the setup… Ruth Handler was always a force to reckon with, even as a teen when she helped her older sister with business sales. As a co-founder of Mattel along with husband Eliot and Harold (Matt) Matson who they bought out in the 1940s, she was actually the one who managed the company. In 1956,… Continue reading Let’s Call Her Barbie by Renée Rosen @reneerosen_ @abigailrenoaudio @prhaudio @prhaudio.bsky.social #LetsCallHerBarbie
the setup… Shelby Dawson and her twin daughters leave her friend Mackenzie’s cafe in northern Minnesota at closing but before taking off, realizes her daughter’s prized stuffed animal was left inside. Mackenzie (Mack) takes off for home, letting Shelby go back in to find more than she’d bargained for. That same night, Mackenzie’s husband Leo… Continue reading Blog Tour: Nothing Ever Happens Here by Seraphina Nova Glass @seraphinanovaglass @britpressley @britpressley.bsky.social @staceyglemboski @petreabs @petreabs.bsky.social @harlequin_audio @netgalley #NothingEverHappensHere
the setup… Homicide Detective Vincent Ruiz suddenly gains consciousness, finding himself in the Thames, at night with a bullet in his leg, hanging onto a buoy. He has no memory of how he got there or what happened to him. He’s rescued, taken to the hospital and grilled by colleagues who don’t believe his amnesia.… Continue reading Lost by Michael Robotham @michaelrobotham @michaelrobotham.bsky.social #raylonnen @recordedbooks @recordedbooks.bsky.social #Lost #JosephOLoughlin
the setup… Annie Callahan and Amanda Kent are the epitome of best friends forever, having met at a theater summer camp at nine years old. Their friendship was “like no other” and as high school graduation approached, they prepared to leave their upstate New York home and head to Los Angeles in her beat up… Continue reading The Three Lives of Cate Kay by Kate Fagan @katefagan3 @katefagan.bsky.social @simon.audio @simonaudio.bsky.social #FullCast #TheThreeLivesOfCateKay
the setup… Seven years ago, FBI Special Agent Gardner Camden identified serial killer Ross Tignon as the dead body incinerated in his own home. Now, he’s been identified as a murder victim in Texas. Camden is part of the FBI’s Patterns and Recognition (PAR) Unit, which includes several other agents who are brilliant at what… Continue reading Head Cases by John McMahon @johnmcmahonbooks @jwdamron @jwdamron.bsky.social @macmillan.audio @macmillanaudio.bsky.social #PARUnit #HeadCases
the setup… Eddie Winston finds joy in almost every aspect of his life. He volunteers at a charity shop in Birmingham, England, sorting through the donations brought in by the living and from those who’ve passed on. He’s highly perceptive, knowing when he needs to put something aside until the original donator returns to see… Continue reading Eddie Winston is Looking for Love by Marianne Cronin @itsmariannecronin @cccorbett_11 @harperaudio #EddieWinstonIsLookingForLove
the setup… Police Chief Josie Quinn is called to a familiar site where two young boys discovered human bones buried in a trailer park. It’s the same park where Josie played growing up and her sense of unease deepens when the identity of the teen is disclosed…Belinda Rose. It’s her estranged mother’s name but the… Continue reading Her Mother’s Grave by Lisa Regan @lisareganauthor @lisaregan.bsky.social @hachetteuk @hachetteuk.bsky.social @bookouture @bookouture.bsky.social #HerMothersGrave
the setup… Detective Kara Quinn and the Mobile Response Team are dispatched to a crime scene in Oregon where a female college student is found murdered, her throat cut and red poppies covering her body. At the same time, Special Agent Matt Costa is in Virginia at another crime scene, this time an older man… Continue reading See How They Hide by Allison Brennan @abwrites @suzanne_t_fortin @suzannefortin.bsky.social @harlequin_audio #SeeHowTheyHide
the setup… Jasmine is a woman in a dead end job living with an abusive boyfriend in Madison, Wisconsin and is now fleeing the relationship. She’s decided to escape to Denver and start a new life. Stephanie Monroe is a divorced, successful newsroom director on her way to a business conference in San Diego with… Continue reading The Business Trip by Jessie Garcia @jessiegarcia_author @macmillan.audio @macmillanaudio.bsky.social #TheBusinessTrip
the setup… Claire Mason returns home from work late at night and finds an unbelievable scene. Her parents lay murdered in their bed, shot to death. Sheriff Bree Taggert arrives to find the seventeen year old traumatized and alone. What first looks like a burglary gone wrong soon morphs into so much more as she… Continue reading Track Her Down by Melinda Leigh @melindaleigh1 @melindaleighbooks.bsky.social @fightingfrau @brilliance.publishing #TrackHerDown
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