In Stefanie Koens’ Daughters of the Wreckage, a shipwreck, mutiny, survival, and secrets bring together the stories of several women across generations. I received this ALC (advanced listener copy) from Thomas Nelson Fiction Audio and Harper Audio in exchange for my honest review. A big thank you to Stefanie Koens, Thomas Nelson Fiction Audio, Harper Audio and NetGalley for sharing this one with me. This book comes out tomorrow, Sep. 15! My rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 My thoughts on Da

Riley Sager, I officially reached the beginning 👀 My rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My thoughts on Final Girls: I'll be honest: I didn't head-over-heels love this one quite as much as some of Sager's later books. Survive the Night, Home Before Dark, Lock Every Door, and The Only One Left all had me more invested. But there were some moments in this psychological thriller that absolutely worked for me, and the ending? SO GOOD. I genuinely didn't see everything coming, and I love when a thr

In Max Doty’s The House That Eats The Dead, a family moves into their dream home under almost too-good-to-be-true circumstances, only to find out that the house itself has an insatiable hunger. And what it’s craving isn’t ice cream or carbs. And as the hunger intensifies, the family starts to lose control. I was lucky to be sent this ARC by Bantam, which is an imprint of Penguin Random House, in exchange for my honest review. But first, I want to say a big thank you to Max Do

“And if her parents had ever given her a proper dollhouse, she would probably have turned it into a crime scene, and it would’ve been great.” Ooooh, doesn’t that quote just make you so happy? When six struggling, “mid-list” authors are invited to spend the weekend at an author’s private island, they arrive to discover a shocking twist: this famous author is dead! And he died before finishing his final book. These authors have been invited in to ghostwrite the ending of the bo

Kate married Max for one reason only: to protect his daughter, Holly, from him. And one day, in self-defence, Holly kills him. But they can’t call the cops—they’d never believe them! So what do they do? Hide the body, plan to dispose of it. But when an accidental run-in with the neighbour turns into way too many questions being asked, Kate can feel that her time is running out to fix this mess. So what’s she to do? I was given the audiobook of Don't Say A Word as an ALC (adva

A summer vacation in the Adirondacks is flipped, turned upside down when a woman’s body is discovered in the nearby lake. Let’s all get to know sisters Esme, Piper and Regina a little bit better, as we follow them to their family summer house for their annual gathering. Each sister is bringing her own set of problems to the house this year, and of course, their husbands and children are about to get caught up in it all as well. But when a young woman’s body is found practical

One isolated cabin. One cheating boyfriend. One plan to get even. But wait a minute, there are THREE leading ladies in this revenge story! Nora, Cham and Ruby all discover they’ve been dating the same man, and he’s done some dirty, dirty deeds. So, of course, they hatch a plan for some payback, and it goes horribly wrong. I mean, what do you expect to happen in an isolated mountain cabin during a horrible snowstorm? I was fortunate to receive this ARC from Poisoned Pen Pres

Some things run in the blood… especially when your parent is a serial killer. Now, plenty of people have lousy parents, but Nicola’s father was just convicted of killing five women, including her best friend. Then her life goes to shit, she loses her teaching job, she’s about to lose her house… it’s bad. But then she’s extended an invitation to join the Death Row Club, a club with membership exclusive to those who are the adult children of serial killers. This club is havin

Tess and Allie have been best friends since childhood. Allie is a self-made travel influencer, and Tess is a legal assistant trying to put herself through law school and working for Allie part-time. Allie and Tess go caving one day, but as they start descending into this cave, they realize they’re not alone. And when this person follows them down, what was supposed to be a fun day has turned into a race for survival. My rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My thoughts about Her Last Breath: As

A shocking murder in a woman’s pool forces her to face the many secrets from her past... Oooh, that is a great line to pull you into this book! Perfect Life by Meredith Lavender & Kendall Shores sees Este Walker, wife to billionaire Beau Walker, living in a dream neighbourhood in Florida. But nothing is dreamy about finding a dead body in your pool after a hurricane blows through town. As we go back in time, sometimes by a couple of years, sometimes just by a few days before

