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ARC Review | The Night We Lost Him by Laura Dave

Title: The Night We Lost HimAuthor: Laura DaveGenre: MysteryPublished On: September 17, 2024Publisher: Simon SchusterSource: digital (Netgalley)Pages: 320 Synopsis: Estranged siblings discover their father has been keeping a secret for over fifty years, one that may have been fatal… Liam Noone was many things to many people. To the public, he was an exacting, self-made …

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ARC Book Review | The Trap by Ava Glass

Title: The Trap (Alias Emma, #3)Author: Ava GlassGenre: Thriller, MysteryPublished On: September 3, 2024Publisher: BantamSource: digital (Netgalley)Pages: 410 Synopsis: British spy Emma Makepeace races against the clock to stop the Russians from carrying out a high-profile assassination in this gripping thriller from the author of Alias Emma. β€œEmma Makepeace is a worthy heir to the James …

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ARC Book Review | Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera

Title: Listen for the LieAuthor: Amy TinteraGenre: Thriller, MysteryPublished On: March 5, 2024Publisher: Celadon BooksSource: Paperback via publisherPages: 352 Synopsis: What if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thought so too? And what if the truth doesn’t matter? After Lucy is found wandering the streets, covered in her best friend …

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TBR

My April 2024 TBR

Hello Readers! Anyone else relentlessly checking the weather for Monday, April 8th?? We happen to be in the path of totality for the solar eclipse. People will be flooding our area from all parts of the world. And we have personally purchased glasses, an attachment for my son’s telescope—as well as something for our iPhones— …

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ARC Book Review | The Fury by Alex Michaelides

Title: The FuryAuthor: Alex Michaelides Genre: Thriller, MysteryPublished On: January 16, 2024Publisher: Celadon BooksSource: Paperback via publisherPages: 320 Synopsis: A masterfully paced thriller about a reclusive ex–movie star and her famous friends whose spontaneous trip to a private Greek island is upended by a murder ― from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient. This …

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ARC Book Review | The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young

Title: The Unmaking of June FarrowAuthor: Adrienne Young Genre: Fantasy, MysteryPublishes On: October 17, 2023Publisher: Delacorte PressSource: digital (Netgalley)Pages: 336 Synopsis: One woman risks everything to end her family’s centuries-old curse, solve her mother’s disappearance, and find love in this mesmerizing novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Spells for Forgetting. In the small mountain town of …

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ARC Book Review | The Traitor by Ava Glass

Title: The TraitorAuthor: Ava GlassGenre: Thriller, MysteryPublished On: September 19, 2023Publisher: BantamSource: digital (Netgalley)Pages: 336 Synopsis: British spy Emma Makepeace goes undercover on a Russian oligarch’s superyacht, where she’s one wrong move away from a watery grave, in this electrifying thriller from the author of Alias Emma. An MI6 operative is found dead, locked in …

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Monthly Wrap-Up

August 2023 Monthly Wrap-Up

Hello Readers! Aaaand it’s another wrap-up for you today. August was blissfully long for me. I was happy that it took its sweet time. The last full month of the summer for us here in the states—even though with our 100+ temps here in Texas it will feel like summer for much longer—it’s the perfect …

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ARC Review | The Reunion by Kit Frick

Title: The ReunionAuthor: Kit FrickGenre: YA, Thriller, MysteryPublished On: August 29, 2023Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry BooksSource: digital (Netgalley)Pages: 352 Synopsis: From the author of I Killed Zoe Spanos comes a YA thriller in the vein of The White Lotus and Karen M. McManus’s The Cousins following a doomed family reunion at a posh Caribbean resort, where old grudges and …

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ARC Book Review | Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young

Title: Spells for ForgettingAuthor: Adrienne Young Genre: Fantasy, MysteryPublishes On: September 27, 2022Publisher: Delacorte PressSource: digital (Netgalley)Pages: 352 Synopsis: A rural island community steeped in the mystical superstitions of its founders and haunted by an unsolved murder is upended by the return of the suspected killer in this deeply atmospheric novel. Emery Blackwood’s life was forever …

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