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A Game of Lies
Author: Clare MacintoshPublisher: Sourcebooks LandmarkDate Published: April 23, 2024 I will never look at game shows the same after reading A Game of Lies! In a real-life version of bait-and-switch, 7 contestants find out the reality show premise is not what they signed up for. Whose secret is worth killing for and why? DC Ffion Morgan…
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The Gathering
Author: C. J. TudorPublisher: Random House Publishing Group – BallantineDate Published: April 9, 2024 This book was a great example of how to scare me without really scaring me! I really liked C. J. Tudor’s other books so I must have skipped over the vampyrs bit in the synopsis! But this is vampires done right –…
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Village in the Dark
Author: Author: Iris YamashitaPublisher: Berkley Publishing GroupDate Published: February 13, 2024 Beyond the mystery that Yamashita writes about, this book was a great introduction and eye-opener to me of the vastness of the Alaskan wilderness. The author takes you from the miles-long tunnel under a mountain, to the snow machines (vernacular for snowmobiles), to the…
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The Clinic
Author: Cate QuinnPublisher: Sourcebooks, LandmarkDate Published: January 23, 2024 Remote location ✔️Mysterious death✔️Eccentric doctor✔️Undercover patient✔️ These are all the makings of an original thriller by Cate Quinn, titled, The Clinic. When Meg goes undercover in a rehab center to get to the bottom of her sister’s death, she didn’t expect to be faced with her…
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The Fury
Author: Alex MichaelidesPublisher: Celadon BooksDate Published: January 16, 2024 The setting: the story takes place on a private island off the coast of Mykonos, with flashbacks to home in London. While the island is only a couple of acres wide, it has a full-time caretaker, a ruins, and big estate. The Fury (Menos in Greek)…
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Holmes, Marple & Poe
Author: James Patterson, Brian SittsPublisher: Little, Brown and CompanyDate Published: January 8, 2024 This was an unexpectedly fun read! Auguste (Poe), Brendan (Holmes) and Margaret (Marple) are three private investigators with exceptional detective skills and unidentified sources of wealth. They may or my not be related to Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Agatha Christie, and…
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The Girl Who Heard Maggots
Author: Abby DaviesPublisher: Apple Loft PressDate Published: December 5, 2023 Ivy has the best of intentions. She’s protective of her six-year-old charge Wren, and she likes her employer enough to dress up in a Victorian maid’s outfit. She’s not too sure about the other inhabitants of the house. Then there is the chauffeur, Maddock, who…
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There Should Have Been Eight
Author: Nalini SinghPublisher: Berkley Publishing GroupDate Published: November 21, 2023 For me, two things combined to make this a truly suspenseful book – the descriptions of the mansion, and Luna’s impending loss of vision. The author made me want to know about every twisting hallway and hidden room in this gothic family estate located across…
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The House Guest
Author: Alison JamesPublisher: BookoutureDate Published: November 1, 2023 Wow! I have been very stingy with my 5-star reviews but I’m happy that I found The House Guest well deserving of that rating! This is an intricate but fast-paced story with well-conceived characters that reel you in. Because of a trust that’s almost diabolical in the…
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When I’m Dead
Author: Hannah MorrisseyPublisher: St. Martin’s PressDate Published: October 31, 2023 I would say it would be great to be back in Black Harbor, but oh what a bleak place! The way the author paints the town, you just know you would never want to live there, either by birth or accident. You can just feel…
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