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Publication Date:  August 3, 2021 Format:  Audio Genre:   Psychological Thriller Narrators:  Becca Tobin Publisher:  Random House Audio      Length:  10 hours 49 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Emily is having the time of her life - she’s in the mountains of Chile with her best friend, Kristen, on their annual reunion trip, and the women are feeling closer than ever. But on the last night of the trip, Emily enters their hotel suite to find blood and broken glass on the floor. Kristen says the cute backpacker she brought back to their room attacked her, and she had no choice but to kill him in self-defense. Even more shocking: The scene is horrifyingly similar to last year’s trip, when another backpacker wound up dead. ...

Publication Date:  June 8, 2021 Format:  Audio Genre:   Psychological Thriller Narrators:  Lorna Bennett Publisher:  Dreamscape Media                 Length:  11 hours 20 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis When prodigal daughter Heather Evans returns to her family home after her mother's baffling suicide, she makes an alarming discovery - stacks and stacks of carefully preserved letters from notorious serial killer Michael Reave. The Red Wolf, as he was dubbed by the press, has been in prison for over 20 years, serving a life sentence for the gruesome and ritualistic murders of several women across the country, although he has always protested his innocence. The police have had ...

Publication Date:  June 2, 2020 Format:  Audio Genre:   Psychological Thriller/Suspense Narrators:  Jot Davies, Chloe Massey, Olivia Dowd, Aoife McMahon, Sarah Ovens Rich Keeble Publisher:  Harper Audio         Length:  10 hours 22 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis The bride – The plus one – The best man – The wedding planner  – The bridesmaid – The body On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. It’s a wedding for a magazine, or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote lo...

  Publication Date:  February 22, 2021 Format:  Audio Genre:   Psychological Thriller/Suspense Narrator:  Elizabeth Knowelden Publisher:  Penguin Audio         Length:  11 hours 58 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis You won't want to leave...until you can't. Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Long plagued by troubling rumors, the former abandoned sanatorium has since been renovated into a five-star minimalist hotel. An imposing, isolated getaway spot high up in the Swiss Alps is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. But Elin's taken time off from her job as a detective, so when her estranged brother, Isaac, and his fiancée,...

Release Date:  August 4, 2020 Publisher:  Dreamscape Media Format:  Audio Length:  6 hours 55 minutes Narrator:  Kate Marcin Genre:  Psychological Thriller Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle Synopsis:  Emily and Elizabeth spent their childhood locked in a bedroom and terrorized by a mother who drank too much and disappeared for days. The identical twins were rescued by a family determined to be their saviors. But there are some horrors love can’t erase....  Elizabeth wakes in a hospital, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak. The last thing she remembers is finding Emily’s body in their bathroom. Days before, she was falling in love and starting college. Now, she’s surrounded by men who talk to themselves and women who pull out their eyebrows. As she delves deeper into the mystery surrounding Emily’s death, she discovers shocking secrets ...

Release Date:  October 15, 2019 Publisher:  Brilliance Audio Format:  Audio Length:  8 hours 22 minutes Narrator:  Coleen Marlo, Lauren Ezzo, Amy McFadden   Genre:  Psychological Thriller  Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle Synopsis:  One woman’s reappearance throws her family into turmoil, exposing dark secrets and the hidden, often devastating truth of family relationships. Kate Bennett vanished from a parking lot eleven years ago, leaving behind her husband and young daughter. When she shows up at a Montana gas station, clutching an infant and screaming for help, investigators believe she may have been abducted by a cult. Kate’s return flips her family’s world upside down - her husband is remarried, and her daughter barely remembers her. Kate herself doesn’t look or act like she did before. While the family tries to help Kate reinteg...

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: Gone Girl: A Novel by Gillian Flynn Publisher: Crown Publishers 415 pages Genre: mystery Synopsis:  On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media—as well as Amy’s fiercely doting parents—the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely bitter—but is he really a killer? As the cops close in, every couple in town is soon wondering how well they know the one that they love. Wi...