thriller – Page 9 – Always With a Book

k2reader July 20, 2022

Hokuloa Road by Elizabeth Hand #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Hachette Audio for the ALC and @NovelSuspects & Mulholland Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Hokuloa Road in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Mulholland Books / Hachette Audio Published: July 19, 2022 Summary: From Shirley Jackson Award-winner Elizabeth Hand comes a haunting and atmospheric new mystery perfect for fans of White Lotus , about a young man hired to work as a caretaker in Hawaiʻi who is drawn into…

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k2reader July 13, 2022

Are You Sara? by S.C. Lalli #bookspotlight #bookgiveaway

Today, I’m thrilled to be partnering with Harper Collins in featuring an upcoming thriller due to hit the shelves in August. I’m reading this one now and am just loving it. I have about 100 pages left to go and have no idea where it is ultimately going to end up…it’s so clever and full of suspense – exactly what I love to read in the summer! Take a look…

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k2reader July 12, 2022

The Binding Room by Nadine Matheson #blogtour #bookreview #netgalley

Thank you Hanover Square Press/Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Binding Room in exchange for my honest review. Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for The Binding Room. Thank you Hanover Square Press for inviting me to participate. Publisher: Hanover Square Press Published: July 12, 2022 Summary: Detective Anjelica Henley confronts a series of ritualistic murders in this heart-pounding thriller…

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k2reader July 11, 2022

The It Girl by Ruth Ware #bookreview

Thank you to TandemGlobal, Gallery / Scout Press, #partner, for an advanced copy of The It Girl in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Gallery / Scout Press Published: July 12, 2022 Summary: The #1 New York Times bestselling author of One by One returns with an unputdownable mystery following a woman on the search for answers a decade after her friend’s murder. April Coutts-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford.…

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k2reader July 8, 2022

The Resting Place by Camilla Sten #bookreview

Thank you Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Resting Place in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: March 29, 2022 Summary: A spine-chilling, propulsive psychological suspense from international sensation Camilla Sten. The medical term is prosopagnosia. The average person calls it face blindness—the inability to recognize a familiar person’s face, even the faces of those closest to you. When Eleanor walked in on…

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k2reader July 5, 2022

Cold, Cold Bones by Kathy Reichs #bookreview #audiobook #seriesreview

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Scribner Books #partner, for the advanced copy of Cold, Cold Bones in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Scribner Books / Simon and Schuster Audio Published: July 5, 2022 Summary: #1 New York Times bestselling thriller writer Kathy Reichs returns with her twenty-first novel of suspense featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan who, after receiving a box containing a human eyeball, uncovers…

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k2reader July 3, 2022

The Hunted by Roz Nay #bookreview

Thank you to the author and Simon and Schuster Canada, #partner, for the finished copy of The Hunted in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Simon and Schuster Canada Published: July 6, 2021 *** This book will be released here in the states on July 5, 2022. Summary: The Beach meets The Guest List in this twisty travel thriller about two couples who meet backpacking through Africa, but what begins as friendship…

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k2reader June 28, 2022

Outside by Ragnar Jonasson #bookreview

Thank you Minotaur Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Outside in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: June 28, 2022 Summary: With three million copies of his books sold worldwide, “world-class crime writer”(The Sunday Times, UK) Ragnar Jónasson brings us a chilling new standalone thriller with Outside. Four friends. One night. Not everyone will come out alive . . . When a deadly snowstorm strikes the…

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k2reader June 28, 2022

The Second Husband by Kate White #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Harper Audio for the ALC and @WunderbooksPR & Harper, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Second Husband in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Harper / Harper Audio Published: June 28, 2022 Summary: A woman’s seemingly perfect second marriage is rocked by a discovery about the death of her first husband in this twisty psychological thriller from Kate White, the New York Times bestselling author whom Entertainment Weekly called “impossible…

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k2reader June 25, 2022

The Favor by Nora Murphy #bookreview

Thank you Minotaur / Netgalley #partner, for the advanced copy of The Favor in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: May 31, 2022 Summary: A gripping debut domestic suspense novel, The Favor explores with compassion and depth what can happen when women pushed to the limit take matters into their own hands. Staying is dangerous. Leaving could be worse. Leah and McKenna have never met, though…

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k2reader June 15, 2022

The Guilty Girl by Patricia Gibney #bookreview #audiobook #seriesreview

Thank you Bookouture Audio for the ALC and Bookouture & Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Guilty Girl in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Bookouture Published: June 15, 2022 Summary: Something whistling through the door behind her caused her to turn. A shadow spread across the opening. She clasped a hand to her mouth, stilling the fear that was rising. The menacing shadow was followed by…

