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Judith D Collins
- Jul 15, 2022
- 4 min
Never Go Home
By: Christopher Swann Series: A Faulkner Family Thriller #2 ISBN: 978-1639100828 Publisher: Crooked Lane Books Publication Date: 08/09/2022 Format: Other My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) AUG MUST-READ BOOKS LIST She’s a weapon forged in the fires of her past—but this time, the flames could consume her in Critically acclaimed Southern mystery novelist Christopher Swann’s followup to Never Turn Back, perfect for fans of Linwood Barclay and David Swinson. Orphaned at age ten by a violen
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 14, 2022
- 5 min
What She Knew
By: Miranda Rijks ISBN: 9781666609332 Publisher: Dreamscape 8 Hours, 7 Minutes Narrator: Ella Lynch Publication Date: 07/21/2022 Format: Audiobook & e-book My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) JULY 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS Life has been good for Stephanie. Married to college professor, Oliver, with two adorable children, she lives in a lovely house, surrounded by beautiful things. But it hasn’t always been like this. Nine years ago, Stephanie’s flatmate Alison vanished, presumed murdered. It
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 14, 2022
- 7 min
The Retreat
By: Sarah Pearse ISBN: 978-0593489420 Publisher: Pamela Dorman Books Publication Date: 07/19/2022 Format: Other My Rating: 4 Stars JULY 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS LIST From the New York Times bestselling author of The Sanatorium, a Reese’s Book Club pick, here, Detective Elin Warner uncovers the truth behind the suspicious deaths on a stunning island getaway They couldn’t wait to stay here. An idyllic wellness retreat has opened on an island off the English coast, promising rest an
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 11, 2022
- 11 min
The Edge of Summer
By: Viola Shipman ISBN: 978-1525804816 Publisher: Graydon House Publication Date: 07/12/2022 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars +++ (ARC) TOP BOOKS OF 2022 LIST JULY 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS Bestselling author Viola Shipman delights with this captivating summertime escape set along the sparkling shores of Lake Michigan, where a woman searches for clues to her secretive mother's past Devastated by the sudden death of her mother—a quiet, loving and intensely private Southern sea
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 11, 2022
- 5 min
Upgrade
By: Blake Crouch ISBN: 978-0593157534 Publisher: Random House Publication Date: 07/12/2022 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) TOP BOOKS OF 2022 LIST JULY 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS An ordinary man undergoes a startling transformation—and fears that all of humanity may be next—in the mind-blowing new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion “You are the next step in human evolution.” At first, Logan Ramsay isn’t sure if anything’s differen
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 10, 2022
- 2 min
Top 10 Books of 2022 Thus Far: Mid-Year List
I LOVE LISTS! I am a Virgo and we demand organization. I must have them in order to keep organized and sane. YTD as of today, (7/18) I have read 135 Books in 2022 📚 Since we are halfway through the year wanted to highlight my TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR, thus far. These are my top favorites. There are so many good ones and a lot of 5 starred ones so difficult to choose only 10. I have included the link to the review for your reference. Here I picked a variety with top in each
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 10, 2022
- 4 min
Look Closer
By: David Ellis ISBN: 978-0399170928 Publisher: PENGUIN Group Putnam Publication Date: 07/05/2022 Format: e-book and audio Penguin Audio Narrators: Will Damron, Hillary Huber, Elizabeth Garrett, Steve West My Rating: 5 Stars + (ARC) TOP BOOKS OF 2022 LIST JULY 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS “Suspenseful, sexy, involving, twisty and twisted.”—James Patterson “A dizzyingly clever thriller. Endlessly surprising and great fun.”—Lisa Scottoline From the bestselling and award-winning author
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 10, 2022
- 6 min
The Disinvited Guest
By: Carol Goodman ISBN: 978-0063248991 Publisher: William Morrow Publication Date: 07/12/2022 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) JULY 2022 MUST READ BOOKS LIST From two-time Mary Higgins Clark Award–winning author Carol Goodman comes a new mystery, about a group of friends isolated on a remote island with a history of foul play. Lucy Harper still has traumatic memories and lingering health problems from the 2020 pandemic. So, when a new virus surfaces years later, sh
