the setup… It’s June 1962 and Judy Greenberg is fresh out of college with her journalism degree. She’s twenty-two, still living at home and determined to get a job as a reporter for The Washington Digest. But, newspapers aren’t hiring women so she accepts a job in the typing pool, waiting for her opportunity, which… Continue reading Off the Record by Sara Goodman Confino @saraconfino @saraconfino.bsky.social @helenlaserwolf @brilliancepublishing #OffTheRecord #BookSky
the setup… Emery Finch met Luca Martín at a wedding and broke every rule about men from the moment she heard his glorious laugh. To the world they don’t make sense…she’s a scientist and he’s a landscaper, he’s a social magnet and she not so much, and they married less than three months later. But… Continue reading The Romance Revival by Christina Lauren @christinalauren @christinalauren.bsky.social @justjuliawhelan @vas.eli_ @simon.audio @simonaudio.bsky.social #BookSky #TheRomanceRevival
the setup… Imogen Bly is returning to Blair, Washington, the place where she and her fraternal twin sister Amelia grew up. Both left for Seattle after high school but Imogen was the one who rarely returned. Now they’re both back to pack up their mother Alice’s house on Lake Blair. She inexplicably died two weeks… Continue reading The Season of Sinking by Daphne Woolsoncroft @daphne.woolsoncroft @nvansistine @hachetteaudio @hachetteaudio.bsky.social @grandcentralpub @grandcentralpub.bsky.social #TheSeasonOfSinking
the setup… Allison Brice is a high-powered Chicago criminal defense attorney, married to her childhood sweetheart Finley and mother to their son Grayson who is away at college. Life should be good but Finley is cheating on her. One night she’s staked outside of his current lover’s place, ready and prepared to do some harm… Continue reading Keep Them Close by David Ellis @david_ellis_author @robin_mcalpine_narrator @seanpatrickhopkins @tageraway @prhaudio @prhaudio.bsky.social #KeepThemClose
the setup… Autumn is beginning to show its signs and the Village of Nothing Much starts to stir. There’s the baker whose scrumptious concoctions waft through the window, the piano teacher who is working with a young boy showing signs of being a prodigy and the innkeeper who is full of ideas for winter activities… Continue reading On the Street Where You Live by Kathryn Nicolai @iamkathrynnicolai @simon.audio @simonaudio.bsky.social #OnTheStreetWhereYouLive
the setup… Scout Sage and Isabel Cruz are best friends and have been since they were eight years old. They left New Jersey for Hollywood eleven years ago with stars in their eyes and both landed roles in a television show. Scout’s sister Georgia joined them the next year and now she’s helped orchestrate invites… Continue reading Hot Girl Murder Club by Ashley Winstead @ashleywinsteadbooks @britpressley @macmillanaudio @macmillanaudio.bsky.social #HotGirlMurderClub
the setup… Twelve years ago, Hazel Pierce left Star Falls, leaving behind her father and Tucker Colburn, her best friend and first true love. But now that her father’s health has declined, she finds herself back and having to face all the things that made her run away in the first place. As the owner… Continue reading Falling Into You by Jill Shalvis @jillshalvis @lilawintersnarrator @sebastianyork_official @hambrigh_pr #ColburnBrothers #FallingIntoYou
the setup… Charlie Shaw could use some sleep. He’s the father of 6-month old baby girl Callie and is married to Ryan who is a marketing executive, all living in a tiny home in San Francisco. Charlie is a former newspaper crime reporter now working as a rookie private investigator for a former decorated police… Continue reading Stakeouts and Strollers by Rob Phillips @robphillipswrites @robphillipswrites.bsky.social @alaskadan @blackstonepublishing @blackstonepub.bsky.social #StakeoutsAndStrollers
the setup… Rae Donovan is a private investigator in New York City. She’s married with a daughter in college and is sort of estranged from her father, a retired former FBI photographer who lives in Adirondack. But when she gets a call that he may be dying, she rushes to see him, arriving just a… Continue reading The Safe Room by Lisa Unger @leheny_leheny @brilliancepublishing #TheSafeRoom
the setup… Jane Trevally is outside Rosebery Hall, her crumbling family estate in Dorset, when she comes upon a little white Westie terrier without his owner. She learns it belongs to a young girl visiting in town who seems to have disappeared but the dog’s chip identifies the owner as living in Hampstead. When she… Continue reading It Could Have Been Her by Lisa Jewell @lisajewelluk @simon.audio @simonaudio.bsky.social #ItCouldHaveBeenHer
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