Thicker Than Water by Megan Collins #bookfeature #upcomingrelease

Today, I’m featuring a book that is coming out this summer. I have been a fan of Megan Collins ever since reading her debut novel, The Winter Sister, and I am so excited for this upcoming book! Get ready to add this to your summer tbr!!! Thank you #Thrillerbookloverspromotions for inviting me to help spread the word about this upcoming release and thank you Atria Books for the gifted copy!!!  …

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Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Harper Audio /Netgalley, #partner for the ALC of Wrong Place Wrong Time in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Harper Audio Published: August 2, 2022   Summary: From UK bestselling author Gillian McAllister comes an astonishing, compulsively twisty psychological thriller about a mother who witnesses her teenage son stab a man and then seizes on an unconventional way to try to save him, deemed “perfection, every word, every moment”…

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The Only Survivors by Megan Miranda #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio, #partner for the ALC of The Only Survivors in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Published: April 11, 2023   Summary: A mystery about a group of former classmates who reunite to mark the tenth anniversary of a tragic accident—only to have one of the survivors disappear, casting fear and suspicion on the original tragedy. Seven hours in the past. Seven…

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Beyond Reach by Karin Slaughter #bookreview #audiobook #series

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Brilliance Audio Published: July 31, 2007   Summary: In a stifling jail cell in a hardscrabble Georgia town, Detective Lena Adams sits in stubborn silence: bruised, angry, and the only suspect in a horrific murder that left a woman incinerated beyond recognition. One hundred miles away, Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver has gotten the call that his young detective has been arrested. Jeffrey’s…

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Blood Sugar by Sascha Rothchild #bookfeature #paperbackrelease

Today, I’m featuring a book that is coming out in paperback next week. This book has been on my tbr since it first came out in hardcover last year and you better believe that I will be high-tailing it to the bookstore on Tuesday to grab a copy of it when the paperback copy hits the shelves! Thank you #Thrillerbookloverspromotions for inviting me to help spread the word about this…

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A Truth for a Truth by Carol Wyer #blogtour #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Brilliance Audio for the ALC and #ZooloosBooktours, #partner, for the advanced copy of A Truth for a Truth in exchange for my honest review.      Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for A Truth for a Truth. Thank you ZooloosBooktours for inviting me to participate. I have long been a fan of Carol Wyer’s books and this is the latest…

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The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth #bookreview

Thank you St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the advanced copy of The Soulmate in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Published: April 4, 2023   Summary: Get ready for a thrilling, addictive novel about marriage, betrayal, and the secrets that push us to the edge in Sally Hepworth’s The Soulmate. There’s a cottage on a cliff. Gabe and Pippa’s dream home in a sleepy coastal town. But their…

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Faithless by Karin Slaughter #bookreview #audiobook #series

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: Random House Audio Published: October 4, 2006   Summary: The victim was buried alive in the Georgia woods – then killed in a horrifying fashion. When Sara Linton and Jeffrey Tolliver stumble upon the body, both become consumed with finding out who killed the pretty young woman. For them, a harrowing journey begins, one that will test their own turbulent relationship and…

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What Have We Done by Alex Finlay #bookreview

Thank you Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of What Have We Done in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: March 7, 2023   Summary: In this thriller from Alex Finlay, What Have We Done is a tale about the lives we leave behind and the secrets we carry with us forever. A stay-at-home mom with a past. A has-been rock star with a habit. A…

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The Family Bones by Elle Marr #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Brilliance Audio for the ALC and WunderKind PR , #partner, for the advanced copy of The Family Bones in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer / Brilliance Audio Published: March 7, 2023   Summary: What makes a psychopath? A young woman delves into her family’s shadowy legacy in a terrifying novel by the #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author of Strangers We Know. Psychology student Olivia Eriksen’s…

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The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewel #bookreview

I received this book from a friend. Publisher: Atria Books Published: September 7, 2021   Summary: 2017: 19 year old Tallulah is going out on a date, leaving her baby with her mother, Kim. Kim watches her daughter leave and, as late evening turns into night, which turns into early morning, she waits for her return. And waits. The next morning, Kim phones Tallulah’s friends who tell her that Tallulah…

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A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham #bookreview #audiobook #backlistreview

Thank you Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of A Flicker in the Dark in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: January 11, 2022   Summary: From debut author Stacy Willingham comes a masterfully done, lyrical thriller, certain to be the launch of an amazing career. A Flicker in the Dark is eerily compelling to the very last…

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Ready or Not by Alex Lake #bookreview #audiobook #backlistreview

Thank you HarperCollins360, #partner, for the finished copy of Ready or Not in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Harper Collins / HarperAudio Published: January 4, 2022   Summary: A happy family… Alice and Tom Sark seem to have it all – a wonderful marriage, a gorgeous baby, a beautiful home. And now Alice, a journalist, starts investigating a story which could make…

