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Title:   The Bones of You by Debbie Howells Publisher: Kensington Books Format: Advanced e-copy from the publisher through netgalley.com in exchange for an honest review Pages: 320 pages Genre: Mystery This book is due to be released June 30, 2015  Synopsis:   I have a gardener's inherent belief in the natural order of things. Soft‑petaled flowers that go to seed. The resolute passage of the seasons. Swallows that fly thousands of miles to follow the eternal summer. Children who don't die before their parents. When Kate receives a phone call with news that Rosie Anderson is missing, she's stunned and disturbed. Rosie is eighteen, the same age as Kate's daughter, and a beautiful, quiet, and kind young woman. Though the locals are optimistic—girls like Rosie don't get into real trouble—Kate's sense of foreboding is confirmed when Rosie is found fatally beaten and stabbed. Who would kill the perfect daughter, from the perfect family? Yet th...

Title:   The Search for Dixie Lee by Sharolyn L. Sievert Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Pages: 116 pages Format: Paperback Genre: Adoption search Synopsis:  Sharon Bette Koepp had been raised by strict, religious parents. Arnold Koepp was an elder in the church; Mamie was the organist and choir director. Life revolved around not doing anything that would make the neighbors talk. Who was to know that during the Search for Dixie Lee, Sharon would find a family that had everyone talking? The Search for Dixie Lee is a true story; taken not from the front page headlines, but from scraps of paper, family stories, old letters, and of course, the court records. It could be the story of anyone, your own mother or father, perhaps even yourself. (31) Review: Written for her mother Sharolyn Sievert researches the past to find her mothers birth family.  What she finds is a story of a birth mother trying to keep her family together, and a system that...

Title:   Disorganized Crime: A Kat Makris Greek Mafia Novel by Alex A King Publisher: Citizen A Press Format: e-book received for free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review Pages: 345 pages Genre: black comedy, mystery Synopsis:  Kat Makris was just a kid when her father spun wild and gruesome bedtime stories about Baboulas, the Greek boogeyman, a fearsome creature with a penchant for stealing gold and clashing with the gods. Now Kat is twenty-eight, single, an only child halfway to orphaned, and her father's weirdo fairytales lie crumpled at the bottom of her childhood closet, in the house where she still lives. But when her father is abducted by men with crooked noses, she discovers his old stories were true—true crime, that is. What does Kat know about crime? Nothing, that's what. Her only transgression, to date, is underage drinking. Even her driving record is pristine. Her couch-to-cubicle existence shattered by his kidnapping, and the disc...

Title:   Legacies: A Repairman Jack Novel by F. Paul Wilson Series: Repairman Jack Book 2 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Format: Audio book Narrator: Christopher Price Length: 12 hours 29 minutes Genre: Thriller Synopsis:  Repairman Jack isn’t your average appliance repairman - he fixes situations for people, often risking his own life. Jack has no last name, no social security number, works only for cash, and has no qualms when it comes to seeing that the job gets done. Dr. Alicia Clayton, a pediatrician who treats children with AIDS, is full of secrets, and she has just inherited a house that holds another. Haunted by painful memories, Alicia wants the house destroyed - but somehow everyone she enlists to help ends up violently killed. The house holds a powerful secret, and Alicia’s charmless brother Thomas seems willing to do anything to get his hands on that secret himself. But not if Repairman Jack can find it first! (29) Review:  This is the 2nd r...

Title:   Leaving Time Jodi Picoult Publisher: Random House Audio Length: 15 hours 11 minutes Narrator:  Rebecca Lowman, Abigail Revasch, Kathe Mazur, Mark Deakins Format: Audible Audio book Synopsis:  For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe she was abandoned, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice’s old journals. A scientist who studied grief among elephants, Alice wrote mostly of her research among the animals she loved, yet Jenna hopes the entries will provide a clue to her mother’s whereabouts. Desperate to find the truth, Jenna enlists two unlikely allies in her quest: Serenity Jones, a psychic who rose to fame finding missing persons, only to later doubt her gifts, and Virgil Stanhope, the jaded private detective who’d originally investigated Alice’s case along with the strange, possi...

Title:   Blackout (Lost Girls) by Chris Myers Publisher: CreatSpace Independent Publishing Platform Pages: 288 pages Format: Paperback Genre:  thriller/romance This book was released on April 18, 2015  Synopsis: No restraining order will stop Dare from protecting Teal. The blackouts started happening when Teal was eight. There are long periods of her youth she doesn't remember. She has woken up in strange places, feeling disoriented and unaware of how long she's been out. After two years abroad attending a private school and sessions with a top-notch psychiatrist, she's been deemed cured. The blackouts have ceased, or so Teal thought, until she wakes up in a ditch back home in North Carolina. Dare, the man pulling her broken body from the wreckage, has a restraining order against him. He’s no longer the clean-cut boy she went frog gigging with but road-hardened. His lean, muscular arms, riddled with tats, drag her out of the SUV. She should fear him, but i...

Teaser Tuesdays  is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of  A Daily Rhythm . Anyone can play along! Just do the following: Open to a random page: Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page. BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!) Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers! ********************************************************************************* My Teaser is from  Blackout (Lost Girls Book 1) by Chris Myers "This can't happen, not now. More nonsensical images jumble together in my vision along with sounds, a high -pitched whine and a razor buzz that bristles the hair on my arms, and smells, the rotting bog and the burn of a cigarette."

Title:   Eeny Meeny (A Detective Helen Grace Thriller) by M.J. Arlidge Publisher: NAL Pages: 432 pages Format: Kindle - advanced ecopy from publisher through netgalley.com  available June 2, 2015 Genre: Mystery Synopsis: Two people are abducted, imprisoned, and left with a gun. As hunger and thirst set in, only one walks away alive. It’s a game more twisted than any Detective Inspector Helen Grace has ever seen. If she hadn’t spoken with the shattered survivors herself, she almost wouldn’t believe them. Helen is familiar with the dark sides of human nature, including her own, but this case—with its seemingly random victims—has her baffled. But as more people go missing, nothing will be more terrifying than when it all starts making sense.... (26) Review:  As soon as I started reading this book the only thing that came to mind was the Saw movies..I haven't even seen the Saw movies but I remember seeing previews about them where they put people in impossibl...