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Judith D Collins
- Jan 30
- 4 min
Murder at Haven's Rock
Series: Haven's Rock #1 By: Kelley Armstrong Narrator: Thérèse Plummer ISBN: 9781250881755 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Minotaur Books Publication Date: 02/21/2023 Format: Audiobook & e-book My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) FEB 2023 MUST-READ BOOKS “I can’t say enough good things about the audio editions and narrator Thérèse Plummer, who has done a phenomenal job throughout the entire series." —The Bibliosanctum New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong’s Rockton Novels had on
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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 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
- 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 30, 2022
- 8 min
The Last House on the Street
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
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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 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 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
- 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
- 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
- Apr 1, 2022
- 5 min
The Echoes
The Kinship Series Book 4 By: Jess Montgomery ISBN: 9781250839664 Publisher: St Martins Press/Minotaur Books Publication Date: 03/29/2022 Format: Other Macmillan Audio Audiobook Narrated by Susan Bennett My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) The fourth in Jess Montgomery's evocative Kinship series, The Echoes combines exquisite storytelling with extraordinary crime plotting. "A beautifully written tour de force." —Linda Castillo on The Stills As July 4, 1928 approaches, Sheriff Lily Ross
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Judith D Collins
- Mar 9, 2022
- 4 min
The Golden Couple
By: Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen ISBN: 9781250273208 Publisher: St Martins Press Publication Date: 03/08/2022 Format: Other e-book & audiobook Narrators: Karissa Vacker & Marin Ireland Macmillan Audio My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) TOP BOOKS OF 2022 LIST The Golden Couple is the next electrifying novel from Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, the #1 New York Times bestselling author duo behind You Are Not Alone, An Anonymous Girl, and The Wife Between Us. If Avery Chambers can
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Judith D Collins
- Feb 1, 2022
- 7 min
Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead
Series: Finlay Donovan #2 By: Elle Cosimano Audio Narrator: Angela Dawe Macmillan Audio (Publisher) ISBN: 978-1250242181 Publisher: Minotaur Books Publication Date: 02/01/2022 Format: Audio/e-book My Rating: 5 Stars + (ARC) TOP BOOKS OF 2022 From Edgar-Award nominee Elle Cosimano, comes Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead―the hilarious and heart-pounding follow-up to Finlay Donovan is Killing It. "A funny and smart, twisty and surprising series."―Megan Miranda Finlay Donovan is―o
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Judith D Collins
- Jan 4, 2022
- 5 min
Reckless Girls
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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Judith D Collins
- Nov 8, 2020
- 5 min
Don't Look for Me
By: Wendy Walker ISBN: 1250198704 Publisher: St Martin's Press
Publication Date: 09/15/20 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars ++
Top Books of 2020
Author Q&A
The greatest risk isn’t running away.
It’s running out of time. The car abandoned miles from home. The note found at a nearby hotel.
The shattered family that couldn’t be put back together.
They called it a “walk away.” It happens all the time.
Women disappear, desperate to leave their lives behind and start ove
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Judith D Collins
- Feb 6, 2020
- 5 min
The Night Swim
Rachel Krall #1 By: Megan Goldin ISBN: 125021968X Publisher: St. Martin's Press Publication Date: 08/04/2020 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC)
In The Night Swim, a new thriller from Megan Goldin, author of the “gripping and unforgettable” (Harlen Coben) The Escape Room, a true crime podcast host covering a controversial trial finds herself drawn deep into a small town’s dark past and a brutal crime that took place there years before.
After the first season of her
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