Review: The Distant Dead by Heather Young

Publisher: Custom House Published: August 4, 2021 Source: Paperback via Publisher   Summary: A BookPage Best Book of 2020 * A People Magazine Best Book of Summer * A Parade Best Book of Summer * A Crime Reads Most Anticipated Book of Summer “[A] second stunning piece of redemptive fiction… An ideal recommendation for fans of Kate Atkinson and Jodi Picoult.” – Booklist, Starred Review A body burns in the high desert hills. A boy walks into…

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Blog Tour & Excerpt: Cry Wolf by Hans Rosenfeldt

  Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for Cry Wolf  by Hans Rosenfeldt – I have an excerpt for you to read thanks to Hanover Square Press.   Publisher: Hanover Square Press Published: December 28, 2021 Source: Netgalley via Publisher   Summary: A DEAD WOLF A DRUG DEAL GONE WRONG A LETHAL FEMALE ASSASSIN The first book in a new series by Hans Rosenfeldt, creator of the TV…

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Review: Darkness Falls by Robert Bryndza

***There are different covers for the UK & US books. The first cover shown is the US cover, and at the bottom of the post, the UK cover is show.   Publisher: Sphere Books (UK) / Thomas & Mercer (US) Published: December 7, 2021 Source: Netgalley via Sphere Books   Summary: THE UNMISSABLE NEW THRILLER FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE GIRL IN THE ICE, NINE ELMS AND SHADOW…

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Review: The Fiancee by Kate White

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks Published: June 29, 2021 Source: Publisher   Summary: The New York Times bestselling author returns with an unsettling but riveting psychological thriller about a captivating woman who joins a family and threatens to upend their picture-perfect lives.  They had everything they needed for a perfect family vacation: close-knit relatives, a bucolic setting . . . and a murderer in their midst? Summer’s looking forward to a break from hustling…

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Review: Such a Quiet Place by Megan Miranda (audio)

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Published: July 13, 2021 Source: ALC via Simon & Schuster Audio   Summary: Welcome to Hollow’s Edge, where you can find secrets, scandal, and a suspected killer – all on one street. Hollow’s Edge use to be a quiet place. A private and idyllic neighborhood where neighbors dropped in on neighbors, celebrated graduation and holiday parties together, and looked out for one another. But then…

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Review: The Collective by Alison Gaylin

Publisher: William Morrow Published: November 2, 2021 Source: Netgalley via Publisher   Summary: The USA Today bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author of Never Look Back and If I Die Tonight plumbs the dark side of justice and the depths of diabolical revenge in this propulsive novel of psychological suspense that melds the driving narrative of Then She Was Gone with the breathtaking twists of The Chain and the violent fury of Kill Bill. Just how far will a grieving mother go…

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Review: Five Strangers by E.V. Adamson

Publisher: Scarlet Suspense Published: October 5, 2021 Source: ARC Paperback via Publisher   Summary: With its grassy hills and breathtaking city views, London’s Hampstead Heath is the perfect place to spend an afternoon with friends and loved ones—and on an unseasonably warm Valentine’s Day, the lawns are especially full. So when an aggressive lovers’ quarrel breaks out, there’s an audience of park goers nearby to hear the shouts traded back…

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Review: The Good Lie by A.R. Torre

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Published: July 20, 2021 Source: ARC Paperback via Publisher   Summary: Six teens murdered. A suspect behind bars. A desperate father. In a case this shadowy, the truth is easy to hide. Six teenagers dead. Finally, the killer behind bars. But are the games just beginning? Psychiatrist Dr. Gwen Moore is an expert on killers. She’s spent a decade treating California’s most depraved predators and unlocking their…

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Cover Reveal: NEVER COMING HOME by Hannah Mary McKinnon

⁣ I’m thrilled to be part of this cover reveal for 𝗡𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗛𝗢𝗠𝗘 by @hannahmarymckinnon…I’m such a big fan of this author!!! This book pubs on May 24th & I can’t wait for this twisted, darkly humorous thriller.⁣ ⁣ ⁣ 𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗼𝗽𝘀𝗶𝘀 ⁣ First comes love. Then comes murder.⁣ ⁣ Lucas Foster didn’t hate his wife. Michelle was brilliant, sophisticated & beautiful. Sure, she had extravagant spending habits, that petty…

