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Publication Date:  August 1, 2023 Format:  Ebook  Genre:   Memoir Publisher:  Simon & Schuster Length:   319 Pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis No one expects the police to knock on the million-dollar, two-story home of the perfect cul-de-sac housewife. But soccer mom Lara Love Hardin has been hiding a shady secret: she is funding her heroin addiction by stealing her neighbors’ credit cards. Lara is convicted of thirty-two felonies and becomes inmate S32179. She learns that jail is a class system with a power structure that is somewhere between an adolescent sleepover party and  Lord of the Flies . Furniture is made from tampon boxes and Snickers bars are currency. But Lara quickly finds the rules and brings love and healing to her fellow inmates as she climbs the social ladder to become the “shot caller,” showing tha

Publication Date:  June 13, 2023 Format:  physical book Genre:   mystery  Publisher:  Random House Length:   371 Pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis All the world is a puzzle, and Mike Brink—a celebrated and ingenious puzzle constructor—understands its patterns like no one else. Once a promising Midwestern football star, Brink was transformed by a traumatic brain injury that caused a rare medical condition: acquired savant syndrome. The injury left him with a mental superpower—he can solve puzzles in ways ordinary people can’t. But it also left him deeply isolated, unable to fully connect with other people. Everything changes after Brink meets Jess Price, a woman serving thirty years in prison for murder who hasn’t spoken a word since her arrest five years before. When Price draws a perplexing puzzle, her psychiatrist belie

Publication Date:  November 7, 2023 Format:  Audio Genre:   Historical Mystery   Narrator:  Jennifer Jill Araya Publisher:  Dreamscape Media Length:   12 Hours 26 minutes Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis The year is 1930 and Cora McCavanagh is posing as a maid at Hollywood magnate Truman Byrd’s legendary estate. She’s closing in on the damning evidence she needs for a high-profile client.    An aspiring PI, Cora was trained by her father, a former prison guard at the notorious Pelican Island, where Cora grew up surrounded by hardened criminals.   Which is why she recognizes Jack Yates as soon as he walks through the door. The last time she saw him was on an ill-fated night that changed the course of her life and still haunts her more than a decade la

Publication Date:  August 8, 2023 Format:  Audio Genre:   Fiction   Narrator:  Dominic Hoffman Publisher:  PenguinAudio Length:   12 Hours 21 minutes Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking fo

Publication Date:  November 7, 2023 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Police Procedural Publisher:  St. Martins Press Length:   352 Pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis In Blackwater Falls, Colorado, veteran police officer Harry Cooper is hot on the heels of some local vandals when the situation turns deadly: believing one of them has a gun, Harry opens fire and Duante Reed, a young Black man, is killed. The "gun" in his hands was a bottle of spray paint. Meanwhile, in nearby Denver, a drug raid goes south and a Latino teen, Mateo Ruiz, is also killed. Detective Inaya Rahman is all too familiar with the name of the young cop who has seemingly killed Mateo: Kelly Broda. Kelly is the son of the police officer John Broda, who led a violent attack on her when they were both in Denver. No one is more surprised than

Publication Date:  October 24, 2023 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Mystery   Publisher:  Level Best Books Length:   299 Pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Mess Hopkins, proprietor of the seen-better-days Fairfax Manor Inn, never met a person in need who couldn’t use a helping hand—his helping hand. So he’s thrown open the doors of the motel to the homeless, victims of abuse, or anyone else who could benefit from a comfy bed with clean sheets and a roof overhead. This rankles his parents and uncle, who technically still own the place and are more concerned with profits than philanthropy. When a mother and her teenage boy seek refuge from an abusive husband, Mess takes them in until they can get back on their feet. Shortly after arriving, the mom goes missing and some very bad people come sniffing around, searching f

Publication Date:  August 17, 2001 Format:  Ebook  Genre:   Fantasy  Publisher:  Berkley  Length:   400 Pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Meet Detective Zaniel Havelock, a man with the special ability to communicate directly with angels. A former trained Angel speaker, he devoted his life to serving both the celestial beings and his fellow humans with his gift, but a terrible betrayal compelled him to leave that life behind. Now he’s a cop who is still working on the side of angels. But where there are angels, there are also demons. There’s no question that there’s evil at work when he’s called in to examine the murder scene of a college student - but is it just the evil that one human being can do to another, or is it something more?  When demonic p

  Publication Date:  August 1, 2023 Format:  Audio Genre:   Crime Mystery  Narrator:  John Keating, Alana Kerr Collins  Publisher:  Blackstone Publishing  Length:   9 Hours 10 minutes Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis One year ago, Lucy’s sister, Nicki, left to meet friends at a pub in Dublin and never came home. The third Irish woman to vanish inexplicably in as many years, the agony of not knowing what happened that night has turned Lucy’s life into a waking nightmare. So, she’s going to take matters into her own hands. Angela works as a civilian paper-pusher in the Missing Persons Unit, but wants nothing more than to be a fully fledged member of An Garda Síochána, the Irish police force. With the official investigation into the missing women stalled, she begins pulling on a thread that could break the case wide open—and destroy her chances of ever joining the force. A nameless man drives through the night, his latest victim in the back seat. He’s going to tell her everything, from the

Publication Date:  September 15, 2020 Format:  Audio Genre:   Mystery Narrator:   Robert Glenister Publisher:  Mulholland Books Length:   31 Hours 51 minutes Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough—who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974.   Strike has never tackled a cold case before, let alone one forty years old. But despite the slim chance of success, he is intrigued and takes it on; adding to the long list of cases that he and his partner in the agency, Robin Ellacott, are currently working on. And Robin herself is also juggling a messy divorce and unwanted male attention, as well as bat

Publication Date:  November 1, 2022 Format:  Audio Genre:   Mystery Narrator:    Amanda Leigh Cobb ,    Graham Halstead ,   Nicholas Boulton Publisher:  Brilliance Audio Length:   10 Hours 35 Minutes Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Rhode Island, 1846. Estranged from his family, writer Merritt Fernsby is surprised when he inherits a remote estate in the Narragansett Bay. Though the property has been uninhabited for more than a century, Merritt is ready to call it home—until he realizes he has no choice. With its doors slamming shut and locking behind him, Whimbrel House is not about to let Merritt leave. Ever. Hulda Larkin of the Boston Institute for the Keeping of Enchanted Rooms has been trained in taming such structures in o

Publication Date:  October 24, 2023 Format:  Audio Genre:   Mystery Narrator:   Tamsin Kinnard Publisher:  Bookouture Length:   288 Pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Two days ago the Wilson family checked into the imposing, glass-fronted Lodge, surrounded by snow and perched perilously on the edge of a cliff looking out to a grey sea. Not everyone was looking forward to the family get-together. But mother-in-law  Angela  insisted the winter trip would help heal their rifts… Danni:  The new wife who feels like an imposter. She doesn’t trust anyone – even her husband. But is she trustworthy herself? Fiona:  The ex-wife who feels that all eyes are on her. She’s here for the sake of her children, but she fails to hide her seething jealousy towards her ex-husband’s new family… Angela:  The m