Last week I was quite proud of my restraint and only adding three new books, but this week, well, I didn’t do quite as good. Ok, so we all knew it wasn’t going to last and this week isn’t too terribly bad at a new total of ten. Here’s hoping to a hopefully all five star addition to my tower of a TBR!! đđ¤Ł
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New additions from Netgalley June 6th â June 13th
If you suspected your best friend, the person you were closest to in the whole world, was a murderer, what would you do? Would you confront her? Would you help keep her secret? Or would you begin to feel afraid? Most importantly, why don’t you feel safe now that she’s dead? From the author of The French Girl comes a novel full of secrets, suspense, and deadly twists.
Georgie, Lissa, and Bronwyn have been inseparable since dominating their college swim team; swimming has always been an escape from their own problems, but now their shared passion has turned deadly. How can it be true that Lissa, the strongest swimmer they know, drowned? Granted, there is something strange about Kanu Cove, where Lissa was last seen, swimming off the coast of the fabulous island resort she owned with her husband.
Lissaâs closest friends gather at the resort to honor her life, but Georgie and Bron canât seem to stop looking over their shoulders. Danger lurks beneath the surface of the crystal-clear water, and even their luxurious private villas canât help them feel safe. As the weather turns ominous, trapping the funeral guests together on the island, nobody knows who they can trust. Lissaâs death was only the beginning….
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Two lives. The one you wanted. The one that wanted you.
Her birthday should be like any other night.
One minute Kellyâs a free-spirited artist in Chicago going to her best friendâs art show. The next, she opens a door and mysteriously emerges in her Michigan hometown. Suddenly her life is unrecognizable: She’s got twelve years of the wrong memories in her head and she’s married to Eric, a man she barely knew in high school.
Racing to get back to her old life, Kelly’s search leads only to more questions. In this life, she loves Eric and wants to trust him, but everything she discovers about himâincluding a connection to a mysterious tech startupâtells her she shouldn’t. And strange things keep happening. The tattoos she had when she was an artist briefly reappear on her skin, she remembers fights with Eric that he says never happened, and her relationships with loved ones both new and familiar seem to change without warning.
But the closer Kelly gets to putting the pieces together, the more her reality seems to shift. And if she can’t figure out what happened on her birthday, the next change could cost her everything…
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When they face the most baffling missing person’s case of their careers, a fiercely ambitious lawyer and a homicide detective have no one to turn to for help except each other, from New York Times bestselling author Laura Griffin.
Up-and-coming attorney Leigh Larson fights for victims of sexual extortion, harassment, and online abuse. She is not afraid to go after the sleaziest targets to get payback for her clients. Leigh is laser-focused on her careerâto the exclusion of everything elseâuntil a seemingly routine case and a determined cop turn her world upside down.
Austin homicide detective Brandon Reynolds is no stranger to midnight callouts. But when he gets summoned to an abandoned car on a desolate road, he quickly realizes he’s dealing with an unusual crime scene. A pool of blood in the nearby woods suggests a brutal homicide. But where is the victim? The vehicle is registered to twenty-six-year-old Vanessa Adams. Searching the car, all Brandon finds is a smear of blood and a business card for Leigh Larson, attorney-at-law.
Vanessa had hired Leigh just before her disappearance, but Leigh has no leads on who could have wanted her dead. Faced with bewildering evidence and shocking twists, Leigh and Brandon must work against the clock to chase down a ruthless criminal who is out for vengeance.
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a deeply moving novel about the resilience of the human spirit in a moment of crisis.
Diana OâToole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. Sheâs an associate specialist at Sothebyâs now, but her boss has hinted at a promotion if she can close a deal with a high-profile client. Sheâs not engaged just yet, but she knows her boyfriend, Finn, a surgical resident, is about to propose on their romantic getaway to the GalĂĄpagosâdays before her thirtieth birthday. Right on time.
But then a virus that felt worlds away has appeared in the city, and on the eve of their departure, Finn breaks the news: Itâs all hands on deck at the hospital. He has to stay behind. You should still go, he assures her, since it would be a shame for all of their nonrefundable trip to go to waste. And so, reluctantly, she goes.