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How I’ll Kill You by Ren DeStefano #bookreview

Thank you Berkley Books, #partner, for the finished copy of How I’ll Kill You in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Berkley Books Pub date: March 21, 2023   Summary: Your next stay-up-all-night thriller, about identical triplets who have a nasty habit of killing their boyfriends, and what happens when the youngest commits their worst crime yet: falling in love with her mark. Make him want you. Make him love you.…

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Murder Your Employer by Rupert Holmes #bookreview

Thank you BookClubFavorites & Avid Reader Press #partner, for the finished copy of Murder Your Employer in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Avider Reader Press Published: February 21, 2023   Summary: From the diabolical imagination of Edgar Award–winning novelist, playwright, and story-songwriter Rupert Holmes comes a devilish thriller with a killer concept: The McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts, a luxurious, clandestine college dedicated to the fine art of…

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Hostage by Clare Mackintosh #bookreview #audiobook

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark / Penguin Random House Audio Published: June 22, 2021   Summary: You can save hundreds of lives. Or the one that matters most. A claustrophobic thriller set over twenty hours on one airplane flight, with the heart-stopping tension of The Last Flight and the wrenching emotional intensity of Room, Hostage takes us on board the inaugural…

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Red Queen by Juan Gomez-Jurado #bookreview

Thank you Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Red Queen in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: March 14, 2023   Summary: Introducing Antonia Scott – the most compelling and original detective since Lisbeth Salander – in the international bestselling thriller that has taken the world by storm. Red Queen is the first book in a trilogy that has sold over 2 million copies in Spain, sold…

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The Long Weekend by Gilly Macmillan #bookreview

Thank you Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Long Weekend in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: William Morrow Published: March 29, 2022   Summary: Three couples. Two bodies. One secret. Dark Fell Barn is a “perfectly isolated” retreat, or so says its website when Jayne books a reservation for her friends. A quiet place, far removed from the rest of the world, is exactly what they need. The…

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Indelible by Karin Slaughter #bookreview #audiobook #series

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: HarperAudio Published: February 10, 2015   Summary: Two armed men enter the police station in tiny Heartsdale, Georgia, and open fire. When the shooting stops, an officer is dead, Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver is seriously wounded, and the survivors—including a class of grade-school children and medical examiner Sara Linton—are held hostage. In a tense standoff that could erupt at any moment into more bloodletting—with…

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The Kind Worth Saving by Peter Swanson #bookreview

Thank you Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Kind Worth Saving in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: William Morrow Published: March 7, 2023     Summary: In this spectacularly devious novel by New York Times bestselling author Peter Swanson—featuring the smart and complex Lily Kintner from his acclaimed novel, The Kind Worth Killing—a private eye starts to follow a possibly adulterous husband, but little does he know that the twisted…

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Night Flight to Paris by Cara Black #bookreview #audiobook #series

Thank you Netgalley / RB Media , for the ALC and Soho Crime, #partner for the advanced copy  of Night Flight to Paris in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Soho Crime / Recorded Books Published: March 7, 2023   Summary: It is once again up to American markswoman Kate Rees to take the shot that just might win—or lose—World War II, in the followup to national bestseller Three Hours in Paris.…

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A Faint Cold Fear by Karin Slaughter #bookreview #audiobook #series

I borrowed this audiobook from the library. Publisher: HarperAudio Published: February 10, 2015   Summary: An apparent student suicide has brought medical examiner Sara Linton to the local college campus, along with her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver. But a horribly mutilated corpse yields up few answers. And a suspicious rash of subsequent “suicides” suggests that a different kind of terror is stalking the youth of Heartsdale, Georgia – a nightmare that…

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When She Disappeared by Steph Mullin, Nicole Mabry #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you HarperCollins360, #partner, for the advanced copy of When She Disappeared in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Avon Published: September 20, 2022   Summary: ‘On May 26, 2004, Jessie Germaine went to school as normal and cheered at the end of year rally. That evening, she rode her bike into the forest and disappeared…into thin air.’ Margo hasn’t been back to Lake…

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Cold-Blooded Liar by Karen Rose #blogtour #bookfeature

Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for Cold-Blooded Liar. Thank you Berkley Books for inviting me to participate. I have a book spotlight and excerpt for you today. Publisher: Berkley Books Published: February 28, 2023   Summary: Brace yourself for a scorching new series from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen Rose, where San Diego means sun, surf, sand…and serial killers. Sam Reeves is…

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The House Guest by Hank Phillippi Ryan #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Macmillan Audio /Netgalley for the ALC and Forge Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The House Guest in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Forge Books / Macmillan Audio Published: February 7, 2023   Summary: The House Guest is another diabolical cat-and-mouse thriller from USA Today bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan—but which character is the cat, and which character is the mouse? After every divorce, one spouse gets all the friends.…

