{Thank you to Park Row Book for my gifted copy}
Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica
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Tag: suspense
The Hunting Wives by May Cobb | Berkley Publishing {Book Review}
{Thank you to Berkley Publishing for my gifted copy} 
The Hunting Wives by May Cobb
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When The Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain | Ballantine Books {Book Review}
{Thank you to Random House and Ballantine Books for allowing me the opportunity to read and review this book}
When The Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain
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Pretty Little Wife by Darby Kane | William Morrow Books {Book Review}
Don’t Look For Me by Wendy Walker | St. Martin’s Press {Book Review}
When I was You by Amber Garza | Harlequin {Book Review}
When I Was You by Amber Garza
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The Night Swim by Megan Goldin | Blog Tour and Author Q&A
When I saw that author Megan Goldin was publishing another book this summer I couldn’t wait to get my hands on it. Her 2019 novel The Escape Room was one of my favorite suspense reads last summer and I became an instant fan of her writing style. You can read my blog tour post featuring The Escape Room HERE.
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The Closer You Get by Mary Torjussen | Berkley Publishing {Blog Tour Review}
The Closer You Get by Mary Torjussen
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Long Bright River by Liz Moore | Riverhead Books {Book Review}
Long Bright River by Liz Moore
Book Summary:
Two sisters travel the same streets, though their lives couldn’t be more different. Then one of them goes missing.
In a Philadelphia neighborhood rocked by the opioid crisis, two once-inseparable sisters find themselves at odds. One, Kacey, lives on the streets in the vise of addiction. The other, Mickey, walks those same blocks on her police beat. They don’t speak anymore, but Mickey never stops worrying about her sibling.
Then Kacey disappears, suddenly, at the same time that a mysterious string of murders begins in Mickey’s district, and Mickey becomes dangerously obsessed with finding the culprit–and her sister–before it’s too late.
Alternating its present-day mystery with the story of the sisters’ childhood and adolescence, Long Bright River is at once heart-pounding and heart-wrenching: a gripping suspense novel that is also a moving story of sisters, addiction, and the formidable ties that persist between place, family, and fate.
Publication Date:
January 7th, 2020
Genre:
Literary Fiction/Suspense
My Rating:
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My Review:
Book of the Month Club December Selection
I wasn’t sure I was going to pick a book this month from Book of The Month Club, as I had read a couple of choices already as ARCs and the rest of them weren’t really calling to me. I have been taking a break from thrillers and thought this one might fall into that category too.
Then I started reading reviews from my most trusted #bookstagram sources highly recommend Long Bright River. I decided to go for it! and I am so glad I did!
(*You can get your first Book of the Month Club book for just $5 when you use my referral link HERE.)
Long Bright River alternates between past and present and shares the lives of Mickey and Kacey, two sisters who each are involved in the opioid crisis in very different ways. When Kacey goes missing, Mickey starts unraveling the clues of her disappearance while also bringing us back in time to share how each of them got to the places they are in.
This book was thought-provoking and sometimes was uncomfortable to read, which is a good thing in my opinion! It is part mystery and part family drama, which I think is why it worked for me so well…because we really get to know these women and their stories. I had a hard time putting this one down and can’t stop thinking about it now.
Author Liz Moore
Long Bright River was my first book by Liz Moore and it won’t be my last! Her writing was nuanced and layered while also being completing engrossing! My friend Michelle shared that her book from 2017, The Unseen World, is one of her very favorites so I am adding it to my January 2020 TBR list!
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The Turn of The Key by Ruth Ware | Gallery Books| Book Review
The Turn of The Key by Ruth Ware
(August 2019 Book of The Month Selection)
Book Summary:
“When she stumbles across the ad, she’s looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss—a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten—by the luxurious “smart” home fitted out with all modern conveniences, by the beautiful Scottish Highlands, and by this picture-perfect family.
What she doesn’t know is that she’s stepping into a nightmare—one that will end with a child dead and herself in prison awaiting trial for murder.
Writing to her lawyer from prison, she struggles to explain the unraveling events that led to her incarceration. It wasn’t just the constant surveillance from the cameras installed around the house, or the malfunctioning technology that woke the household with booming music, or turned the lights off at the worst possible time. It wasn’t just the girls, who turned out to be a far cry from the immaculately behaved model children she met at her interview. It wasn’t even the way she was left alone for weeks at a time, with no adults around apart from the enigmatic handyman, Jack Grant.
It was everything.
She knows she’s made mistakes. She admits that she lied to obtain the post and that her behavior toward the children wasn’t always ideal. She’s not innocent, by any means. But, she maintains, she’s not guilty—at least not of murder. Which means someone else is.”
Publication Date:
August 6th, 2019
Genre:
Psychological Thriller
My Rating:
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My Review:
The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware was one of my highly anticipated summer reads. I have really enjoyed her writing in the past and the Woman in Cabin 10 left me on the edge of my seat with anticipation. The summary of the book sounded right up my alley and I was intrigued by the idea of it being written in letter format.
I found that the story was a slow build and didn’t totally engage me right away but I stuck with it. I think Ware is a fantastic author who really knows how to keep you guessing and The Turn of The Key had all the elements of a Gothic tale…a faraway vacation home, a nanny, a garden and house filled with secrets, mysterious characters, and haunting happenings.
Unfortunately, I struggled to connect and kept waiting for the mysteries to unravel. When they finally did, they felt like they were really crammed into the last few chapters of the book and many of them just seemed unbelievable. I am not sure if it is just me and maybe I am just thrilled out”, but this one just didn’t deliver as I had hoped. All in all, this one was just okay for me.
Thank you to NetGalley and Gallery Books for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.