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Review: A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins (audio)

Review: A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins (audio)

Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Published: August 31, 2021 Source: ALC via Libro.fm   Summary: With the same propulsion that captivated millions of readers worldwide in The Girl on the Train and Into the Water, Paula Hawkins unfurls a gripping, twisting story of deceit, murder, and revenge. When a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat, it triggers questions about three women who knew him. Laura is the troubled one-night-stand…

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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: Campus Bones by Vivian Barz (audio)

Review: Campus Bones by Vivian Barz (audio)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio Published: August 24, 2021 Source: Publisher   Summary: Amazon Charts bestselling author Vivian Barz reunites Special Agent Susan Marlan with Professor Eric Evans in a riveting installment in the Dead Remaining series. It’s been a year since Special Agent Susan Marlan and Professor Eric Evans worked a taxing missing persons case together on the Olympic Peninsula. Though the couple have since separated, Eric must reluctantly turn to…

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Blog Tour & Review: The Family Plot by Megan Collins (audio)

Blog Tour & Review: The Family Plot by Megan Collins (audio)

Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: August 17, 2021 Source: Print: ARC Paperback via Atria Books / Print: ALC via Simon & Schuster Audio   Summary: When a family obsessed with true crime gathers to bury their patriarch, horrifying secrets are exposed upon the discovery of another body in his grave in this chilling novel from the author of Behind the Red Door and The Winter Sister . At twenty-six, Dahlia Lighthouse has…

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Review: The Noise by James Patterson & J.D. Barker (audio)

Review: The Noise by James Patterson & J.D. Barker (audio)

Publisher: Hachette Audio Published: August 16, 2021 Source: ALC via Hachette Audio / Libro.fm   Summary: If you hear it, it’s too late. Can two sisters save us all? In the shadow of Mount Hood, sixteen-year-old Tennant is checking rabbit traps with her eight-year-old sister Sophie when the girls are suddenly overcome by a strange vibration rising out of the forest, building in intensity until it sounds like a deafening…

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Review: Dark Roads by Chevy Stevens (audio)

Review: Dark Roads by Chevy Stevens (audio)

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: August 3, 2021 Source: Print: ARC Paperback via Publisher / Audio: ALC via Netgalley   Summary: The acclaimed and beloved author of Still Missing is back with her most breathtaking thriller yet. The Cold Creek Highway stretches close to five hundred miles through British Columbia’s rugged wilderness to the west coast. Isolated and vast, it has become a prime hunting ground for predators. For…

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Review: What’s Left Unsaid by Emily Bleeker (print/audio)

Review: What’s Left Unsaid by Emily Bleeker (print/audio)

Publisher: Lake Union Publishing / Brilliance Audio Published: July 27, 2021 Source: Print: ARC Paperback via Uplit Reads / Audio: ALC via Brilliance Audio   Summary: An enthralling novel of secrets, second chances, and confronting the past by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of When I’m Gone. After a series of devastating losses, Chicago journalist Hannah Williamson has landed in Senatobia, Mississippi, to care for her bedridden grandmother and endure grunt work…

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Review: We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange (audio)

Review: We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange (audio)

Publisher: Celadon Books / Macmillan Audio Published: August 3, 2021 Source: Print: Arc Paperback via Celadon Early Reads Program / Audio: ALC via Macmillan Audio   Summary: In the vein of Mary Beth Keane’s Ask Again, Yes and Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s The Nest, Tracey Lange’s We Are the Brennans explores the staying power of shame—and the redemptive power of love—in an Irish Catholic family torn apart by secrets. When twenty-nine-year-old…

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Blog Tour & Review: The Other Passenger by Louise Candlish (audio)

Blog Tour & Review: The Other Passenger by Louise Candlish (audio)

Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: July 20, 2021 Source: Print: ARC Paperback via Atria Books / Print: ALC via Simon & Schuster Audio   Summary: The “queen of the sucker-punch twist” (Ruth Ware, number-one New York Times best-selling author) and author of Our House weaves an unputdownable pause-resister about a commuter who becomes a suspect in his friend’s mysterious disappearance. It all happens so quickly. One day you’re living the…

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Review: False Witness by Karin Slaughter (print/audio)

Review: False Witness by Karin Slaughter (print/audio)

  Publisher: William Morrow / Blackstone Publishing Published: July 20, 2021 Source: Print – ARC Paperback via William Morrow / Audio: ALC via Blackstone Publishing   Summary: AN ORDINARY LIFE Leigh Coulton has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. She has a good job as a defence attorney, a daughter doing well in school, and even her divorce is relatively civilised – her life is just…

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Review: The Bone Code by Kathy Reichs (audio)

Review: The Bone Code by Kathy Reichs (audio)

Publisher: Simon and Schuster Audio Published: July 6, 2021 Source: Publisher   Summary: Number-one New York Times best-selling author Kathy Reichs returns with her 20th gripping novel featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, whose examinations, 15 years apart, of unidentified bodies ignite a terrifying series of events. On the way to hurricane-ravaged Isle of Palms, a barrier island off the South Carolina coast, Tempe receives a call from the Charleston coroner. The storm…

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Review: The Therapist by B.A. Paris (audio)

