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k2reader October 7, 2021

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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k2reader October 6, 2021

Review: I Am Not Who You Think I Am by Eric Rickstad (audio)

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Published: October 5, 2021 Source: ARC Paperback via Publisher / Audio via Netgalley Summary: One secret. Eight cryptic words. Lifetimes of ruin. Wayland Maynard is just eight years old when he sees his father kill himself, finds a note that reads I am not who you think I am, and is left reeling with grief and shock. Who was his father if not the loving man…

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k2reader October 5, 2021

Review: In Another Light by A.J. Banner (audio)

Publisher: Lake Union Publishing / Brilliance Audio Published: October 5, 2021 Source: ARC E-copy via GetRedPR & Netgalley / ALC via Brilliance Audio Summary: The death of a look-alike stranger leads a grieving woman down a troubling path in this riveting novel by A. J. Banner, bestselling author of The Poison Garden. Three years ago mortuary cosmetologist Phoebe Glassman lost her husband in a tragic accident. No longer the…

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k2reader September 30, 2021

Review: Hello, Transcriber by Hannah Morrissey

Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: November 30, 2021 Source: ARC Paperback via Author / Publisher Summary: Hannah Morrissey’s Hello, Transcriber is a captivating mystery suspense debut featuring a female police transcriber who goes beyond the limits to solve a harrowing case. Every night, while the street lamps shed the only light on Wisconsin’s most crime-ridden city, police transcriber Hazel Greenlee listens as detectives divulge Black Harbor’s gruesome secrets. As an…

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k2reader September 29, 2021

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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k2reader September 28, 2021

Blog Tour & Review: The Ice Coven by Max Seeck

Publisher: Berkley Books Published: September 28, 2021 Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: Investigator Jessica Niemi is in a race against time to find the link between a body with strange markings that has washed up on a frigid shore in Finland and two mysterious disappearances in this terrifying new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Witch Hunter. Six months have passed since Jessica’s encounter with the mysterious…

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k2reader September 23, 2021

Review: The Last Thing He Told Me Laura Dave (audio)

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Published: May 4, 2021 Source: Publisher Summary: We all have stories we never tell. Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers: Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely…

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k2reader September 22, 2021

Review: These Toxic Things by Rachel Howzell Hall (audio)

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer / Brilliance Audio Published: September 1, 2021 Source: Print – Finished copy via Amazon Publishing / Audio – ALC via Brilliance Audio Summary: A dead woman’s cherished trinkets become pieces to a terrifying puzzle. Mickie Lambert creates “digital scrapbooks” for clients, ensuring that precious souvenirs aren’t forgotten or lost. When her latest client, Nadia Denham, a curio shop owner, dies from an apparent suicide, Mickie…

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k2reader September 21, 2021

Review: The Spires by Kate Moretti (audio)

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer / Brilliance Audio Published: September 21, 2021 Source: Print – ARC Paperback via Amazon Publishing / Audio – ALC via Brilliance Audio Summary: A troubled woman becomes consumed by a past she’s desperate to forget in this unsettling psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Year. Strung between two teenagers, an unemployed husband, and a tenuous career, Penelope Cox barely has her life…

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k2reader September 14, 2021

Blog Tour & Review: My Sweet Girl by Amanda Jayatissa

Publisher: Berkley Books Published: September 14, 2021 Source: E-copy via Netgalley /Publisher Summary: Paloma thought her perfect life would begin once she was adopted and made it to America, but she’s about to find out that no matter how far you run, your past always catches up to you… Ever since she was adopted from a Sri Lankan orphanage, Paloma has had the best of everything—schools, money, and parents so perfect…

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k2reader September 10, 2021

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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k2reader September 7, 2021

Review: High Stakes by Iris Johansen (audio)

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing / Hachette Audio Published: September 7, 2021 Source: Publisher Summary: All bets are off as #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen introduces gambler Logan Tanner, a man with a secret past that’s about to come back to haunt him. Logan Tanner lives the exhilarating life of a professional gambler, taking risks with nerves of steel. From casinos in Macau to Monte Carlo to Milan, he’s…

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k2reader September 3, 2021

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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k2reader August 29, 2021

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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k2reader August 27, 2021

Review: We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz (audio)

