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
the setup… FBI Special Agent Nikki Hunt was helping new Washington County Police Chief Kent Miller search for nine-year old Kellan Rhodes, missing for the last two days, when she got the news she’d dreaded. His mother Dana was suspected to have abducted him but Nikki was unprepared to find both of them dead, their… Continue reading One Perfect Grave by Stacy Green @authorstacywhisenand @katehandford @hachetteuk @bookouture #NikkiHunt #OnePerfectGrave
the setup… Lottie Jones is living a quiet, contented life in Baycliff, Oregon. She’s an active member in her church with a small circle of friends she likes. That is before investigative journalist Plum Dixon shows up at her front door, wanting to take her back forty years to the days when she was know… Continue reading Too Old for This by Samantha Downing @samanthadowning @samanthadowning.bsky.social @wileyvoice @wileyvoice.bsky.social @prhaudio @prhaudio.bsky.social #TooOldForThis
the setup… Elizabeth Davis is an English professor at New York’s Pace University. One of her classes is a yearlong fiction writing seminar. When one of her students submits her first chapter for review, Elizabeth is stunned to find the details are identical to something that happened to her friend Jocelyn when she was seventeen.… Continue reading Someone Knows by Vi Keeland @vi_keeland @lesliehowardnarrates @aidensnowvoice @simon.audio @simonaudio.bsky.social #SomeoneKnows
the setup… Sims has only recently acquired beach hut 512 on the seafront of Brighton. It is an intended respite after her recovery from being assaulted and nearly dying at the hands of a serial killer three years ago. But when she finally visits after having been away for months, Sims finds that her hut… Continue reading Beach Hut 512 by Dorothy Koomson @dorothykoomsonauthor @dorothykoomson.bsky.social @debbiekorley #SimonMattacks @brilliancepublishing @amazonpublishing #BeachHut512
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