Almost immediately, Dianaâs dream vacation goes awry. Her luggage is lost, the Wi-Fi is nearly nonexistent, and the hotel theyâd booked is shut down due to the pandemic. In fact, the whole island is now under quarantine, and she is stranded until the borders reopen. Completely isolated, she must venture beyond her comfort zone. Slowly, she carves out a connection with a local family when a teenager with a secret opens up to Diana, despite her fatherâs suspicion of outsiders.
In the GalĂĄpagos Islands, where Darwinâs theory of evolution by natural selection was formed, Diana finds herself examining her relationships, her choices, and herselfâand wondering if when she goes home, she too will have evolved into someone completely different.
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Read the chilling and completely heartwrenching story of a mother’s worst nightmare: her child being stolenâand what happens when he returns.
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Megan waits at the school gates for her six-year-old son, Daniel. As the playground empties, panic bubbles inside her. Daniel is nowhere to be found. Her darling son is missing.
Six years later
After years of sleepless nights and endless days of missing her son, Megan finally gets the call she has been dreaming about. Daniel has walked into a police station in a remote town just a few miles away.
Megan is overjoyedâher son is finally coming home. She has kept Daniel’s room, with his Cookie Monster poster on the wall and a stack of Lego under the bed, in perfect shape to welcome him back. But when he returns, there is something different about Daniel . . .
According to the police, Daniel was kidnapped by his father. After his dad died in a fire, Daniel was finally able to escape. Desperate to find out the truth, Megan tries to talk to her little boyâbut he barely answers her questions. Longing to help him heal, Megan tries everythingâhis favourite chocolate milkshake, a reunion with his best friend, a present for every birthday missedâbut still, Daniel is distant.
And as they struggle to connect, Megan begins to suspect that there is more to the story. Soon, she fears that her son is hiding a secret. A secret that could destroy her family . . .
Catriona Ward’s The Last House on Needless Street is a shocking and immersive read perfect for fans of Gone Girl and The Haunting of Hill House.
In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three.
A teenage girl who isnât allowed outside, not after last time.
A man who drinks alone in front of his TV, trying to ignore the gaps in his memory.
And a house cat who loves napping and reading the Bible.
An unspeakable secret binds them together, but when a new neighbor moves in next door, what is buried out among the birch trees may come back to haunt them all.
At the Publisher’s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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I know my sister didnât die by accident. Does someone know our secret?
I swore Iâd never go home to Brightwater. It would be safer for everyone if I stayed away.
But now my sister is dead, and I am driving down the familiar highway, watching the sunlight glimmer off the lake, with the memory of her green eyes like a knife in my heart.
I know Holly didnât slip and drown out by the old boardwalk, surrounded by trees and dark water. She would never have gone there, if she had a choice.
Her little girls need me now. I couldnât save Holly, but I must protect them.
Because if whoever killed Holly knows what we did all those years ago, out on the water, then I need to find them before they come after me.
But how can I, when there are still so many things I donât know about what really happened that night?
An absolutely gripping, twisty psychological thriller about secrets between sisters that will keep you turning the pages late into the night. Perfect for fans of The Girl on the Train, The Woman in the Window and The Silent Patient.
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While planning her wedding, Sophie âPheeâ Kimball gets sidetracked by the murder of a model train enthusiast . . .Â
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Pheeâs marriage to Marshall Gregory promises to be the wedding of the year in Arizonaâs Sun City Westâthat is, if you ask her mother Harriet. But before she can walk down the aisle, it looks like she has to solve one more murder. At a model train exhibit, Phee, Harriet, and their beloved Chiweenie, Streetman, discover the body of Sun City Westâs railroad club president, with an incriminating tap shoe near his lifeless corpse.
Wilbur Maines may have loved model trains but apparently he was not a model husband. There are rumors of affairs with hot-to-trot hobbyists the Choo-Choo Chicks. The police suspect his wifeâand Harrietâs friendâRoxanne, who dances with the Rhythm Tappers, but Pheeâs mom is convinced theyâre on the wrong track. Before the poor woman is railroaded into spending the rest of her life behind bars, Phee, Harriet, and the book club ladies will need to do some fancy footwork, infiltrate the dance group, and find the real culprit before the killer leaves the station . . .