Publisher: Ballantine Books / Random House Audio Published: August 3rd, 2021 Source: Print & Audio – Personal copy Summary: An annual backpacking trip has deadly consequences in a chilling new novel from the bestselling author of The Lost Night and The Herd. Emily is having the time of her life–she’s in the mountains of Chile with her best friend, Kristen, on their annual reunion trip, and the women are feeling closer than…

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k2reader August 26, 2021

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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k2reader August 24, 2021

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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k2reader August 22, 2021

Review: No Woods So Dark As These by Randall Silvis

Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Published: August 4, 2020 Source: Publisher Summary: There are good reasons to fear the dark… Former Sergeant Ryan DeMarco’s life has been spent in defiance–he’s defied death, loneliness, and betrayal all while fighting the worst parts of humanity. He’s earned a break, and following the devastation of their last case, DeMarco and his girlfriend Jayme want nothing more than to live quietly in each other’s…

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k2reader August 19, 2021

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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k2reader August 15, 2021

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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k2reader August 7, 2021

Review: The Stranger Behind You by Carol Goodman

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Published: July 6, 2021 Source: Netgalley Summary: In the tradition of Daphne du Maurier and Shari Lapena, comes the newest mystery thriller from New York Times bestselling author Carol Goodman—a twisty, chilling story set in a former Magdalen Laundry in Manhattan that explores today’s #MeToo complexities. You’re never really alone Journalist Joan Lurie has written a seething article exposing a notorious newspaper tycoon as a sexual predator. But the…

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k2reader August 2, 2021

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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k2reader July 29, 2021

Review: The Witness by Terry Lynn Thomas

Publisher: HQ Digital Published: April 23, 2021 Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: From the USA Today bestselling author, comes the second explosive thriller about attorney Olivia Sinclair who must solve a cold-case murder to clear an innocent man’s name… HE SAW WHAT YOU DID… Teenager Ebby Engstrom witnesses a murder – and then passes out. The next morning, he wakes in his bed with no memory of how he…

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k2reader July 22, 2021

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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k2reader July 19, 2021

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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k2reader July 11, 2021

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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k2reader July 8, 2021

Blog Tour & Review: Kill All Your Darlings by David Bell

Publisher: Berkley Books Published: July 6, 2021 Source: Netgalley via Publisher/GetRedPr Summary: When a student disappears and is presumed dead, her professor passes off her manuscript as his own—only to find out it implicates him in an unsolved murder in this new thriller from the USA Today bestselling author of The Request. After years of struggling to write following the deaths of his wife and son, English professor Connor Nye publishes his…

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k2reader July 6, 2021

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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k2reader July 5, 2021

Review: Silver Tears by Camilla Lackberg

Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group Published: July 6, 2021 Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: A spine-tingling novel of revenge, betrayal, and sisterhood from the internationally celebrated author of The Golden Cage. She’s had to fight for it every step of the way, but Faye finally has the life she believes she deserves: she is rich, the business she built has become a global brand, and she has carefully hidden away her…

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k2reader June 30, 2021

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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k2reader June 29, 2021

Review: Survive the Night by Riley Sager

Publisher: Dutton Books Published: June 29, 2021 Source: Publisher Summary: It’s November 1991. George H. W. Bush is in the White House, Nirvana’s in the tape deck, and movie-obsessed college student Charlie Jordan is in a car with a man who might be a serial killer. Josh Baxter, the man behind the wheel, is a virtual stranger to Charlie. They met at the campus ride board, each looking to…

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k2reader June 24, 2021

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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k2reader June 22, 2021

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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k2reader June 20, 2021

Review: What’s Done in Darkness by Laura McHugh

Publisher: Random House Published: June 22, 2021 Source: Publisher Summary: Abducted as a teenager, a woman must now confront her past and untangle the truth of what really happened to her in this dark thriller from the author of The Wolf Wants In. “Laura McHugh expertly delivers a harrowing tale of a world where little is what it first appears to be.”–Ron Rash, bestselling author of Serena Seventeen-year-old Sarabeth has become…

