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Judith D Collins
- Feb 16, 2021
- 8 min
Do No Harm
By: Christina McDonald ISBN: 1982142618 Publisher: Gallery Publication Date: 02/16/2021 Format: Paperback My Rating: 5 Stars +++
Top Books of 2021 Author Elevator Q&A
From the USA Today bestselling author of Behind Every Lie and The Night Olivia Fell comes an unforgettable novel about the lengths one woman will go to save her son.
Even good people.
Emma loves her life. She’s the mother to a precocious kindergartener, married to her soulmate—a loyal and loving detective—a
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Judith D Collins
- Feb 4, 2021
- 7 min
The Unwilling
By: John Hart ISBN: 1250167728 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Publication Date: 02/02/2021 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars +
Q&A with the Author Top Books 2021
Set in the South at the height of the Vietnam War, The Unwilling combines crime, suspense and searing glimpses into the human mind and soul in NYT bestselling author John Hart's singular style.
Gibby's older brothers have already been to war. One died there. The other came back misunderstood and hard, a decorat
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Judith D Collins
- Feb 4, 2021
- 8 min
Following You
By: Eva Lesko Natiello ASIN: B08TGBLBBY Publisher: Fine Line Publishing Publication Date: 02/02/21 Format: e-book My Rating: 5 Stars COVER REVEAL Top Books of 2021 FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR of THE MEMORY BOX. A fear-induced split-second decision goes terribly wrong, altering the fate of three strangers. It’s New Year’s Eve. Shae Wilmont, the adored host of IShop—a popular shopping site—is ready to reclaim her life. Her stalker has been caught.
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Judith D Collins
- Feb 3, 2021
- 8 min
Before She Disappeared
By: Lisa Gardner ISBN: 1524745049 Publisher: Dutton Publication Date: 01/19/2021 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars +++
Author Q&A Interview Top Books 2021
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner, a propulsive thriller featuring an ordinary woman who will stop at nothing to find the missing people that the rest of the world has forgotten.
Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman, a recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings. But she spen
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Judith D Collins
- Feb 3, 2021
- 6 min
Where Madness Lies
By: Sylvia True ISBN: 178904460X Publisher: Top Hat Publication Date: 02/01/21 Format: Paperback My Rating: 5 Stars Top Books of 2021 Germany, 1934. Rigmor, a young Jewish woman is a patient at Sonnenstein, a premier psychiatric institution known for their curative treatments.
But with the tide of eugenics and the Nazis’ rise to power, Rigmor is swept up in a campaign to rid Germany of the mentally ill. USA, 1984. Sabine, battling crippling panic and depression commits he
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Judith D Collins
- Dec 1, 2020
- 6 min
Under a Gilded Moon
By: Joy Jordan-Lake ISBN: 9781542019415 Publisher: Lake Union Publication Date:12/01/2020 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars +
Top Books of 2020 Author QA Interview Book Giveaway Contest Dec 1-15, 2020 Enter Here
“Crawdads meets the Crawleys…Threaded through with a meticulously researched, well-crafted mystery, this is historical fiction at its best.” —Fiona Davis, nationally bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue
From the bestselling author of A Tangled Mercy
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Judith D Collins
- Nov 11, 2020
- 8 min
Confessions On The 7:45
By: Lisa Unger ISBN: 0778310159 Publisher: Park Row
Publication Date: 10/06/2020 Format: Hardcover
My Rating: 5 Stars +++
Top Books of 2020
Q&A with Lisa Unger
{A] taut, beautifully-written novel.”
—Sarah Pekkanen, #1 New York Times bestselling author of An Anonymous Girl
From master of suspense Lisa Unger comes a riveting thriller about a chance encounter that unravels a stunning web of lies and deceit.
Be careful to whom you tell your darkest secrets…
Selena Murph
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Judith D Collins
- Nov 11, 2020
- 7 min
Loss Lake
By: Amber Cowie ISBN: 978-1542042017 Publisher: Lake Union Publication Date: 11/10/20 Format: Paperback My Rating: 5 Stars +
Author Q&A Interview
Top Books 2020
A new town, a new life, and a new home—with an absolutely chilling lakefront view.
