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k2reader September 23, 2023

Salthouse Place by Jamie Lee Sogn #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you to Kathleen Carther Communications, Lake Union Publishing, #partner, for an advanced copy of Salthouse Place in exchange for my honest review. I purchased the audiobook. Publisher: Lake Union Publishing / Brilliance Audio Published: September 1, 2023 Summary: From debut author Jamie Sogn comes a twisty thriller about the allure of the past and the danger of the truth as a young woman dives headlong into a cult…

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k2reader September 21, 2023

Rekjavik by Ragnar Jonasson, Katrin Jakobsdottir #bookreview #authorevent #translatedbook

Thank you Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Reykjavik in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: September 5, 2023 Summary: With over three million copies sold worldwide, Ragnar Jónasson, along with Katrín Jakobsdóttir, brings us a gripping and chilling new thriller, Reykjavík. What happened to Lára? Iceland, 1956. Fourteen-year-old Lára decides to spend the summer working for a couple on the small island…

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k2reader September 20, 2023

These Still Black Waters by Christina McDonald #bookreview

Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers Promotions, Thomas & Mercer, #partner, for an advanced e- copy of These Still Black Waters in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Published: October 1, 2023 Summary: Two women struggle toward a dark truth as a killer avenges the sins of the past in a twisting novel of suspense by the USA Today bestselling author of Do No Harm, Behind Every Lie, and The Night Olivia Fell. After…

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k2reader September 20, 2023

The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark #bookreview #audiobook

I purchased this book and audiobook for my own personal collection. Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark / Audible Studios Published: June 21, 2022 Summary: From author Julie Clark comes a twisted con-woman thriller about two women out for revenge―or is it justice? Two women. Many aliases. Meg Williams. Maggie Littleton. Melody Wilde. Different names for the same person, depending on the town, depending on the job. She’s a con artist who erases…

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k2reader September 19, 2023

One of the Boys by Jayne Cowie #bookreview

Thank you Berkley Books #partner, for the finished copy of One of the Boys in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Berkley Books Published: July 11, 2023 Summary: A mother knows best… Doesn’t she? Antonia and Bea are sisters. They are both doting mothers to their sons. But that is where their similarities end. Antonia had her son tested at an early age to ensure her little angel did…

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k2reader September 19, 2023

Dark August by Katie Tallo #bookreview #bookseries #backlistreview

Thank you Harper Perennial, #partner, for the advanced copy of Dark August in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Harper Paperbacks Published: June 30, 2020 Summary: An electrifying, page-turning debut about a young woman haunted by her tragic past, who returns to her hometown and discovers that there might be more to her police detective mother’s death–and last case–than she ever could have imagined. Augusta (Gus) Monet is living…

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k2reader September 18, 2023

Breathless by Amy McCulloch #bookreview #audiobook

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Anchor Books / Random House Audio Published: May 3, 2022 Summary: IT’S ICE COLD. YOU’RE MILES FROM HELP. AND ONE OF YOU WILL BE NEXT . . . A high-altitude thriller that will take your breath away—Cecily Wong is on her most dangerous climb yet, miles above sea level. But the elements are…

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k2reader September 18, 2023

More Than Meets the Eye by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

Thank you Hachette Audio, #partner for the ALC of More Than Meets the Eye in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Hachette Audio Published: February 7, 2023 Summary: New York Times bestselling authors Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen team up for another electrifying thriller that pits a serial killer against Kendra Michaels’ heightened powers of deduction. After scoring a plea deal in a high-profile murder trial, serial killer James Michael…

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k2reader September 13, 2023

The Killing Room by Robert Swartwood #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Blackstone Publishing, #partner for the ALC of The Killing Room in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Published: August 22, 2023 Summary: From USA Today bestselling author Robert Swartwood comes another bone-chilling thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat. While on vacation in Las Vegas, a businessman wakes up in a strange hotel room to find a dead woman in the bathtub. Panicked,…