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k2reader June 16, 2021

Review: One Year Gone by Avery Bishop

Publisher: Lake Union Publishing Published: August 10, 2021 Source: ARC Paperback via Author / ARC E-copy via Let’s Talk Books Promo Summary: A mother will risk everything to find her missing daughter in this twisty thriller from the author of Girl Gone Mad. “Sometimes teenagers run away…Give her a few days. She’ll be back.” That’s what the police tell Jessica Moore when her seventeen-year-old daughter, Wyn, vanishes. All signs point…

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k2reader June 15, 2021

Review: Hairpin Bridge by Taylor Adams

Publisher: William Morrow Published: June 15, 2021 Source: Netgalley via Scene of the Crime/Publisher Summary: From the author of the “full-throttle thriller” (A. J. Finn) No Exit—a riveting new psychological page-turner featuring a fierce and unforgettable heroine. Three months ago, Lena Nguyen’s estranged twin sister, Cambry, drove to a remote bridge sixty miles outside of Missoula, Montana, and jumped two hundred feet to her death. At least, that is the…

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k2reader June 15, 2021

Review: Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay

Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: March 2, 2021 Source: Publisher Summary: “They found the bodies on a Tuesday.” So begins this twisty and breathtaking novel that traces the fate of the Pine family, a thriller that will both leave you on the edge of your seat and move you to tears. After a late night of partying, NYU student Matt Pine returns to his dorm room to devastating news: nearly…

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k2reader June 11, 2021

Review: The Maidens by Alex Michaelides (audio)

Publisher: Macmillan Audio / Celadon Books Published: June 15, 2021 Source: Audio: ALC via Librofm / Print: ARC Paperback via Celadon Books Summary: Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek Tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike—particularly by the members of a secret society of female students known as The Maidens.…

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k2reader June 10, 2021

Review: Far Gone by Danielle Girard

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Published: June 15, 2021 Source: Publisher Summary: From the USA Today bestselling author of White Out comes a story of two heroines with shattered pasts and a town with blood on its hands. When a North Dakota couple is shot down in their home in cold blood, the sleepy town of Hagen wakes with a jolt. After all, it’s usually such a peaceful place. But…

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k2reader June 7, 2021

Review: A Dark and Secret Place by Jen Williams

Publisher: Crooked Lane Books Published: June 8, 2021 Source: Publisher Summary: For readers of Jane Harper and Rachel Caine comes a chilling thriller from award-winning author Jen Williams about a woman who discovers her late mother had been secretly corresponding with a serial killer for decades. When prodigal daughter Heather Evans returns to her family home after her mother’s baffling suicide, she makes an alarming discovery–stacks and stacks of…

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k2reader June 7, 2021

Review: The Dark Corners of the Night by Meg Gardiner

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Published: February 18, 2020 Source: Personal Copy Summary: I am the legion of the night … He appears in the darkness like a ghost, made of shadows and fear—the Midnight Man. He comes for the parents but leaves the children alive, tiny witnesses to unspeakable horror. The bedroom communities of Los Angeles are gripped with dread, and the attacks are escalating. Still reeling from her best…

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k2reader June 2, 2021

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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k2reader May 31, 2021

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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k2reader May 27, 2021

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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k2reader May 24, 2021

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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k2reader May 24, 2021

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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k2reader May 3, 2021

Review: The Girl Who Died by Ragnar Jonasson

Title: The Girl Who Died Author: Ragnar Jonasson, translated by Victoria Cribb Published: May 2021, Minotaur Books Format: ARC Paperback, 320 pages Source: Publisher Summary: Teacher Wanted At the Edge of the WorldUna wants nothing more than to teach, but she has been unable to secure steady employment in Reykjavík. Her savings are depleted, her love life is nonexistent, and she cannot face another winter staring at…

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k2reader March 11, 2021

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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k2reader January 10, 2021

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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k2reader December 28, 2020

Review: Girl in the Mirror by Rose Carlyle

Title: Girl in the Mirror Author: Rose Carlyle Published: October 2020, William Morrow Format: Hardcover, 304 pages Source: Publisher via TLC Booktours Summary: Written with the chilling, twisty suspense of The Wife Between Us and Something in the Water, a seductive debut thriller about greed, lust, secrets, and deadly lies involving identical twin sisters. Twin sisters Iris and Summer are startlingly alike, but beyond what the eye can see lies…

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