By: Rea Frey ISBN: 9781250241603 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Publication Date: 02/08/2022 Format: Audiobook & e-book Narrated by: Samantha Desz My Rating: 4.5 Stars (ARC) If these walls could talk. A thrilling domestic drama set against the power of the wilderness, Rea Frey's Secrets of Our House is a deeply-felt novel of long-held secrets and the strength of family. Desi is the mastermind behind her dream getaway house. Nestled high into the mountains of North Carolina

By: Allison Buccola ISBN: 978-0593231296 Publisher: Random House Publication Date: 02/01/2022 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars DEBUT NOVEL TOP BOOKS OF 2022 FEB AUTHOR QA In this “propulsive” (Kimberly McCreight) debut thriller, a young woman questions everything she thought she knew about the shocking murder that changed her life when she was in high school. “A riveting game of cat and mouse with a startling conclusion.”­—Liv Constantine, bestselling author of The Last Mrs.

By: Kaira Rouda ISBN: 9781542026116 Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 01/18/2022 Format: Paperback My Rating: 5 Stars + (ARC) TOP BOOKS OF 2022 A quiet neighborhood. A lovely home. A promising new beginning. In a heartbeat everything can change in this propulsive novel of suspense by USA Today bestselling author Kaira Rouda. Julie Jones has left her suffocating marriage. With her teenage daughter, Jess, she’s starting over. Their new house in Oceanside is the fir

Series: Frankie Elkin #2 By: Lisa Gardner ISBN: 978-0593185414 Publisher: Dutton Publication Date: 01/18/2022 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars +++ (ARC) Worthy of 10 STARS! TOP BOOKS OF 2022 From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner, a thrilling new novel that sends Frankie Elkin into the woods in search of a lost man—and the shocking truth about why he went missing in the first place. Frankie Elkin, who readers first met in Before She Disappeared, learns of

By: Stacy Willingham ISBN: 978-1250803825 Publisher: Minotaur Books Publication Date: 01/11/2022 Format: Hardcover, e-book, audiobook Narrator: Karissa Vacker My Rating: 5 Stars + (ARC) TOP BOOKS OF 2022 LIST TOP DEBUT JAN AUTHOR Q&A From debut author Stacy Willingham comes a masterfully done, lyrical thriller, certain to be the launch of an amazing career. A Flicker in the Dark is eerily compelling to the very last page. When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went

By: Heather Gudenkauf ISBN: 978-0778333166 Publisher: Park Row Publication Date: 01/25/2022 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars +++ (ARC) Worthy of 10 STARS! TOP BOOKS OF 2022 LIST 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 crime writer Wylie Lark doesn’t mind being snowed in at the isolated farmhouse where she’s retreated to write her new

By: Diane Chamberlain ISBN: 125026796X Publication Date: 01/11/2022 Publisher: St Martin's Press Format: Hardcover, e-book, audio Macmillan Audio Narrated by: Susan Bennett My Rating: 5 Stars +++ (ARC) Worthy of 10 STARS! TOP BOOKS OF 2022 LIST From bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes an irresistible new novel that perfectly interweaves history, mystery, and social justice. When Kayla Carter's husband dies in an accident while building their dream house, she knows sh

By: Katherine Faulkner ISBN: 978-1982150310 Publisher: Gallery Books Publication Date: 01/25/2021 Format: Audiobook Simon & Schuster Audio Narrated by: Laura Kirman My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) DEBUT NOVEL A twisty, whip-smart debut thriller, as electrifying as the #1 New York Times bestseller The Girl on the Train, about impending motherhood, unreliable friendship, and the high price of keeping secrets. Helen’s idyllic life—handsome architect husband, gorgeous Victorian house,

By: Rachel Hawkins ISBN: 978-1250274250 Publisher: St Martin's Press Publication Date: 01/04/2022 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 4 Stars From Rachel Hawkins, the New York Times bestselling author of The Wife Upstairs, comes Reckless Girls, a deliciously wicked gothic suspense, set on an isolated Pacific island with a dark history, for fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware. ONE ISLAND Beautiful, wild, and strange―Meroe Island is a desolate spot in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with