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None of This is True by Lisa Jewell #bookreview

Thank you Atria Books, #partner for the advanced copy of None of This is True in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books Published: August 8, 2023   Summary: Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself the subject of her own popular true crime podcast. Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an…

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The Personal Assistant by Kimberly Belle #bookreview

Thank you Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Personal Assistant in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Park Row Published: November 29, 2022   Summary: USA TODAY bestselling author Kimberly Belle returns with a deeply addictive thriller exploring the dark side of the digital world when a mommy-blogger’s assistant goes missing. When Alex first began posting unscripted family moments and motivational messages online, she had no intention of becoming…

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Sea Castle by Andrew Mayne #bookreview #series

Thank you Thomas & Mercer, #partner for the finished copy of Sea Castle in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Published: February 21, 2023   Summary: When a young woman washes ashore on a Fort Lauderdale beach, Sloan McPherson of the Underwater Investigation Unit is called in to consult. Sloan’s instinct says murder, but even then, there are too many questions. For answers she reaches out to Gwen…

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Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Libro.fm / Penguin Random House Audio, #partner for the ALC  of Age of Vice in exchange for my honest review. I purchased a print copy for my own collection. Publisher: Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House Audio Published: January 3, 2023   Summary: This is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also kill. New Delhi, 3 a.m.…

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Someone Else’s Life by Lyn Liao Butler #bookreview #bookclub

Thank you  Get Red PR , #partner, for the finished copy of Someone Else’s Life in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Published: February 1, 2023   Summary: A new life in paradise should have healed her wounds. But for a woman struggling to hold on to her family and her sanity, one stormy night could change everything. Blow by blow, Annie Lin’s life crumbles. Her dance…

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Three Widows by Patricia Gibney #bookreview #audiobook #series

Thank you Bookouture for the audiobook and Bookouture & Netgalley, #partner,  for the advanced copy of The Guilty Girl in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Bookouture Published: February 10, 2023   Summary: She kissed her daughter, turned out the light and entered her own room. Too late to run, she stood frozen as a figure stepped out from behind the door and a hand covered her mouth. Fear was a…

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The Blackhouse by Carole Johnstone #bookreview

Thank you BookClubFavorites & Scribner Books #partner, for the finished copy of The Blackhouse in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Scriber Books Published: January 3, 2023   Summary: From the author of the “dark and devious…beautifully written” (Stephen King) Mirrorland comes a richly atmospheric thriller set on an isolated Scottish island where nothing is as it seems and shocking twists lie around every corner. A remote village. A deadly secret. An…

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The Last Grudge by Max Seeck #bookreview #series #translatedbook #blogtour

Thank you Berkley Books, #partner, for the finished copy of The Last Grudge in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Berkley Books Pub date: February 7, 2023   Summary: While her colleagues investigate the brutal murder of a prominent businessman, Jessica Niemi must battle demons from her past in this terrifying new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Witch Hunter. Powerful executive Eliel Zetterborg has been found murdered in his…

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Stay Awake by Megan Goldin #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you St. Martin’s Press, #partner for the advanced copy of Stay Awake in exchange for my honest review. I purchased the audiobook for my own collection. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: August 9, 2022   Summary: A murder she doesn’t remember committing. A killer she doesn’t remember meeting. Megan Goldin’s Stay Awake is an electrifying novel that proves memory can be deadly. Liv Reese wakes up in the back…

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Exiles by Jane Harper #bookreview #audiobook #series

Thank you Macmillan Audio /Netgalley, #partner for the ALC of Exiles in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Macmillan Audio Published: January 31, 2023   Summary: Federal Investigator Aaron Falk is on his way to a small town deep in Southern Australian wine country for the christening of an old friend’s baby. But mystery follows him, even on vacation. This weekend marks the one-year anniversary of Kim Gillespie’s disappearance. One year…

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Three Hours in Paris by Cara Black #bookreview #audiobook #series

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Soho Crime / Recorded Books Published: April 7, 2020   Summary: In June of 1940, when Paris fell to the Nazis, Hitler spent a total of three hours in the City of Light-abruptly leaving, never to return. To this day, no one knows why. The New York Times best-selling author of the Aimee Leduc investigations…

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The Fires by Sigridur Hagalin Bjornsdottir #bookreview #translatedbook

Thank you MB Communications & Amazon Crossing #partner, for the advanced copy of The Fires in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Amazon Crossing Published: February 1, 2023   Summary: From Icelandic author Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir comes a heart-wrenching thriller about a woman’s desperate quest to save the people she loves from a natural disaster. After an eight-hundred-year slumber, the volcanoes in Iceland’s most populated region are showing signs of…

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Devil’s Way by Robert Bryndza #bookreview #audiobook #netgalley #series

