the setup Kate and Cam Whitacre are having the best times of their lives. They have a wonderful relationship, including their young son Charlie. Cam’s a university English literature professor and Kate’s ready to return to work. On the day she interviews for the job, it becomes apparent she’s met her prospective boss, Hugh Lancaster,… Continue reading The Last Love Note by Emma Grey #EmmaGrey @WalsmanLeeanna
the setup… The year is 1990 and the town is Dalton, Maine, the epitome of small town America. Trudy Haskell is the town librarian, married to Richard, the only doctor. Her best friend is Bev Theroux who’s married to Bill and they’re parents of one son, Nate. But Trudy and Bev are more than just… Continue reading The Road to Dalton by Shannon Bowring #ShannonBowring #PatriciaShade @TantorAudio
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… Melody Hurst’s life is nothing close to what she’d imagined it would be when she was living in Savannah under her father’s protection. She’d dreamed of marrying fiancé Christopher Hurst but ended up with his brother Jimmy instead when he died in the Civil War. It’s now the aftermath and the South is… Continue reading Seduced by Molly O’Keefe @MollyOKwrites
the setup… Zak Hendricks was a Special Forces operative, specifically black-ops, whose last mission was horrific. But for a miracle, he would have died in Afghanistan at the hands of sadistic torturers. He recovered physically, though he lost his leg, returning home to Steam Valley, California to family and friends who welcomed him with open… Continue reading Searching for Rescue by Tonya Burrows #TonyaBurrows
the setup… It’s the spring of 2020 and also the early rages of the Covid-19 pandemic. Lara’s three daughters, Maisie, Emily and Nell, have returned to their family cherry orchard and home in Northern Michigan to shelter in place. While the four of them are picking cherries, the girls beg Lara to tell them about… Continue reading Tom Lake by Ann Patchett #AnnPatchett #MerylStreep @HarperAudio @ReesesBookClub
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