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Review: Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley (audio)

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co / Macmillan Audio Published: March 16, 2021 Source: Print – Personal Copy / Audio – ALC via Macmillan Audio   Summary: For fans of Angie Thomas and Tommy Orange, Angeline Boulley’s debut novel, Firekeeper’s Daughter, is a groundbreaking YA thriller about a Native teen who must root out the corruption in her community. Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and…

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Review: True Crime Story by Joseph Knox (audio)

Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark / Recorded Books Published: December 7, 2021 Source: ARC Paperback via Sourcebooks / ALC via Librofm   Summary: What happens to all the girls who go missing? The thrilling story of a university student’s sudden disappearance, the woman who became obsessed with her case, and the crime writer who uncovered the chilling truth about what happened… In 2011, Zoe Nolan walked out of her dormitory in Manchester…

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Blog Tour & Review: Into the Sound by Cara Reinard (audio)

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer / Brilliance Audio Published: December 1, 2021 Source: ARC Paperback via Publisher via TLC Booktours / Audio via Brilliance Audio   Summary: A terrified voice on the phone. The line goes dead. The mystery begins. During a superstorm, Holly Boswell receives a panicked call from her sister, Vivian: Come get me…There’s somebody coming. But when Holly arrives at a Long Island marina, there’s only her sister’s abandoned car.…

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Review: The Crow Girl by Erik Axl Sund

Publisher: Harvill Secker Published: April 14, 2016 Source: Personal copy   Summary: The most terrifying thriller you’ll read this year It starts with just one body – the hands bound, the skin covered in marks. Detective Superintendent Jeanette Kihlberg is determined to find out who is responsible, despite opposition from her superiors. When two more bodies are found, it becomes clear that she is hunting a serial killer. With her…

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Review: Death Deserved by Jorn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger

Publisher: Orenda Books Published: February 20, 2020 (first published July 2, 2018) Source: Personal copy   Summary: Police officer Alexander Blix and celebrity blogger Emma Ramm join forces to track down a serial killer with a thirst for attention and high-profile murders, in the first episode of a gripping new Nordic Noir series… Oslo, 2018. Former long-distance runner Sonja Nordstrøm never shows at the launch of her controversial autobiography, Always…

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Review: A Blizzard of Polar Bears by Alice Henderson (audio)

Publisher: William Morrow / Harper Audio Published: November 9, 2021 Source: Print – William Morrow / Audio – ALC via Harper Audio   Summary: Wildlife biologist Alex Carter is back, fighting for endangered species in the Canadian Arctic and battling for her life in this action-packed follow-up to A Solitude of Wolverines, “a true stunner of a thriller debut” (James Rollins) and “a great read” (Nevada Barr). Fresh off her wolverine…

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Review: A Solitude of Wolverines by Alice Henderson (print/audio)

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks / Harper Audio Published: October 27, 2021 / October 27, 2020 (audio) Source: Paperback via William Morrow / Audio via library   Summary: The first book in a thrilling series featuring an intrepid wildlife biologist who’s dedicated to saving endangered species…and relies on her superior survival skills to thwart those who aim to stop her. While studying wolverines on a wildlife sanctuary in Montana, biologist Alex…

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Review: The Ice Beneath Her by Camilla Grebe (reread)

Publisher: Random House Audio Published: December 27, 2016 Source: Library   Summary: Acclaimed Swedish author Camilla Grebe makes her solo American debut with a psychological thriller as cunning in its twists as it is captivating in its storytelling – for fans of the celebrated crime fiction of Camilla Läckberg, Jo Nesbø, Ruth Ware, and Fiona Barton. Winter’s chill has descended on Stockholm as police arrive at the scene of a…

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Review: Home Before Dark by Riley Sager (reread)

Publisher: Dutton Books Published: June 30, 2020 Source: Personal copy   Summary: What was it like? Living in that house. Maggie Holt is used to such questions. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a nonfiction book…