Thank you Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced copy of Devil’s Way in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Raven Street Publishing Published: January 12, 2023   Summary: THE TRUTH HIDES IN THE DARK Kate Marshall’s investigation into a young boy’s disappearance sends her down an unexpectedly twisted path in a riveting thriller by multi-million bestselling author, Robert Bryndza.  When Private Investigator Kate Marshall is rushed to hospital after being pulled into…

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Hide in Place by Emilya Naymark #bookreview #audiobook #series

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Crooked Lane Books / Dreamscape Media Published: February 9, 2021 / February 25, 2021   Summary: She left the NYPD in the firestorm of a high-profile case gone horribly wrong. Three years later, the ghosts of her past roar back to terrifying life. When NYPD undercover cop Laney Bird’s cover is blown in…

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What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Macmillan Audio /Netgalley for the ALC and Flatiron Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of What Lies in the Woods in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Flatiron Books / Macmillan Audio Published: January 17, 2023   Summary: They were eleven when they sent a killer to prison . . . They were heroes . . . but they were liars. Naomi Shaw used to believe in magic. Twenty-two…

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Just the Nicest Couple by Mary Kubica #bookreview

Thank you to Thoughts From a Page, Park Row Books, #partner, for an advanced copy of Just the Nicest Couple in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Park Row Books Published: January 10, 2023   Summary: Two couples, two close friends, one missing husband… Jake Hayes is missing. This much is certain. At first, his wife, Nina, thinks he is blowing off steam at a friend’s house after their heated…

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City Under One Roof by Iris Yamashita #bookreview #blogtour

Thank you Berkley Books, #partner, for the finished copy of City Under One Roof in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Berkley Books Pub date: January 10, 2023   Summary: A stranded detective tries to solve a murder in a tiny Alaskan town where everyone lives in a single high-rise building, in this gripping debut by an Academy Award–nominated screenwriter. When a local teenager discovers a severed hand and foot washed…

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All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan, #partner for the ALC  of All the Dangerous Things in exchange for my honest review. I purchased a print copy for my own collection. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: January 10, 2023   Summary: Following up her instant New York Times bestseller, A Flicker in the Dark, Stacy Willingham delivers a totally gripping thriller about a desperate mother with a troubled past in All the Dangerous Things.…

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Regrets Only by Kieran Scott #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and @BookClubFavorites & Gallery Books #partner,  for the finished copy of Regrets Only in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Gallery Books / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: January 10, 2023   Summary: In a fast-paced new novel in the vein of Big Little Lies, a single mom goes undercover to investigate a host of disturbing secrets held by the leaders of…

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Force of Nature by Jane Harper #bookreview #audiobook

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Flatiron Books / Macmillan Audio Published: February 6, 2018   Summary: Five women go on a hike. Only four return. Force of Nature begs the question: How well do you really know the people you work with?  When five colleagues are forced to go on a corporate retreat in the wilderness, they reluctantly pick up…

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The Nowhere Child by Christian White #bookreview #audiobook

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Minotaur Books / Macmillan Audio Published: January 22, 2019 (first published June 2018)   Summary: Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, The Nowhere Child is screenwriter Christian White’s internationally bestselling debut thriller of psychological suspense about a woman uncovering devastating secrets about her family–and her very identity… Kimberly Leamy is a photography teacher in…

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Gallows Rock by Yrsa Sigurdardottir, translated by Victoria Cribb #bookreview #series #translatedbook

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Published: May 28, 2020   Summary: On a jagged, bleak lava field just outside Reykjavik stands the Gallows Rock. Once a place of execution, it is now a tourist attraction. Until this morning, when a man was found hanging from it… The nail embedded in his chest proves it wasn’t suicide. But when the police go to…

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The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Librofm/Penguin Audio for the ALC and Dutton/Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced e-galley of The House in the Pines in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Dutton / Penguin Audio Published: January 3, 2023   Summary: Armed with only hazy memories, a woman who long ago witnessed her friend’s sudden, mysterious death, and has since spent her life trying to forget, sets out to track down answers. What she…

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No One Knows Us Here by Rebecca Kelley #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Brilliance Audio for the ALC and MB Communications & Lake Union Publishing #partner, for the advanced copy of No One Knows Us Here in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Lake Union Publishing / Brilliance Audio Published: January 1, 2023   Summary: In this gripping novel about obsession, control, and self-preservation, a woman desperate to provide a new life for her sister enters a compromising arrangement with an…

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The Skeleton Key by Erin Kelly #bookreview

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Published: September 1, 2022   Summary: THIS REUNION WILL TEAR A FAMILY APART… Summer, 2021. Nell has come home at her family’s insistence to celebrate an anniversary. Fifty years ago, her father wrote The Golden Bones. Part picture book, part treasure hunt, Sir Frank Churcher created a fairy story about Elinore, a murdered woman whose skeleton was scattered all over…

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