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Itâs B&B owner Charlene Morrisâs second Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts, and one she wonât soon forget when a self-proclaimed vampire is murdered . . .
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Charleneâs bed and breakfast is fully booked with guests wanting to experience Salemâs wildest holidayâespecially the annual Witch Ball, held at the historic Hawthorne Hotel. At the dance, actual witch and winery owner Brandy Flint has her back up over her daughter Serenityâs new beauâitâs bad enough heâs a decade older, he also claims to be a vampire from Romania.
As for Charlene, with handsome ghost Dr. Jack Strathmore haunting her B&B, she has developed an open mind regarding the supernatural. But her mind is blown when the clock strikes midnight, the lights flare and dim, and the vampire vanishesâleaving behind only his cape and a wooden stake with a thick red substance on the sharp tip. The next morning, a naked man washes up on the shore with a hole punched through his chest, and Detective Sam Holden has a homicide on his hands. Now Charlene and Jack must put their heads together to find out who staged the trick to stake a vampire . . .
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Finding your feet in a new job isnât always easy. That goes double for Josie Way, whoâs settling in as Wilfred, Oregonâs, new librarianâand has just discovered sheâs a witch. But will her fledgling powers be enough to save her from a spell of murder?
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While Josie develops her witchcraft with the help of letters left by her grandmother, there are other changes happening in her new hometown. A retreat center is being built at the old mill site, and rumor has it that the location is cursed. That piques Josieâs interest almost as much as Sam Wilfred, handsome FBI agent and descendent of the townâs founder . . .
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When Samâs soon-to-be ex-wife, Fiona, goes missing at the same time that a bloodied weapon is found, Josie enlists her witchy insight, and her cat familiar, to clear Samâs name. But then the mill projectâs architect is found dead, and itâs clear that someone has been drawing up a vicious plan. Now Josie will have to divine her way out of fatal mischief, before this deadly trouble turns
double . . .
Wow!! Awesome haul Carrie! I see a few I want so guess where I’m going?đ I need an intervention!!đđ¤đđ
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Haha sorry to tempt you again Susan! We are all such bad influences on each other’s TBRs.đ¤Ł
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Great List. So many good books to read. Iâm looking forward to your reviews. Especially the Jodi Picoult book.
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Thanks Wendy! I’m hoping they are all amazing. The cozies should be enjoyable because they are all ones I’ve read before.đ
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I can’t find the Nicole Trope or the Jodi Picoult on Netgalley…. not that I NEED any more books right now.
Great haul Carrie. Far more restrained than I was đ¤Łđâ¤đ
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Carla had the same problem and I’m not sure why you guys can’t see Nicole Trope’s. That one is from Grand Central Publishing and I did request it on the site. Jodi Picoult’s however was an invite email so it’s very likely it may not have gone public for requests yet.
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I have always been approved for her books in the past. Will go check out the publisher. Thanks Carrie. â¤đ
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Good luck Sandy, hopefully you’ll be able to find them.đ
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Now they have changed the way Netgalley operates, because I live in New Zealand, I no longer have access to this publisher, even though I have previously been approved for books from them.đ¤ˇââď¸ I may just email the publisher directly. â¤đ
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I canât find the Nicole Trope or the Jodi Picoult on Netgalley, either, but there a couple that I am adding, hopefully. Wonderful Haul. Some of the cozies you got are series that I haven’t started and I am not starting any new ones right now. Here’s to all 5 star reads, Carrie. đđđ
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Hm, I swear the Nicole Trope was one on my list that I actually requested. It was from Grand Central Publishing and says it doesn’t archive until the end of July. Now the Jodi Picoult was an invite to read email so that may not be public on the site yet, I’ve had that happen before.
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I am finding this happen more often. There are books visible to some people, but not others. Weird.
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I’ve noticed this happening with some I’ve received an invite to and didn’t download. It won’t show for me either if I don’t accept then it will eventually be added. It’s like let’s offer it to who we think will definitely like it early then they probably get an idea of how many more approvals they can offer to everyone else once it is public.
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Makes sense.
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