Category: Mystery

THE ONLY ONE LEFT BY RILEY SAGER

9/5/2023

The Only One Left is one of my favorite books of 2023. This one keeps coming with the twists and I couldn't think straight after reading it! Riley Sager slayed this gothic thriller!

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: June 20, 2023
Genre: Thriller
Series: None
Pages: 398 pages
Format: Hardcover Source: Book of the Month Box

Bestselling author Riley Sager returns with a Gothic chiller about a young caregiver assigned to work for a woman accused of a Lizzie Borden-like massacre decades earlier.

At seventeen, Lenora Hope
Hung her sister with a rope

Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope’s End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred.

Stabbed her father with a knife
Took her mother’s happy life

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DARK CORNERS BY MEGAN GOLDIN

8/16/2023

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Megan Goldin is one of my favorite thriller authors! Her books are always top notch and exciting. I can't get enough. While I do recommend reading The Night Swim before this one I honestly can stand alone.

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: August 8, 2023
Genre: Thriller
Series: Rachel Krall series #2
Pages: 347 pages
Format: Hardcover Source: Book of the Month Box

Rachel Krall, the true crime podcaster star of Megan Goldin’s acclaimed The Night Swim, returns to search for a popular influencer who disappears after visiting a suspected serial killer.

Terence Bailey is about to be released from prison for breaking and entering, though investigators have long suspected him in the murders of six women. As his release date approaches, Bailey gets a surprise visit from Maddison Logan, a hot, young influencer with a huge social media following. Hours later, Maddison disappears, and police suspect she’s been kidnapped—or worse. Is Maddison’s disappearance connected to her visit to Bailey? And why was she visiting him in the first place?

When they hit a wall in the investigation, the FBI reluctantly asks for Rachel Krall’s help in finding the missing influencer. Maddison seems to only exist on social media; she has no family, no friends,

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THE BOOK OF COLD CASES BY SIMONE ST. JAMES

3/2/2023

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You can't go wrong with a Simone St. James book. Not only are they creepy but they have the best twists and turns that you don't see coming. This one was excellent!

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: March 15, 2022
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Series: None.
Pages: 350 pages
Format: Hardcover Source: Book of the Month box.

A true crime blogger gets more than she bargained for while interviewing the woman acquitted of two cold case slayings in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Sun Down Motel.

In 1977, Claire Lake, Oregon, was shaken by the Lady Killer Murders: Two men, seemingly randomly, were murdered with the same gun, with strange notes left behind. Beth Greer was the perfect suspect—a rich, eccentric twenty-three-year-old woman, seen fleeing one of the crimes. But she was acquitted, and she retreated to the isolation of her mansion.

Oregon, 2017. Shea Collins is a receptionist, but by night, she runs a true crime website, the Book of Cold Cases—a passion fueled by the attempted abduction she escaped as a child. When she meets Beth by chance, Shea asks her for an interview. To Shea’s surprise, Beth says yes.

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LOCUST LANE BY STEPHEN AMIDON

1/26/2023

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Locust Lane is an extremely well written crime drama and mystery novel. I was immediately sucked into this story and read it in one sitting because I was so invested in it.

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: January 17, 2023
Genre: Mystery | Crime Drama
Series: None.
Pages: 307 pages
Format: Paperback Source: Publisher

For fans of Mystic River by Dennis Lehane and Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, Stephen Amidon’s Locust Lane is a taut and utterly propulsive story about the search for justice and the fault lines of power and influence in a seemingly idyllic town. Can anyone be trusted?

On the surface, Emerson, Massachusetts, is just like any other affluent New England suburb. But when a young woman is found dead in the nicest part of town, the powerful neighbors close ranks to keep their families safe. In this searing novel, Eden Perry’s death kicks off an investigation into the three teenagers who were partying with her that night, each a suspect. Hannah, a sweet girl with an unstable history. Jack, the popular kid with a mean streak. Christopher, an outsider desperate to fit in. Their parents, each with motivations of their own, only complicate the picture: they will do anything to protect their children, even at the others’ expense.

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THE ONLY ONE LEFT BY RILEY SAGER

DARK CORNERS BY MEGAN GOLDIN

THE BOOK OF COLD CASES BY SIMONE ST. JAMES

LOCUST LANE BY STEPHEN AMIDON

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