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k2reader September 10, 2023

What the Neighbors Saw by Melissa Adelman #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of What the Neighbors Saw in exchange for my honest review. I purchased the audiobook for my own collection. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: June 20, 2023 Summary: Desperate Housewives meets The Couple Next Door in a chilling story of murder and intrigue set in a well-to-do DC suburb. Sometimes the darkest acts occur in the most beautiful houses……

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k2reader September 5, 2023

The Last Housewife by Ashley Winstead #bookreview #audiobook

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark / Blackstone Audio Published: August 16, 2022 Summary: From the author of the acclaimed In My Dreams I Hold a Knife comes a pitch-black thriller about a woman determined to destroy a powerful cult and avenge the deaths of the women taken in by it, no matter the cost. While in college in…

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k2reader September 4, 2023

Chloe Cates is Missing by Mandy McHugh #bookreview #audiobook

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Published: January 18, 2022 Summary: The disappearance of a young internet celebrity ignites a firestorm of speculation on social media, and to find her a detective will have to extinguish the blaze. Chloe Cates is missing. The 13-year-old star of the hit YouTube series CC and Me has disappeared, and nobody knows where she’s gone – least of all ruthless momager…

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k2reader September 1, 2023

The Trap by Catherine Ryan Howard #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Libro.fm / Blackstone Publishing, for the ALC and Blackstone Publishing, #partner for the advanced copy of The Trap in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Blackstone Publishing / Blackstone Publishing Published: August 1, 2023 Summary: From award-winning, internationally bestselling crime writer Catherine Ryan Howard comes The Trap: an unsettling mystery inspired by a series of still-unsolved disappearances in Ireland in the 90s, wherein one young woman risks everything to…

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k2reader August 29, 2023

Girl, 11 by Amy Suiter Clarke #bookreview #audiobook

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Harper Audio Published: April 20, 2021 Summary: Elle Castillo once trained as a social worker, supporting young victims of violent crime. Now, she hosts a popular true crime podcast that focuses on cold cases of missing and abducted children. After four seasons of successfully solving these cases in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, Elle decides to tackle her white whale: The Countdown Killer.…

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k2reader August 17, 2023

Beneath the Surface by Kaira Rouda #bookreview

Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers Promotions, Thomas & Mercer, #partner, for an advanced e- copy of Beneath the Surface in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Published: September 5, 2023 Summary: On a weekend voyage, the power-hungry children of an aging billionaire are unprepared for a storm of deceptions in a novel about ruthless family ambition by USA Today bestselling author Kaira Rouda. You are cordially invited to an…

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k2reader August 16, 2023

After That Night by Karin Slaughter #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

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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k2reader August 16, 2023

The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and @BookClubFavorites & Atria/Emily Bestler Books #partner, for the finished copy of The Writing Retreat in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: February 21, 2023 Summary: The Plot meets Please Join Us in this psychological suspense debut about a young author at an exclusive writer’s retreat that descends into a nightmare. Alex has all…

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k2reader August 14, 2023

The Bones of the Story by Carol Goodman #bookreview

Thank you to Thoughts from a Page, William Morrow Books, #partner, for an advanced e-copy of The Bones of the Story in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Books Published: July 11, 2023 Summary: The twisty locked-room mystery from two-time Mary Higgins Clark Award–winning author Carol Goodman, about a group of former classmates trapped on their college campus—with a murderer among them. It’s been twenty-five years since…

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k2reader August 12, 2023

The Bone Hacker by Kathy Reichs #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio, #partner for the ALC of The Bone Hacker in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Simon and Schuster Audio Published: August 1, 2023 Summary: #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her twenty-second high-stakes thriller featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan who, following a series of bizarre disappearances on the islands of Turks and Caicos, enters a sinister labyrinth in which…

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k2reader August 11, 2023

Small Town Sins by Ken Jaworowski #bookreview

Thank you to Henry Holt Books, #partner, for an advanced copy of Small Town Sins in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Henry Holt & Co Published: August 1, 2023 Summary: Ken Jaworowski’s Small Town Sins is a gripping Rust Belt thriller that captures the characters of a down-and-out Pennsylvania town, revealing their troubled pasts and the crimes that could cost them their lives. In Locksburg, Pennsylvania, a former coal and…

