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THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME BY LAURA DAVE

11/8/2021

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Unfortunately, I didn’t enjoy this one. It was extremely slow and underwhelming for my tastes. When it comes to mysteries, I need to crave the answers and with this one I just didn’t care about the outcome.
Rating: ★★
​Release Date: May 4, 2021
Genre: Domestic Thriller. Mystery. 

Series: None. Complete Standalone. 
Pages: 316 pages
Format: Hardcover. Source: BOTM Box. 
Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers—Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother.

As Hannah’s increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen’s boss, as a US marshal and federal agents arrive at her Sausalito home unannounced, Hannah quickly realizes her husband isn’t who he said he was. And that Bailey just may hold the key to figuring out Owen’s true identity—and why he really disappeared.

Hannah and Bailey set out to discover the truth. But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen’s past, they soon realize 

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THE MOTHER NEXT DOOR BY TARA LASKOWSKI

10/15/2021

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I can see why this book is comparable to Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty! This is a juicy tale of suburban mothers gone wild with secrets and revenge!
​Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: October 12, 2021
Genre: Suburban Suspense. Mystery. 

Series: None. Complete standalone.  
Pages: 326 pages
Format: eBook. Source: ​Publisher.
GOOD MOTHERS…
Never show their feelings.
Never spill their secrets.
Never admit to murder.

The annual Halloween block party is the pinnacle of the year on idyllic suburban cul-de-sac Ivy Woods Drive. An influential group of neighborhood moms—known as the Ivy Five—plans the event for months.

Except the Ivy Five has been four for a long time.

When a new mother moves to town, eager to fit in, the moms see it as an opportunity to make the group whole again. This year’s block party should be the best yet... until the women start receiving anonymous messages threatening to expose the quiet neighborhood’s dark past—and the lengths they’ve gone to hide it.

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NOT A HAPPY FAMILY BY SHARI LAPENA

10/4/2021

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Not a Happy Family is a razor sharp who-dun-it that starts off at warp speed and doesn’t release ANY of the tension readers feel upon their bodies until the very last page. Even then… You’ll probably loose your mind!
Rating: ★★★★★
​Release Date: July 27, 2021
Genre: Domestic Thriller. Murder Mystery. 

Series: None. Complete Standalone. 
Pages: 363 pages
Format: Hardcover. Source: BOTM Box. 
The new domestic suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door and The End of Her who has sold more than 7 million copies of her books worldwide

In this family, everyone is keeping secrets—even the dead.
 
Brecken Hill in upstate New York is an expensive place to live. You have to be rich to have a house there, and Fred and Sheila Merton certainly are rich. But even all their money can't protect them when a killer comes to call. The Mertons are brutally murdered after a fraught Easter dinner with their three adult kids. Who, of course, are devastated.
 
Or are they? They each stand to inherit millions. They were never a happy family, thanks to their vindictive father and neglectful 

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THE GOSSIP BY NANCY BUSH

9/12/2021

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Nancy Bush knows how to write an intense suspense novel and it shows through her work! The Gossip is one of a kind and I enjoyed it immensely.
Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: June 29, 2021
Genre: Suspense. 

Series: River Glen series #2
Pages: 332 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: ​Purchased. 
Every word you whisper
In high school, rumors can make or destroy a reputation. A thoughtless nickname can turn each day into a living hell. Gossip is irresistible—and contagious. But sometimes, gossip can kill . . .
 
Every secret you share
Mackenzie Laughlin, formerly with Oregon’s River Glen police department, has reluctantly agreed to investigate a local woman’s disappearance. The case reconnects her with Jesse James Taft, a P.I. gifted at getting under Mac’s skin. But when the body is found tangled in river weeds, Mac and Taft realize that the case has changed, from one missing woman to a hunt for a terrifying and relentless killer . . .
 
Could be your last
In his old school yearbooks, they were the pretty, popular ones, confident and callous. Back then, they held the power. But now, it’s 

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ROCK PAPER SCISSORS BY ALICE FEENEY

9/7/2021

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The first thought that comes to mind when I think of this book is TWISTED! Not only that, but it also chilled me to the bones! I didn’t expect this one to feel as creepy as it was, but I am so into it!
Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: September 7, 2021
Genre: Mystery. Thriller. Suspense. 

Series: None. Complete standalone. 
Pages: 304 pages
Format: eBook. Source: Publisher.
Think you know the person you married? Think again…

Things have been wrong with Mr and Mrs Wright for a long time. When Adam and Amelia win a weekend away to Scotland, it might be just what their marriage needs. Self-confessed workaholic and screenwriter Adam Wright has lived with face blindness his whole life. He can’t recognize friends or family, or even his own wife.

Every anniversary the couple exchange traditional gifts--paper, cotton, pottery, tin--and each year Adam’s wife writes him a letter that she never lets him read. Until now. They both know this weekend will make or break their marriage, but they didn’t randomly win this trip. One of them is lying, and someone doesn’t want them to live happily ever after.

Ten years of marriage. Ten years of secrets. And an anniversary they will never forget.

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WHERE I LEFT HER BY AMBER GRAZA

8/24/2021

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The ending of this book packs a BIG punch! I’m still reeling from the darkness of it! Even though I saw the twist way before it was revealed, the author saved this book with the way she ended it!
Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: August 24, 2021
Genre: Domestic Suspense and Mystery

Series: None. Complete Standalone. 
Pages: 248 pages
Format: eBook. Source: Publisher
​From the author of When I Was You comes a spine-tingling new thriller about a mother’s worst nightmare come true, when her teenage daughter goes to a sleepover and doesn’t come back.

