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Release Date:  August 1, 2017 Publisher:  Simon & Schuster Audio Format:  Audio Length:  7 hours 26 minutes Narrator:  Graham Norton Genre:  Fiction Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle   Synopsis:  The remote Irish village of Duneen has known little drama, but when human remains are discovered on an old farm, suspected to be those of Tommy Burke - a former lover of two different inhabitants - the village's dark past begins to unravel. As the frustrated sergeant PJ Collins struggles to solve a genuine case for the first time in his life, he unearths a community's worth of anger and resentments, secrets and regret. In this darkly comic, touching and, at times, heartbreaking novel, perfect for fans of J.K. Rowling's  The Casual Vacancy , Graham Norton employs his acerbic wit to breathe life into a host of loveable characters and explore - with searing honesty - the complexities and contradictions that make us human. Revi...

Release Date:  July 24, 2018 Publisher:  Harper Audio Format:  Audio Length:  11 hours 45 minutes Narrator:  Hillary Huber Genre:  Mystery/thriller Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle   Synopsis:  MAY, 1968 On a murky pre-dawn Mother's Day, sinister secrets play out miles apart in New York City. In Harlem, a church janitor finds an innocent newborn in a basket. In Brooklyn, an elusive serial killer prowls slumbering families, leaving a trail of blood and a twisted calling card. Cloaked in lies, these seemingly unrelated lives - and deaths - are destined to intersect on a distant, blood-soaked day. OCTOBER, 1987 Reeling from shocking personal discoveries, two strangers navigate a world where nothing is as it seems. Amelia Crenshaw embarks on a search to discover the truth about the birth mother who abandoned her, never suspecting she's on a collision course with a killer. Detective Stockton Barnes, a brash young NYPD detective...

Release Date:  October 1, 2018 Publisher:  Brilliance Audio Format:  Audio Length:  9 hours 6 minutes Narrator:  Chris Andrew Ciulla   Genre:  Mystery/thriller Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  |    Paperback Synopsis:  When a mutilated body is found hanging in a seedy motel in Philadelphia, forensics specialist Liam Dwyer assumes the crime scene will be business as usual. Instead, the victim turns out to be a woman he'd had an affair with before breaking it off to save his marriage. But there's a bigger problem: Liam has no memory of where he was or what he did on the night of the murder. Panicked, Liam turns to his brother, Sean, a homicide detective. Sean has his back, but incriminating evidence keeps piling up. From fingerprints to DNA, everything points to Liam, who must race against time and his department to uncover the truth - even if that truth is his own guilt. Yet as he digs deeper, dark secrets come to ...

Publisher:  Audible Audio Format:  Audio Narrator:  Charlotte North & Jacob Morgan Genre:  Romance Suspense Buy:   my amazon store Synopsis:  TWISTED:  The underworld of Chicago is far from forgiving. It's a world where knowledge means power, power money, and money everything. While I paid the ultimate price to have it all, it wasn't my decision to give my life.... That doesn't mean I ceased to exist, only to live. Going where the job takes me and living in the shadows, with deadly accuracy I utilize the skills inherent to me, not knowing from where they came, not recalling what I'd lost. And then I saw her. Laurel Carlson. I shouldn't want her, desire her, or need her, yet with each sighting I know she is exactly what I have to have. Laurel has the ability to do what I thought was impossible. She sees what others don't. My gut tells me that it's a deadly mistake to change my plans and open my world to her. My mind says she'll be...

Release Date:  August 6, 2019 Publisher:  Brilliance Audio Format:  Audio Length:  9 hours 17 minutes Narrator:  Cynthia Farrell Genre:  Mystery/thriller Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  |    Paperback Synopsis:  Police investigator Susan Adler is ready to close the book on a deadly car accident, but after the medical examiner discovers evidence of foul play, she knows she has a murder on her hands. The victim was the wealthy wife of Randall Brock, a renowned psychiatrist who treats patients with disturbing, brutal fantasies. And just like that, Susan’s got a suspect. Randall has a violent past but knows he didn’t kill his wife. In the midst of his crushing grief, Randall receives a visit from a stranger with information to share about his wife’s death. But there’s a catch: in exchange for the stranger’s information, Randall must reveal dark secrets he’s kept hidden for years. As this shady figure applies more pressur...

Release Date:  August 13, 2019 Publisher:  Little Brown & Co Format:  ebook Pages:  337 pages Genre:   Memoir Buy:  Kindle  |  Hardcover  |  Synopsis: Donna Freitas has lived two lives. In one life, she is a well-published author and respected scholar who has traveled around the country speaking about Title IX, consent, religion, and sex on college campuses. In the other, she is a victim, a woman who suffered and suffers still because she was stalked by her graduate professor for more than two years. As a doctoral candidate, Freitas loved asking big questions, challenging established theories and sinking her teeth into sacred texts. She felt at home in the library, and safe in the book-lined offices of scholars whom she admired. But during her first year, one particular scholar became obsessed with Freitas' academic enthusiasm. He filled her student mailbox with letters and articles. He lurked on the sidewalk outside her ap...

Release Date:  July 27, 2019 Publisher:  Tangled Tree Publishing Format:  ebook Pages:  322 pages Genre:   Psychological Fiction Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback  |  Synopsis: Sometimes that little voice in your head isn’t always yours. What if the only friend you have isn’t real? When the voices in his head begin to make sense, high school senior Branson Kovac turns to the one friend he’s still got… only to discover he’s not really there. Review:  There are many books out there with characters with mental illness and not all of them really show you the ripple effect that has on the family, and the people around them.   Based on Billiters own mental health family struggles this one hits it out of the ballpark. I was drawn in from the first and as the book goes along I wanted to cry for the whole family.  The loss of who a person was to who they become when the mental illness takes hold, the struggl...

Release Date:  August 6, 2019 Publisher:  Gallery/Scout Press Format:  ebook Pages:  352 pages Genre:   Mystery/Thrillers Buy:  Kindle  |  Hardcover  |  Synopsis: 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 unravelling events that led to her incarceration. It wasn’t just the constant surveillance from the cameras installed around the house, or the malfunctioning technolo...