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Continue reading →: Book Review: Blood Will Tell by Heather Chavez
Gripping, with multiple layers of mystery. Heather Chavez is a graduate of UC Berkeley’s English literature program and has worked as a newspaper reporter, editor and contributor to mystery and television blogs. Currently, she’s employed in public affairs for a major health care organization. She lives with her family in…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Animal by Lisa Taddeo
Witty, fierce, and unapoligetic. My favorite book of 2021! Lisa Taddeo is the author of three books: Three Women, a compelling nonfiction account of women and sex, Animal, a fictional depiction of female rage and visceral exploration of the fallout from a male-dominated society, and her newest book, Ghost Lover,…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Whip-smart, thought-provoking, and inventive. The Other Black Girl is the debut psychological thriller written by Zakiya Dalila Harris—a former editor at Knopf/Doubleday. She joined the publishing house after receiving her MFA in creative writing from The New School. Available now! Leading up to the release of this book I’d read…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Don’t Look For Me by Wendy Walker
Suspenseful, fast-paced, and satisfying. Wendy Walker is the author of the psychological suspense novels All Is Not Forgotten, Emma In The Night, The Night Before, Don’t Look For Me, What Remains, American Girl and Mad Love. Her novels have been translated into 23 foreign languages, topped bestseller lists both nationally…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: This Might Hurt by Stephanie Wrobel
Gut-wrenching, gripping, and utterly original. Stephanie Wrobel grew up in Chicago but has been living in the UK for the last four years with her husband and her dog, Moose Barkwinkle. She has an MFA from Emerson College and has had short fiction published in Bellevue Literary Review. Before turning…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Girl A by Abigail Dean
A slow burning literary thriller with a psychological twist. Abigail Dean was born in Manchester and grew up in the Peak District. She was formerly a Waterstones bookseller and a lawyer for Google. Her first novel, GIRL A, was a New York Times and Sunday Times top ten bestseller and…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark
The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark is a twisty, fierce domestic thriller. Julie Clark is the New York Times bestselling author of The Ones We Choose and The Last Flight, which was also a #1 international bestseller and has been translated into more than twenty languages. She lives in…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian
Lightning-fast and whip smart Never Saw Me Coming is Vera Kurian’s debut novel, published September 7th, 2021, by Park Row Books. Kurian is a scientist first, novelist second. Per her bio, she’s spent time on both US coasts but now lives in her hometown of DC, which mirrors the setting…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins
I can’t remember the last time I read a book in under 48 hours. PAULA HAWKINS worked as a journalist for fifteen years before writing her first novel. Born and brought up in Zimbabwe, Paula moved to London in 1989. Her first thriller, The Girl on the Train, has sold…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: A Double Life by Flynn Berry
A slow-burning, utterly satisfying suspense novel with an ending I never saw coming. Inspired by one of the most shocking true crimes in 20th century Britain: the Lord Lucan case. Flynn Berry is the New York Times bestselling author of Trust Her (out June 2024), Northern Spy, A Double Life,…
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