Hello everyone! Here is my latest Netgalley picks blog post.
Happy Monday everyone! Last week I managed to get this post to you on the correct day, this week I actually created it a day early! I’m coming on in leaps and bounds.
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Title: The Friend
Author: Dorothy Koomson
Synopsis: What secrets would you kill to keep?
After her husband’s big promotion, Cece Solarin arrives in Brighton with their three children, ready to start afresh. But their new neighbourhood has a deadly secret.
Three weeks earlier, Yvonne, a very popular parent, was almost murdered in the grounds of the local school – the same school where Cece has unwittingly enrolled her children.
Already anxious about making friends when the parents seem so cliquey, Cece is now also worried about her children’s safety. By chance she meets Maxie, Anaya and Hazel, three very different school mothers who make her feel welcome and reassure her about her new life.
That is until Cece discovers the police believe one of her new friends tried to kill Yvonne. Reluctant to spy on her friends but determined to discover the truth, Cece must uncover the potential murderer before they strike again . . .
Genre: mystery & thrillers
Publisher: Random House UK, Cornerstone
Publishing: 08 Mar 2018
Title: My Little Eye
Author: Stephanie Marland
Synopsis: KISS THE GIRLS
A young woman is found dead in her bedroom surrounded by rose petals – the latest victim of ‘The Lover’. Struggling under the weight of an internal investigation, DI Dominic Bell is no closer to discovering the identity of the killer and time is running out.
AND MAKE THEM DIE…
As the murders escalate, Clementine Starke joins an online true crime group determined to take justice in their own hands – to catch the killer before the police. Hiding a dark secret, she takes greater risks to find new evidence and infiltrate the group.
Genre: mystery & thrillers
Publisher: Orion Publishing Group
Publishing: 05 Apr 2018
Title: The Retreat
Author: Mark Edwards
Synopsis: Two years ago, Julia lost her family in a tragic accident. Her husband drowned trying to save their daughter, Lily, in the river near their rural home. But the little girl’s body was never found—and Julia believes Lily is somehow still alive.
Alone and broke, Julia opens her house as a writers’ retreat. One of the first guests is Lucas, a horror novelist, who becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to Lily. But within days of his arrival, the peace of the retreat is shattered by a series of eerie events.
When Lucas’s investigation leads him and Julia into the woods, they discover a dark secret—a secret that someone will do anything to protect…
What really happened that day by the river? Why was Lily never found? And who, or what, is haunting the retreat?
Genre: mystery & thrillers
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Publishing: 10 May 2018
Title: Under My Sky
Author: Lisa Unger
Synopsis: What if the nightmares are actually memories?
It’s been a year since Poppy’s husband, Jack, was brutally murdered during his morning run through Manhattan’s Riverside Park. In the immediate aftermath, Poppy spiraled into an oblivion of grief, disappearing for several days only to turn up ragged and confused wearing a tight red dress she didn’t recognize. What happened to Poppy during those lost days? And more importantly, what happened to Jack?
The case was never solved, and Poppy has finally begun to move on. But those lost days have never stopped haunting her. Poppy starts having nightmares and blackouts—there are periods of time she can’t remember, and she’s unable to tell the difference between what is real and what she’s imagining. When she begins to sense that someone is following her, Poppy is plunged into a game of cat and mouse, determined to unravel the mystery around her husband’s death. But can she handle the truth about what really happened?
Genre: mystery & thrillers
Publisher: Park Row
Publishing: 02 Oct 2018
Title: The Art of Fear
Author: Pamela Crane
Synopsis: Ari Wilburn’s life ended long ago—the day she watched her little sister die in a tragic accident and did nothing to stop it. Crippled with self-blame and resented by her parents, she stumbles through life … and onto an unexpected clue that casts doubt on whether the death was accidental.
Now a psychological wreck, Ari joins a suicide support group where she meets Tina, a sex-enslaved escapee who finds her long-lost father dead. Suicide, police ruled it. But Tina suspects foul play. As a bond develops between the women in their shared loss, they’re dragged into playing a dangerous game with a killer.
Faced with a murderous wake-up call and two possibly linked deaths, Ari’s investigation puts her next on the killer’s list. But she’s never been one to back down from a fight.
Needing closure, Ari must face her demons and the killer behind them … or lose everything she loves.
Genre: mystery & thrillers, women’s fiction
Publisher: Tabella House
Publishing: 01 Feb 2018
Title: Bring Me Back
Author: B. A. Paris
Synopsis: The Disappearance
Twelve years ago Finn’s girlfriend disappeared.
The Suspicion
He told the police the truth about that night.
Just not quite the whole truth.
The Fear
Now Finn has moved on.
