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HOME BEFORE DARK BY RILEY SAGER

10/31/2021

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Home Before Dark is an insidious and compelling novel that had me questioning everything. This book unnerved me to the core making the perfect pre-Halloween read!
Rating: ★★★★★
​Release Date: June 30, 2020
Genre: Gothic Thriller

Series: None. Complete Standalone. 
Pages: 397 pages
Format: Hardcover. Source: BOTM Box.
In the latest thriller from New York Times bestseller Riley Sager, a woman returns to the house made famous by her father’s bestselling horror memoir. Is the place really haunted by evil forces, as her father claimed? Or are there more earthbound—and dangerous—secrets hidden within its walls?

What was it like? Living in that house.

Maggie Holt is used to such questions. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a nonfiction book called House of Horrors. His tale of ghostly happenings and encounters with malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon, rivaling The Amityville Horror in popularity—and skepticism.

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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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THEY'LL NEVER CATCH US BY JESSICA GOODMAN

9/25/2021

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While I found They’ll Never Catch Us to be slow in the beginning it picked up and became a fast-paced mystery that I couldn’t stop reading. I just had to get past 100 pages first!
Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: July 27, 2021
Genre: Young Adult Mystery and Thriller

Series: None. Complete Standalone. 
Pages: 336 pages
Format: Hardcover. Source: Purchased.
From rising star Jessica Goodman, author of They Wish They Were Us, comes a new fast-paced thriller about two sisters vying for the top spot on their cross-country team—until a teammate’s disappearance throws their lives off course.

Stella and Ellie Steckler are only a year apart, but their different personalities make their relationship complicated. Stella is single-minded, driven, and she keeps to herself. Cross-country running is her life and she won't let anything get in the way of being the best. Her sister Ellie is a talented runner too, but she also lets herself have fun. She has friends. She goes to parties. She has a life off the course.

The sisters do have one thing in common, though: the new girl, Mila Keene. Both Stecklers' lives are upended when Mila comes to town. At first, Ellie and Stella view the new star athlete as a threat. But soon Ellie can't help but be drawn to her warm, charming 

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THE GOOD LIE BY A.R. TORRE

9/18/2021

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While I love the darker side of Alessandra Torre’s novels this one wasn’t as compulsively readable as her former release. It’s good, but not my favorite of hers.
Rating: ★★★
​Release Date: July 20, 2021
Genre: Crime. Serial Killer Thriller.

Series: None. Complete standalone.  
Pages: 254 pages
Format: eBook. Source: ​Kindle Unlimited. 
​Six teens murdered. A suspect behind bars. A desperate father. In a case this shadowy, the truth is easy to hide.

Psychiatrist Dr. Gwen Moore is an expert on killers. She’s spent a decade treating California’s most depraved predators and unlocking their motives—predators much like the notorious Bloody Heart serial killer, whose latest teenage victim escaped and then identified local high school teacher Randall Thompson as his captor. The case against Thompson as the Bloody Heart Killer is damning—and closed, as far as Gwen and the media are concerned. If not for one new development…

Defense attorney Robert Kavin is a still-traumatized father whose own son fell prey to the BH Killer. Convinced of Thompson’s innocence, he steps in to represent him. Now Robert wants Gwen to interview the accused, create a psych profile of the killer and his victims, and help clear his client’s name.

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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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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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A FAMILIAR SIGHT BY BRIANNA LABUSKES

8/14/2021

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A Familiar Sight is certainly a unique story as the female lead is a sociopath AND police consultant. However, I found the book to be too long (and a bit dull) when it comes to the actual plot.
Rating: ★★★
​Release Date: August 1, 2021
Genre: Police/Detective Procedural 

Series: Dr. Gretchen White series #1
Pages: 367 pages
Format: eBook. Source: ​Amazon First Reads
​A shocking murder carries echoes of the past for a psychologist in a startling novel of suspense by a Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestselling author.

Psychologist and criminologist Dr. Gretchen White is a specialist in antisocial personality disorders and violent crimes. She’s helped solve enough prominent cases for detective Patrick Shaughnessy that her own history is often overlooked: Gretchen is an admitted sociopath once suspected of killing her aunt. Shaughnessy still thinks Gretchen got away with murder. It’s not going to happen again.

When a high-profile new case lands on Shaughnessy’s desk, it seems open and shut. Remorseless teenager Viola Kent is accused of killing her mother. Amid stories of childhood horrors and Viola’s cruel manipulations, the bad seed has already been found guilty by a rapt public. But Gretchen might be seeing something in Viola no 

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CHOOSE ME BY TESS GERRITSEN & GARY BRAVER

7/26/2021

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Tess Gerritsen and Gary Braver pen a scandalous murder mystery with Choose Me! This book held me captive! I’m so glad I chose it as one of my amazon first reads.
​Rating: ★★★★★
​Release Date: July 1, 2021
Genre: Crime

Series: None. Complete Standalone. 
Pages: 290 pages
Format: eBook. Source: Amazon First Reads
From New York Times bestseller Tess Gerritsen and acclaimed thriller writer Gary Braver comes a sexy murder mystery about a reckless affair and dangerous secrets.
Taryn Moore is young, beautiful, and brilliant…so why would she kill herself? When Detective Frankie Loomis arrives on the scene to investigate the girl’s fatal plunge from her apartment balcony, she knows in her gut there’s more to the story. Her instincts are confirmed when surprise information is revealed that could have been reason enough for Taryn’s suicide—or a motive for her murder.
To English professor Jack Dorian, Taryn was the ultimate fantasy: intelligent, adoring, and completely off limits. But there was also a dark side to Taryn, a dangerous streak that threatened those she turned her affections to—including Jack. And now that she’s dead, his problems are just beginning.
After Frankie uncovers a trove of sordid secrets, it becomes clear that Jack may know the truth. He is guilty of deception, but is he capable of cold-blooded murder?

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FOR YOUR OWN GOOD BY SAMANTHA DOWNING

7/21/2021

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Snarky thrillers? Who knew that could be a thing! Well, Samantha Downing has proved that is can be and this novel shows it! I honestly couldn’t put this one down!
Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: July 21, 2021
Genre: Mystery. Thriller. 

Series: None. Complete standalone. 
Pages: 384 pages
Format: eBook. Source: ARC.
​USA Today bestselling author Samantha Downing is back with her latest sneaky thriller set at a prestigious private school—complete with interfering parents, overeager students, and one teacher who just wants to teach them all a lesson…

Teddy Crutcher has won Teacher of the Year at the prestigious Belmont Academy, home to the best and brightest.
 
He says his wife couldn’t be more proud—though no one has seen her in a while.
 
Teddy really can’t be bothered with a few mysterious deaths on campus that’re looking more and more like murder or the student digging a little too deep into Teddy’s personal life. His main focus is pushing these kids to their full academic potential.  

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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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