Another week of plenty of interesting Netgalley books to choose from. There’s a new version of Bear Town by Fredrik Backman, now known as The Scandal, plus an older book being advertised for wishes and the next book in the Munch and Krüger series by Samuel Bjork.
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Title: The Scandal
Author: Fredrik Backman
Synopsis: Late one evening towards the end of March, a teenager picked up a double-barrelled shotgun, walked into the forest, put the gun to someone else’s forehead and pulled the trigger.
This is the story of how we got there.’ Beartown is a small town in a large Swedish forest. For most of the year it is under a thick blanket of snow, experiencing the kind of cold and dark that brings people closer together – or pulls them apart. Its isolation means that Beartown has been slowly shrinking with each passing year. But now the town is on the verge of an astonishing revival. Everyone can feel the excitement. Change is in the air and a bright new future is just around the corner. Until the day it is all put in jeopardy by a single, brutal act. It divides the town into those who think it should be hushed up and forgotten, and those who’ll risk the future to see justice done. At last, it falls to one young man to find the courage to speak the truth that it seems no one else wants to hear. With the town’s future at stake, no one can stand by or stay silent. Everyone is on one side or the other.
Which side would you be on?
Genre: general fiction
Publishing: 24 Aug 2017
Request status: auto-approved
Title: Yesterday
Author: Felicia Yap
Synopsis: Imagine a world in which classes are divided not by wealth or religion but by how much each group can remember. Monos, the majority, have only one day’s worth of memory; elite Duos have two. In this stratified society, where Monos are excluded from holding high office and demanding jobs, Claire and Mark are a rare mixed marriage. Clare is a conscientious Mono housewife, Mark a novelist-turned-politician Duo on the rise. They are a shining example of a new vision of tolerance and equality-until…
A beautiful woman is found dead, her body dumped in England’s River Cam. The woman is Mark’s mistress, and he is the prime suspect in her murder. The detective investigating the case has secrets of his own. So did the victim. And when both the investigator’s and the suspect’s memories are constantly erased—how can anyone learn the truth?
Genre: mystery & thrillers, sci fi & fantasy
Publishing: 01 Aug 2017
Request status: n/a
Title: The Recipient
Author: Dean Mayes
Synopsis: Casey Schillinge is a vivacious young woman on the verge of making her mark on the world. While backpacking, she is struck down by a tropical disease and suffers cardiac failure. But at the eleventh hour, Casey receives a life-saving heart transplant and a rare second chance to begin again.
Three years later, Casey has become a withdrawn shell of her former self: she is estranged from her loved ones, afraid of open spaces and rides the line between legitimate and criminal work. The worst of her troubles come in the form of violent night terrors; so frightening that she resorts to extreme measures to keep herself from sleeping. When she can take no more, she embarks on a desperate search for the source of her dreams. In so doing, she makes a shocking discovery surrounding the tragic fate of the donor whose heart now beats inside her chest.
As she delves deeper into the mystery of her donor, she realizes her dreams are not a figment of her imagination, but a real life nightmare.
Genre: mystery & thrillers, general fiction
Publishing: 01 May 2016
Request status: wish granted
Title: Before I Let Go
Author: Marieke Nijkamp
Synopsis: Corey and her best friend, Kyra, are inseparable. Corey is the only person who understands Kyra’s high-highs and low-lows. So when Corey’s family moves away from their Alaskan town, she makes Kyra promise to stay strong during the long, dark winters and wait for her return. Except Kyra doesn’t.
Two days before Corey is to visit, Kyra is found floating underneath the ice.
While everyone in Lost Creek deems Kyra’s death a suicide, Corey knows something is wrong. With every hour, her suspicion grows. The town is keeping secrets—chilling secrets. But piecing together the truth about what happened to Kyra may prove as difficult as lighting the sky in an Alaskan winter…
Genre: mystery & thrillers, teens & YA
Publishing: 23 Jan 2018
Request status: n/a
Title: The Owl Always Hunts as Night (Munch and Krüger #2)
Author: Samuel Bjork
Synopsis: When a troubled teenager disappears from an orphanage and is found murdered, her body arranged on a bed of feathers, veteran investigator Holger Munch and his team are called into the case. Star investigator Mia Kruger, on temporary leave while she continues to struggle with her own demons, jumps back on the team and dives headfirst into this case: just in time to decode the clues in a disturbing video of the victim before she was killed, being held prisoner like an animal in a cage.