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Blog Tour & Review: Everything We Didn’t Say by Nicole Baart (audio)

Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: November 2, 2021 Source: Print: ARC Paperback via Atria Books / Print: ALC via Simon & Schuster Audio   Summary: From the author of Little Broken Things, a “race-to-the-finish family drama” (People) following a mother who must confront the dark summer that changed her life forever in order to reclaim the daughter she left behind. Juniper Baker had just graduated from…

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Review: All Her Little Secrets by Wanda M. Morris (audio)

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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Review: In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead

Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark Published: August 3, 2021 Source: Personal copy   Summary: Six friends. One college reunion. One unsolved murder. A college reunion turns dark and deadly in this chilling and propulsive suspense novel about six friends, one unsolved murder, and the dark secrets they’ve been hiding from each other—and themselves—for a decade. Ten years after graduation, Jessica Miller has planned her triumphant return to southern, elite Duquette University, down…

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Review: The Stillwater Girls by Minka Kent (audio)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio Published: April 9, 2019 Source: Personal copy   Summary: Two sisters raised in fear are about to find out why in a chilling novel of psychological suspense from the author of The Thinnest Air. Ignorant of civilization and cautioned against its evils, nineteen-year-old Wren and her two sisters, Sage and Evie, were raised in off-the-grid isolation in a primitive cabin in upstate New York. When the youngest grows…

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Review: One Little Mistake by Lucinda Berry (audio)

Publisher: Audible Originals Published: September 9, 2021 Source: Personal copy   Summary: From the best-selling author of The Secrets of Us and The Best of Friends comes a novella of deceit, desperation, and how one little mistake can unravel a life. When overwhelmed stay-at-home mom Alexis finds herself at odds with her husband after she’s charged with a DUI, she is given one chance to get her family back: complete AA and admit her…

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Blog Tour & Review: The Mother Next Door by Tara Laskowski

Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for The Mother Next Door by Tara Laskowski. Thank you Graydon House for inviting me to participate. Publisher: Graydon House Published: October 12, 2021 Source: ARC E-copy via Publisher   Summary: GOOD MOTHERS… Never show their feelings. Never spill their secrets. Never admit to murder. The annual Halloween block party is the pinnacle of the year on idyllic…

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Review: No One Will Miss Her by Kat Rosenfield

Publisher: William Morrow Published: October 12, 2021 Source: ARC E-copy via Publisher   Summary: A smart, witty, crackling novel of psychological suspense in which a girl from a hardscrabble small town meets a gorgeous Instagram influencer from the big city, with a murderous twist that will shock even the most savvy reader. On a beautiful October morning in rural Maine, a homicide investigator from the big city pulls into the…

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Review: Last Girl Ghosted by Lisa Unger

Publisher: Park Row Books Published: October 5, 2021 Source: ARC Paperback via Publisher   Summary: Secrets, obsession and vengeance converge in this riveting thriller about an online dating match turned deadly cat-and-mouse game, from the New York Times bestselling author of Confessions on the 7:45. Think twice before you swipe. She met him through a dating app. An intriguing picture on a screen, a date at a downtown bar. What…

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Review: The Corpse Flower by Anne Mette Hancock (audio)

Publisher: Crooked Lane Books / Dreamscape Media LLC Published: October 12, 2021 Source: ARC Paperback – Let’s Talk Books Promo & Publisher / Audio – ALC via Netgalley   Summary: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo meets Sharp Objects in this internationally bestselling psychological thriller, for fans of Jo Nesbø and Henning Mankell, now for the first time in English A Danish journalist digs deep to uncover a web of…

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Review: Nice Girls by Catherine Dang

Publisher: William Morrow Published: September 14, 2021 Source: Netgalley via Publisher   Summary: A pulse-pounding and deviously dark debut, written with the psychological acuity and emotional punch of Luckiest Girl Alive and All the Missing Girls, that explores the hungry, angry, dark side of girlhood and dares to ask what is most dangerous to a woman: showing the world what it wants to see, or who she really is? What…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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)

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: 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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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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