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Continue reading →: What Have We Done by Alex Finlay
Rating: ★★★ 25 years ago, Jenna, Donnie, and Nico become best friends in the abusive group home they were all living in. After the group home was shut down they hadn’t seen each other in years. Despite not seeing each other in so long, a crime they were all a…
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Continue reading →: The Resting Place by Camilla StenRating: ★★★★ Eleanor walks in on her cruel grandmother Vivianne’s murder, but her prosopagnosia (inability to recognize faces) leaves her unable to identify who she saw. The introduction puts you right in that police interview room after the crime before going back in time to the events that led up…
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Continue reading →: A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy WillinghamRating: ★★★★ A Flicker in the Dark features Chloe Davis, who at 12 years old was living in a small town where girls were disappearing all summer, only for her father to be arrested at the end of summer for all of their murders. Now nearing the 20 year anniversary,…
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Continue reading →: The Echo Man by Sam HollandRating: ★★★★ Amazing, twisting plot. A copycat serial killer is murdering people, each different in method but all famous cases from the past. Detectives Cara Elliott and Noah Deakin are trying to hunt down the true killer. At the same time Jessica Ambrose is on the run after being accused…
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Continue reading →: The Night Shift by Alex FinlayRating: ★★★★★ The Night Shift was like coming home and realizing it smells just as good as you remember— in this case home is Alex Finlay’s writing. FBI Agent Sarah Keller is back, investigating what could be two connected crimes fifteen years apart. In 1999 four teenaged girls working at…
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Continue reading →: Reckless Girls by Rachel HawkinsRating: ★★★ Rachel Hawkins is a great author which drew me to this book. In Reckless Girls the characters, their voices, and their interactions all feel very genuine and compelling. The mood is set incredibly well. Lux and her boyfriend Nico are hired to sail two women to an island…
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Continue reading →: Gone for Good by Joanna SchaffhausenRating: ★★★★★ Brilliant. Twenty years ago the Lovelorn Killer murdered seven women before seemingly going underground. Now, he’s back. Detective Annalise Vega lost someone she loved to this killer twenty years ago, and now she has the chance to solve the case once and for all. Starting with the recent…
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Continue reading →: A Dark and Secret Place by Jen Williams
Rating: ★★ Heather Evans returns home after her mother’s baffling suicide. In her mother’s belongings she finds some alarming letters- correspondence with the serial killer Michael Reave. Reave has been serving a life sentence for decades now after being convicted for several ritualistic murders of women, even though he continually…
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Continue reading →: The Little Grave by Carolyn Arnold
Rating: ★★★★ It’s been five years since the day Detective Amanda Steele lost her whole world because of one person’s decision to drive while drunk. When the driver that killed her family is found dead in a motel room she can’t stay away from the case, despite the conflict of…
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Continue reading →: Before She Disappeared by Lisa GardnerRating: ★★★ Before She Disappeared is Lisa Gardner’s first standalone in twenty years. Frankie Elkin is almost your average middle-aged woman- except for the fact that she’s a recovering alcoholic who spends her time tracking down missing people the world has forgotten about. Her search for new cases leads her…
