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Perfect Shot by Steve Urszenyi #bookreview #series

Perfect Shot by Steve Urszenyi #bookreview #series

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: September 24, 2024 (Originally Published 2023)   Summary: Special Agent Alexandra Martel has put her days on the battlefield behind her. Charming and disarming, relentless and lethal, she earned a reputation as one of the most renowned and decorated Army snipers in the service before stepping away. But when Alex, now an FBI special agent on loan…

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Murder Town by Shelley Burr #bookreview #series

Murder Town by Shelley Burr #bookreview #series

Thank you William Morrow Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Murder Town in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Published: November 5, 2024   Summary: Gemma Guillory knows her once-charming town is now remembered for one reason, and one reason only. That three innocent people died. That the last stop on the Rainier Ripper’s trail of death seventeen years ago was her innocuous little teashop. She knows…

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Mini Reviews: Thriller Edition #bookreviews #thrillers #minireviews

Mini Reviews: Thriller Edition #bookreviews #thrillers #minireviews

Thank you Viking Books, partner for the finished copy of Someone in the Attic and William Morrow Books, partner for the finished copy of This is Why We Lied in exchange for my honest reviews. I purchased the audiobook of This is Why We Lied for my collection.   These are two thrillers that I reviewed on my Instagram page the week they came out but realized I never shared…

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The Fortune Seller by Rachel Kapelke-Dale #bookreview #audiobook

The Fortune Seller by Rachel Kapelke-Dale #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio, for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the advanced copy of The Fortune Seller in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: February 13, 2024   Summary: Middle-class Rosie Macalister has worked for years to fit in with her wealthy friends on the Yale equestrian team, but when she comes back from her junior year abroad…

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A Very Bad Thing by J.T. Ellison #bookreview

A Very Bad Thing by J.T. Ellison #bookreview

Thank you Over The River PR, #partner, for the advanced copy of A Very Bad Thing in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Published: November 1, 2024   Summary: From New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison comes a taut thriller about one author at the pinnacle of her career, whose past threatens to destroy everything she has—and everyone she knows. A great writer knows when to deliver a…

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Mini-Reviews – Gothic Mystery Edition #bookreviews #gothicmystery #audiobooks

Mini-Reviews – Gothic Mystery Edition #bookreviews #gothicmystery #audiobooks

These are both books from my own collection. I borrowed the audiobooks from the library. I’ve got 2 reviews to share with you – one a reread & one a new-to-me book – both perfect for this time of year! ⁣     REBECCA by Daphne du Maurier Published: January 1, 2006 (originally published in Aug 1938) / Harper Collins   Summary: “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley…

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Drop Dead Sisters by Amelia Diane Coombs #bookfeature #bookreview

Drop Dead Sisters by Amelia Diane Coombs #bookfeature #bookreview

Thank you MB Communications & Amazon Publishing, #partner, for the finished copy of Drop Dead Sisters in exchange for my honest review.     Publisher: Mindy’s Book Studio Published: November 1, 2024   Summary: “Compulsively readable, Drop Dead Sisters is perfect for readers who love shows like Bad Sisters and Dead to Me. A mystery about three estranged sisters who accidentally kill someone? Yes, please.” —Mindy Kaling Three sisters reunite on a family vacation and…

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The Stone Witch of Florence by Anna Rasche #bookreview

The Stone Witch of Florence by Anna Rasche #bookreview

Thank you to Kathleen Carter Communications, Park Row Books, #partner, for an advanced copy of The Stone Witch of Florence in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Park Row Books Published: October 8, 2024   Summary: Ancient sorcery. Magic gemstones. Only one woman can save a city in ruins… 1348. As the Black Plague ravages Italy, Ginevra di Gasparo is summoned to Florence after nearly a decade of lonely exile.…

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The Split by Kit Frick #bookreview #audiobook

The Split by Kit Frick #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Atria Books #partner, for the advanced copy of The Split in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: February 13, 2024   Summary: Jane Connor is resigned to being the “plain Jane” of her family—pragmatic and dependable—so unlike her beautiful and impetuous younger sister Esme. When Esme calls Jane during a flash summer storm,…

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The Clinic by Cate Quinn #bookreview

The Clinic by Cate Quinn #bookreview

Thank you Shelf Awareness/Sourcebooks #partner,  for the advanced copy of The Clinic in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark Published: January 23, 2024   Summary: From the critically acclaimed author of Black Widows comes a thriller set in a remote rehab clinic on the Pacific Northwest coast, in which the death of a woman inside prompts her sister to enter the clinic as a patient in order to find the truth.…

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The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins #bookreview