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k2reader August 7, 2023

Dark Corners by Megan Goldin #bookreview #audiobook

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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k2reader August 4, 2023

Broadway Butterfly by Sara DiVello #bookreview

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Published: August 1, 2023 Summary: New York in the Roaring Twenties—a riveting true-crime novel, based on one of the most notorious unsolved murders of the era, where power, politics, and secrets conspire to bury the truth. Manhattan, 1923. Scandalous flapper Dot King is found dead in her Midtown apartment, a bottle of chloroform beside her and a fortune…

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k2reader August 4, 2023

The Game She Plays by Siena Sterling #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you to Bibliolifestyle, William Morrow, #partner, for a finished copy of The Game She Plays in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: William Morrow / Harper Audio Published: June 6, 2023 Summary: From the author of Tell Us No Secrets comes a twisty new novel. A young American woman is thrust into the closed social circle of English aristocrats, but beneath their charm…

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k2reader August 3, 2023

Just Another Missing Person by Gillan McAllister #bookreview

Thank you to William Morrow, #partner, for an advanced copy of Just Another Missing Person in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Published: August 1, 2023 Summary: From the author of the Reese’s Book Club Pick and the New York Times bestseller Wrong Place Wrong Time comes a new heart-stopping thriller in which a missing-person case unravels deeper, darker secrets that lead a detective to an impossible moral choice. 22-year-old Olivia has…

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k2reader July 31, 2023

The Silent Wife by Karin Slaughter #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries #reread

Thank you to William Morrow, #partner, for an advanced copy of The Silent Wife in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: William Morrow Books / Blackstone Audio Published: August 4, 2020 Summary: Atlanta, Georgia. Present day. A young woman is brutally attacked and left for dead. The police investigate but the trail goes cold. Until a chance assignment takes GBI investigator Will…

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k2reader July 29, 2023

The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Blackstone Audio Published: August 20, 2019 Summary: New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter brings back Will Trent and Sara Linton in this superb and timely thriller full of devious twists, disturbing secrets, and shocking surprises you won’t see coming. A mysterious kidnapping On a hot summer night, a scientist from the Centers for Disease Control is grabbed by unknown assailants in a…

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k2reader July 28, 2023

A Ghost of Caribou by Alice Henderson #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: William Morrow / Harper Audio Published: November 15, 2022 Summary: Building upon the highly acclaimed debut of Alice Henderson’s A Solitude of Wolverines and its follow-up thriller A Blizzard of Polar Bears comes the eagerly anticipated and electrifying third installment A Ghost of Caribou, in which wildlife biologist Alex Carter encounters an unsolved murder and a town in…

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k2reader July 28, 2023

Cleaning the Gold by Karin Slaughter, Lee Child #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Harper Audio Published: May 9, 2019 Summary: The new short story from Karin Slaughter and Lee Child! Twice the action. Twice the drama. Double the trouble. Will Trent is undercover at Fort Knox. His assignment: to investigate a 22-year-old murder. His suspect’s name: Jack Reacher. Jack Reacher is in Fort Knox on his own mission: to bring down a dangerous criminal ring…

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k2reader July 28, 2023

The Kept Woman by Karin Slaughter #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Blackstone Audio Published: September 20, 2016 Summary: It’s the most dangerous case of Will Trent’s career. He knows this from the moment he sets foot in the abandoned Atlanta warehouse where a body lies on the floor—the body of an ex-cop. Bloody footprints leading away from the scene reveal that another victim, evidently a woman, was carried away and has vanished…

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k2reader July 23, 2023

The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine #bookreview #audiobook #reread

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Harper Audio Published: October 17, 2017 Summary: Amber Patterson is fed up. She’s tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background. She deserves more – a life of money and power like the one blond-haired, blue-eyed goddess Daphne Parrish takes for granted. To everyone in the exclusive town of Bishops Harbor, Connecticut, Daphne – a…