Review: The Therapist by B.A. Paris (audio)

Publisher: Macmillan Audio / St. Martin’s Press Published: July 13, 2021 Source: Audio: ALC via Macmillan Audio / ARC Paperback via St. Martin’s Press   Summary: The multimillion-copy New York Times best-selling author B.A. Paris returns to her heartland of gripping psychological suspense in The Therapist – a powerful tale of a house that holds a shocking secret. When Alice and Leo move into a newly renovated house in The Circle, a gated community…

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Review: The Forest of Vanishing Stars (audio)

Review: The Forest of Vanishing Stars (audio)

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio / Gallery Books Published: July 6, 2021 Source: Audio – ALC via Simon & Schuster Audio / Print: Netgalley   Summary: The New York Times bestselling author of the The Book of Lost Names returns with an evocative coming-of-age World War II story about a young woman who uses her knowledge of the wilderness to help Jewish refugees escape the Nazis—until a secret from her past threatens everything. After…

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Review: Falling by T.J. Newman (audio)

Review: Falling by T.J. Newman (audio)

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio / Avid Reader Press Published: July 6, 2021 Source: Audio: ALC via Libro.fm/Simon & Schuster Audio / Print: ARC Paperback via Avid Reader Press   Summary: You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone…

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Blog Tour & Review: Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby (audio)

Blog Tour & Review: Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby (audio)

Publisher: Macmillan Audio / Flatiron Books Published: July 6, 2021 Source: Netgalley via Publisher   Summary: A Black father. A white father. Two murdered sons. A quest for vengeance. Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid. The last thing he expects to…

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Shoulder Season by Christina Clancy (audio)

Shoulder Season by Christina Clancy (audio)

Publisher: Macmillan Audio / St. Martin’s Press Published: July 6, 2021 Source: Audio via Netgalley / Print: ARC via St. Martin’s Press   Summary:  A dazzling portrait of a young woman coming into her own, the youthful allure of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, and what we lose – and gain – when we leave home. Once in a lifetime, you can have the time of your life. The…

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Blog Tour & Review: A Cut for a Cut by Carol Wyer (print/audio)

Blog Tour & Review: A Cut for a Cut by Carol Wyer (print/audio)

  Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for A Cut for a Cut by Carol Wyer. Thank you #ZooloosBookTours for inviting me to participate. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer / Brilliance Audio Published: June 29, 2021 Source: Print via Author / Audio via Brilliance Audio   Summary: DI Kate Young can’t trust anybody. Not even herself. In the bleak countryside around Blithfield Reservoir, a…

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Review: The Third Victim by Lisa Gardner (audio)

Review: The Third Victim by Lisa Gardner (audio)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio Published: May 4, 2021 (First published 2001) Source: Publisher   Summary: The past isn’t over…. An unspeakable act has ripped apart the idyllic town of Bakersville, Oregon, and its once-peaceful residents are demanding quick justice. But though a boy has confessed to the horrific crime, evidence shows he may not be guilty. Officer Rainie Conner, leading her first homicide investigation, stands at the center of the controversy.…

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Review: A Million Reasons Why by Jessica Strawser (audio)

Review: A Million Reasons Why by Jessica Strawser (audio)

Publisher: Macmillan Audio / St. Martin’s Press Published: March 23, 2021 Source: Audio: ALC via Macmillan Audio / Print: Hardcover via St. Martin’s Press   Summary: Jessica Strawser’s A Million Reasons Why is “a fascinating foray into the questions we are most afraid to ask” (Jodi Picoult, number-one New York Times best-selling author) – the story of two women who discover a bond between them that will change both their lives forever. When two…

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Review: The Bullet by Iris Johansen (audio)

Review: The Bullet by Iris Johansen (audio)

Publisher: Hachette Audio / Grand Central Publishing Published: June 8, 2021 Source: Audio: ALC via Libro.fm / Print: Hardcover via Publisher   Summary: Eve Duncan and Joe Quinn must protect the life of a brilliant scientist so that she can live long enough to bring her discovery to the world, in this fast-paced thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen. Diane Connors is a dedicated doctor with…

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Review: A Distant Grave by Sarah Stewart Taylor (print/audio)

Review: A Distant Grave by Sarah Stewart Taylor (print/audio)

Publisher: Macmillan Audio / Minotaur Books Published: June 22, 2021 Source: ALC via Netgalley / ARC Paperback via Minotaur Books   Summary: In the follow up to the critically acclaimed The Mountains Wild, Detective Maggie D’arcy tackles another intricate case that bridges Long Island and Ireland. Long Island homicide detective Maggie D’arcy and her teenage daughter, Lilly, are still recovering from the events of last fall when a strange new…

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Review: The North Face of Heart by Dolores Redondo (audio)

Review: The North Face of Heart by Dolores Redondo (audio)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio / Amazon Crossing Published: June 1, 2021 Source: Audio via Brilliance Publishing / Print via MB Communications   Summary: In a propulsive thriller by the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Baztán Trilogy, a female detective follows a psychopathic killer into the eye of a storm. Amaia Salazar, a young detective from the north of Spain, has joined a group of trainees at the FBI Academy in…

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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: 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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