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k2reader June 12, 2022

A Face to Die For by Iris Johansen #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Hachette Audio for the ALC and @NovelSuspects & Grand Central Publishing, #partner, for the finished copy of A Face to Die For in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Published: June 14, 2022 Summary: Eve Duncan attempts to unearth one of history’s most intriguing lost secrets in this adventure ripped from the pages of Greek mythology, by number one New York Times best-selling author Iris Johansen.…

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k2reader June 9, 2022

The New Neighbor by Carter Wilson #bookreview #netgalley

Thank you Poisoned Pen Press / Netgalley, #partner, for the advanced copy of The New Neighbor in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Published: April 12, 2022 Summary: USA Today bestselling author Carter Wilson returns with another chilling psychological thriller, for readers of Megan Miranda and Alex Michaelides Aidan holds the winning Powerball numbers. Is today the best day of his life… or the worst? Aidan Marlowe…

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k2reader June 3, 2022

Cold, Cold Heart by Karin Slaughter #bookreview #audiobook #librarybook

I borrow this audio from my library via the Libby app. Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Published: January 5, 2015 Summary: Pam is a 52-year-old teacher who has let herself go for the first time in her life. It’s two years since her husband – ex-husband – John died, and she’s heading from Georgia to California for the third and (she hopes) final time. But just what lies in store for…

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k2reader June 2, 2022

Metropolis by B.A. Shapiro #bookreview

Thank you Algonquin Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Metropolis in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Algonquin Books Published: May 17, 2022 Summary: From bestselling author B. A. Shapiro, a gripping novel that follows six mysterious characters whose lives intersect when a tragedy occurs at the storage facility where they all rent units. In Metropolis we meet six unforgettable characters who never would have met if not for their…

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k2reader May 27, 2022

Blog Tour & Review: Never Coming Home by Hannah Mary McKinnon

Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for Never Coming Home by Hannah Mary McKinnon. Thank you MIRA for inviting me to participate. Publisher: MIRA Published: May 24, 2022 Source: ARC E-copy via Netgalley SUMMARY: First comes love. Then comes murder. Lucas Forester didn’t hate his wife. Michelle was brilliant, sophisticated and beautiful. Sure, she had extravagant spending habits and that petty attitude, a…

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k2reader May 20, 2022

Review: The Murder Rule by Dervla McTiernan (audio)

Publisher: Harper Audio Published: May 10, 2022 Source: ALC via Netgalley Summary: For fans of the compulsive psychological suspense of Ruth Ware and Tana French, a mother-daughter story – one running from a horrible truth, and the other fighting to reveal it – that twists and turns in shocking ways, from the internationally best-selling author of The Scholar and The Ruin. First Rule: Make them like you. Second Rule: Make them need you. Third Rule:…

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k2reader May 17, 2022

Review: The Island by Adrian McKinty (audio)

Publisher: Little, Brown & Company / Hachette Audio Published: May 17, 2022 Source: Print – Hardcover via Novel Suspects / Audio – ALC via Hachette Audio Summary: IT WAS JUST SUPPOSED TO BE A FAMILY VACATION. A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT CHANGED EVERYTHING. YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’RE CAPABLE OF UNTIL THEY COME FOR YOUR FAMILY. After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed…

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k2reader May 13, 2022

Review: The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig

Publisher: Del Ray Books Published: July 20, 2021 Source: Personal copy Summary: A family returns to their hometown—and to the dark past that haunts them still—in this masterpiece of literary horror by the New York Times bestselling author of Wanderers Long ago, Nathan lived in a house in the country with his abusive father—and has never told his family what happened there. Long ago, Maddie was a little girl making dolls in…

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k2reader May 12, 2022

Review: Magpie by Elizabeth Day (audio)

Publisher: Simon & Schuster / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: May 3, 2022 Source: Print ARC Paperback via BookClub Favorites / ALC via Simon & Schuster Audio Summary: She has almost everything. The rest she’ll take. Single White Female meets The Perfect Nanny in this taut, psychological suspense novel about a perfect couple and their seemingly perfect roommate—that is until she threatens to destroy everything they’ve worked so hard to create. Marisa…