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k2reader July 22, 2023

Unseen by Karin Slaughter #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Harper Audio Published: July 7, 2020 (first published 2013) Summary: Detectives, lovers, and enemies are pitted against one another in an unforgettable standoff between righteous courage and deepest evil from New York Times best-selling author Karin Slaughter. Will Trent is a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent whose latest case has him posing as Bill Black, a scary ex-con who rides a motorcycle around…

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k2reader July 21, 2023

A Twisted Love Story by Samantha Downing #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you PRH Audio for the ALC and Berkley #partner, for the finished copy of A Twisted Love Story in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Berkley / Random House Audio Published: July 18, 2023 Summary: From the bestselling author of My Lovely Wife comes a reckless, delicious thriller about a young couple that gives a whole new meaning to the dangers of modern dating. Wes and Ivy are madly in…

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k2reader July 21, 2023

Night Will Find You by Julia Heaberlin #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Flatiron Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Night Will Find You in exchange for my honest review. I purchased the audiobook for my own collection. Publisher: Flatiron Books / Macmillan Audio Published: June 20, 2023 Summary: A scientist with a special gift riles a wasp’s nest of conspiracy theories while investigating a cold case in this riveting novel from the acclaimed and bestselling author of Black-Eyed…

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k2reader July 20, 2023

One Night by Georgina Cross #bookreview

Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers Promotions, Penguin Random House, #partner, for an advanced copy of One Night in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Bantam Published: August 1, 2023 Summary: One night. That’s all the time a family has to decide what to do with the man they believe murdered their daughter: Do they forgive him, or take justice into their own hands? An electrifying novel by the author of Nanny…

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k2reader July 17, 2023

Busted by Karin Slaughter #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Blackstone Audio Published: June 24, 2014 (first published 2013) Summary: From Karin Slaughter comes a fast and furious tale in which no one is quite who they seem. This electrifying eBook novella featuring Will Trent is a prequel to Slaughter’s upcoming novel, Unseen. Detective Will Trent is standing in a Georgia convenience store, waiting on an obstinate Icee frozen drink machine. To…

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k2reader July 16, 2023

Strange Sally Diamond #bookreview

Thank you to the author & Gallery/Scout Press, #partner, for the advanced copy of Strange Sally Diamond in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Gallery/Scout Press Published: July 18, 2023 Summary: The internationally bestselling author of Lying in Wait returns with a wickedly dark, twisted, and brilliantly observed new novel about an enigmatic woman confronting her unknown past. Reclusive Sally Diamond causes outrage by trying to incinerate her dead father. Now…

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k2reader July 13, 2023

Gone Tonight by Sarah Pekkanen #bookfeature #upcomingrelease

Next month, Sarah Pekkanen’s solo thriller, Gone Tonight, will be released. I was fortunate to be sent some extra copies, so I am giving them away. I will be reading this book very soon and am so excited – I have loved the thrillers so co-wrote with Greer Henricks and this one sounds just as good! But just take note…the giveaway is happening on my Instagram page – head here…

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k2reader July 12, 2023

Criminal by Karin Slaughter #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Harper Audio Published: July 9, 2019 (first published 2012) Summary: Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Newly in love, he is beginning to put a difficult past behind him. Then a local college student goes missing, and Will is inexplicably kept off the case by his supervisor and mentor, deputy director Amanda Wagner. Will cannot…

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k2reader July 10, 2023

Little Cruelties by Liz Nugent #bookreview #bookclub

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Gallery/Scout Press Published: November 10, 2020 Summary: Three brothers are at the funeral. One lies in the coffin. Will, Brian and Luke grow up competing for their mother’s unequal love. As men, the competition continues – for status, money, fame, women … They each betray each other, over and over, until one of them is dead. But which brother killed…

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k2reader July 7, 2023

The Clearing by Simon Toyne #bookreview #bookseries

Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers Promotions, William Morrow, #partner, for a finished copy of The Clearing in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Published: July 11, 2023 Summary: In this gripping suspense novel from the bestselling author of the Sanctus trilogy, lead forensic expert Laughton Rees is back, this time investigating a series of missing women in a small town near the Forest of Dean–where she uncovers a dark…

