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

DID YOU HEAR? They say a girl died here… Anna and her family have just moved to Harper’s Creek, a little nowhere town with a dark history. But that’s all been resolved, so why is Anna feeling trapped? Why is her little sister afraid that she’ll be next? And WHY is Anna’s grandmother spinning out of control with paranoid episodes? I had the opportunity to read They Say A Girl Died Here early through an advanced listener copy (ALC), so first, thank you to Sarah Pinborough for t

“If my sister hadn’t been beautiful, none of it would have happened.” Well… THAT got my attention. Ruby Cooper is 16 when something horrible happens — something that ultimately tears her family apart. And the further Ruby and her sister Erin travel down their own paths, the more impossible it seems that their family will ever be put back together. And let me tell you… the things some of these characters DO. My jaw literally dropped several times while reading this. The sheer

With the authorities closing in and more lives on the line, there’s only one way out, for himself and the people he cares about: revenge. In Hollywood Payback by Jon Lindstrom, Jake Ferguson threw his life away more than two decades ago, and he’s done his time behind bars. Now, as he re-enters society, he realizes the world has changed vastly since he was last free. And now, all he wants to do is settle into a quiet life. It’s just too bad that other people have alternate pla

Three gal pals, Hope, Ash, and Caro decide to go on a little girls trip and disappear from their lives for a little bit of time in this novel. These girls met when they joined a book club, and their friendships took off from there. When each woman seems to be at a difficult point in their lives, they decide to go on this little trip and get away from it all. But we learn quickly that the books they read for their club aren’t the only things hiding secrets. My rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ M

“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

This Story Might Save Your Life follows two podcasters, Joy and Benny, and their podcast that discusses “against all odds” survival stories from around the world and makes them funny. The pair have found great success in recent years and are now working on a memoir. But along with the success comes a lot of BS, and all of that is starting to unravel, especially when Joy and her husband go missing. My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My Thoughts Tiffany Crum has written an awesome story! I th

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

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 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