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WHERE I LEFT HER BY AMBER GRAZA

8/24/2021

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

A FAMILIAR SIGHT BY BRIANNA LABUSKES

8/14/2021

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

THE BABYSITTER BY NANCY BUSH

8/6/2021

The Babysitter delivers and edge of your seat suspense novel with a little bit of romance and an ending you won’t be able to predict! I highly recommend this one!

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: June 30, 2020
Genre: Suspense. Mystery.
Series: River Glen series #1 (can stand alone).
Pages: 460 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: Purchased.

The whispers may scare you . . .
In River Glen, Oregon, rumors are spreading about the Babysitter Stalker. One victim was fatally stabbed. A second fell—or was pushed—from a rooftop deck. High school sophomore Jamie Whelan, scheduled to watch the Ryerson twins tonight, isn’t worried. She’s more interested in the party she’ll go to later, as soon as her sister Emma arrives to take over babysitting duties. But nothing goes according to plan . . .

But the truth . . .
Twenty years after that night’s vicious attack, Emma remains scarred in body and mind. Jamie, back in River Glen after their mother’s death, still feels guilty over trading places that fateful evening. Then suddenly another young babysitter is attacked. Jamie, with a teenage daughter of her own, fears something much more twisted than coincidence.

Is even more terrifying . . .
Is this new nightmare connected with those long-ago crimes? Emma’s fractured memories may contain the answer. But the

RUNAWAY FATE BY ELIZABETH HUNTER

7/28/2021

Elizabeth Hunter is a new to me author and I’m so glad I discovered her books! I’ve been in the mood for paranormal books lately and this one satisfied my cravings! I’m excited to read more in the series.

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: October 27, 2020
Genre: Paranormal Mystery. Women's Fiction.
Series: Moonstone Cove series #1
Pages: 344 pages
Format: eBook. Source: Purchased.

It’s paranormal women’s fiction for lovers of magic, mayhem, and a solid afternoon nap (when they can squeeze one in.)

Katherine wasn’t looking for anything extraordinary in her life. She had a job she loved, a husband she adored, and a home in the beautiful seaside town of Moonstone Cove.

Okay yes, she worked too much and had fallen out of touch with all her friends, but that happened to everyone, right? And sure, she was feeling a little creaky in the mornings and couldn’t drink coffee after noon, but that was just life in middle age.

Four minutes was all it took for fate to run away with anything that resembled normal.

Now Katherine is trying to place mysterious psychic visions into her previously ordered life. She’s playing referee between a displaced Southern mama and a sarcastic mechanic with a chip on her

FOR YOUR OWN GOOD BY SAMANTHA DOWNING

7/21/2021

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.

YOU LOVE ME BY CAROLINE KEPNES

7/18/2021

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.

BENEATH THE DEVIL'S BRIDGE BY LORETH ANNE WHITE

6/23/2021

Beneath the Devil’s Bridge is one of the best murder mysteries I have ever read! This book is engrossing, compulsively readable, and exquisitely written. I simply could not put it down!

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: June 1, 2021
Genre: Murder Mystery
Series: None. Complete Standalone.
Pages: 344 pages
Format: eBook. Source: Amazon First Reads

A true crime podcast yields new revelations about a shocking murder in a riveting novel of suspense by Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestselling author Loreth Anne White.

True crime podcaster Trinity Scott is chasing breakout success, and her brand-new serial may get her there. Her subject is Clayton Jay Pelley. More than two decades ago, the respected family man and guidance counselor confessed to the brutal murder of teenage student Leena Rai. But why he killed her has always been a mystery.

In a series of exclusive interviews from prison, Clayton discloses to Trinity the truth about what happened that night beneath Devil’s Bridge. It’s not what anyone in the Pacific Northwest town of Twin Falls expects. Clayton says he didn’t do it. Was he lying then? Or now?

As her listeners increase and ratings skyrocket, Trinity is missing a key player in the story: Rachel Walczak, the retired detective who

THE PROJECT BY COURTNEY SUMMERS

3/22/2021

Readers, if you're looking for a young adult thriller this is NOT that book (as it claims to be). This is more of a crime thriller/mystery than anything else.

Rating: ★★★
Release Date: February 2, 2021
Genre: Mystery and Thriller.
Series: None. Standalone.
Pages: 339 pages
Format: eBook. Source: The Publisher (thank you!).

"The Unity Project saved my life."

Lo Denham is used to being on her own. After her parents died, Lo's sister, Bea, joined The Unity Project, leaving Lo in the care of their great aunt. Thanks to its extensive charitable work and community outreach, The Unity Project has won the hearts and minds of most in the Upstate New York region, but Lo knows there's more to the group than meets the eye. She's spent the last six years of her life trying—and failing—to prove it.

"The Unity Project murdered my son."

When a man shows up at the magazine Lo works for claiming The Unity Project killed his son, Lo sees the perfect opportunity to expose the group and reunite with Bea once and for all. When her investigation puts her in the direct path of its charismatic and mysterious leader, Lev Warren, he proposes a deal: if she can prove the worst of her suspicions about The Unity Project, she may

DEAR CHILD BY ROMY HAUSMANN

3/5/2021

If you enjoy dark crime thrillers with unique twists then this is a musts read for you! I bought this as a hardcover for a hefty price but it was so worth it!

Rating: ★★★★★
Release Date: October 6, 2020
Genre: Darker Crime Thriller.
Series: None. Standalone.
Pages: 358 pages
Format: Hardcover Source: Purchased.

A windowless shack in the woods. A dash to safety. But when a woman finally escapes her captor, the end of the story is only the beginning of her nightmare.

She says her name is Lena. Lena, who disappeared without a trace 14 years prior. She fits the profile. She has the distinctive scar. But her family swears that she isn’t their Lena.

The little girl who escaped the woods with her knows things she isn’t sharing, and Lena’s devastated father is trying to piece together details that don’t quite fit. Lena is desperate to begin again, but something tells her that her tormentor still wants to get back what belongs to him…and that she may not be able to truly escape until the whole truth about what happened in the woods finally emerges.

Romy Hausmann's Dear Child is a captivating thriller with all the ingredients of a breakout hit.

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