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k2reader May 11, 2022

Review: The Shadow House by Anna Downes

Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: April 5, 2022 Source: ARC E-copy via Netgalley Summary: Extraordinarily tense and deliciously mysterious, Anna Downes’s The Shadow House follows one woman’s desperate journey to protect her children at any cost, in a remote place where not everything is as it seems. A HOUSE WITH DEADLY SECRETS. A MOTHER WHO’LL RISK EVERYTHING TO BRING THEM TO LIGHT. Alex, a single mother-of-two, is determined to make a fresh…

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k2reader May 11, 2022

Review: The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley

Publisher: William Morrow Published: February 22, 2022 Source: ARC Paperback via Publisher Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Guest List comes a new locked room mystery, set in a Paris apartment building in which every resident has something to hide… Jess needs a fresh start. She’s broke and alone, and she’s just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brother Ben didn’t sound thrilled when she asked…

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k2reader May 7, 2022

Review: Make Me Disappear by Jessica Payne (audio)

Publisher: Bookouture Audio Published: May 16, 2022 Source: ALC via Publisher Summary: By the time I realized the truth about Daniel it was too late. But the truth about me? He never saw that coming… Dr Daniel Ashcroft was perfect: handsome, romantic, protective. I thought I was so lucky. But then I heard the rumors about his previous girlfriend, that she had vanished without a trace. That’s when I…

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k2reader April 24, 2022

Review: Take Your Breath Away by Linwood Barclay

Publisher: William Morrow Published: May 17, 2022 Source: ARC E-copy via Netgalley Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of Find You First and Elevator Pitch comes a gripping psychological thriller about a formerly missing woman who has suddenly returned under mysterious circumstances. One weekend, while Andrew Mason was on a fishing trip, his wife, Brie, vanished without a trace. Most everyone assumed Andy had got away with murder–it’s always the husband, isn’t it?–but…

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k2reader April 24, 2022

Review: Little Creeping Things by Chelsea Ichaso

Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire: Published: June 2, 2020 Source: Hardcover via Publisher Summary: When she was a child, Cassidy Pratt accidentally started a fire that killed her neighbor. At least, that’s what she’s been told. She can’t remember anything from that day, and her town’s bullies, particularly the cruel and beautiful Melody Davenport, have never let her live it down. But then Melody goes missing, and Cassidy thinks she may…

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k2reader April 23, 2022

Review: Woman on Fire by Lisa Barr (audio)

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks / Harper Audio Published: March 1, 2022 Source: Print – ARC Paperback via Publisher / Audio – ALC via Publisher Summary: From the author of the award-winning Fugitive Colors and The Unbreakables, a gripping tale of a young, ambitious journalist embroiled in an international art scandal centered around a Nazi-looted masterpiece – forcing the ultimate showdown between passion and possession, lovers and liars, history and truth. After talking her way into a job with…

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k2reader April 18, 2022

Review: Insomnia by Sarah Pinborough

Publisher: William Morrow Published: April 12, 2022 Source: Print copy via Publisher Summary: IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT, MADNESS LIES . . . Emma can’t sleep. CHECK THE WINDOWS. It’s been like this since her big 4-0 started getting closer. LOCK THE DOORS. Her mother stopped sleeping just before her own fortieth birthday. She went mad and did the unthinkable because of it. LOOK IN ON THE CHILDREN. Is…

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k2reader April 14, 2022

Review: Young Rich Widows by Kimberly Belle, Layne Fargo, Cate Holahan & Vanessa Lillie (audio)

Publisher: Audible Originals Published: April 14, 2022 Source: ALC via Authors Summary: When the four partners of a prominent law firm are killed in a mysterious plane crash, their widows must come together to uncover the truth in this explosive, edge-of-your-seat novel. It’s 1985 in Providence, Rhode Island, and the four partners of a prominent, mafia-affiliated law firm have been killed in a private jet that went down outside…

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k2reader April 4, 2022

Blog Tour & Excerpt: Crimson Summer by Heather Graham

Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for Crimson Summer by Heather Graham – I have an excerpt for you to read thanks to MIRA. Publisher: MIRA Published: April 5, 2022 Source: Netgalley via Publisher SUMMARY: From New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham, suspense following agents from the FBI and Florida Department of Law Enforcement as they investigate a series of murders linked to…

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k2reader April 3, 2022

Review: Killer View by Roy Johansen (audio)

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing / Hachette Audio Published: March 8, 2022 Source: Print – ARC Paperback via Grand Central / Audio – ALC via Hachette Audio Summary: New York Times best-selling author Roy Johansen delivers a thrill-a-minute listen featuring a fearless heroine for hire. An army vet and former bodyguard for the rich and famous, Jessie Mercado has faced all kinds of danger and always emerged victorious. But one thing…

