I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Penguin Books Published: January 31, 2012 (first published 2010) Summary: It is the sweltering summer of 1997, and Karen is a straight-laced, straight-A university student. When she meets the impossibly glamorous Biba, a bohemian orphan who lives in a crumbling old mansion in Highgate with her enigmatic brother Rex, she is soon drawn into their world — but something…
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Thank you Penguin Random House Audio,#partner for the advanced listening copy of The Mistletoe Mystery in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Published: October 1, 2024 Summary: Molly the Maid has a whole new mystery to solve in this heartwarming novella from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid and The Mystery Guest. Molly Gray has always loved the holidays. When Molly was a child,…
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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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Thank you to Dreamscape Media for the ALC and ThrillerBookLovers The Pulse, Severn House, #partner, for an advanced e- copy of The House on Cold Creek Lane in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Severn House / Dreamscape Media Published: August 6, 2024 Summary: An unflinching examination of motherhood and the dark side of domesticity set against a suburban backdrop that’s anything but blissful. This twisty tale invites readers…
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Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers The Pulse, Bookouture, #partner, for an advanced e- copy and ALC of The Second Mrs. Strom in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Bookouture Published: August 16, 2024 Summary: I don’t want the perfect marriage. I want revenge… If you had met me a year ago, you wouldn’t have noticed me. A beautiful woman, but a struggling nobody in a tiny apartment, invisible… Meeting Paul…
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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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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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Thank you Brilliance Audio/Netgalley, #partner for the ALC of Original Twin in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Brilliance Audio Published: June 1, 2024 Summary: A twisty crossover thriller that will have readers guessing right up until the end. Perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn, Mary Kubica, and Megan Abbott. SHE’S ALWAYS BEEN SECOND BEST. NOW SHE’S THE ONLY ONE LEFT. Twin sisters May and June couldn’t be more different.…
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Thank you Brilliance Audio/Netgalley, #partner for the ALC of Follow Her Down in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Brilliance Audio Published: June 4, 2024 Summary: Decades of doubt, fear, and suspicion won’t let a woman overcome her trauma in a riveting novel of suspense by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of Jane Doe and The Hook. The murder of Elise Rockwood’s sister shattered her family. Their mother’s anxiety kept…
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Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers Promotions, Netgalley, #partner, for an advanced ALC of Don’t Forget Me in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Brilliance Audio Published: March 1, 2024 Summary: When a body is presumed to be her missing husband’s, a woman must unravel the secrets of her own past to clear her name, find the truth, and put her conscience to rest once and for all. All Ruby wanted…
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Thank you Netgalley / Macmillan Audio, for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the finished copy of The Wonders of It All in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: December 5, 2023 Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes the long-anticipated final novel in the House of Falconer trilogy. James Falconer–a tycoon and a self-made man–seems to…
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Thank you PRH Audio for the ALC and Doubleday #partner, for the advanced copy of The Frozen River in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Doubleday / Random House Audio Published: December 5, 2023 Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and Code Name Hélène comes a gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Penguin Random House Audio, for the ALC and Random House/Netgalley, #partner for the advanced e-copy of The Mystery Guest in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Ballantine Books / Penguin Random House Audio Published: November 28, 2023 Summary: When an acclaimed author dies at the Regency Grand Hotel, it’s up to a fastidious maid to uncover the truth, no matter how dirty—in a standalone novel…
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Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio, for the ALC and Flatiron Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Professor in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Flatiron Books / Macmillan Audio Published: November 14, 2022 Summary: For fans of Tana French, The Professor investigates the darkest corners of academic ambition, lies, and obsession. On a spring afternoon in Athens, Georgia, Ethan Haddock is discovered in his apartment, dead, apparently…
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Thank you Netgalley / Recorded Books, for the ALC and Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Blood Betrayal in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Recorded Books Published: November 7, 2023 Summary: A complex and timely mystery, Blood Betrayal proves once again that Ausma Zehanat Khan is a writer at the peak of her powers. In Blackwater Falls, Colorado, veteran police officer Harry Cooper is…