But his past won’t stay buried…
Genre: mystery & thrillers
Publisher: HQ
Publishing: 01 Mar 2018
Title: Somebody’s Daughter
Author: David Bell
Synopsis: When Michael Frazier’s ex-wife, Erica, unexpectedly shows up on his doorstep, she drops a bombshell that threatens to rip his family apart: Her ten-year-old daughter is missing–and Michael is the father. Unsure whether this is the truth but unwilling to leave the girl’s fate to chance, Michael has no choice but to follow the elusive trail of the child he has always wanted but never knew he had.
After Michael departs, his wife, Angela, learns shocking news about Erica and fears for the safety of both her husband and the endangered girl. When a stranger, a man who claims a connection to Erica and her missing daughter, knocks on the door, Angela is drawn out into the night–and deep into the tangled web of Michael’s past….
Over the course of one night, lies that span a decade come bubbling to the surface, putting Michael, his wife, and his whole family in jeopardy. And as the window for a little girl’s safe return closes, Michael will have to decide who can be trusted and who is hiding the truth….
Genre: mystery & thrillers
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Publishing: 10 Jul 2018
Title: The Visitor
Author: K. L. Slater
Synopsis: You can never know what goes on behind closed doors. Or can you?
Holly never thought she’d move back to her home town, but then something terrible happened. She doesn’t know if she can recover. But she knows she can never tell another soul.
People say her neighbour, David, is “different”. He doesn’t go out much, and never after dark. But in David Holly finds just what she needs: a friend. Someone who’s always there.
No one knows Holly’s secret, or where she lives. She has left the past behind. She is sure of it. So why does she feel as though she’s in terrible danger?
Genre: general fiction, mystery & thrillers
Publisher: Bookouture
Publishing: 02 Mar 2018
Title: Snap
Author: Belinda Bauer
Synopsis: Jack’s in charge, said his mother as she disappeared up the road to get help. I won’t be long. Now eleven-year-old Jack and his two sisters wait on the hard shoulder in their stifling, broken-down car, bickering and whining and playing I-Spy until she comes back.
But their mother doesn’t come back. She never comes back. And after that long, hot summer’s day, nothing will ever be the same again.
Three years later, Jack’s fifteen now and still in charge . . . alone in the house. Meanwhile across town, a young woman called Catherine While wakes to find a knife beside her bed, and a note reading I could of killed you. The police are tracking a mysterious burglar they call Goldilocks, for his habit of sleeping in the beds of the houses he robs, but Catherine doesn’t see the point of involving the police. And Jack, very suddenly, may be on the verge of finding out who killed his mother.
Genre: general fiction
Publisher: Grove Atlantic
Publishing: 13 Jul 2018
Title: Targeted
Author: M. William Phelps
Synopsis: When her missing boyfriend is found murdered, his body encased in cement inside a watering trough and dumped in a cattle field, a local sheriff’s deputy is arrested and charged with his murder. But as New York Times bestselling author and investigative journalist M. William Phelps digs in, the truth leads to questions about her guilt.
In his first full-length, original true-crime book for WildBlue Press, Phelps delivers a hard-hitting, unique reading experience, immersing readers in the life of the first female deputy in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, who claims a sexual harassment suit she filed against the sheriff led to a murder charge. Is Tracy Fortson guilty or innocent? You read and decide.
Genre: nonfiction, true crime
Publisher: WildBlue Press
Publishing: 11 Oct 2017
Title: White is the Coldest Colour
Author: John Nicholl
Synopsis: Be careful who you trust…
The Mailer family is oblivious to the terrible danger that enters their lives when seven-year-old Anthony is referred to the child guidance service by the family GP, following the breakdown of his parents’ marriage.
Fifty-eight-year-old Dr David Galbraith, a sadistic, predatory paedophile, employed as a consultant child psychiatrist, has already murdered one child in the soundproofed cellar below the South Wales Georgian town-house he shares with his wife and two young daughters.
When Anthony becomes Galbraith’s latest obsession he will stop at nothing to make his grotesque fantasies reality.
But can Anthony be saved before it’s too late?
Genre: mystery & thrillers
Publisher: Bloodhound Books
Publishing: 28 Feb 2018
That’s it for this week everyone! Another week with not a huge amount to pick from, but there are certainly some interesting picks here!
Have you requested any of these books, or now plan to? I’d love to hear your thoughts
BookBum 
Love the look of the Belinda Bauer!
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I love the cover for The Retreat! Looks cool and creepy all at once. 🙂
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Agreed! 😀
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So many tempting books on NetGalley right now. I was recently approved for BA Paris’s latest and am so excited about it.
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I hope you enjoy it! I received that one from HQ too, I’m looking forward to starting it 🙂
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I always love your selection of NetGalley books, Zuky! Anything with murder really draws me in 😉 I’m especially interested in My Little Eye and The Visitor, both of which I will request, hopefully I’ll be able to read them soon 😀
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Thanks! I hope you get accepted for them both and enjoy them! 😀
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