the setup… Lily and Christian Scott are a happily married couple expecting their first child. She’s a high school algebra teacher and he’s a market research analyst, living comfortably but nervous about her high risk pregnancy. Their world gets turned upside down, though, when Lily shares a disturbing encounter with Jake Hayes, the husband of… Continue reading Just the Nicest Couple by Mary Kubica @MaryKubica @brit_pressley @garytiedemann @HarlequinBooks
the setup… Nicola, her husband Ryan and their 11-year old daughter Emily are spending a vacation in the Scottish Highlands with her best friend Kim, her husband Lewis and their 15-year old son Cole. The house is a luxurious log cabin, a reflection of Lewis’s business success, which he never passes up an opportunity to… Continue reading The Holiday Home by Daniel Hurst @dhurstbooks @Zoe_Mills2016 @bookouture
the setup… Grey’s Hollow Sheriff Bree Taggert is asked to do a welfare check on a widow living at an isolated farm. When she enters the house with the woman’s neighbor, Bree finds a gruesome sight. Not only has the woman been murdered but her son was also a victim. Bree’s second surprise was the… Continue reading Dead Against Her by Melinda Leigh @MelindaLeigh1 #ChristinaTraister @BrilliancePub
the setup… Broadway and Hollywood megastars Eliza Lane & Brant Fitzhugh are hosting a party, celebrating the occasion of her return to Broadway in the revival of the play the launched her career. Everyone who’s important in the theater and film community are there to commemorate the event with rehearsals beginning the next day and… Continue reading Encore in Death by J. D. Robb #JDRobb @StMartinsPress
the setup… Criminal forensic psychologist Cyrus Haven is asked to accompany police to the scene of an apparent suicide. The victim is a retired police detective and after Cyrus examines the body, he quickly deduces that the man was murdered. When they proceed with the family notification, they also discover that a man posing as… Continue reading When She Was Good by Michael Robotham @michaelrobotham @Joe_Jameson @SimonAudio
the setup… Hannah Hall is a talented woodworker who met her husband Owen Michaels when she was living in New York. After they married, she joined him and his sixteen-year old daughter Bailey in Sausalito, living on their houseboat. Bailey’s mother died in an accident when she was a toddler but the teen isn’t keen… Continue reading The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave #LauraDave #RebeccaLowe @SimonAudio
the setup… It’s been almost thirty years since that nightmare evening when Sheriff Bree Taggert’s family was ripped apart. Her abusive father murdered her mother and then killed himself while eight-year old Bree protected her little sister Erin and infant brother Adam. He’s now a renowned but reclusive artist and bought the property years ago… Continue reading Right Behind Her by Melinda Leigh @MelindaLeigh1 #ChristinaTraister @BrilliancePub
the setup… Paige Lancaster is a television writer, most recently for a successful detective series until she left under dubious circumstances. She’s also a single mother of 8-year old Izzy and leaves Los Angeles, returning to her Connecticut hometown of Piermont to regroup and restore her career while living with her widowed mother. On Izzy’s… Continue reading Regrets Only by Kieran Scott @KieranScott #AmandaDolan @surasiuaudio @LannaJoffrey @SimonAudio @librofm
the setup… Years ago, Evan Smoak broke with the Orphan X program and transformed himself into the Nowhere Man. As that persona, he helps innocents who are in desperate need of help, contacting him on a special line dedicated for that purpose. The next voice he hears on the line, however, has his blood run… Continue reading Hellbent by Gregg Hurwitz @GreggHurwitz @ScottBrick @BrilliancePub
the setup… Simon Dobias is a law professor living in the outskirts of Chicago with his wife, Vicky Lanier who works at a center specializing in domestic violence. They have an amicable but passionless marriage. He’s seeking tenure but there are a few obstacles he has to first consider, one involving his troubled past. One… Continue reading Look Closer by David Ellis @DavidEllisBooks @jwdamron @hillatious #ElizabethGarrett @SteveWestActor
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