Two months a widow, Mallory Dent has made the impulsive decision to pack up and move on. In remote McNamara, nestled in the northern mountains, she can escape her grief, guilt, and pain. But the day Mallory arrives, death foll
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Judith D Collins
- Nov 8, 2020
- 5 min
Don't Look for Me
By: Wendy Walker ISBN: 1250198704 Publisher: St Martin's Press
Publication Date: 09/15/20 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars ++
Top Books of 2020
Author Q&A
The greatest risk isn’t running away.
It’s running out of time. The car abandoned miles from home. The note found at a nearby hotel.
The shattered family that couldn’t be put back together.
They called it a “walk away.” It happens all the time.
Women disappear, desperate to leave their lives behind and start ove
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Judith D Collins
- Nov 7, 2020
- 6 min
The Swap
By: Robyn Harding ISBN: 198214176X Publisher: Gallery Publication Date: 06/23/20 Format: Paperback My Rating: 5 Stars ++
Top Books of 2020
Q&A with the Author
After signing up for a class, Low quickly falls under Freya’s spell. And Freya, buoyed by Low’s adoration, is compelled to share her darkest secrets and deepest desires. Finally, both feel a sense of belonging...that is, until Jamie walks through the studio door.
Desperate for a baby, she and her husband have move
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Judith D Collins
- Nov 6, 2020
- 7 min
Behind the Red Door
By: Megan Collins ISBN: 1982130393 Publisher: Atria Books Publication Date: 08/04/20 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars +
Author Q&A Top Books of 2020
The author of the “suspenseful, atmospheric, and completely riveting” (Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author) debut The Winter Sister returns with a darkly thrilling novel about a woman who comes to believe that she has a connection to a decades old kidnapping and now that the victim has gone missing again, begi
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Judith D Collins
- Nov 6, 2020
- 5 min
Spring Girls
Northampton County #3 By: Karen Katchur ISBN: 1542093244 Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 06/16/20 Format: Paperback My Rating: 5 Stars +
Top Books of 2020 She’s the only one who survived…and the only one who can help find the killer.
Another spring, another dead girl pulled from a lake in the Appalachian foothills: the latest victim in a series of murders with few leads. But Detective Geena Brassard and her partner, Parker Reed, finally land a break when they r
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Judith D Collins
- Nov 5, 2020
- 8 min
Little Secrets
By: Jennifer Hillier ISBN: 1250154227 Publisher: Minotaur Publication Date: 04/21/2020 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars +++
Top Books of 2020
Q&A with Author From the author of Jar of Hearts, a mother driven to the edge by the disappearance of her son learns her husband is having an affair with the woman who might have kidnapped him. Two hundred and forty seconds. That’s how long it took for someone to steal Marin Machado's four-year-old son. Marin had the perfect life. Marr
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Judith D Collins
- Nov 5, 2020
- 7 min
The New Husband
By: D. J. Palmer ISBN: 1250107490 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Publication Date: 04/14/2020 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars +
Top Books of 2020
Author Q&A Interview
The New Husband is a riveting thriller about the lies we tell ourselves from D. J. Palmer, the author of Saving Meghan.
Just because you love someone doesn’t mean you know them.
Nina Garrity learned that the hard way after discovering that her missing husband, Glen, had been leading a double life wi
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Judith D Collins
- Nov 5, 2020
- 8 min
Sister Dear
By: Hannah Mary McKinnon ISBN: 077830955X Publisher: MIRA Publication Date: 05/26/20 Format: Kindle My Rating: 5 Stars ++
Top Books of 2020
Interview Q&A with Hannah
Beauty. Wealth. Success.
She’s got it all.
And it all should’ve been mine.
When Eleanor Hardwicke’s beloved father dies, her world is further shattered by a gut-wrenching secret: the man she’s grieving isn’t really her dad.
Eleanor was the product of an affair and her biological father is still out there,
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Judith D Collins
- Nov 5, 2020
- 10 min
Stranger in the Lake
By: Kimberly Belle ISBN: 0778388107 Publisher: Park Row Publication Date: 06/09/20 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars ++
Top Books 2020
Charlotte didn’t know her greatest risk was saying, “I do.”