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Thank you Netgalley / Macmillan Audio, for the ALC and Celadon Books, #partner for the advanced copy of Being Henry: The Fonz…and Beyond in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Celadon Books / Macmillan Audio Published: October 31, 2023 Summary: From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply thoughtful memoir of the lifelong effects of stardom and the struggle to become whole. Henry Winkler,…
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Thank you Netgalley / Blackstone Audio, for the ALC and William Morrow Books, #partner for the advanced copy of After That Night in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Books / Blackstone Audio Published: August 22, 2020 Summary: After that night, nothing was ever the same again Fifteen years ago, Sara Linton’s life changed forever when a celebratory night out ended in a violent attack that tore her…
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Thank you Netgalley / Macmillan Audio, for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the advanced copy of Dark Corners in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: August 8, 2023 Summary: Rachel Krall, the true crime podcaster star of Megan Goldin’s acclaimed The Night Swim, returns to search for a popular influencer who disappears after visiting a suspected serial killer. Terence Bailey is about…
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Thank you Dreamscape Media/Netgalley for the ALC and MB Communications & Pegasus Books #partner, for the finished copy of The Hidden Life of Aster Kelly in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Pegasus Books / Dreamscape Media Published: April 4, 2023 / June 26 2023 Summary: When a runway model in 1940s Hollywood makes a split-second decision intended to protect those she loves, she triggers a cascade of secrets that threatens to…
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Thank you Netgalley / Macmillan Audio, for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the advanced e-copy of Hello Stranger in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: July 11, 2023 Summary: Love isn’t blind, it’s just little blurry. Sadie Montgomery never saw what was coming . . . Literally! One minute she’s celebrating the biggest achievement of her life—placing as a finalist…
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Thank you to HarperAudio/Netgalley for the ALC and Thoughts From a Page, Mariner Books, #partner, for an advanced e-copy of Banyan Moon in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Mariner Books / Harper Audio Published: June 27, 2023 Summary: A sweeping, evocative debut novel following three generations of Vietnamese American women reeling from the death of their matriarch, revealing the family’s inherited burdens, buried secrets, and unlikely love stories.…
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Thank you Netgalley / Macmillan Audio, for the ALC and St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the advanced copy of Identity in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: May 23, 2023 Summary: A new thriller about one man’s ice-cold malice, and one woman’s fight to reclaim her life. Former Army brat Morgan Albright has finally planted roots in a friendly neighborhood near Baltimore.…
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Thank you Harper Audio /Netgalley, #partner for the ALC of The Girls Who Disappeared in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Harper Audio Published: January 10, 2023 Summary: A journalist’s life is threatened when she investigates the truth about a mysterious car crash that happened twenty years earlier in this gripping thriller from the internationally bestselling author of The Couple at Number 9 and Just Like the Other Girls. A car accident. Three…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio /Netgalley, #partner for the ALC of Wonderland in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Macmillan Audio Published: April 11, 2023 Summary: From the bestselling author of the hugely popular thrillers Things We Do in the Dark, Little Secrets, and Jar of Hearts comes Wonderland, a roller coaster of a listen. Now in audio for the first time! After a personal tragedy and professional scandal forces homicide detective Vanessa Castro out of Seattle,…
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Thank you Harper Audio /Netgalley, #partner for the ALC of Wrong Place Wrong Time in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Harper Audio Published: August 2, 2022 Summary: From UK bestselling author Gillian McAllister comes an astonishing, compulsively twisty psychological thriller about a mother who witnesses her teenage son stab a man and then seizes on an unconventional way to try to save him, deemed “perfection, every word, every moment”…
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Thank you Netgalley / Macmillan Audio, for the ALC and Celadon Books, #partner for the advanced copy of Beyond That, the Sea in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Celadon Books / Macmillan Audio Published: March 21, 2023 Summary: A sweeping, tenderhearted love story, Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash tells the story of two families living through World War II on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, and the…
