You by Georgia Clark (audio)

Review: It Had To Be You by Georgia Clark (audio)

  Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio / Atria/Emily Bestler Books Published: May 4, 2021 Source: Audio via Simon & Schuster Audio / Print: ARC E-copy via Netgalley   Summary: The author of the novel The Bucket List returns with a witty and heartfelt romantic comedy featuring a wedding planner, her unexpected business partner, and their coworkers in a series of linked love stories—perfect for fans of Christina Lauren and Casey…

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Review: Every Vow You Break by Peter Swanson

Review: Every Vow You Break by Peter Swanson

Publisher: William Morrow Published: March 23, 2021 Source: Publisher   Summary: A bride’s dream honeymoon becomes a nightmare when a man with whom she’s had a regrettable one-night stand shows up in this psychological thriller from the author of Eight Perfect Murders. Abigail Baskin never thought she’d fall in love with a millionaire. Then she met Bruce Lamb. But right before the wedding, Abigail has a drunken one-night stand on…

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Book Feature & Review: Amazon Original Stories: House of Crows by Lisa Unger

Book Feature & Review: Amazon Original Stories: House of Crows by Lisa Unger

  Amazon Original Stories, an imprint of Amazon Publishing, is pleased to present House of Crows, a four-part serial collection from master of suspense, New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger. Decades ago, four friends came face-to-face with dark events that they couldn’t explain as children and can’t bear to remember as haunted adults. The secrets they’ve tried to repress have lingered, shaping who they’ve become. Now, they’ll return to…

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Review: Legacy by Nora Roberts (audio)

Review: Legacy by Nora Roberts (audio)

Publisher: Macmillan Audio / St. Martin’s Press Published: May 25, 2021 Source: Audio: ALC via Macmillan Audio / Print: ARC Paperback via St. Martin’s Press   Summary: Number one New York Times best-selling author Nora Roberts presents Legacy, a new novel of a mother and a daughter, of ambition and romance, and of a traumatic past reawakened by a terrifying threat…. Adrian Rizzo was seven when she met her father…

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Review: Thief of Souls by Brian Klingborg

Review: Thief of Souls by Brian Klingborg

Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: May 4, 2021 Source: Publisher   Summary: The brutal murder of a young woman in a rural village in Northern China sends shockwaves all the way to Beijing–but seemingly only Inspector Lu Fei, living in exile in the small town, is interested in justice for the victim. Lu Fei is a graduate of China’s top police college but he’s been assigned to a sleepy backwater town…

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Review: The Photographer by Mary Dixie Carter (audio)

Review: The Photographer by Mary Dixie Carter (audio)

  Publisher: Macmillan Audio via Netgalley / Minotaur Books Published: May 25, 2021 Source: Audio: ALC via Macmillan Audio / Print: ARC Paperback via Minotaur Books   Summary: Mary Dixie Carter’s The Photographer is a slyly observed, suspenseful story of envy and obsession, told in the mesmerizing, irresistible voice of a character who will make you doubt that seeing is ever believing. WHEN PERFECT IMAGES As a photographer, Delta Dawn…

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Blog Tour & Excerpt: You Will Remember Me by Hannah Mary McKinnon

Blog Tour & Excerpt: You Will Remember Me by Hannah Mary McKinnon

Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for You Will Remember Me by Hannah Mary McKinnon  – I have an excerpt for you to read thanks to MIRA Books. I had the opportunity to read this book already – and spoiler alert…it’s fantastic! You can find my review here. Publisher: MIRA Books Published: May 25, 2021   Summary: Forget the truth. Remember the lies.…

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Blog Tour & Review: The Jigsaw Man by Nadine Matheson

Blog Tour & Review: The Jigsaw Man by Nadine Matheson

Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for The Jigsaw Man by Nadine Matheson. Thank you Hanover Square Press for inviting me to participate.   Title: The Jigsaw Man Author: Nadine Matheson Published: March 2021, Hanover Square Press Format: ARC E-copy, 413 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher   Summary:  Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery… When body parts are found on the banks…

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Review: The Butterfly House by Katrine Engberg (audio)

Review: The Butterfly House by Katrine Engberg (audio)

  Title: The Butterfly House Author: Katrine Engberg Series: Korner & Werner, #2 Narrator: Graeme Malcolm Published: January 2021, Simon Schuster Audio / Gallery/Scout Press Length: 10 hours 1 minutes / 352 pages Source: Audio via Simon Schuster Audio / Print – ARC E-copy via Netgalley Summary: Detectives Jeppe Korner and Anette Werner return in this thriller as they race to solve a series of sordid murders linked to some…

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Review: The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz

Review: The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz

Title: The Plot Author: Jean Hanff Korelitz Published: May 2021, Celadon Books Format: ARC Paperback, 336 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  Hailed as “breathtakingly suspenseful,” Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Plot is a propulsive read about a story too good not to steal, and the writer who steals it. Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he’s teaching in a third-rate MFA program…

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Review: The Kingdom by Jo Nesbo

Review: The Kingdom by Jo Nesbo

  Title: The Kingdom Author: Jo Nesbo Published: November 2020, Knopf Format: Hardcover, 560 pages Source: Publisher   Summary:  Roy and Carl have spent their whole lives running from the darkness in their past, but when Carl finally returns to make peace with it, the two brothers are inexorably drawn into a reckoning with their own demons. Roy has never left the quiet mountain town he grew up in, unlike…

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Review: Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

Review: Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

Title: Home Before Dark Author: Riley Sager Published: June 2020, Dutton Books Format: ARC E-copy, 384 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher 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…

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Review: The Tenant by Katrine Engberg

Review: The Tenant by Katrine Engberg

Title: The Tenant Author: Katrine Engberg Series: Korner/Werner, #1 Published: January 2020, Gallery/Scout Press Format: ARC Paperback, 368 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  An electrifying work of literary suspense from international bestselling author KatrineEngberg, this stunning debut introduces two police detectives struggling to solve a shocking murder and stop a killer hell-bent on revenge. When a young woman is discovered brutally murdered in her own apartment, with an intricate pattern of…

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Review: The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal

Review: The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal

Title: The Doll Factory Author: Elizabeth Macneal Published: August 2019, Atria/Emily Bestler Books Format: ARC Paperback, 368 pages Source: Publisher Summary:  Obsession is an art. In this “sharp, scary, gorgeously evocative tale of love, art, and obsession” (Paula Hawkins, bestselling author of The Girl on the Train), a beautiful young woman aspires to be an artist, while a man’s dark obsession may destroy her world forever. In 1850s London, the…

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