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Judith D Collins
- 4 days ago
- 8 min
The Guest House
By: Robin Morgan-Bentley ISBN: 978-1728256061 Publisher: Poisoned Pen Publication Date: 09/13/2022 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) TOP BOOKS OF 2022 LIST SEPT AUTHOR QA In this locked-room psychological thriller Jamie and Victoria head to the English countryside for one last holiday before their first baby arrives where they are warmly welcomed to a charming guest house run by the elderly couple who run it. On the first morning of their trip, Victoria starts to fe
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Judith D Collins
- Aug 4
- 8 min
Girl, Forgotten
By: Karin Slaughter ISBN: 978-0062858115 Publisher: William Morrow Publication Date: 08/23/2022 Format: Audiobook Narrator: Kathleen Early Blackstone Audio My Rating: 5 Stars + 🎧 (ALC) TOP BOOKS 2022 LIST AUG 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS “It’s Slaughter’s prodigious gifts of characterization that make her stand out among thriller writers.” — Washington Post From the New York Times bestselling author of PIECES OF HER, comes an electrifying thriller featuring newly minted US Marshall
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Judith D Collins
- Aug 4
- 16 min
The Lost Girls of Willowbrook
By: Ellen Marie Wiseman ISBN: 978-1496715883 Publisher: Kensington Publication Date: 08/30/2022 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars + (ARC) TOP BOOKS OF 2022 LIST AUG 2022 AUTHOR INTERVIEW AUG 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS In her most powerful novel to date, New York Times bestselling author Ellen Marie Wiseman masterfully viscerally evokes the real-life Willowbrook State School, the infamous Staten Island, New York, mental institution that shocked a nation when exposed in the 1970s as a
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Judith D Collins
- Aug 2
- 5 min
The Housekeeper
By: Joy Fielding ISBN: 978-0593158920 Publisher: Ballantine/Random House Publication Date: 08/16/2022 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) AUG 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS LIST A woman hires a housekeeper to care for her aging parents—only to watch as she takes over their lives in this riveting novel from the New York Times bestselling author Samantha M. Bailey calls “an ingenious master of domestic suspense.” In the end, I have only myself to blame. I’m the one who let her in. Jod
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Judith D Collins
- Aug 2
- 14 min
The Lies I Told
By: Mary Burton ISBN: 978-1542032636 Publisher: Montlake Publication Date: 08/02/2022 Format: Paperback My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) TOP BOOKS OF 2022 LIST AUGUST Author Interview AUGUST Must-Read Books For a woman obsessed and a killer in her shadow, remembering the past becomes a mind game in a novel of psychological suspense by New York Times bestselling author Mary Burton. Twin sisters Marisa and Clare Stockton were sixteen when Clare’s body was found in Virginia’s James R
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 30
- 5 min
The Making of Her
By: Bernadette Jiwa ISBN: 978-0593186138 Publisher: Dutton Publication Date: 08/09/2022 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars + (ARC) AUG 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS LIST DEBUT AUTHOR TOP BOOKS OF 2022 LIST An unforgettable debut novel about family secrets, falling apart, and coming together. Dublin 1996. Joan Egan lives an enviable life. She and her husband, Martin, and daughter, Carmel, are thriving in Dublin at the dawn of an economic boom. But everything changes when Joan receive
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 28
- 6 min
I'm Going to have a Good Day!
