May 2026

Review The Last Time I Lied

Title: THE LAST TIME I LIED Author: RILEY SAGER ISBN: 9781524743086 Publisher: Penguin Randon House Pages: 402 Source: Private Copy Fifteen years ago, summer camper Emma Davis watched sleepily as her three cabin mates snuck out of their cabin in the dead of night. The last she–and anyone–saw of them was Vivian closing the cabin […]

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Review Heartbreaker

Title: HEARTBREAKER Author: JUDE O’REILLY ISBN: 9781807470029 Publisher: Pellerin Books Pages: 300 Source: Review copy from the Publisher Blog Tour Organised by Random Things Tours A mother on the run. It’s been three years since Daphne Monroe’s family were brutally murdered in a home invasion. Her once perfect life is in ruins: no husband, no

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Review This Might Hurt

Title: THIS MIGHT HURT Author: STEPHANIE WROBEL ISBN: 9781405943550 Publisher: Penguin Books Pages: 374 Source: Private Copy Welcome to Wisewood. We’ll keep your secrets if you keep ours.Natalie Collins hasn’t heard from her sister in more than half a year.The last time they spoke, Kit was slogging from mundane workdays to obligatory happy hours to

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Review Too Old For This

Title:     TOO OLD FOR THIS Author: SAMANTHA DOWNING ISBN: 9780241446935 Publisher: Penguin Random House Pages: 383 Source: Private Copy You’d never guess Lottie Jones had skeletons in her closet.She’s lived in town for decades now. She’s getting older. She lives for the simple pleasures of weekly bingo games at church, and gossiping with her

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Review The Maidens

Title: THE MAIDENS Author: ALEX MICHAELIDES ISBN: 9781409151682 Publisher: Orion Books Pages: 356 Source: Private Copy Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek Tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike—particularly by the members of a secret society

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Review Lasting Damage

Title: LASTING DAMAGE Author: SOPHIE HANNAH ISBN: 9780340980668 Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Pages: 438 Source: Private Copy It’s 1.15 a.m. and Connie Bowskill should be asleep. Instead, she’s logging on to a property website in search of a particular house: 11 Bentley Grove, Cambridge. She knows it’s for sale – there’s an estate agent’s board

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Review The Taste of Blood

Title: THE TASTE OF BLOOD Author: JAMES CRAIG ISBN: 97814722132772 Publisher: Little Brown Pages: 293 Source: Private Copy Victim or assassin – the lines are blurred…A badly beaten woman walks into A&E and is promptly arrested by the Home Office on suspicion of being an illegal alien. However, she is neither illegal nor a victim.

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Review The Secrets We Hide

Title: THE SECRETS WE HIDE – North Falls #02 Author: Karin Slaughter ISBN: 9780008771157 Publisher: Harper Collins Pages: 416 Source: NetGalley Welcome to North Falls. A small town where everyone knows everyone. But nobody knows the truth.1601 Iris Drive looks like any other house on the quiet, residential street. But rumors are rampant about the

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Review A Tidy Ending

Title: A TIDY ENDING Author: JOANNA CANNON ISBN: 9780008255039 Publisher: Harper Collins Pages: 410 Source: Private Copy A NICE, NORMAL HOUSELinda has lived around here ever since she fled the dark events of her childhood in Wales. Now she sits in her kitchen, wondering if this is all there is – pushing the Hoover round

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