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Thank you Netgalley / RB Media , for the ALC and Soho Crime, #partner for the advanced copy of Night Flight to Paris in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Soho Crime / Recorded Books Published: March 7, 2023 Summary: It is once again up to American markswoman Kate Rees to take the shot that just might win—or lose—World War II, in the followup to national bestseller Three Hours in Paris.…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio /Netgalley for the ALC and Forge Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The House Guest in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Forge Books / Macmillan Audio Published: February 7, 2023 Summary: The House Guest is another diabolical cat-and-mouse thriller from USA Today bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan—but which character is the cat, and which character is the mouse? After every divorce, one spouse gets all the friends.…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio /Netgalley, #partner for the ALC of Exiles in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Macmillan Audio Published: January 31, 2023 Summary: Federal Investigator Aaron Falk is on his way to a small town deep in Southern Australian wine country for the christening of an old friend’s baby. But mystery follows him, even on vacation. This weekend marks the one-year anniversary of Kim Gillespie’s disappearance. One year…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio /Netgalley for the ALC and Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: January 31, 2023 Summary: Author and single mom Finlay Donovan has been in messes before―after all, she’s a pro at removing bloodstains for various unexpected reasons―but none quite like this. When Finlay and her nanny/partner-in-crime Vero accidentally destroyed a…
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Thank you Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced copy of Devil’s Way in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Raven Street Publishing Published: January 12, 2023 Summary: THE TRUTH HIDES IN THE DARK Kate Marshall’s investigation into a young boy’s disappearance sends her down an unexpectedly twisted path in a riveting thriller by multi-million bestselling author, Robert Bryndza. When Private Investigator Kate Marshall is rushed to hospital after being pulled into…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio /Netgalley for the ALC and Flatiron Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of What Lies in the Woods in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Flatiron Books / Macmillan Audio Published: January 17, 2023 Summary: They were eleven when they sent a killer to prison . . . They were heroes . . . but they were liars. Naomi Shaw used to believe in magic. Twenty-two…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio /Netgalley, #partner for the ALC of Winterland in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Macmillan Audio Published: November 29, 2022 Summary: Perfection has a cost . . . Reminiscent of Maggie Shipstead’s Astonish Me and Julia Phillips’s Disappearing Earth, Winterland tells the story of a previous era, shockingly pertinent today, shaped by glory and loss and finding light where none exists. In the Soviet Union in 1973, there is perhaps…
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Thank you Dreamscape Media/Netgalley, #partner for the ALC of The Collector in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Dreamscape Media Published: November 8, 2022 Summary: When ten-year-old Lukas disappears from his Copenhagen school, police investigators discover that the boy had a peculiar obsession with pareidolia: a phenomenon that makes him see faces in random things. A photo on his phone, posted just hours before his disappearance, shows an old barn…
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Thank you Harper Audio/Netgalley / #partner for the ALC of Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Harper Audio Published: November 8, 2022 Summary: Three couples rent a luxury cabin in the woods for a weekend getaway to die for in this chilling locked-room thriller by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger. What could be more restful, more restorative, than a weekend getaway with family and friends? An…
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Thank you Dreamscape Media/Netgalley, #partner for the ALC of Book of Knives in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Dreamscape Media Published: October 6, 2022 Summary: There are thirteen knives. One by one they begin to disappear Nora didn’t expect Hidden Lake Camp to be in a state of ruin. Dock full of rotten boards, smashed windows, cabins falling apart. To her new husband, Paul, the camp is the…
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Thank you Harper Audio / Netgalley for the ALC and William Morrow / Netgalley #partner, for the advanced copy of All That’s Left Unsaid in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow / Harper Audio Published: September 13, 2022 Summary: For fans of Everything I Never Told You and The Mothers, a deeply moving and unflinching debut following a young Vietnamese Australian woman who returns home to her family in the…
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Thank you Macmillan Audio / Netgalley, #partner for the ALC of Acts of Violet in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Macmillan Audio Published: July 5, 2022 Summary: From Margarita Montimore, the author of GMA Book Club pick and national bestseller Oona Out of Order, Acts of Violet is a dazzling and twisty new novel about a famous magician who disappears, leaving her sister to figure out what really happened. Nearly a…
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Thank you Blackstone Publishing / Netgalley for the ALC and Bibliolifestyle & William Morrow Books, #partner, for the finished copy of Girl, Forgotten in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow / Blackstone Publishing Published: August 23, 2022 Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her comes an electrifying thriller featuring newly minted US Marshall Andrea Oliver as she investigates a cold case with links to her father’s…