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By: Michael Robotham ISBN: 9781982166458 Publisher: Scribner Publication Date: 01/04/2022 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) TOP BOOKS OF 2022 LIST 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 elit

By: Viola Shipman ISBN: 978-1525806445 Publisher: Graydon House Publication Date: 10/26/2021 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars + TOP BOOKS OF 2021 LIST From the USA Today bestselling author of The Summer Cottage "A beautifully written story about second chances. Fans of women’s fiction won’t be able to put this down." —Publishers Weekly The forecast is calling for a reluctant homecoming and regrettable decisions with a strong chance of romance… When Sonny Dunes, a SoCal meteo

By: Jodi Picoult ISBN: 9781984818416 Publisher: Random House Publication Date: 11/30/2021 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) TOP BOOKS OF 2021 LIST From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a deeply moving novel about the resilience of the human spirit in a moment of crisis. Diana O’Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in

Atlee Pine Book 4 of 4 By: David Baldacci ISBN: 978-1538719725 Publisher: Grand Central Publication Date: 11/16/2021 Format: Hardcover/Audiobook Narrators: Brittany Pressley & Kyf Brewer (favorites) My Rating: 5 Stars + TOP BOOKS OF 2021 LIST FBI Agent Atlee Pine’s harrowing search for her long-lost sister Mercy reaches a boiling point in this breakneck thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci. For her entire life, FBI agent Atlee Pine has been sea

By: Allen Eskens ISBN: 0316703494 Publisher: Mulholland Books Publication Date: 09/07/21 Format: Other My Rating: 5 STARS +++ TOP BOOKS OF 2021 From the bestselling author of The Life We Bury comes a "riveting, hold-your-breath" new mystery in which a woman finds herself in a race not only for justice—but for her life (Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Wife). Lila Nash is on the verge of landing her dream job—working as a prosecutor under the

By: Patti Callahan ISBN: 0785251723 Publisher: HarperMuse Publication Date: 10/19/2021 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars ++ COVER REVEAL Top Books of 2021 From Patti Callahan, the bestselling author of Becoming Mrs. Lewis, comes another enchanting story that pulls back the curtain on the early life of C. S. Lewis. “Where did Narnia come from?” The answer will change everything. Megs Devonshire is brilliant with numbers and equations, on a scholarship at Oxford, and dreams

By: Nicole Baart ISBN: 9781982115081 Publisher: Atria Books Publication Date: 11/02/2021 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars ++ QA with the Author Top Book of 2021 List From the author of Little Broken Things, a “race-to-the-finish family drama” (People) following a mother who must confront the dark summer that changed her life forever in order to reclaim the daughter she left behind. Juniper Baker had just graduated from high school and was deep in the throes of a summer roman

By: Amor Towles ISBN: 978-0735222359 Publisher: Viking Publication Date: 10/05/2021 Format: Audiobook Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Marin Ireland , Dion Graham My Rating: 5 Stars ++ TOP BOOKS OF 2021 LIST “[T]ransporting . . . a rollicking cross-country adventure, rife with unforgettable characters, vivid scenery and suspense that will keep readers flying through the pages.” —TIME “An absolute beauty of a book. Every character is a gem, the many locations spring to vivid

Amgash Series (3 of 3) By: Elizabeth Strout ISBN: 0812989430 Publisher: Random House Publication Date: 10/19/21 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars ++ (ARC) Top Book of 2021 List Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout explores the mysteries of marriage and the secrets we keep, as a former couple reckons with where they’ve come from—and what they’ve left behind. “Elizabeth Strout is one of my very favorite writers, so the fact that Oh William! may well be my favorite of he

By: Mary Kay Andrews ISBN: 1250279313 Publisher: St Martin's Press Publication Date: 09/28/21 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) TOP BOOKS OF 2021 LIST From May Kay Andrews, the New York Times bestselling author of Hello, Summer, comes a novella celebrating the magic of Christmas and second chances in The Santa Suit. When newly-divorced Ivy Perkins buys an old farmhouse sight unseen, she is definitely looking for a change in her life. The Four Roses, as the farmhou