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k2reader March 26, 2022

Blog Tour & Review: The Lying Club by Annie Ward

Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for The Lying Club by Annie Ward. Thank you Park Row Books for inviting me to participate. Publisher: Park Row Books Published: March 22, 2022 Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: A tangled web of lies draws together three women in this explosive thriller of revenge, murder and shocking secrets At an elite private school nestled in…

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k2reader March 18, 2022

Review: Little Bones by Patricia Gibney

Publisher: Bookouture Published: September 22, 2021 Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: She lifted up her granddaughter from the cot, clutched her to her chest and, without looking at her beautiful daughter lying dead on the floor of her bedroom, ran from the house. Only when she was outside did she let a wail escape her lips, frightening the baby who joined in her screams. When Isabel Gallagher is found…

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k2reader March 16, 2022

Review: Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner (audio)

Publisher: Gallery Books / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: January 25, 2022 Source: Print – ARC Paperback via Gallery Books / Audio – ALC via Simon & Schuster Audio Summary: “A twisty, fast-paced” (The Sunday Times, London) debut thriller, as electrifying as the number-one New York Times best seller The Girl on the Train, about impending motherhood, unreliable friendship, and the high price of keeping secrets. In this “gloriously tangled game of…

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k2reader March 16, 2022

Blog Tour & Review: A Life for a Life by Carol Wyer (Print/Audio)

Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for A Life for a Life by Carol Wyer. Thank you #ZooloosBookTours for inviting me to participate. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer / Brilliance Audio Published: March 15, 2022 Source: E-galley via Publicist / Audio via Brilliance Audio Summary: Nobody can get into the mind of an erratic killer – except an unpredictable detective. When a young man is found…

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k2reader March 13, 2022

Review: Black Ice by Carin Gerhardsen

Publisher: Scarlet Suspense Published: June 29, 2021 Source: ARC Paperback via Publisher Summary: January in Gotland. The days are short, the air is cold, and all the roads are covered in snow. On a deserted, icy backroad, these wintery conditions will soon bring together a group of strangers with a force devastating enough to change their lives forever when, in the midst of a brief period, a deadly accident…

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k2reader March 10, 2022

Review: Dead Wind by Tessa Wegert

Publisher: Severn House Publishers Published: March 1, 2022 (e-book) Source: ARC E-copy via Suzy Approved Book Tours Summary: Senior Investigator Shana Merchant must dredge up dark secrets and old grudges if she’s to solve the murder of a prominent local citizen in the Thousand Islands community she now calls home. The body is discovered on Wolfe Island, under the shadow of an enormous wind turbine. Senior Investigator Shana Merchant,…

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k2reader March 7, 2022

Review: Run Rose Run by Dolly Parton & James Patterson (audio)

Publisher: Little, Brown & Company Published: March 7, 2022 Source: Print – Personal copy / Audio – ALC via Hachette Audio Summary: From America’s most beloved superstar and its greatest storyteller – a thriller about a young singer-songwriter on the rise and on the run, and determined to do whatever it takes to survive. Every song tells a story. She’s a star on the rise, singing about the hard…

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k2reader March 6, 2022

Review: The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd

Publisher: William Morrow Published: March 15, 2022 Source: Publisher Summary: What is the purpose of a map? Nell Young’s whole life and greatest passion is cartography. Her father, Dr. Daniel Young, is a legend in the field, and Nell’s personal hero. But she hasn’t seen or spoken to him ever since he cruelly fired her and destroyed her reputation after an argument over an old, cheap gas station highway…

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k2reader February 25, 2022

Review: Unmissing by Minka Kent (audio)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio Published: February 15, 2022 Source: ALC via Brilliance Audio Summary: A return from the past knocks a family dangerously off-balance in a novel of spiraling suspense by Washington Post and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Minka Kent. Merritt Coletto and her husband, Luca, have the life they dreamed of: a coastal home, a promising future, and a growing family. That dream ends with a late-night knock on the door. Weak,…

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k2reader February 15, 2022

Review: The End of Getting Lost by Robin Kirman (audio)

Publisher: Simon & Schuster / Simon & Schuster Audio Published: February 15, 2022 Source: Print – ARC E-copy via Netgalley / ALC via Simon & Schuster Audio Summary: A young woman and her husband travel around Europe to celebrate their first year of marriage – a year that the woman has no memory of – in this searing novel of intimacy and deceit. The year is 1996 – a…

