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Publication Date:  March 7, 2023 Format:  Audio Genre:   Historical Fiction Narrators:  Aysha Kala, Helen Keeley, Nell Barlow Publisher:  Macmillan Audio Length:   10 hours 51 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis I am a Weyward, and wild inside. 2019:  Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But she begins to suspect that her great aunt had a secret. One that lurks in the bones of the cottage, hidden ever since the witch-hunts of the 17th century. 1619:  Altha is awaiting trial for the ...

Publication Date:  March 7, 2023 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Mystery/Cultural Fiction Publisher:  Grand Central Publishing Length:   241 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis The Ramirez women of Staten Island orbit around absence. When thirteen‑year‑old middle child Ruthy disappeared after track practice without a trace, it left the family scarred and scrambling. One night, twelve years later, oldest sister Jessica spots a woman on her TV screen in Catfight, a raunchy reality show. She rushes to tell her younger sister, Nina: This woman's hair is dyed red, and she calls herself Ruby, but the beauty mark under her left eye is instantly recognizable. Could it be Ruthy, after all this time? The years since Ruthy's disappearance haven't bee...

Publication Date:  March 28, 2023 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Mystery/horror Fiction Publisher:  One World Length:   282 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Hardcover Synopsis Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. It’s locked at all times. Because when the trunk opens, people around Adelaide start to disappear. The year is 1915, and Adelaide is in trouble. Her secret sin killed her parents, forcing her to flee California in a hellfire rush and make her way to Montana as a homesteader. Dragging the trunk with her at every stop, she will become one of the “lone women” taking advantage of the government’s offer of free land for those who can tame it—except that Adelaide isn’t alone. And the secret she’s tried so des...

Publication Date:  November 16, 2006 Format:  Audio  Genre:   Scandi Crime  Narrator: Dick Hill Publisher:  Blackstone Audio  Length:   8 hours 58 Minutes Buy:  Audio  |  Paperback Synopsis One frozen January morning at 5am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he believes is a routine call out. When he reaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers a bloodbath. An old man has been tortured and beaten to death, his wife lies barely alive beside his shattered body, both victims of a violence beyond reason. The woman supplies Wallander with his only clue: the perpetrators may have been foreign. When this is leaked to the press, it unleashes a tide of racism. Wallander's life is a shambles. His wife ...

Publication Date:  April 20, 2011 Format:  Paperback Genre:   Noir Crime Publisher:  Hard Case Crime Length:   254 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis 5 [IMPORTANT / VALUABLE] LESSONS YOU CAN LEARN BY READING  BUST : 1) When you hire someone to kill your wife, don’t hire a psychopath. 2) Don’t use Drano to get rid of a dead body. 3) Those locks on hotel room doors?  Not very secure. 4) A curly blond wig isn’t much of a disguise. 5)  Secrets can kill. Review:  This is about the 3rd book I've read under the Hard Case Crime Insignia.  " Hard Case Crime is dedicated to reviving the vigor and excitement, the suspense and thrills—the sheer entertainment—of the golden age of ...

Publication Date:  August 3, 2021 Format:  Audio Genre:   Psychological thriller Narrators:  Cassandra Campbell Publisher:  Penguin Audio Length:   11 hours 40 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis With their long necks and matching buns and pink tights, Dara and Marie Durant have been dancers since they can remember. Growing up, they were homeschooled and trained by their glamorous mother, founder of the Durant School of Dance. After their parents' death in a tragic accident nearly a dozen years ago, the sisters began running the school together, along with Charlie, Dara's husband and once their mother's prized student.   Marie, warm and soft, teaches the younger students; Dara, with her precision, trains ...

Publication Date:  September 27, 2022 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Mystery, Psychological Thriller Publisher:  Gallery Scout Press Length:   303 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis Penny, an artist, has lived in the same apartment for decades, surrounded by the artifacts and keepsakes of her long life. She is resigned to the mundane rituals of old age, until things start to slip. Before her longtime partner passed away years earlier, provisions were made for a room in a unique long-term care residence, where Penny finds herself after one too many “incidents.” Initially, surrounded by peers, conversing, eating, sleeping, looking out at the beautiful woods that surround the house, all is well. She even begins to pain...