Meanwhile, Munch’s daughter, Miriam, meets an enticing stranger at a party—a passionate animal rights activist who begins to draw her into his world and away from her family.
Genre: mystery & thrillers, general fiction
Publishing: 06 Jun 2017
Request status: n/a
Title: Shattered
Author: Allison Brennan
Synopsis: Over a span of twenty years, four boys have been kidnapped from their bedrooms, suffocated, and buried nearby in a shallow grave. Serial killer or coincidence?
That’s the question investigative reporter Maxine Revere sets out to answer when an old friend begs her to help exonerate his wife, who has been charged with their son’s recent murder. But Max can do little to help because the police and D.A. won’t talk to her—they think they have the right woman. Instead, Max turns her attention to three similar cold cases. If she can solve them, she might be able to help her friend.
Justin Stanton was killed twenty years ago, and his father wants closure—so he is willing to help Max with her investigation on one condition: that she work with his former sister-in-law— Justin’s aunt, FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid. Trouble is, Max works alone, and she’s livid that her only access to the case files, lead detective and witnesses depends on her partnering with a federal agent on vacation. She wants the career-making story almost as much as the truth—but if she gets this wrong, she could lose everything.
Haunted by Justin’s death for years, Lucy yearns to give her family—and herself—the closure they need. More important, she wants to catch a killer. Lucy finds Max’s theory on all three cases compelling—with Max’s research added to Lucy’s training and experience, Lucy believes they can find the killer so justice can finally be served. But the very private Lucy doesn’t trust the reporter any more than Max trusts her.
Max and Lucy must find a way to work together to untangle lies, misinformation, and evidence to develop a profile of the killer. But the biggest question is: why were these boys targeted? As they team up to find out what really happened the night Justin was killed, they make a shocking discovery: Justin’s killer is still out there … stalking another victim … and they already may be too late.
Genre: mystery & thrillers, general fiction
Publishing: 22 Aug 2017
Request status: n/a
That’s it for this week everyone!
Have you requested any of these books, or now plan to? I’d love to hear your thoughts!
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I have The Owl Always Hunts at Night because of the First to Read program (even though I still need to read it)! I’m excited for Yesterday and Before I Let Go, but I’m not requesting them! Way too many at the moment. 😂
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I had the will power for Yesterday but I couldn’t resist wishing for The Recipient. Surprised I got it!
I already have The Owl Always Hunts at Night in hardback 🙂
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I requested Yesterday… IM WEAK
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It sounds so good tho!!
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Off to request The Scandal, this post is killing my NG rating – I’ve lost my 80% badge and it’s because of these posts 😒😂
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Hahah, I’m so sorry!! I haven’t had the 80% badge for almost a year now…
Hello, my name’s Zuky and I’m a Netgalley addict.
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😂 Hi Zuky, I’m Janel, a Netgalley addict in the making!
I miss my badge though, I guess I’ll have to console myself with all my approved reads!
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Haha exactly, you win some, you lose some!
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Still keeping away from NetGalley! lol
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Good willpower!!
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Not really I’ve gone right off ebooks even though I have lots to read 😕
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Oh how strange! Good thing though, for keeping your tbr in check I suppose 🙂
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Wow, you request so many books. I request ike 2 books and I can’t even keep up with that!
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Haha, I probably request 1 or 2 a week, most of the ones I put on this post I don’t request, I just feature them 🙂
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Oh no, I’m so close to my 80% but I really want to request a couple of these. Ugh! Great post!
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Haha, sorry, but thank you!!
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I requested before I go, it sounds like such a good book
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I’ve seen a lot of people looking forward to that one. I hope you get accepted and enjoy it!
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Thankyou you too x
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Man I wish you did these for non-thrillers 😀 maybe I should? But I’m just afraid to poke my nose into NetGalley so often, you know why 😀
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I go through all my saved categories, not just thrillers but I don’t find many other good uploads in general fiction, historical fiction and nonfiction 🙂
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I also love kidlit and scifi. Maybe I should do something like this that includes it. But yeah, I guess general fic is pretty hard to tell just from the blurb.
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