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k2reader July 6, 2023

Thicker Than Water by Megan Collins #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Atria Books #partner, for the advanced copy of Thicker Than Water in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books/ Simon & Schuster ALC Published: July 11, 2023 Summary: Two sisters-in-law find themselves at painful odds when the man who connects them—the brother of one, the husband of the other—is accused of a brutal crime in this twisty thriller from…

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k2reader July 6, 2023

Dark Objects by Simon Toyne #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Harper Audio Published: July 12, 2022 Summary: Forensics expert Laughton Rees hunts an unusually clever killer who appears to be staging murder scenes just for her in this twisty new psychological thriller by the bestselling author of the Sanctus trilogy. How do you catch a killer if the victim doesn’t exist? A glamorous woman is murdered in her ultra-luxurious London mansion and…

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k2reader July 6, 2023

Snatched by Karin Slaughter #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Published: July 1, 2013 Summary: While in an airport restroom in Atlanta, Will Trent, an agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, overhears a girl pleading to go home and knows something is wrong. But he waits too long to act, and now the girl and the angry man she’s with have disappeared into the crowds at the busiest…

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k2reader June 28, 2023

The Quiet Tenant #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you PRH Audio for the ALC and Knopf #partner, for the advanced e-copy of The Quiet Tenant in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Knopf / Random House Audio Published: June 20, 2023 Summary: A pulse-pounding psychological thriller about a serial killer narrated by those closest to him: His 13-year-old daughter, his girlfriend—and the one victim he has spared Aidan Thomas is a hard-working family man and a…

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k2reader June 28, 2023

The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave #bookreview #audiobook #reread

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Published: May 4, 2021 Summary: The instant #1 New York Times bestselling mystery and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick that’s captivated more than a million readers about a woman searching for the truth about her husband’s disappearance…at any cost. Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion…

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k2reader June 24, 2023

Fallen by Karin Slaughter #bookreview #audiobook #bookseries

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Harper Audio Published: August 28, 2018 (Originally published 2011) Summary: There’s no police training stronger than a cop’s instinct. Faith Mitchell’s mother isn’t answering her phone. Her front door is open. There’s a bloodstain above the knob. Her infant daughter is hidden in a shed behind the house. All that the Georgia Bureau of Investigations taught Faith Mitchell goes out the window…

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k2reader June 23, 2023

The Last Word by Taylor Adams #bookreview

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: William Morrow Published: April 25, 2023 Summary: After posting a negative book review, a woman living in a remote location begins to wonder if the author is a little touchy—or very, very dangerous—in this pulse-pounding novel of psychological suspense and terror from the critically acclaimed author of No Exit and Hairpin Bridge. Emma Carpenter lives in isolation with her golden…

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k2reader June 20, 2023

Lay Your Body Down by Amy Suiter Clarke #bookreview

Thank you to ThrillerBookLovers Promotions, William Morrow, #partner, for a finished copy of Lay Your Body Down in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: William Morrow Published: June 27, 2023 Summary: A young woman returns to her rural Minnesota hometown, where a radical evangelical pastor has poisoned everyone’s minds—and may be covering up a murder. After Del Walker fled her small hometown and its cult-like church, she vowed to…

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k2reader June 14, 2023

The Long Way Back by Nicole Baart #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Atria Books #partner, for the advanced copy of The Long Way Back in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books/ Simon & Schuster ALC Published: June 13, 2023 Summary: When an Instagram-famous teenager mysteriously disappears, her mother grapples with the revelation of dark secrets in this twisty, atmospheric thriller—from the author of the “poignant, riveting” (Wendy Walker, author of Don’t…

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k2reader June 14, 2023

Between Two Strangers by Kate White #bookreview #audiobook

I purchased this audiobook for my own personal collection. Publisher: HarperAudio Published: May 16, 2023 Summary: A woman receives a bewildering inheritance that may have something to do with her past in this twisty and addictive psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author Entertainment Weekly calls “impossible to outwit.” Struggling artist Skyler Moore is flabbergasted when she receives a suspicious phone call from a lawyer she’s never met regarding a “private matter.”…

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