the setup… Caroline (Caz) Sessions is a professional dog walker living in Brighton with her mother Ruth. She’s really good at it, too, and always has her own border collie rescue dog Joe with her. One morning during one of her dog outings, Joe breaks from her and leads her to a body. As horrifying… Continue reading The Perfect Date by Julia Crouch @thatjuliacrouch #SarahDurham @bookouture @NetGalley @HachetteUK
the setup… Detective Tracy Crosswhite, now head of the Cold Case Unit, returns to work following much needed time off after the trauma of her last case only to discover that the police chief is ready to wreak new havoc for her. She’s assigned the old Route 99 serial killer case, one that had a… Continue reading One Last Kill by Robert Dugoni @robertdugoni #EmilySuttonSmith @BrilliancePub
the setup… When former US Marshal Regan Merritt’s 10-year old son Chase was gunned down in her home in Northern Virginia, it not only destroyed her but also her marriage to attorney Grant Warwick. He blamed her job for what happened to Chase and evidence seemed to support that someone related to one of her… Continue reading Don’t Open the Door by Allison Brennan @Allison_Brennan @amymcnarrator @HarlequinBooks
the setup… NYPSD Lieutenant and Homicide Detective Eve Dallas and her über wealthy husband Roarke have just returned from a well-earned vacation to Greece with a brief stopover in Ireland. They thought they had a least 24 hours before she had to face the backlog of paperwork and he the demands of a massive business… Continue reading Payback in Death by J. D. Robb #JDRobb @StMartinsPress
the setup… Former Philadelphia Homicide Detective Dana Romano, who retired and moved with Bree Taggart to Grey’s Hollow, is now trying out the dating scene. When she agrees to meet Dr. Kent McFadden at his home for dinner, Dana enters a nightmare, finding him shot and the intruder still in the house who escapes but… Continue reading Catch Her Death by Melinda Leigh @MelindaLeigh1 #Christina Traister @BrilliancePub
the setup… Beth Katz is an FBI special agent who has a unique skill in tracking serial killers. That’s because her father was one…and so is she! But, the men she kills are predators who prey on young girls, serial killers. In the opening scene, we get a front seat view of how she operates.… Continue reading Dark Angel by D. K. Hood @DKHood_Author #LaurynAllman @bookouture @HachetteUK
the setup… Brooks Anderson is a world famous writer, happily married to Cassie and father of two young children, Mark and Audra. He’s considerably older than his wife, only finding stability after years of self abuse with drugs and alcohol, seemingly caused by the trauma he experienced at eight years old when his mother and… Continue reading A Good Man by P. J. McIlvane @PJMcIlvaine @BloodhoundBook
the setup… Evan Smoak is “officially” retired, by choice since he ended the rogue orchestrators of the Orphan Program that created him and because he’ll lose his presidential immunity if he doesn’t. But when he receives a call on his special line from a mysterious woman he tracks down in South America, Evan accepts her… Continue reading Prodigal Son by Gregg Hurwitz @GreggHurwitz @ScottBrick @MacmillanAudio
the setup… Nicola (Nicki) O’Sullivan disappeared a year ago after leaving her friends at a Dublin pub late at night. Her sister Lucy becomes frustrated with the Garda’s lack of progress, even after a task force was created once they connected Nicki’s disappearance with that of two other women. Lucy goes out at night, trying… Continue reading The Trap by Catherine Ryan Howard @cathryanhoward @AlanaKCollins #JohnKeating @BlackstoneAudio @librofm
the setup… Porter Beck is the sheriff of Lincoln County, located in the deserts of Nevada. Though he was born here, Beck has only recently returned after his long stint in Army Intelligence. Things are relatively uneventful so when a retired FBI agent is found brutally murdered it raises suspicions and rightfully so, particularly when… Continue reading The Bitter Past by Bruce Borgos @BruceBorgos @jbabzbabson @recordedbooks
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