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ARC Review: Paper Ghosts by Julia Heaberlin

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Release Date:  May 15, 2018 Publisher:  Ballantine Books Format:  ebook Pages:  368 pages Genre:   Mystery/ Thriller Buy:  Kindle  |  Hardcover Synopsis:  An obsessive young woman has been waiting half her life—since she was twelve years old—for this moment. She has planned. Researched. Trained. Imagined every scenario. Now she is almost certain the man who kidnapped and murdered her sister sits in the passenger seat beside her. Carl Louis Feldman is a documentary photographer. The young woman claims to be his long-lost daughter. He doesn’t believe her. He claims no memory of murdering girls across Texas, in a string of places where he shot eerie pictures. She doesn’t believe him.       Determined to find the truth, she lures him out of a halfway house and proposes a dangerous idea: a ten-day road trip, just the two of them, to examine cold cases linked to his haunting photographs. Is he a liar or a broken o...

ARC Review: Black Eyed Susans

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Title:   Black-Eyed Susans: A Novel of Suspense by Julia Heaberlin Publisher: Ballantine Books Format: Advanced e-copy from the publisher through  netgalley.com  in exchange for an honest review Pages: 368 pages Genre: Thriller This title is due to be released August 11, 2015  Synopsis:   A girl's memory lost in a field of wildflowers. A killer still spreading seeds. At seventeen, Tessa became famous for being the only surviving victim of a vicious serial killer. Her testimony put him on death row. Decades later, a mother herself, she receives a message from a monster who should be in prison. Now, as the execution date rapidly approaches, Tessa is forced to confront a chilling possibility:  Did she help convict the wrong man? (55)Review: This is a tough book to review without giving too much away.  I loved it, disturbing with a good flow.  Each chapter goes either back in time to when Tessa was first found and current time while ...