the setup… Barbara Feldman’s husband passed away two years ago, leaving her with impossible grief and two young children. It’s 1963 and she now feels ready to handle her life on her own, allowing her mother to return to her own home. But not long after, Barbara returns home from her part time job at… Continue reading Good Grief by Sara Goodman Confino @saraconfino @saraconfino.bsky.social @hlaserwolf @brilliancepublishing @amazonpublishing #GoodGrief
the setup… Tessa Calloway is living her dream. After making the decision to quit her job and write a book, she’s now receiving the accolades for that debut novel, All This Could Be Yours. Tessa’s on a dizzying schedule for the book tour, husband Henry holding down the fort in their new home with eleven-year… Continue reading All This Could Be Yours by Hank Phillippi Ryan @hankpryan @hankphillippiryan.bsky.social @sarahmollo @macmillan.audio @macmillanaudio.bsky.social #AllThisCouldBeYours
the setup… DI Kim Stone and her team are dispatched 100 miles away to help the Blackpool Police team with the investigation into two missing children. Their chief is an old friend of DCI Woodward and asked for help. Lewis Stevens is twelve-years old and was last seen at a seafront arcade. Noah Reid is… Continue reading Little Children by Angela Marsons #AngelaMarsons #JanCramer @hachetteuk @hachetteuk.bsky.social @bookouture @bookouture.bsky.social #DIKimStone #LittleChildren
the setup… Jackson Parrish may be the apple of his mother’s eye but to his father, he’s a massive disappointment. Though he works for him, it’s clear Jackson isn’t the heir apparent for the family business. When Jackson does something that threatens to bring scandal upon the business and the family, his father fires him… Continue reading The Making of Jackson Parrish by Liv Constantine @livconstantine2 @livconstantine.bsky.social @acflea @suzanneefreeman @suzannefreeman.bsky.social @thescottbrick @prhaudio @prhaudio.bsky.social @librofm #MrsParrish #TheMakingOfJacksonParrish
the setup… Amber Patterson has a plan. First of all, it’s not her real name but one she bought and paid for after skipping her hometown in Missouri and hitchhiking to Nebraska. She’s determined to leave her past behind and does her research to find the wealthy man who’ll take care of her. Amber ends… Continue reading The First Shot by Liv Constantine @livconstantine2 @livconstantine.bsky.social @suzanneefreeman @suzannefreeman.bsky.social @amazonpublishing #MrsParrish #TheFirstShot
the setup… Milly Beckett thought she had it all. She was happily married and mother to a wonderful daughter. She also loved her job helping to run an exclusive resort of lakeside cabins, the family business. Then everything fell apart when her husband left her for another woman and her best friend in life ghosted… Continue reading Other People’s Summers by Sarah Morgan @sarahmorganwrites @thatbritishactress @harlequinbooks #OtherPeoplesSummers
the setup… Detective Josie Quinn stops by Denton University to see her brother and together they find a young girl fully clothed floating face down in the campus pool. Despite Josie’s efforts to save her, champion swimmer Nysa Somers couldn’t be revived. Her death is inexplicable and the team is baffled until her backpack is… Continue reading Breathe Your Last by Lisa Regan @lisareganauthor @lisaregan.bsky.social @katehandford @hachetteuk @bookouture @bookouture.bsky.social #DetectiveJosieQuinn #BreatheYourLast
the setup… It’s the Fourth of July and most of the town has assembled at the park to watch the fireworks. Newly fifteen year old Madison Dalrymple is supposed to be meeting best friend Cheyenne Baker who had a wicked plan for the two of them that night. When she’s late, Madison goes looking for… Continue reading We Are All Guilty Here by Karin Slaughter @karinslaughterauthor @karinslaughter.com @kathleenreadsoutloud @harperaudio #NorthFalls #WeAreAllGuiltyHere
the setup… Imogen and Lev Carmichael are on their honeymoon cruise in the Mediterranean when she sees him in an interaction with a waitress that is disturbing. Later when she’s back on the ship and wakes to find him missing, Imogen suspects he’s disembarked for a tryst and thinks she saw him. They argue when… Continue reading I Become Her by Joe Hart @joe_hart_author @joehart1.bsky.social @illuminaughton @abigailrenonarrator @joeknezevich @brilliancepublishing #IBecomeHer
the setup… Louisa, just a few days shy of her eighteenth birthday, decides to leave her foster home in search of the painting that left an indelible mark on her soul from the moment she saw it on a postcard years before. She makes her way into the New York gallery where The One of… Continue reading My Friends by Fredrik Backman @backmansk @marinireland @simon.audio @simonaudio.bsky.social #MyFriends
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