The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins #bookreview

Thank you Mariner Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Blue Hour in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Mariner Books Published: October 29, 2024   Summary: The spellbinding new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Girl on the Train. An isolated Scottish island, accessible to the mainland only twelve hours a day. A famous (some might say infamous) artist whose notoriously unfaithful husband disappeared after visiting her…

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What the Nanny Saw by Kaira Rouda #bookreview #series

What the Nanny Saw by Kaira Rouda #bookreview #series

Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers The Pulse, Bookouture, #partner, for an advanced e- copy of What the Nanny Saw in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Bookouture Published: November 13, 2024   Summary: I keep all her secrets. She thinks she can trust me… Cecilia has it all. The house on the beach. The cute figure. The beautiful baby. But she’s a long way from perfect. She’s let me into her gorgeous house…

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The Puzzle Box by Danielle Trussoni #bookreview #audiobook #series

The Puzzle Box by Danielle Trussoni #bookreview #audiobook #series

Thank you Penguin Random House Audio for the ALC and MB Communications & Random House, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Puzzle Box in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Random House / PRH Audio Published: October 8, 2024   Summary: It is the Year of the Wood Dragon, and the ingenious Mike Brink has been invited to Tokyo, Japan to open the legendary Dragon Box, a mysterious nineteenth-century…

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Red River Road by Anna Downes #bookreview #audiobook

Red River Road by Anna Downes #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio, for the ALC and Minotaur Books, #partner for the advanced copy of Red River Road in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: August 27, 2024   Summary: Anna Downes’s extraordinary next thriller Red River Road follows a woman desperate to discover what happened to her sister on a solo road trip through the Australian outback. Katy Sweeney is looking for…

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Triple Cross by Alex Cross #bookreview #series

Triple Cross by Alex Cross #bookreview #series

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Published: October 31, 2022   Summary: Detective Alex Cross hunts down a serial killer who’s murdering entire families—and who will next be coming for Cross. A methodical killer is targeting multigenerational families in and around Washington, DC—striking under cover of darkness, triggering no alarms, leaving no physical evidence of any kind. Alex isn’t the only one investigating. Also…

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The Briar Club by Kate Quinn #bookreview #audiobook

The Briar Club by Kate Quinn #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you William Morrow, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Briar Club in exchange for my honest review. I purchased the audiobook for my collection. Publisher: William Morrow/Harper Audio Published: July 9, 2024   Summary: A haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, D.C. boardinghouse during the McCarthy era. Washington, D.C., 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the…

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The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley #bookreview

The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley #bookreview

Thank you William Morrow, #partner, for the finished copy of The Midnight Feast in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Published: June 18, 2024   Summary: Secrets. Lies. Murder. Let the festivities begin… It’s the opening night of The Manor, and no expense, small or large, has been spared. The infinity pool sparkles; crystal pouches for guests’ healing have been placed in the Seaside Cottages and Woodland Hutches; the “Manor…

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The Doll’s House: A Short Story by Lisa Unger #bookreview #shortstory

The Doll’s House: A Short Story by Lisa Unger #bookreview #shortstory

I obtained this e-book through my Kindle Unlimited Subscription. Publisher: Amazon Original Stories Published: September 12, 2024   Summary: A widowed mother, ready to give love another chance, moves into her fiancé’s old family home with her teenage daughter. But as they try to build a future together, the past refuses to let go in this haunting short story from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger. When Jules first meets the handsome…

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The Sequel by Jean Hanff Korelitz #bookreview #audiobook

The Sequel by Jean Hanff Korelitz #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Celadon Books #partner, for the advanced copy of The Sequel in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Celadon Books / Macmillan Audio Published: October 1, 2024   Summary: After the “insanely readable” (Stephen King) and “perfectly told” (Malcolm Gladwell) New York Times bestseller The Plot comes Jean Hanff Korelitz’s equally captivating new novel: The Sequel. Anna Williams-Bonner has taken care of business—that is to say, she’s taken…

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The Night We Lost Him by Laura Dave #bookreview #audiobook

The Night We Lost Him by Laura Dave #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Marysue Rucci Books #partner, for the advanced copy of The Night We Lost Him in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Marysue Rucci Books / Simon and Schuster Audio Published: September 17, 2024   Summary: Estranged siblings discover their father has been keeping a secret for over fifty years, one that may have been fatal… Liam Noone was many things…

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Nothing Ever Happens Here by Seraphina Nova Glass #bookreview