Whitney had some misgivings when she dropped her increasingly moody teenage daughter, Amelia, off at Lauren’s house. She’d never met the parents, and usually she’d go in, but Amelia clearly wasn’t going to let something so humiliating happen, so instead Whitney waved to her daughter before pulling away from the little house with the roses in front.

But when she goes back the next day, an elderly couple answers the door—Amelia and Lauren aren’t there, and this couple swears they never were, that she’s at the wrong house. As Whitney searches for Amelia, she uncovers a trail of lies her daughter has told her—from the Finsta account to rumors of a secret relationship. Does she really even know this girl she’s raised? And

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TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE BY CAROLA LORING

8/19/2021

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Too Good to Be True is a twisty thriller with an evil and conniving plotline and characters who you simply cannot trust! This isn’t a bad thing either… Not for this book!
Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: March 2, 2021
Genre: Thriller. Suspense. 

Series: None. Complete standalone. 
Pages: 343 pages
Format: Hardcover. Source: ​Book of the Month Box.
ONE LOVE STORY. TWO MARRIAGES. THREE VERSIONS OF THE TRUTH.

Too Good to Be True is an obsessive, addictive love story for fans of Lisa Jewell and The Wife Upstairs, from Carola Lovering, the beloved author of Tell Me Lies.


Skye Starling is overjoyed when her boyfriend, Burke Michaels, proposes after a whirlwind courtship. Though Skye seems to have the world at her fingertips—she’s smart, beautiful, and from a well-off family—she’s also battled crippling OCD ever since her mother’s death when she was eleven, and her romantic relationships have suffered as a result.

But now Burke—handsome, older, and more emotionally mature than any man she’s met before—says he wants her. Forever. Except, Burke isn’t who he claims to be. And interspersed letters to 

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YOU LOVE ME BY CAROLINE KEPNES

7/18/2021

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Joe Goldberg is the anti-hero we have all grown to love! Readers will be pleased to see that while Joe has grown up a bit, his stalking tendencies, and the iffy ways he goes about love haven’t changed at all! I hope the author is planning another book.
​Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: April 6, 2021
Genre: Suspense

Series: You series #3 (must be read in order)
Pages: 387 pages
Format: Hardcover. Source: ​Purchased.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The highly anticipated new thriller in Caroline Kepnes’s hit You series, now a blockbuster Netflix show—a compulsively readable trip into the deviant mind of the uniquely antisocial, savvy bookseller Joe Goldberg.

Joe Goldberg is done with the cities. He’s done with the muck and the posers, done with Love. Now he’s saying hello to nature, to simple pleasures on a cozy island in the Pacific Northwest. For the first time in a long time, he can just breathe.

He gets a job at the local library—he does know a thing or two about books—and that’s where he meets her: Mary Kay DiMarco. Librarian. Joe won’t meddle, he will not obsess. He’ll win her the old-fashioned way . . . by providing a shoulder to cry on, a helping hand. Over time, they’ll both heal their wounds and begin their happily ever after in this sleepy town.

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THE STRANGER IN THE MIRROR BY LIV CONSTANTINE

7/5/2021

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The Stranger in the Mirror is an unpredictable, unputdownable, and intricately plotted thriller! Honestly, this one blew me away and I don’t think I’ll be able to stop thinking about for a while.
Rating: ★★★★★
​Release Date: July 6, 2021
Genre: Domestic Thriller. Suspense. 

Series: None. Complete Standalone. 
Pages: 331 pages
Format: eBook Source: ​Publisher
A diabolically twisty, psychologically unsettling novel about a woman with no recollection of her past from the authors of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick The Last Mrs. Parrish and The Wife Stalker.

Addison’s about to get married, but she’s not looking forward to the big day. It’s not her fiancé; he’s a wonderful man. It’s because Addison doesn't know who she really is. A few years ago, a kind driver found her bleeding next to a New Jersey highway and rescued her. While her physical wounds healed, Addison’s memory never returned. She doesn’t know her real name. Or how she ended up injured on the side of a road. Or why she can’t shake the notion that she may have done something very, very bad . . .

In a posh home in the Boston suburbs, Julian tries to figure out what happened to his loving, caring wife, Cassandra, who disappeared without a trace two years ago. She would never have 

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THE PERFECT GUESTS BY EMMA ROUS

1/12/2021

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Emma Rous is shaping up to be one of my favorite authors! This book, like her debut, is an excellent read with a shocking ending I didn't see coming! I highly recommend it. 
​Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: January 12, 2021
Genre: Domestic Suspense.

Series: None. Complete standalone. 
Pages: 302 pages
Format: eBook. Source: The Publisher
​The USA Today bestselling author of The Au Pair returns with another delicious, twisty novel—about a grand estate with many secrets, an orphan caught in a web of lies, and a young woman playing a sinister game.

1988. Beth Soames is fourteen years old when her aunt takes her to stay at Raven Hall, a rambling manor in the isolated East Anglian fens. The Averells, the family who lives there, are warm and welcoming, and Beth becomes fast friends with their daughter, Nina. At times, Beth even feels like she's truly part of the family...until they ask her to help them with a harmless game—and nothing is ever the same.

2019. Sadie Langton is an actress struggling to make ends meet when she lands a well-paying gig to pretend to be a guest at a weekend party. She is sent a suitcase of clothing, a dossier outlining the role she is to play, and instructions. It's strange, but 

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