Jacob (Jake) Finch Bonner is a writer and published novelist whose first book reached critical acclaim but not the commercial success he’d dreamed about. His second book didn’t reach the level of the first and so he began teaching in an MFA program at Vermont’s Ripley College that even he knew wasn’t highly regarded. Jake… Continue reading The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
Twenty years ago, four people robbed Welch’s, a local family owned store that rivaled the big box outlets. It was a major haul and the next day, one of the robbers was dead and his supposed accomplice had disappeared. Joe Maxwell was a widow who was down on his luck, struggling with alcohol and barely… Continue reading Thick as Thieves by Sandra Brown
This is not a standalone as it is connected to a story arc that began in the previous book, Best Laid Plans. At the end of the last book, we got disgraced DEA Agent Nicole Rollins’ point of view, which was chilling as it foretold what was going to happen in this one. She said… Continue reading No Good Deed by Allison Brennan
DI Kim Stone and her team are called to the crime scene of a murdered young prostitute. Before Kim can leave for the station, she discovers an abandoned baby outside its doors. She assigns DS Kevin Dawson and DC Stacey Wood to find the baby’s mother, Stacey’s first case in the field since her harrowing… Continue reading Broken Bones by Angela Marsons @WriteAngie @JanCramervoice @bookouture
Dr. Samantha Leeds is a psychologist and a radio talk show host in New Orleans. She returns to the city after a disastrous vacation with her ex-boyfriend only to find troubling and ominous messages on her answering machine. During her Midnight Confessions show that night, she receives a call in from the same voice, “John,”… Continue reading Hot Blooded by Lisa Jackson
Eighteen months ago, Autumn Divac’s husband of twenty years disappeared after a trip to the Ukraine. She’s spent those months tirelessly searching for him in vain and decides to return to her hometown for the summer. Autumn and her two teenaged children stay with her mother, Mary Langford, who operates a bookstore on the beach… Continue reading Blog Tour: The Bookstore on the Beach by Brenda Novak @Brenda_Novak @amymcnarrator @HarlequinAudio
They are The Perfect Gentlemen, a moniker given six men who formed their friendship when they were teens at Creighton Academy, a private school boasting that they only turned out “perfect gentlemen” (they’re anything but!). It’s now 22 years later and they’re all highly successful but gathered together to bury one of their group, Maddox… Continue reading Scandal Never Sleeps by Shayla Black & Lexi Blake @authorlexiblake @KaleoGriffith @PRHAudio
It’s 1791 London and a mysterious woman named Nella operates her secret business in the hidden section of her mother’s former apothecary shop where she learned the healing natures of herbs and plants. Her mother is gone and after Nella suffered a betrayal at the hands of a cheating lover, she shifts those skills to… Continue reading The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner @sl_penner @lornaebennett @LaurenanthonyA @HarlequinAudio
Tallie Clark is a 40-year old therapist with her own practice in Kentucky. She’s recently divorced after a 10-year marriage to a man she thought she’d be with the rest of her life. But Joel is remarried to the woman he cheated on her with and they have the baby she thought they’d have together.… Continue reading This is Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith @LeesaCrossSmith @kamaliminter @childishgamzeno @GrandCentralPub
Fern and Rose Castle are fraternal twins that couldn’t be more different in appearance, personality and temperament. The story begins with Rose’s diary entry that recalls an event when they were twelve years old that was traumatic and horrifying. It provides the context for how we begin to think of these two women throughout the… Continue reading The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth @SallyHepworth @MacmillanAudio @librofm
