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Judith D Collins
- Dec 14, 2022
- 4 min
Every Missing Girl
Series: A Kendall Beck Thriller #2 By: Leanne Kale Sparks Narrated by Erin DeWard ISBN: 9781666628968 Publisher: Dreamscape Media Crooked Lane Books Publication Date: 02/07/2023 Format: Audiobook & e-book My Rating: 3 Stars (ARC) FEB 2023 MUST-READ BOOKS The stunning landscape of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains are among our greatest natural treasures. But there are deadly secrets lurking in the craggy heights, and FBI Special Agent Kendall Beck and Denver Homicide Detective Adam
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Judith D Collins
- Dec 14, 2022
- 5 min
The Devil You Know
Detective Margaret Nolan Series #3 By: P.J. Tracy ISBN: 9781666623000 Publisher: Minotaur Books Publication Date: 01/17/2023 Format: Audiobook & e-book My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) JAN 2023 MUST-READ BOOKS Darkness is nothing new to LAPD Detective Margaret Nolan, but in P.J. Tracy’s The Devil You Know, even she isn’t prepared for the scandalous deception of deadly proportions that shakes the very foundation of Hollywood and its untouchables…and leaves her entangled in its rotten
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Judith D Collins
- Dec 13, 2022
- 3 min
The Gift: A Christmas Thriller novelette
A Christmas Novella By: Freida McFadden ASIN: B0BNZZLKKX Publisher: Hollywood Upstairs Press Publication Date: 12/04/2022 Format: e-book My Rating: 5 Stars DEC 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS It’s Christmas Eve and Stella Hansen is broke. She is so broke that despite working two jobs, she can’t even afford a present for her husband on their first Christmas as man and wife. But then a mysterious storekeeper at a pawn shop offers Stella an intriguing trade. Stella wants more than anything
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Judith D Collins
- Dec 12, 2022
- 5 min
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Series: Detective Harriet Foster By: Tracy Clark Narrator: Chanté McCormick Brilliance Audio ISBN: 9781542037570 Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 01/01/2023 Format: Other My Rating: 4 Stars JAN 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS From acclaimed author Tracy Clark comes a page-turning mystery featuring hard-boiled Chicago detective Harriet Foster, who’s on the hunt for a serial killer with a deadly affinity for redheads. When a young red-haired woman is found brutally murdered in
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Judith D Collins
- Dec 12, 2022
- 4 min
The Shards
By: Bret Easton Ellis ISBN: 9780593535608 Publisher: Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, Anchor Publication Date: 01/17/2023 Format: Other My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) JAN 2023 MUST-READ BOOKS A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho that tracks a group of privileged Los Angeles high school friends as a serial killer strikes across the city. Bret Easton Ellis’s masterful new novel is a story about the end of innocence, and the perilous pass
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Judith D Collins
- Dec 11, 2022
- 2 min
Dark Corners
By: Megan Goldin Series: Rachel Krall #2 ISBN: 978-1250280688 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Publication Date: 08/08/2023 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars + (ARC) TOP BOOKS OF 2023 LIST Rachel Krall, the true crime podcaster star of Megan Goldin’s acclaimed Night Swim returns to search for a popular social media influencer who disappeared after visiting a suspected serial killer. Terence Bailey is about to be released from prison for breaking and entering, though investigators
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Judith D Collins
- Dec 11, 2022
- 5 min
I'm Following You
By: Emily Shiner ISBN: 9781837560516 Publisher: Inkubator Books Publication Date: 12/11/2022 Format: e-book My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) DEC 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS Amanda has the perfect life. But someone wants to end it. Amanda loves her life. She’s a highly respected doctor, and she lives in a beautiful home in the best neighborhood in town. But her perfect life begins to crumble when she notices a woman in a red car following her. Then this mysterious person begins an increasing
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Judith D Collins
- Dec 11, 2022
- 5 min
The Villa
By: Rachel Hawkins Narrators: Julia Whelan, Kimberly M. Wetherell, Shiromi Arserio Macmillan Audio ISBN: 978-1250280015 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Publication Date: 01/03/2023 Format: e-book and audio My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) JAN 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins comes a deliciously wicked gothic suspense, set at an Italian villa with a dark history, for fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware. As kids, Emily and Chess were inseparable. Bu