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k2reader February 13, 2022

Blog Tour & Excerpt: Beach Wedding by Michael Ledwidge

Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for Beach Ledwidge by Michael Ledwidge – I have an excerpt for you to read thanks to Hanover Square Press. Publisher: Hanover Square Press Published: February 15, 2022 Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: A high-society wedding party stirs up new evidence in an unsolved murder in this thrilling stand-alone from the New York Times bestselling coauthor of James…

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k2reader February 8, 2022

Review: Behind the Lie by Emilya Naymark

Publisher: Crooked Lane Books Published: February 8, 2022 Source: Hardcover via Booksforward PR Summary NYPD detective turned small town PI Laney Bird is in a fight to save lives–including her own–after a neighborhood block party turns deadly. A transplant to the upstate New York hamlet of Sylvan, all Laney wants is a peaceful life for herself and her son. But things rarely remain calm in Laney’s life–and when her…

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k2reader February 5, 2022

Blog Tour & Review: Woman Last Seen by Adele Parks

Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for Woman Last Seen by Adele Parks. Thank you MIRA Books for inviting me to participate. Publisher: MIRA Books Published: February 1, 2022 Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: HAPPY. MARRIED. MISSING. Leigh Fletcher: happily married stepmum to two gorgeous boys goes missing on Monday. Her husband Mark says he knows nothing of her whereabouts. She simply…

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k2reader January 29, 2022

Review: Blindsighted by Karin Slaughter (audio)

Publisher: HarperTorch / HarperAudio Published: October 2002 (Originally published Sept 2001) / Audio – February 10, 20215 Source: Print – Mass Market Paperback via Publisher / Audio via library Summary: A small Georgia town erupts in panic when a young college professor is found brutally mutilated in the local diner. But it’s only when town pediatrician and coroner Sara Linton does the autopsy that the full extent of the…

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k2reader January 27, 2022

Blog Tour & Review: The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf

Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf. Thank you Park Row Books for inviting me to participate. Publisher: Park Row Books Published: January 25, 2022 Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: A woman receives an unexpected visitor during a deadly snowstorm in this chilling thriller from New York Times bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf She thought she was alone… True…

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k2reader January 27, 2022

Blog Tour & Review: The Appeal by Janice Hallett

Publisher: Atria Books Published: January 25, 2022 Source: ARC Paperback via Publisher Summary: This murder mystery follows a community rallying around a sick child—but when escalating lies lead to a dead body, everyone is a suspect. The Fairway Players, a local theatre group, is in the midst of rehearsals for an Arthur Miller play, when tragedy strikes the family of director Martin Haywood and his wife Helen, the play’s…

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k2reader January 26, 2022

Review: We Know You Remember by Tove Alsterdal

Publisher: Harper Published: October 28, 2021 Source: Personal copy Summary: A missing girl, a hidden body, a decades-long cover-up, and old sins cast in new light: the classic procedural meets Scandinavian atmosphere in this rich, character-driven mystery, awarded Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year, that heralds the American debut of a supremely skilled international writer. It’s been more than twenty years since Olof Hagström left home. Returning to…

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k2reader January 25, 2022

Review: When You Are Mine by Michael Robotham

Publisher: Scribner Books Published: January 4, 2022 Source: ARC Paperback via Publisher Summary: In this page-turning psychological thriller from an author who Stephen King called “an absolute master,” a young female police officer faces danger on all fronts—from a clever victim of abuse, her colleagues on the force, and even her own mobster father. Philomena McCarthy is a young, ambitious police office with the elite Metropolitan Police in London.…

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k2reader January 23, 2022

Review: As the Wicked Watch by Tamron Hall

Publisher: William Morrow Published: October 26, 2021 Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: The first in a thrilling new series from Emmy Award–winning journalist Tamron Hall, in which a reporter unravels the disturbing mystery around the deaths of two black girls, the work of a serial killer terrorizing Chicago. When crime reporter Jordan Manning leaves her hometown in Texas to take a job at a television station in Chicago, she’s…

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k2reader January 21, 2022

Review: Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka (audio)

Publisher: William Morrow/Harper Audio Published: January 25, 2022 Source: Print – ARC Paperback via William Morrow / Audio – ALC via Netgalley Summary: In the tradition of ‘Long Bright River’ and ‘The Mars Room’, a gripping and atmospheric work of literary suspense that deconstructs the story of a serial killer on death row, told primarily through the eyes of the women in his life – from the best-selling author of ‘Girl in Snow’.…

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