Category: Suspense
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Book Review: DARK ACROSS THE BAY by Ania Ahlborn
Spotlight & Review Ania Ahlborn is one of my favorite authors, so I am extremely honored to review her latest creation, Dark Across the Bay. This novel is only available through Earthling Publications as a deluxe hardcover, but it is worth every bit of the hefty $50 price tag. In the acknowledgments, which I always…
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Review: THE BRIGHT LANDS by John Fram
Thank you to Hanover Square Press for my free copy. If you haven’t read my interview with John Fram on Tor Nightfire, click here – he’s the cat’s pajamas! Description: The town of Bentley holds two things dear: its football, and its secrets. But when star quarterback Dylan Whitley goes missing, an unremitting fear grips…
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Review: THE GOLDEN CAGE by Camilla Läckberg
Thank you so much Knopf and Abby from Crime by the Book for my free copy. Description: Faye has loved Jack since they were students at business school. Jack, the perpetual golden boy, grew up wealthy, unlike Faye, who has worked hard to bury a dark past. When Jack needs help launching a new company,…
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Review: THE SUN DOWN MOTEL by Simone St. James
Thank you so much Berkley Publishing for my free copy. Description: Upstate New York, 1982. Viv Delaney wants to move to New York City, and to help pay for it she takes a job as the night clerk at the Sun Down Motel in Fell, New York. But something isnʼt right at the motel, something…
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Review: OONA OUT OF ORDER by Margarita Montimore
Thank you so much Book Sparks and Flatiron for my free copy. Description: It’s New Year’s Eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn nineteen, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study economics, or…
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Review: WHISPERS IN THE DARK by Laurel Hightower
Thank you to the Night Worms and JournalStone Publishing for my free copy. Description: Rose McFarland is a trained killer–a Memphis S.W.A.T. sniper with a secret. Her team knows about the burn scars that lurk under her clothes, a legacy of the house fire that killed her father and brother sixteen years before. Her supervisors…
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Review: THE SOUTHERN BOOK CLUB’S GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES by Grady Hendrix
Thank you so much Quirk Books for my free copy. Description: Patricia Campbell’s life has never felt smaller. Her husband is a workaholic, her teenage kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she’s always a step behind on her endless to-do list. The only thing keeping her sane is her…
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Blog Tour: THE DEAD GIRLS CLUB by Damien Angelica Walters
Thank you so much to Crooked Lane Books for my free copy. Description: Red Lady, Red Lady, show us your face… In 1991, Heather Cole and her friends were members of the Dead Girls Club. Obsessed with the macabre, the girls exchanged stories about serial killers and imaginary monsters, like the Red Lady, the spirit…
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Blog Tour: LADY IN THE LAKE by Laura Lippman
Thank you so much Faber & Faber for my free copy. Description: Cleo Sherwood disappeared eight months ago. Aside from her parents and the two sons she left behind, no one seems to have noticed. It isn’t hard to understand why: it’s 1964 and neither the police, the public, nor the papers care much when…
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Blog Tour: LAST SUMMER by Kerry Lonsdale
Thank you so much TLC Book Tours and Amazon Publishing for my copy. Description: Lifestyle journalist Ella Skye remembers every celebrity she interviewed, every politician she charmed between the sheets, and every socialite who eyed her with envy. The chance meeting with her husband, Damien; their rapid free fall into love; and their low-key, intimate…