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Judith D Collins
- Dec 10, 2022
- 4 min
A Light in the Forest
By: Melissa Payne ISBN: 9781662503689 Publisher: Lake Union Publication Date: 12/13/2022 Format: Paperback My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) DEC 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS From Melissa Payne, bestselling author of The Night of Many Endings, comes an emotional and suspenseful novel about the weight of secrets and the healing power of friends and family. Vega Jones escapes an abusive relationship with nothing but her two-month-old baby and the van she grew up in. Her destination is a small Oh
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Judith D Collins
- Dec 9, 2022
- 5 min
The Last Invitation
By: Darby Kane ISBN: 978-0063225565 Narrators: Lindsey Dorcus, Abby Craden, Alyssa Bresnahan Harper Audio Publisher: William Morrow Publication Date: 12/06/2022 Format: Audiobook 🎧 My Rating: 4.5 Stars (rounded to 5) DEC 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS Darby Kane, the author of the critically acclaimed and #1 International Bestseller Pretty Little Wife, has crafted another gripping and twisty suspense about an invitation to an exclusive club that comes with deadly consequences. They me
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Judith D Collins
- Dec 8, 2022
- 4 min
The Drift
By: C.J. Tudor ISBN: 9780593356562 Publisher: Random House Publication Date: 01/31/2023
Format: Other My Rating: 4 Stars Three ordinary people risk everything for a chance at redemption in this audacious, utterly gripping novel of catastrophe and survival at the end of the world, from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man. “[A] tour de force . . . This is a masterpiece of its kind.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) Hannah awakens to carnage, all mangled metal and shattered
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Judith D Collins
- Dec 4, 2022
- 4 min
The Ingenue
By: Rachel Kapelke-Dale Narrator: Stephanie Willis Macmillan Audio ISBN: 9781250870681 Publisher: Macmillan Audio St. Martin's Press Publication Date:12/06/2022 Format: e-book My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) DEC 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS My Dark Vanessa meets The Queen's Gambit in this new novel of suspense about the bonds of family, the limits of talent, the risks of ambition, and the rewards of revenge. When former piano prodigy Saskia Kreis returns home to Milwaukee after her mother'
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Judith D Collins
- Dec 3, 2022
- 5 min
What Lies In The Woods
By: Kate Alice Marshall Narrator: Karissa Vacker ISBN: 9781250882448 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Publication Date: 01/17/2023 Format: Audiobook My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) JAN 2023 MUST-READ BOOKS They were eleven when they sent a killer to prison. They were heroes . . . but they were liars. Kate Alice Marshall's What Lies in the Woods is a thrilling novel about friendship, secrets, betrayal, and lies—and having the courage to face the past. Naomi Shaw used to believe in magic. T
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Judith D Collins
- Dec 2, 2022
- 14 min
Forsaken Country
Series: Max Rupert By: Allen Eskens ISBN: 978-0316703543 Publisher: Mulholland Books Publication Date: 09/20/2022 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars +++ (ARC) TOP BOOKS OF 2022 LIST SEPT MUST-READ BOOKS LIST SEPT #AuthorElevatorSeries INTERVIEW Three fathers collide far beyond the reach or safety of the law in this breathtaking new thriller from the bestselling and beloved author of The Stolen Hours and The Life We Bury. Max Rupert has left his position as a Minneapolis h
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Judith D Collins
- Dec 1, 2022
- 5 min
The Narrator
By: K. L. Slater Narrators: Clare Corbett and Kristin Atherton Audio Originals ISBN: 9781803149301 Publisher: Bookouture Publication Date: 01/06/2023 Format: e-book & audio My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JAN 2023 MUST-READ BOOKS What if the chance of a perfect life… put your daughter in grave danger? Being a single mother is tough, but I’d do anything for my little girl Scarlet. I’d given up on my career as a voice actor when the call came, but suddenly I was the new narrator for a
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Judith D Collins
- Dec 1, 2022
- 6 min
The Least Among Us
Series: Julia Geary #2 By: Gwen Florio Narrator: Hillary Huber 🎧 Dreamscape Media ISBN: 9781639100682 Publisher: Crooked Lane Books Publication Date: 12/06/2022 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) DEC 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS Searing social commentary meets chilling suspense as public defender Julia Geary takes a case destined to rock her small town to the core, for fans of John Lescroart. Public defender Julia Geary’s star is rising, and now she’s got her first murder c
