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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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They Are the Hunters
Author: Faith GardnerPublisher: Mirror House PressDate Published: January 11, 2024 I’ll just preface my review by saying I have loved everything that Faith Gardner has written, so when this one seemingly strayed into YA territory I said “uh oh!”. But no worries – of course she came through! Almost everyone in this book is a…
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Make Her Pay
Author: Miranda RijksPublisher: Inkubator BooksDate Published: December 10, 2023 Leonie has it all. But for the past 10 years, she has not had a single night of good sleep. All because of the choices she made. No, wait. The choices her overbearing father made on her behalf. After getting the job, the apartment, and the…
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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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The Christmas Holiday
Author: Mikayla DavidsPublisher: IndieDate Published: December 2, 2023 Meet the in-laws. How awful can it be? Alicia has finally married the guy she’s been friends with benefits since college. She had no idea his family were as wealthy as they are so when she’s invited to spend the Christmas holiday with them at their lodge…
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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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Gone Tonight
Author: Sarah PekkanenPublisher: St. Martin’s PressDate Published: August 1, 2023 Ruth takes a mother’s love to its extreme. She will do anything to protect her daughter Catherine from her past. Catherine is a dutiful daughter, bound at the hip to her single mother. So when Ruth is diagnosed with a fatal disease, Catherine at first…
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The Lodge
Author: Sue WatsonPublisher: BookoutureDate Published: October 24, 2023 Sue Watson is an auto-buy for me, and this book had all the ingredients to keep me reading: a remote location, a snowstorm, a group of contentious people, and a murder (or two!). I loved the descriptions of the setting in this book – a cozy cottage,…
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