Nothing Ever Happens Here by Seraphina Nova Glass #bookreview

Thank you to Thrillerbookloversthepulse, Graydon House, #partner, for an advanced e-copy of Nothing Ever Happens Here in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Graydon House Published: February 11, 2025   Summary: Nothing ever happens in small towns… When Shelby Dawson survives a harrowing attack that should have left her dead, she tries to move past it—for herself, and for her family. Fifteen months later, with the help of her best…

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Once More from the Top by Emily Layden #bookreview

Once More from the Top by Emily Layden #bookreview

Thank you to Mariner Books, #partner, for an advanced e-copy of Once More from the Top in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Mariner Books Published: September 10, 2024   Summary: A propulsive, layered novel about the meteoric rise of a legendary pop star and the secret she’s kept hidden for fifteen years, for fans of Megan Abbott and Daisy Jones & the Six. Everyone in America knows Dylan Read,…

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The Summer of Love and Death by Marcy McCreary #bookfeature #guestpost

The Summer of Love and Death by Marcy McCreary #bookfeature #guestpost

Thank you to the author for the gifted copy. Please join me in welcoming Marcy McCreary to Always With a Book. Marcy’s latest book, The Summer of Love and Death, came out last month. I hope to read it soon, but for now, please enjoy this guest post where she discusses how she came up with the title – something she is often asked at book events. Publisher: CamCat Books…

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The Examiner by Janice Hallett #bookreview

The Examiner by Janice Hallett #bookreview

Thank you Atria Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Examiner in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books Published: September 10, 2024   Summary: Told in emails, text messages, and essays, this innovative pause-resister follows a group of students in an art master’s program that goes dangerously awry, from the internationally bestselling “new queen of crime” (Electric Literature) Janice Hallett. Gela Nathaniel, head of Royal Hastings University’s new…

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Death at the Sanatorium by Ragnar Jonasson #bookreview #translatedbook

Death at the Sanatorium by Ragnar Jonasson #bookreview #translatedbook

Thank you Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Death at the Sanatorium in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: September 10, 2024   Summary: Fresh off his career-changing standalone co-written with Icelandic PM, Reykjavík, #1 Icelandic bestseller Jonasson presents a riveting new thriller spinoff from The Darkness, soon to be a TV series. 1983 At a former sanatorium in the north of Iceland, now a hospital ward,…

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Agony Hill by Sarah Stewart Taylor #bookreview #audiobook #series

Agony Hill by Sarah Stewart Taylor #bookreview #audiobook #series

Thank you Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Agony Hill in exchange for my honest review. I purchased the audiobook for my collection. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Brilliance Audio Published: August 6, 2024   Summary: Set in rural Vermont in the volatile 1960s, Agony Hill is the first novel in a new historical series full of vivid New England atmosphere and the deeply drawn characters that are Sarah Stewart Taylor’s…

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Mud Season by Sarah Stewart Taylor #bookreview #shortstory

Mud Season by Sarah Stewart Taylor #bookreview #shortstory

I obtained this e-book through my Kindle Unlimited Subscription. Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: June 11, 2024   Summary: Enter the world of 1960s Bethany, Vermont in this suspenseful short story featuring characters from the forthcoming Agony Hill. It’s mud season in Bethany, Vermont. As spring nears, the thawing ground and melting snow-pack has created muddy, impassable roads. It’s not unusual to see a driver pushing their car or going for help.…

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Flashback by Iris Johansen #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

Flashback by Iris Johansen #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

Thank you Hachette Audio for the ALC and Grand Central Publishing, #partner, for the finished copy of Flashback in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Grand Central Publishing / Hachette Audio Published: June 25, 2024   Summary: Kendra Michaels uses her heightened powers of deduction to draw out a serial killer who has not been seen or heard from in over fifteen years. Chloe and Sloane Morgan were only children when…

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The Return by Rachel Harrison #bookreview #audiobook #bookclubbook

The Return by Rachel Harrison #bookreview #audiobook #bookclubbook

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Penguin Audio Published: March 24, 2020   Summary: A group of friends reunite after one of them has returned from a mysterious two-year disappearance in this edgy and haunting debut. Julie is missing, and no one believes she will ever return – except Elise. Elise knows Julie better than anyone, and feels it in her bones that her best friend is out…

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Dangerous Play by Elise Hart Kipness #bookreview #bookseries

Dangerous Play by Elise Hart Kipness #bookreview #bookseries

Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers The Pulse, Thomas & Mercer, #partner, for an advanced e- copy of Dangerous Play in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Published: September 17, 2024   Summary: After a tumultuous murder case that almost cost more than her job, sports reporter Kate Green is back on assignment covering women’s Olympic soccer. Between her experience with athletic stardom and days playing with Savannah Baker, head…

