the setup… Iris and Piper Walsh are 16-year old twins being raised by their grandmother Betty. Piper is the popular, outgoing one; Iris much more introverted and sullen. One night as they are off to a party that Piper insists they attend, Piper changes the plan and agrees to meet a popular and older football… Continue reading Blog Tour: Good Half Gone by Tarryn Fisher #TarrynFisher @HarlequinBooks @librofm
the setup… Jessica’s mother dies when she’s very young and is traumatized by that loss until she’s taken in as a foster child by Miss Fairchild, a lovely looking single woman in Port Agatha, a town about two hours from Melbourne. She’s loved and doted on…until she wasn’t. Soon Norah (with an “h”) is taken… Continue reading Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth @SallyHepworth @MacmillanAudio
the setup… Eli North is a former US Fish and Wildlife Services investigator who is now a deputy sheriff in Shaky Lakes, Wisconsin, working for his mother Marge after his return from Afghanistan. He’s suffering from PTSD and his cure is alcohol…and he’s not winning. His marriage is over, his relationship with his son Andy… Continue reading Northwoods by Amy Pease @AmyPeaseWrites @ChrisHCoffey @ZacAlemanVO @SimonAudio
the setup… Niamh Turley is awakened early one morning to find the Garda knocking on her door, asking if she’d heard anything that night. After telling him she hadn’t, he soon returns and asks to see her roommate Maya whose door is closed and locked. Yes, you guessed it. She wasn’t there and was the… Continue reading The Roommate by Dervla McTiernan @DervlaMcTiernan #AoifeMcMahon
the setup… It begins with the brutal murder of a slumlord in Minneapolis who targets the Native American community. The next is an Oklahoma City judge followed by a New York agency head with a brilliant political career path. All were murdered in the same way, their throats slashed. Since it started in Minneapolis, they… Continue reading Shadow Prey by John Sandford @J_Sandford #RichardFerrone @recordedbooks
the setup… 56 days ago, Oliver Kennedy and Ciara Murphy bumped into each other in a Dublin grocery line and struck up a conversation that led to coffee and a date. It also happened to be when the first news of the start of Covid 19 preparations was released on Irish shores. Three weeks later… Continue reading 56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard @catherineryanhoward @AlanaKCollins @BlackstoneAudio
the setup… Aifric Ryan is a new barrister, fighting to get a foothold in a system that’s hard for a young woman to penetrate. She gets an opening when the chief barrister is a no show and she takes on one of his cases that requires a court appearance that day. Robert Collins is charged… Continue reading The Sisters by Dervla McTiernan @DervlaMcTiernan #AoifeMcMahon
the setup… Over 40 years ago, three young girls ventured into the woods near their homes in Leech Lake, Minnesota and only one emerged…traumatized, in shock and with no memory of what happened. It’s now the summer of 2022 and cold case Detective Evangeline (Van) Reed is called to a scene where a woman was… Continue reading The Taken Ones by Jess Lourey @jesslourey @robins_carly @BrilliancePub
the setup… Arden Ward is a highly successful crisis management expert working for a top tier company. That is until her boss and mentor finds her expendable when he has to choose between a client’s misguided accusation and supporting her. As if that’s not bad enough, he forces her to take on a client or… Continue reading One Wrong Word by Hank Phillippi Ryan @HankPRyan @grshalan @MacmillanAudio
the setup… Things are working out exactly as Evie Porter planned. She’s in a relationship with Ryan Sumner, has moved in and most of his circle of friends has accepted that she’s now important in his life. The problem? Evie Porter isn’t her name and one of his former friends has shown up with a… Continue reading First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston @ashley_elston @SaskiaAudio @PRHAudio @ReesesBookClub
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