Category: From Publisher
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Review: CAGED by Ellison Cooper
Thank you so much to Minotaur Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: FBI neuroscientist Sayer Altair hunts for evil in the deepest recesses of the human mind. Still reeling from the death of her fiancé, she wants nothing more than to focus on her research into the brains…
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Review: SUMMER WIVES by Beatriz Williams
Thank you so much to TLC Book Tours and William Morrow Books for this gorgeous free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: In the summer of 1951, Miranda Schuyler arrives on elite, secretive Winthrop Island as a schoolgirl from the margins of high society, still reeling from the loss of her father in…
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Review: HER PRETTY FACE by Robyn Harding
Thank you so much to Gallery Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: Frances Metcalfe is struggling to stay afloat. A stay-at-home mom whose troubled son is her full-time job, she thought that the day he got accepted into the elite Forrester Academy would be the day she started…
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Review: STILL LIVES by Maria Hummel
Thank you so much to Counterpoint Press for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Lives is comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous, murdered women―the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown…
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Review: THE WORD IS MURDER by Anthony Horowitz
Thank you so very much to Harper Books for my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper – the wealthy mother of a famous actor – enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service. Six hours later she is found dead,…
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Review: FIND YOU IN THE DARK by Nathan Ripley
Thanks so much to Atria Books for providing my copy – all opinions are my own. Description: For years, unbeknownst to his wife and teenage daughter, Martin Reese has been illegally buying police files on serial killers and obsessively studying them, using them as guides to find the missing bodies of victims. He doesn’t take…
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Review: TIN MAN by Sarah Winman
Many thanks to Putnam Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: This is almost a love story. But it’s not as simple as that. Ellis and Michael are twelve-year-old boys when they first become friends, and for a long time it is just the two of them, cycling the…
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Review: DEAR MRS. BIRD by A.J. Pearce
Many thanks to Scribner Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: London, 1940. Emmeline Lake is Doing Her Bit for the war effort, volunteering as a telephone operator with the Auxiliary Fire Services. When Emmy sees an advertisement for a job at the London Evening Chronicle, her dreams of becoming…
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Review: THE PISCES by Melissa Broder
Thank you so much to Crown Publishing and Hogarth Press for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: Lucy has been writing her dissertation on Sappho for nine years when she and her boyfriend break up in a dramatic flameout. After she bottoms out in Phoenix, her sister in Los Angeles…
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Review: EAGLE & CRANE by Suzanne Rindell
Many thanks to Putnam Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: Louis Thorn and Haruto “Harry” Yamada — Eagle and Crane — are the star attractions of Earl Shaw’s Flying Circus, a daredevil (and not exactly legal) flying act that traverses Depression-era California. The young men have a complicated…