A smouldering psychological thriller with a singular, mind-bending last page… That sounds GOOD, doesn’t it? Well, here are some more details… Faye’s beloved former college professor has died suddenly, and she must return to her past to say her goodbyes. When she flies back for the funeral, she runs into her ex, Henry, whose heart she broke 12 years ago when she left for Hollywood. Now that Henry and Faye are near each other again, something dangerous is brewing inside. That’s

Slasher season has officially arrived with E. L. Chen’s new book! When small-town Cedar Lake Falls plans to tear down the infamous cabin where “Slasher” was filmed, a group of friends decides to rent it out for one last hurrah to soak in all the movie memories. At first, the friends take the creepy happenings as funny pranks. But when it becomes clear that the group is being stalked by an unknown assailant, maybe the group is getting a little too close to the events of the mo

Now, what can I say about Wolf Hour that won’t give too much away? Let’s stick to five things: This is a story set in 2016 Minneapolis, but also in 2022. Gang violence, mysterious murderers, and a very clear suspect. Cops… some great, some not so great, and one who is suspended but doesn’t really listen to that. The murderer and another main character share a tragic past. Taxidermy. That’s all I’ll say on that. My rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My thoughts I thought the story was great! Th

“Because there’s nothing I wouldn’t do for Luke.” HOLD UP. I’m not talking as myself here or about my husband Luke. I’m just restating the thoughts running through Addison Lowe’s head in Chelsea Conradt’s The Secret Attic. Addison and Luke are sorting through Luke’s mother’s house after her passing, and it’s almost like a hoarder situation in there. But when Addison finds a secret room (you guessed it, it's a secret attic) and Luke gets weirder and weirder with every box they

Ernest Cunningham has never been held hostage before, but he’s getting the full real-life experience in this latest Ernest Cunningham book! And once the doors are chained shut and there’s a murder at the bank during the “heist”, we are officially in a locked-room mystery. And those are what Ernest is best at solving. But who could’ve done it? What is each person doing at the bank on this specific day? That’s what we, as readers, get to find out! My rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My thoug

Marcus Kliewer’s The Caretaker is about a young woman who accepts a caretaking job that she found on Craigslist, who then discovers that the position has far greater consequences than she could have ever imagined. Far greater and far more dangerous. And what started as a peculiar side gig soon becomes a waking nightmare for Macy Mullins, and it could change her life forever. My rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My thoughts There’s no way that I could give The Caretaker anything other than a

When Rain Winter was 12, she and her friends experienced something horrific: she was nearly abducted by a deranged man, and when he couldn’t get her, he took her friends. Then, after the abductor is released from prison, someone murders him. Many years later, Rain is living a nice suburban life with her husband and daughter, when another man is murdered—a man who may or may not have “deserved” his ending. Rain, who is now a journalist, is drawn to the story for some unexplain

Sam is returning to her family’s lakefront property on Lake Ontario for a month in the summer. That sounds pretty nice, right? Well, not so much. Her grandfather, whom she considered to be a jerk for most of her life, just died, and as a stipulation in his will, Sam needs to return to this family property to confront her past. A past that had her accusing her father of murdering a child on that same property 14 years earlier. And she hasn’t been back to the property since the

We’re back in the world where S.C.Y.T.H.E. agents capture souls after death and transport them to the afterlife they’re destined for. This time, we’re with a completely different cast of characters, and we’re focusing on Nora, a S.C.Y.T.H.E. administrative assistant, and her brother, who is now the next on Death’s list. So what does Nora do? She steals the file, of course, and essentially kidnaps her brother and travels to Canada. And the weirdness really ramps up then. My R

We have a set-in-Canada debut thriller from Emma White that features four friends/book club besties who are about to go out for a little reading retreat on a beautiful lake, in a secluded cabin. This weekend is all about getting trashed on rosé and reading and talking about books, but one morning, a member of their group is found dead on the shore. But what really happened? These women are all hiding many, many secrets, but how far will they go to cover it all up? I had the c