DAILY AFFIRMATIONS WITH SCARLETT By: Tiania Haneline with Scarlett Gray Illustrator: Stephanie Dehennin ISBN: 9780310771296 Publisher: Zonderkidz Publication Date: 01/24/2023 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars + (ARC) TOP BOOKS OF 2023 LIST I am beautiful. I am kind. I am loved. In this uplifting picture book, young readers will discover how they can use daily affirmations to remind them of who they are and what makes them special. Join TikTok sensation Scarlett Gray and Ti
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 25
- 14 min
Things We Do in the Dark
By: Jennifer Hillier ISBN: 978-1250763167 Publisher: Minotaur Books Publication Date: 07/19/2022 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars ++ (ARC) TOP BOOKS OF 2022 LIST JULY AUTHOR Q&A JULY 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS A brilliant new thriller from Jennifer Hillier, the award-winning author of the breakout novels Little Secrets and Jar of Hearts. Paris Peralta is suspected of killing her celebrity husband, and her long-hidden past now threatens to destroy her future. When Paris Peralta
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 25
- 5 min
Do No Harm
By: Robert Pobi Series: Lucas Page #3 ISBN: 978-1250793645 Publisher: Minotaur Books Publication Date: 08/09/2022 Format: Other My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) AUG 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS In Robert Pobi's thriller Do No Harm, a series of suicides and accidental deaths in the medical community are actually well-disguised murders and only Lucas Page can see the pattern and discern the truth that no one else believes. Lucas Page is a polymath, astrophysicist, professor, husband, father of
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 25
- 4 min
The Secrets You Hide
By: Kate Helm Narrator: Emma Powell 10 Hours, 45 Minutes ISBN: 9781666615012 Publisher: Dreamscape Media Publication Date: 09/06/2022 Format: Audiobook My Rating: 4.5 Stars (ARC) SEPT 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS Georgia Sage has a gift: she can see evil in people. As a courtroom artist, she uses her skills to help condemn those who commit terrible crimes. After all, her own brutal past means she knows innocence is even rarer than justice. But when she is drawn back into the trial th
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 24
- 4 min
The New Neighbor
By: Karen Cleveland ISBN: 978-0593358023 Publisher: Ballantine Publication Date: 07/26/2022 Format: Other My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) Secrets, jealousy, and paranoia collide when a seemingly perfect new family moves into a neighborhood with ties to the CIA in this gripping thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Need to Know. “Karen Cleveland ingeniously melds domestic intrigue with the lightning pace of a spy thriller, showing us the devastating personal costs o
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 24
- 4 min
Long Gone
A Detective Annalisa Vega By: Joanna Schaffhausen ISBN: 9781666580907 Series: Detective Annalisa Vega (2 of #2) Publisher: Dreamscape Media Minotaur Books Narrated by: Kelsey Navarro Publication Date: 08/09/2022 Format: e-book & Audiobook 🎧 My Rating: 4.5 Stars (ALC/DRC) AUG 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS LIST Long Gone, the next installment of Joanna Schaffhausen's critically acclaimed Detective Annalisa Vega series. Chicago detective Annalisa Vega shattered her life, personally and
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 22
- 4 min
The Family Remains
By: Lisa Jewell ISBN: 978-1982178895 Publisher: Atria Books Publication Date: 08/09/2022 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell comes an intricate and affecting novel about twisted marriages, fractured families, and deadly obsessions in this standalone sequel to the “brilliantly chilling” (Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author) The Family Upstairs. Early one morning on the shore of the Thames, DCI Samuel O
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 20
- 5 min
The Boys
By: Katie Hafner ISBN: 9781954118140 Publisher: Spiegel & Grau by OrangeSky Audio Narrator: BJ Harrison Publication Date: 07/26/2022 Format: Audiobook 7 Hours, 19 Minutes, 12 Seconds My Rating: 4 Stars ARC) JULY 2022 MUST READ BOOKS LIST DEBUT NOVEL Anne Tyler meets Kevin Wilson in this novel for our time. A tour-de-force novel about love, the yearning for connection, and the ways in which childhood trauma plays out in adult life. When introverted Ethan Fawcett marries Barb,
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 17
- 5 min
After We Were Stolen
By: Brook Beyfuss ISBN: 9781666609240 Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark Dreamscape Media Narrator: Jesse Vilinsky Publication Date: 07/19/2022 Format: Audiobook My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) DEBUT NOVEL JULY 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS "Not a typical cult novel...Despite Avery's clear trauma and struggle for closure, her voice is strong and clear." – Booklist An emotionally wrought, psychologically twisty coming-of-age story perfect for book clubs about a girl who escapes from a cult after
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 15
- 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 15
- 3 min
Dreamland
By: Nicholas Sparks ISBN: 978-0593449554 Publisher: Random House Publication Date: 09/20/2022 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) SEPT 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS LIST From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wish comes a poignant love story about risking everything for a dream—and whether it’s possible to leave the past behind. Colby Mills once felt destined for a musical career, until tragedy grounded his aspirations. Now the head of a small family farm in North
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 14
- 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 11
- 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 11
- 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 10
- 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 10
- 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 7
- 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
- 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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