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 7, 2022
- 4 min
The It Girl
By: Ruth Ware ISBN: 978-1982155261 Publication Date: 07/12/2022 Publisher: Gallery Books Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) TOP BOOKS OF 2022 LIST JULY 2022 MUST READ BOOKS The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the “claustrophobic spine-tingler” (People) One by One returns with an unputdownable mystery following a woman on the search for answers a decade after her friend’s murder. April Clarke-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford. Vivacious
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 6, 2022
- 3 min
The Boyfriend
By: Daniel Hurst Narrators: Lorna Bennett, Chris Devon ISBN: 9781666611076 7 Hours, 42 Minutes Publisher: Dreamscape Media Publication Date: 08/23/2022 Format: Audiobook 🎧 My Rating: 4 Stars (ALC) AUG 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS Adele has had a colorful romantic past, but she's finally found her soulmate in Tom. They're engaged, and she's looking forward to a future of blissful happiness. But then she realizes her ex-boyfriends are turning up dead. At first, the deaths seem acciden
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 6, 2022
- 5 min
Fatal Witness
Series Detective Erika Foster Crime Thriller Book #7) By Robert Bryndza ISBN: 9991914547058 Publisher: Raven Street Publishing Publication Date: 07/07/2022 Format: Audio Narrator: Jan Cramer My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) JULY 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS Detective Erika Foster is back in FATAL WITNESS – with a chilling new serial killer case in Robert Bryndza's multi-million bestselling crime thriller series! How do you find a killer who has destroyed all the evidence? Detective Erika Fo
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 6, 2022
- 4 min
Stay Awake
By: Megan Goldin ISBN: 978-1250280664 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Publication Date: 08/09/2022 Format: Audio and e-book Narrators: Imogen Church and January LaVoy Macmillan Audio My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) AUG 2022 MUST READ BOOKS 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 of a taxi with no idea where she is or how she got
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 5, 2022
- 3 min
The Niece
By: Georgina Cross Narrator: Lauryn Allman Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins ISBN: 978-1800199033 Publisher: Hachette UK - Bookouture Publication Date: 09/02/2022 Format: e-book & audiobook My Rating: 3 Stars All it takes is four words to shatter everything: “Your sister is dead.” Someone set fire to her house, and my niece is the only survivor. With trembling hands, I reach for the window and rip open the blinds. Everything remains quiet. But deep down I know: They’re coming after m
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 4, 2022
- 4 min
First Born
By: Will Dean ISBN: 978-1982156527 Publisher: Atria Books Publication Date: 07/05/2022 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) From the acclaimed author of The Last Thing to Burn, a psychological thriller about the dark secrets that emerge when a woman’s twin sister is murdered, with his signature “intense, gripping, taut, terrifying, moving, and brilliant” (Lisa Jewell, #1 New York Times bestselling author) prose. Sisters. Soulmates. Strangers. Molly Raven lives a quiet,
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 4, 2022
- 5 min
The Visitors
By: Miranda Rijks ISBN: 9781666610024 Publisher: Dreamscape Media 8 Hours, 34 Minutes Publication Date: 08/02/2022 Narrator: Penelope Rawlins Format: Audiobook & e-book My Rating: 4.5 Stars (ARC) Hannah’s life is almost perfect. She’s a full-time mother to two young children and married to successful cardiologist Daniel. The only thing missing is a project of her own. So she poured heart and soul into converting their stone barn into a beautiful holiday rental. Things take a
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 4, 2022
- 8 min
Sleepwalk
By: Dan Chaon Narrator: John Pirhalla ISBN: 9781250175212 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Publication Date: 05/24/2022 Format: Audiobook My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) MAY 2022 MUST READ BOOKS A high-speed and darkly comic road trip through a near-future America with a big-hearted mercenary, from beloved and acclaimed novelist Dan Chaon. Sleepwalk’s hero, Will Bear, is a man with so many aliases that he simply thinks of himself as the Barely Blur. At fifty years old, he’s been living
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 4, 2022
- 4 min
The Arrangement