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Thank you Raven Street Publishing, the author & Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced copy of Fatal Witness in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Raven Street Publishing Published: July 7, 2022 Summary: Detective Erika Foster is back in Fatal Witness–with a chilling new serial-killer case in Robert Bryndza’s multimillion best-selling crime-thriller series! How do you find a killer who has destroyed all the evidence? Detective Erika Foster is on a…
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Thank you Bookouture Audio for the ALC and Bookouture & Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Guilty Girl in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Bookouture Published: June 15, 2022 Summary: Something whistling through the door behind her caused her to turn. A shadow spread across the opening. She clasped a hand to her mouth, stilling the fear that was rising. The menacing shadow was followed by…
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Publisher: Harper Audio Published: May 10, 2022 Source: ALC via Netgalley Summary: For fans of the compulsive psychological suspense of Ruth Ware and Tana French, a mother-daughter story – one running from a horrible truth, and the other fighting to reveal it – that twists and turns in shocking ways, from the internationally best-selling author of The Scholar and The Ruin. First Rule: Make them like you. Second Rule: Make them need you. Third Rule:…
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Publisher: Bookouture Audio Published: May 16, 2022 Source: ALC via Publisher Summary: By the time I realized the truth about Daniel it was too late. But the truth about me? He never saw that coming… Dr Daniel Ashcroft was perfect: handsome, romantic, protective. I thought I was so lucky. But then I heard the rumors about his previous girlfriend, that she had vanished without a trace. That’s when I…
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Publisher: Harper Audio Published: April 12, 2022 Source: Netgalley Summary: Set in a wealthy Parisian suburb, an emotionally riveting debut told from the point of view of six women, and centered around a group of au pairs, one of whom is arrested after a sudden and suspicious tragedy strikes her host family—a dramatic exploration of identity, class, and caregiving from a profoundly talented new writer. Paris, 2015. A crowd…
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Publisher: William Morrow / Harper Audio Published: March 1, 2022 Source: Print – Hardcover via Kathleen Carter Communications / Audio: ALC via Netgalley Summary: North Carolina, 1946. One woman. A discovery that could rewrite history. “A beautifully rendered portrait of a young woman finding her courage and her voice.”—Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author Maddie Sykes is a burgeoning seamstress who’s just arrived in Bright Leaf, North Carolina—the tobacco capital…
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Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Published: January 18, 2022 Source: Netgalley Summary: For fans of Downton Abbey and The Crown…welcome to Hotel Portofino, where romance, revelry, and intrigue await. A heady historical drama about a British family who opens an upper-class hotel on the magical Italian Riviera during the Roaring Twenties. Hotel Portofino has been open for only a few weeks, but already the problems are mounting for its owner Bella Ainsworth. Her high-class guests…
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Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: February 1, 2022 Source: Print – Netgalley via Publisher / Audio – ALC via Publisher Summary: Nina de Gramont’s The Christie Affair is a beguiling novel of star-crossed lovers, heartbreak, revenge, and murder—and a brilliant re-imagination of one of the most talked-about unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century. Every story has its secrets. Every mystery has its motives. “A long time ago, in…
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Publisher: William Morrow/Harper Audio Published: January 25, 2022 Source: Print – ARC Paperback via William Morrow / Audio – ALC via Netgalley Summary: In the tradition of ‘Long Bright River’ and ‘The Mars Room’, a gripping and atmospheric work of literary suspense that deconstructs the story of a serial killer on death row, told primarily through the eyes of the women in his life – from the best-selling author of ‘Girl in Snow’.…
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Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: January 4, 2022 Source: Netgalley via the Publisher Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wife Upstairs comes a deliciously wicked gothic suspense, set on an isolated Pacific island with a dark history, for fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware. When Lux McAllister and her boyfriend, Nico, are hired to sail two women to a remote island in the South Pacific,…
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Publisher: Harper Audio Published: November 2, 2021 Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: In this fast-paced thriller, Wanda M. Morris crafts a twisty mystery about a black lawyer who gets caught in a dangerous conspiracy after the sudden death of her boss . . . A debut perfect for fans of Attica Locke, Alyssa Cole, Harlan Coben, and Celeste Ng, with shades of How to Get Away with Murder and John Grisham’s The…
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