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Talking to Strangers by Fiona Barton #bookreview #audiobook #blogtour #bookseries

Talking to Strangers by Fiona Barton #bookreview #audiobook #blogtour #bookseries

Thank you Berkley Books, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of Talking to Strangers in exchange for my honest review. I purchased the audiobook for my own collection. Publisher: Berkley Books / Penguin Audio Published: August 27, 2024   Summary: Detective Elise King’s investigation into a woman’s murder is getting derailed by a reporter who insists on doing her own investigation in this nail-biting mystery from the author of Local Gone Missing.…

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Between Lies and Revenge by Hannah D. Sharpe #bookfeature #authorinterview

Between Lies and Revenge by Hannah D. Sharpe #bookfeature #authorinterview

Thank you to Rising Action, #partner, for an advanced e- copy of Between Lies and Revenge in exchange for this feature. Today, I’m happy to be featuring this book, which published yesterday. I have already read and reviewed this book – spoiler alert…I really enjoyed it and you can read my review here! I also have an interview to share that was done with the author. Publisher: Rising Action Published: September 3,…

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A World of Hurt by Mindy Mejia #bookreview #audiobook

A World of Hurt by Mindy Mejia #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Libro.fm / Recorded Books, for the ALC and @NovelSuspects & Atlantic Monthly, #partner, for the advanced e-copy of A World of Hurt in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press / Recorded Books Published: August 6, 2024   Summary: When someone dies to save your life, how do you ever forgive them? A World of Hurt is Mindy Mejia’s highly-anticipated follow-up to the “propulsive” USA Today…

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Running Cold by Susan Walter #bookreview

Running Cold by Susan Walter #bookreview

Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers The Pulse, #partner, and the author for an advanced e- copy and print copy of Running Cold in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Lake Union Publishing Published: October 8, 2024   Summary: In this heart-pounding story of deception, murder, and survival, a former Olympian retreats to the Canadian wilderness for a fresh start, only to find out that the past will always catch up to…

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The Chamber by Will Dean #bookreview #audiobook

The Chamber by Will Dean #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Atria Books #partner, for the advanced copy of The Chamber in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: August 6, 2024   Summary: And Then There Were None meets The Last Breath in this tense and suspenseful locked-room thriller that takes place inside a hyperbaric chamber from the author of the “brilliant, twisted, and oh so…

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Dear Hanna by Zoje Stage #bookreview #audiobook

Dear Hanna by Zoje Stage #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Brilliance Audio for the ALC and Over The River PR, #partner, for the advanced copy of Dear Hanna in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer / Brilliance Audio Published: August 13, 2024   Summary: Zoje Stage delivers another knockout with a blood-chilling follow-up to international sensation Baby Teeth, taking readers back into the unsteady world of a young sociopath who’s all grown up. Hanna is no…

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The Night Flowers by Sara Herchenroether #bookreview

The Night Flowers by Sara Herchenroether #bookreview

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Tin House Books Published: May 2, 2023   Summary: In 1983, deep in New Mexico’s Gila National Forest, the bodies of a young woman and two children were found. Who were they? How did they get there? Thirty years later, two women find themselves drawn to the cold case. Librarian Laura MacDonald begins her own investigation as a way to…

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House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen #bookreview #audiobook

House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Macmillan Audio, for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the advanced copy of House of Glass in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: August 6, 2024   Summary: On the outside they were the golden family with the perfect life. On the inside they built the perfect lie. A young nanny who plunged to her death, or was she pushed?…

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Fire and Bones by Kathy Reichs #bookreview #audiobook #series

Fire and Bones by Kathy Reichs #bookreview #audiobook #series

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Scribner Books #partner, for the finished copy of Fire and Bones in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Scribner Books / Simon and Schuster Audio Published: August 6, 2024   Summary: It’s never easy working fire scenes. Called to Washington, DC to analyse the victims of a mysterious arson attack, Tempe quickly finds her misgivings justified. The fire site is in…

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Between Lies and Revenge by Hannah D. Sharpe #bookreview

Between Lies and Revenge by Hannah D. Sharpe #bookreview

Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers The Pulse, Rising Action, #partner, for an advanced e- copy of Between Lies and Revenge in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Rising Action Published: September 3, 2024   Summary: For fans of Megan Miranda and Sally Hepworth, BETWEEN LIES AND REVENGE by Hannah D Sharpe is a gripping debut of domestic suspense, where a daring jewel heist becomes a lifeline for two women entangled in…

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Shades of Mercy by Bruce Borgos #bookreview #audiobook #series