By: Miranda Rijks ISBN: 9781666611083 Publisher: Dreamscape Media Publication Date: 08/16/2022 Format: Audiobook Narrated by Jilly Bond My Rating: 4 Stars 🎧 (ALC) AUG 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS Grace is living through every mother’s worst nightmare. Her student daughter Abi went away on a dream vacation—and was murdered. Overwhelmed by grief and fighting off old demons that have resurfaced, Grace tries to make sense of it—who would want to kill her beautiful girl? But as she learn
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 3, 2022
- 7 min
The Insomniac
By: Miranda Rijks ISBN: 9781915275806 Publisher: Inkubator Books Publication Date: 07/24/2022 Format: e-book My Rating: 5 Stars + (ARC) TOP BOOKS OF 2022 LIST JULY 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS Daisy can’t sleep. But the cure is her worst nightmare. Daisy hasn’t had a good night’s sleep in years. Her chronic insomnia has gotten so bad, it’s affecting her job as a journalist. So she’s delighted when she’s asked to review a new, luxurious sleep clinic - this could be the answer to her p
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 3, 2022
- 4 min
All The Dirty Secrets
By: Aggie Blum Thompson ISBN: 9781250856135 Narrators: Hillary Huber and Josephine Huang Macmillan Audio 11 Hours, 38 Minutes, 26 Seconds Publisher: Forge Books Publication Date: 07/12/2022 Format: Audiobook & e-book My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) Set in the upscale DC private school scene, where silence can easily be bought, Aggie Blum Thompson's All the Dirty Secrets asks how far you would go to protect your status and your family, and if some secrets should ever be revealed. O
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 1, 2022
- 3 min
The Record Keeper
By: Charles Martin Series: Murphy Shepherd #3 ISBN: 978-0785255901 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publication Date: 07/05/22 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) With gripping action and heart-wrenching emotion, Charles Martin continues to explore the true power of sacrificial love. Murphy Shepherd’s last rescue mission very nearly cost him his life. He’d like nothing more than to stay close to his wife and daughters for a while. But Bones’ brother must be stopped, and ther
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 1, 2022
- 4 min
Rough Country
By: T. J. Brearton Narrator: George Newbern ISBN: 9781666615654 8 hrs. 27 minutes Publisher: Dreamscape Media Publication Date: 10/04/2022 Format: Audiobook My Rating: 3 Stars 🎧 (ARC) A young girl, Kasey, is murdered in the woods of northern New York, a strange symbol carved into her stomach. Investigator Reed Raleigh, Major Crimes, is tasked with finding the killer. Reed has his own troubles. He’s in therapy, divorced, and estranged from his son. But he desperately needs to
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 1, 2022
- 5 min
The Pink Hotel
By: Liska Jacobs Narrator: Tavia Gilbert ISBN: 9781250856456 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Farrar Straus and Giroux Publication Date: 07/19/2022 Format: Audiobook My Rating: 3 Stars ALC & ARC Confined to an opulent Beverly Hills hotel during a raging wildfire, a young couple is caught in the escalating tension between the wealthy guests and the staff, in Liska Jacobs's blistering, dark social satire, The Pink Hotel. Newlyweds Keith and Kit Collins can hardly believe their luck w
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 1, 2022
- 5 min
Some Maintenance Required
By: Marie-Renée Lavoie Narrator: Hillary Huber ISBN: 9781666609370 Publisher: Dreamscape Media Publication Date: 07/05/2022 5 hrs. 25 min. Format: Audiobook My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JULY 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS LIST It is 1993, the last year of school, and Laurie’s final spring before adulthood. She works part-time at a restaurant and looks after Cindy, her neglected potty-mouthed little neighbor. Like her mother, Laurie devours books and dreams big. Her father works at a garage
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Judith D Collins
- Jun 30, 2022
- 5 min
Listen to Me
By: Tess Gerritsen ISBN: 978-0593497135 Publisher: Ballantine Books Publication Date: 07/05/2022 Format: Other Narrator: Tanya Eby Brilliance Audio My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) Rizzoli & Isles are back! From New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen, this “shocking and fast-paced” (Karin Slaughter) thriller has Jane and Maura investigating a brutal murder with dire implications, and this time, with Jane’s intrepid mother, Angela, looking into a mystery of her own. “Abso
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