the setup… Daphne Fuller is a fifty-three year old private school English teacher. She and husband Jonathan are in the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art when they notice an older gentleman who appears to be following her. It’s Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather who she hasn’t seen since she was nine years… Continue reading Whistler by Ann Patchett @parnassusbooks @parnassusbooks.bsky.social @harperbooks @harperbooks.bsky.social @librofm @libro.fm #Whistler
the setup… Ellen McKenna is struggling to keep their Texas family farm operating since the recent death of husband in an accident. It’s a tough job even with the help of their four children. The threats come not only from Mother Nature but a certain local businessman who had already pressured others in the county… Continue reading Whisper Creek by Allison Brennan @abwrites @striblingamanda @macmillan.audio @macmillanaudio.bsky.social #WhisperCreek
the setup… Alice Lockwood is mourning the recent death of her husband Grant. But she’s starting to see his face everywhere. She also just took a pregnancy test and it came back positive. Then a woman shows up at her front door, claiming to be the “other” woman Grant has spent years with and the… Continue reading The Widow’s Husband’s Secret Lie by Freida McFadden @fmcfaddenauthor @marinireland @dreamscape_media @dreamscape-media.bsky.social #TheWidowsHusbandsSecretLie
the setup… Detective Sergeant Stilwell and two of his deputies have set up a sting to catch a drug drop at a remote mountain airstrip based on a tip from a confidential informant. When the plane arrives and drops the bag, Stilwell and his team move in but things go terribly wrong with one deputy… Continue reading Ironwood by Michael Connelly @michaelconnellybooks @jwilldamron @hachetteaudio @hachetteaudio.bsky.social #Catalina #Ironwood
the setup… Meet the Season sisters…Summer, Autumn (she prefers Fall), Winter and Spring. Yes, their parents went there. They live with their grandmother Dolly in Mountain Laurel Cove who raised them after their parents’ tragic death twelve years ago. Summer is caretaker for the rental cottages in the Cove and is working on a plan… Continue reading XOXO, Summer by S. L. Scott @s.l.scott @callie_dalton @seanmastersaudio @avaundercover @hambright_pr #TheSeasonSisters #XOXOSummer
Virginia Roberts Giuffre was one of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims and survivors. She was approached by Ghislaine Maxwell while working at Mar-a-Lago and was only 16-years old at the time. Maxwell groomed her to become enslaved and sexually abused by Epstein. Giuffre took her own life in April 2025 after completing this memoir and approving it… Continue reading Nobody’s Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre #VirginiaRobertsGiuffre @thereseplummernarrates @gabracadabranyc @prhaudio @prhaudio.bsky.social #NobodysGirl
the setup… Holly Sinclair returns to Beauport, Massachusetts, her family coastal home where she had her fondest and most awful childhood memories. Broke and grieving the recent loss of her mother, Holly is hoping to write her next bestseller and resurrect the investigation of her older sister Anna’s death. It’s been more than twenty years… Continue reading Beach Thriller by Jamie Day @jamiedaybooks @itsemilyshaffer @janesome @jenwrenpickens @megantusing @macmillan.audio @macmillanaudio.bsky.social #BeachThriller
the setup… Simone Seaborn and her husband Damien operate a posh London restaurant. Their daughter Lucy spent the summer at a camp near Fort Davis, Texas before starting university in the fall. Simone flies in to meet her for a week of camping and alone time and they stay at a lodge that night. The… Continue reading Caller Unknown by Gillian McAllister @gillianmauthor @williammorrowbooks @wmmorrowbooks @readwithjenna #CallerUnknown
the setup… Romance writer Wren Jensen returns to hometown Colton Valley, Iowa with her four-year old son after being left at the altar. It’s been about twenty years since she left for Boise and now the small town change of pace seems a perfect balm for her broken heart. She buys a small farmhouse adjacent… Continue reading Love Grows Wild by Winter Renshaw @natalienaudus @leesamuelsvoice @brilliancepublishing #LoveGrowsWild
the setup… Harvey Jason is the unit publicist assigned to the movie set for Bloodrock, a Western on location in Tucson, Arizona. He’s awakened by a phone call from studio brass informing him that Arthur McDougall, the screenwriter, was found dead down the hall in his motel room. Jason (no one uses his first name)… Continue reading A Murder in Hollywood by Michael Crichton @michaelchrichton_official @the.ray.porter @realrayporter.bsky.social @blackstonepublishing @blackstonepub.bsky.social @librofm @librofm.com #AMurderInHollywood
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