Shades of Mercy by Bruce Borgos #bookreview #audiobook #series

Thank you Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Shades of Mercy in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Recorded Books Published: July 16, 2024   Summary: In the usually quiet high desert of Nevada, Sheriff Porter Beck faces one of his greatest challenges—a series of unlikely, disturbing and increasingly deadly events of unknown origins. Porter Beck is the…

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Pub Day Reviews – Thriller Edition #bookreviews #thrillers #mysterythrillers

Pub Day Reviews – Thriller Edition #bookreviews #thrillers #mysterythrillers

Thank you PRH Audio, partner for the ALC of What Have You Done and Knopf, partner for the advanced e-copy of Like Mother, Like Daughter in exchange for my honest reviews.   It’s been a while since I’ve read either of these authors & I’m not sure why…but after flying through both these books, you can bet I’ll be checking out both authors’ backlist to see what I missed! ⁣…

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The Haters by Robyn Harding #bookreview #audiobook

The Haters by Robyn Harding #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Hachette Audio for the ALC and @NovelSuspects & Grand Central Publishing, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Haters in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Grand Central Publishing / Hachette Audio Published: July 2, 2024   Summary: The bestselling author of The Party and The Drowning Woman returns with a twisted tale of fame, obsession, and the dark recesses of social media. Camryn Lane is living her dream. After years of struggle…

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Shadowheart by Meg Gardiner #bookreview #audiobook #series

Shadowheart by Meg Gardiner #bookreview #audiobook #series

Thank you Blackstone Publishing, #partner for both the ALC and advanced copy of Shadowheart in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Blackstone Publishing / Blackstone Publishing Published: June 18, 2024   Summary: What happens when two serial killers begin to compete with each other? From #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Gardiner comes a new high-octane thriller in the acclaimed UNSUB series. FBI Special Agent Caitlin Hendrix faces a case from…

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The Lost Victim by Robert Bryndza #bookreview #audiobook #series

The Lost Victim by Robert Bryndza #bookreview #audiobook #series

Thank you Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Lost Victim in exchange for my honest review. I purchased the audiobook for my own collection.  Publisher: Raven Street Publishing / Raven Street Publishing Published: July 11, 2024   Summary: When school girl Janey Macklin disappeared from the seedy side of London in 1988, her case went cold, with no body and no witnesses. Now, thirty years later, private detective…

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Trust Her by Flynn Berry #bookreview #audiobook #series

Trust Her by Flynn Berry #bookreview #audiobook #series

Thank you PRH Audio for the ALC and Viking #partner, for the advanced copy of Trust Her in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Viking / Penguin Audio Published: June 25, 2024   Summary: Two sisters find they can’t outrun their past in the riveting new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Northern Spy Three years after they narrowly escaped the IRA’s worst punishment for informing, Northern…

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The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard by Natasha Bricard #bookreview #audiobook

The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard by Natasha Bricard #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Hachette Audio for the ALC and Forever #partner, for the advanced copy of The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Forever / Hachette Audio Published: January 30, 2024   Summary: Three generations. One chance to prove themselves. Can the women of the Bricard fashion dynasty finally rewrite their history? French countryside, Present  Blythe Bricard is the daughter of famous fashion muses but that doesn’t…

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The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie #bookreview #series

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie #bookreview #series

I purchased this book for my own collection. Publisher: William Morrow Published: January 14, 2020 (first published 1920)   Summary: Who poisoned the wealthy Emily Inglethorp and how did the murderer penetrate and escape from her locked bedroom? Suspects abound in the quaint village of Styles St. Mary—from the heiress’s fawning new husband to her two stepsons, her volatile housekeeper, and a pretty nurse who works in a hospital dispensary. With impeccable…

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The Unwedding by Ally Condie #bookreview #audiobook

The Unwedding by Ally Condie #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Hachette Audio, #partner for the ALC of The Unwedding in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Hachette Audio Published: June 4, 2024   Summary: The White Lotus meets Agatha Christie in this bold novel from a #1 New York Times bestselling author: a recent divorcee’s exclusive Big Sur resort vacation unravels when she discovers a dead body on the day of a wedding. Ellery Wainwright is alone at the edge of the…

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On the Surface by Rachel McGuire #bookreview #audiobook

On the Surface by Rachel McGuire #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Dreamscape Media, Netgalley, #partner for an advanced ALC of On the Surface in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Dreamscape Meda Published: July 9, 2024   Summary: A YouTubing cruiser couple sails the world living their best life—until one of them goes missing and their whole world capsizes, in this captivating psychological thriller perfect for fans of Something in the Water and Saint X. Sawyer Stone III and Dani Fox, a…

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