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Judith D Collins
- 5 days ago
- 6 min
Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun
Series: The Finlay Donovan (#3) By: Ellie Cosimano Narrator: Angela Dawe Macmillan Audio ISBN: 978-1250846037 Publisher: Minotaur Books Publication Date: 01/31/2023 Format: Hardcover, e-book, audio My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) 🎧 JAN 2023 MUST-READ BOOKS TOP BOOKS OF 2023 LIST From USA Today bestseller and Edgar Award nominee Elle Cosimano, comes Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun―the hilarious and heart-pounding next installment in the beloved Finlay Donovan series. Author and single
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Judith D Collins
- Jan 18
- 5 min
All the Dangerous Things
By: Stacy Willingham Narrator: Karissa Vacker Macmillan Audio ISBN: 9781250803856 Publisher: St. Martin's Press/ Minotaur Books Publication Date: 01/10/2023 Format: e-book and audio 🎧 My Rating: 5 Stars ++ (ARC) TOP BOOKS OF 2023 LIST JAN 2023 MUST-READ BOOKS Following up on her instant New York Times bestseller, A Flicker in the Dark, Stacy Willingham delivers a totally gripping thriller about a desperate mother with a troubled past in All the Dangerous Things. One year ag
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Judith D Collins
- Jan 5
- 6 min
Maame
By: Jessica George Narrator: Heather Agyepong Macmillan Audio ISBN: 9781250282521 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Publication Date: 01/31/2023 Format: e-book and audiobook My Rating: 5 Stars 🎧 (ARC) JAN 2023 MUST-READ BOOKS DEBUT NOVEL "An utterly charming and deeply moving portrait of the joys––and the guilt––of trying to find your own way in life." ––Celeste Ng, #1 New York Times bestselling author "Meeting MAAME feels like falling in love for the first time: warm, awkward,
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Judith D Collins
- Dec 29, 2022
- 5 min
Exiles
Series: Aaron Falk #3 By: Jane Harper Narrator: Stephen Shanahan ISBN: 978-1250235350 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Publication Date: 01/31/2023 Format: Audio 🎧 My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) JAN 2023 MUST-READ BOOKS FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AND AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR JANE HARPER COMES EXILES, A CAPTIVATING MYSTERY ABOUT A MISSING MOTHER “Once again Harper proves that she is peerless in creating an avalanche of suspense with intimate, character-driven set pieces...Harper’s legio
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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 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 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 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
- Oct 28, 2022
- 3 min
The Prisoner
By: B.A. Paris ISBN: 978-1250274144 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Publication Date: 11/01/2022 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) NOV MUST-READ BOOKS LIST With Behind Closed Doors, New York Times bestselling author B. A. Paris took the psychological thriller to shocking new heights. Now she’ll hold you captive with THE PRISONER―a stunning new thriller about one woman wed into a family with deadly intentions. Amelie has always been a survivor, from losing her parents as
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Judith D Collins
- Sep 29, 2022
- 2 min
The Soulmate
By: Sally Hepworth ISBN: 978-1250229700 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Publication Date: 04/04/2023 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars +++ (ARC) TOP BOOKS OF 2023 LIST From New York Times bestselling author Sally Hepworth, comes a twisty new domestic suspense novel in The Soulmate… Gabe and Pippa Gerard have just moved into their dream house: a cliffside cottage in a sleepy coastal town outside Melbourne. It’s a fresh start to their marriage, and the perfect place to raise
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Judith D Collins
- Sep 19, 2022
- 6 min
The Matchmaker's Gift
By: Lynda Cohen Loigman ISBN: 978-1250278098 Publisher: St Martin's Press Publication Date: 09/20/2022 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) SEP 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS From the bestselling author of The Two-Family House and The Wartime Sisters comes a heartwarming story of two extraordinary women from two different eras who defy expectations to utilize their unique gift of seeing soulmates in the most unexpected places. Is finding true love a calling or a curse? Even as a chil
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Judith D Collins
- Sep 12, 2022
- 4 min
The Net Beneath Us
By: Carol Dunbar Narrator: Cassandra Campbell ISBN: 9781250870810 Publisher: Forge Books Macmillan Audio Publication Date: 09/13/2022 My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) SEP 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS LIST Carol Dunbar, drawing from her own lived experiences, vividly describes the wonder and harshness of life off the grid. Told over the course of a year, The Net Beneath Us is a lyrical exploration of loss, marriage, parenthood, and self-reliance; a tale of how the natural world—without and
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Judith D Collins
- Sep 8, 2022
- 7 min
Other Birds
By: Sarah Addison Allen ISBN: 978-1250019868 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Publication Date: 08/30/2022 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars + (ARC) TOP BOOKS OF 2022 LIST AUG 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS Between the real and the imaginary, there are stories that take flight in the most extraordinary ways From Sarah Addison Allen, the New York Times bestselling author of Garden Spells, Other Birds is an enchanting tale filled with magical realism and moments of pure love that won'
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 25, 2022
- 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 24, 2022
- 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
- Jun 7, 2022
- 7 min
It All Comes Down to This
By: Therese Anne Fowler ISBN: 978-1250278074 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Publication Date: 06/07/2022 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) TOP BOOKS OF 2022 LIST A warm, keenly perceptive novel of sisterhood, heartbreak, home, and what it takes to remake a life at its halfway point, for fans of Ann Patchett and Emma Straub. Meet the Geller sisters: Beck, Claire, and Sophie, a trio of strong-minded women whose pragmatic, widowed mother, Marti, will be dying soon and
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Judith D Collins
- Jun 1, 2022
- 4 min
The Homewreckers
By: Mary Kay Andrews ISBN: 978-1250278364 Publisher: St Martin's Press Publication Date: 05/03/2022 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars + (ARC) TOP BOOKS OF 2022 LIST COVER REVEAL Summer begins with MKA, in this delightful summer read about flipping houses, and finding true love. Hattie Kavanaugh went to work helping clean up restored homes for Kavanaugh & Son Restorations at eighteen; married the boss’s son at twenty; and was only twenty-five when her husband, Hank, was kil
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Judith D Collins
- May 31, 2022
- 5 min
The Favor
By: Nora Murphy ISBN: 9781250822420 Publisher: St. Martin's Press | Minotaur Books Publication Date: 05/31/2022 Narrator: Dylan Moore, Leon Nixon,
Sarah Mollo-Christensen Macmillan Audio Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars + (ARC) #MinotaurInfluencers #SMPInfluencers DEBUT AUTHOR TOP BOOKS OF 2022 A gripping debut domestic suspense novel, Nora Murphy's thrilling The Favor explores with compassion and depth what can happen when women pushed to the limit take matters into their o
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