When Charlotte married the wealthy widower Paul, it caused a ripple of gossip in their small lakeside town. They have a charmed life together, despite the cruel whispers about her humble past and his first marriage. But everything starts to unravel when she discovers a young
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Judith D Collins
- Nov 3, 2020
- 4 min
The Suicide House
Series: Rory Moore/Lane Phillips Novel Book #2 By: Charlie Donlea ISBN: 1496727150 Publisher: Kensington Publication Date: 07/28/20 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars +
Top Books 2020
A chilling murder in a prestigious prep school is at the heart of this riveting new novel from acclaimed author Charlie Donlea, featuring forensic reconstructionist Rory Moore and her psychologist partner, Lane Phillips.
Inside the walls of Indiana’s elite Westmont Preparatory High Schoo
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Judith D Collins
- Nov 3, 2020
- 6 min
Fortune and Glory
By: Janet Evanovich Series: Stephanie Plum Series #27 ISBN: 1982154837 Publisher: Atria Books Publication Date: 11/02/20 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars The twenty-seventh entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series isn’t just the biggest case of Stephanie Plum’s career. It’s the adventure of a lifetime. When Stephanie’s beloved Grandma Mazur's new husband died on their wedding night, the only thing he left her was a beat-up old easy chair…and the keys to a lif
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Judith D Collins
- Oct 9, 2020
- 6 min
When You See Me
By: Lisa Gardner ISBN: 9781524745004 Publisher: Dutton Publication Date: 01/28/20 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars +++
Top Books of 2020
#1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner unites three of her most beloved characters—Detective D D Warren, Flora Dane, and Kimberly Quincy—in a twisty new thriller, as they investigate a mysterious murder from the past . . . which points to a dangerous and chilling present-day crime. FBI Special Agent Kimberly Quincy and Serg
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Judith D Collins
- Oct 5, 2020
- 5 min
The Dilemma
By: B. A. Paris ISBN: 1250151368 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Publication Date: 06/30/20 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars
Q&A with the Author
Top Books of 2020
A woman's birthday party takes a dark turn in a poignant, heart-stopping new novel from the reigning queen of suspense, NYT and USA Today bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors, The Breakdown, and Bring Me Back.
“A heartbreaking page-turner that will have you up at night reading just one more chapter.” ―C
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Judith D Collins
- Aug 20, 2020
- 5 min
No Woods So Dark As These
Ryan DeMarco Mystery (Book 4) By: Randall Silvis ISBN: 1492665622 Publisher: Sourcebooks/Poisoned Pen Publication Date: 08/042020 Format: Paperback My Rating: 5 Stars
Top Books of 2020
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 girlf
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Judith D Collins
- Jun 9, 2020
- 5 min
Until I Find You
By: Rea Frey ISBN: 1250241588 Publisher: St Martin's Griffin Publication Date: 08/04/2020 Format: e-book and audiobook Narrator: Samantha Desz My Rating: 5 Stars +
Top Books of 2020
In Until I Find You, celebrated author Rea Frey brings you her most explosive, emotional, taut domestic drama yet about the powerful bond between mothers and children…and how far one woman will go to bring her son home.
The Set-Up
Soon, Rebecca Gray won’t be able to see. Diagnosed in her twent
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Judith D Collins
- Apr 28, 2020
- 5 min
Stories We Never Told
By: Sonja Yoerg ISBN: 1542019729 Publisher: Lake Union Publication Date: 05/01/20 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars +++ Top Books of 2020
From the Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestselling author of True Places comes a suspenseful novel of love, secrets, and obsession.
Psychology professor Jackie Strelitz thinks she’s over Harlan Crispin, her ex-lover and colleague. Why should she care if Harlan springs a new “friend” on her? After all, Jackie has everything she eve
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Judith D Collins
- Apr 27, 2020
- 6 min
Feels Like Falling
By: Kristy Woodson Harvey ISBN: 1982117702 Publisher: Gallery Books Publication Date: 04/28/2020 Format: Paperback My Rating: 5 Stars
Top Books of 2020 From “the next major voice in Southern fiction” (Elin Hilderbrand) and the bestselling author of the Peachtree Bluff series comes an odd-couple tale of friendship that asks just how much our past choices define our happiness.
It’s summertime on the North Carolina coast and the livin’ is easy. Unless, that is, you’ve just l
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