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Judith D Collins
- Dec 1, 2022
- 3 min
The Widowmaker
A Black Harbor Novel By: Hannah Morrissey Narrators: XeSands, Adam Verner Macmillan Audio ISBN: 978-1250795977 Publisher: Minotaur Books Publication Date:12/06/2022 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) DEC 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS A wealthy family shrouded in scandal; a detective tasked with solving an impossible cold case; and a woman with a dark past collide in Hannah Morrissey's stunning new Black Harbor mystery, The Widowmaker. Ever since business mogul Clive Reynolds d
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Judith D Collins
- Dec 1, 2022
- 5 min
Little Red House
By: Liv Andersson ISBN: 9781639102037 Publisher: Crooked Lane Publication Date: 12/06/2022 Format: Other My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) DEC 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS Twenty years isn’t enough to erase the sins of the past—but the future is even more terrifying in this thrilling read perfect for fans of Megan Collins and Julia Heaberlin. In 1997, Eve Foster’s daughter, Kelsey, runs away to New Mexico and vanishes without a trace. Eve is convinced that she’s the victim of a serial killer
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Judith D Collins
- Dec 1, 2022
- 4 min
Locust Lane
By: Stephen Amidon Narrator: Cassandra Campbell ISBN: 9781250882110 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Publication Date: 01/17/2023 Format: Audiobook 🎧 My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) For fans of Mystic River by Dennis Lehane and Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, Stephen Amidon’s Locust Lane is a taut and utterly propulsive story about the search for justice and the fault lines of power and influence in a seemingly idyllic town. Can anyone be trusted? On the surface, Emerson, Massachu
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Judith D Collins
- Nov 30, 2022
- 3 min
A Quiet Retreat
By: Kiersten Modglin Narrator: Carly Robins ISBN: 9781666628241 Publisher: Dreamscape Media Publication Date: 01/17/2023 Format: Audiobook & e-book 5 hrs. 50 min. Book Rating: 3 Stars 📖 Narrator: 4 Stars 🎧 Overall Rating: 3.5 Stars You are cordially invited to visit the new Black Hills Manor Writing Retreat. It all begins with a simple invitation. For five authors, it’s meant to be the start of a restful week, filled with free food, drinks, and like-minded company. But shor
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Judith D Collins
- Nov 30, 2022
- 3 min
The Family Trap
By: Lorna Dounaeva ISBN: 9781837560455 Publisher: Inkubator Books Publication Date: 12/04/2022 Format: e-books My Rating: 3.5 Stars (ARC) DEC 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS Prudence welcomed Zoe into her home. Now she’s fighting to survive. Two simple words shatter Prudence Ahern’s world - “I’m pregnant.” Her son Nathan is only eighteen when his new girlfriend Zoe drops that little bombshell. Prudence feels she has to support her son and asks Zoe to move in with them. Right from the st
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Judith D Collins
- Nov 29, 2022
- 5 min
A Quiet Life
By: Ethan Joella ISBN: 9781982190972 Publisher: Scribner Publication Date: 11/29/2022 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) NOV 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS From the author of A Little Hope—a Read with Jenna Bonus Pick—comes an enormously powerful and life-affirming novel about three individuals whose lives intersect in unforeseen ways. Set in a close-knit Pennsylvania suburb in the grip of winter, A Quiet Life follows three people grappling with loss and finding tender wisdom in th
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Judith D Collins
- Nov 28, 2022
- 4 min
The Inmate
By: Freida McFadden
ISBN: 979-8835444670 Narrator: Leslie Howard Publisher: Hollywood Upstairs Press Publication Date: 07/26/2022 Format: Audio 🎧 & e-book My Rating: 5 Stars JULY 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS There are three rules Brooke Sullivan must follow as a new nurse practitioner at a men’s maximum-security prison: 1) Treat all prisoners with respect. 2) Never reveal any personal information. 3) Never EVER become too friendly with the inmates. But none of the staff at the pris
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Judith D Collins
- Nov 27, 2022
- 6 min
So Long Chester Wheeler
By: Catherine Ryan Hyde ISBN: 978-1662505775 Publisher: Lake Union Publication Date: 12/06/2022 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars + +(ARC) TOP BOOKS OF 2022 LIST DEC 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS Unlikely road trip companions form an unexpected bond in an uplifting novel about the past―lost and found―by the New York Times and #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author. Lewis Madigan is young, gay, out of work, and getting antsy when he’s roped into providing end-of-life care for his insuf
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