Hello everyone! Here is my latest Netgalley picks blog post.
There’s not a lot of variety to the books this week! Mainly they’re mystery & thrillers. I usually like to try and add something different to the mix each week, but I couldn’t find anything I thought sounded interesting today! Sorry.
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Title: The Silent Woman
Author: Terry Lynn Thomas
Synopsis: Would you sell your secrets?
Catherine Carlisle is trapped in a loveless marriage and the threat of World War Two is looming. She sees no way out… that is until a trusted friend asks her to switch her husband’s papers in a desperate bid to confuse the Germans.
Soon Catherine finds herself caught up in a deadly mixture of espionage and murder. Someone is selling secrets to the other side, and the evidence seems to point right at her.
Can she clear her name before it’s too late?
Genre: mystery & thrillers, historical fiction
Publisher: HQ Digital
Publishing: 11 Apr 2018
Title: Doll Face
Author: Dylan H. Jones
Synopsis: Three months after solving his last case, DI Tudor Manx leads a harrowing investigation to catch a killer terrorizing the Isle of Anglesey.
After the body of the first victim, Sian Conway is found, the suspicion quickly falls on her boss, Kimble McLain, and her volatile ex-husband, Liam Fowler.
The autopsy soon reveals Sian was eighteen weeks pregnant and when the coroner finds a religious text hidden in the victim’s liver, Manx suspects this could be the work of a serial killer.
The case takes a shocking turn when footage of Sian’s murder is discovered.
With a twisted killer on the loose and a rising body count, Manx’s personal life hits rock bottom when an old colleague from his past hits him with a bombshell revelation
Why does Kimble McLain have links to each of the victims?
And what is the killer’s real motive?
Genre: mystery & thrillers
Publisher: Bloodhound Books
Publishing: 04 Mar 2018
Title: Walls of Silence
Author: Ruth Wade
Synopsis: The Great War is over but for Edith Potter an equally devastating conflict is about to begin.
She is unhinged by a secret so terrible her conscious mind doesn’t acknowledge it.
It is 1927 and Dr Stephen Maynard is using the new science of psychoanalysis to restore her sanity.
From his first meeting with her in the lunatic asylum, Dr Stephen Maynard is determined to bring her back to reality. During the long challenge, her disturbed behaviour forces him to confront his limitations – already severely stretched by the presence of someone prepared to use whatever weapons they can to ensure she maintains her silence.
Genre: mystery & thrillers, historical fiction
Publisher: Bloodhound Books
Publishing: 11 Mar 2018
Title: The Next Girl
Author: Carla Kovach
Synopsis: She thought he’d come to save her. She was wrong.
Deborah Jenkins pulls her coat around her as she sets out on her short walk home in the pouring rain. But she never makes it home that night. And she is never seen again …
Four years later, an abandoned baby girl is found wrapped in dirty rags on a doorstep. An anonymous phone call urges the police to run a DNA test on the baby. But nobody is prepared for the results.
The newborn belongs to Deborah. She’s still alive.
Genre: mystery & thrillers, general fiction
Publisher: Bookouture
Publishing: 02 Apr 2018
Title: If You Go Down to the Woods
Author: Seth C. Adams
Synopsis: We were so young when it all happened. Just 13-years-old, making the most of the long, hot, lazy days of summer, thinking we had the world at our feet. That was us – me, Fat Bobby, Jim and Tara – the four members of the Outsiders’ Club.
The day we found a burnt-out car in the woods was the day everything changed. Cold, hard cash in the front seat and a body in the trunk… it started out as a mystery we were desperate to solve.
Then, the Collector arrived. He knew we had found his secret. And suddenly, our summer of innocence turned into the stuff of nightmares.
Nothing would ever be the same again…
Genre: mystery & thrillers
Publisher: Harper Impulse and Killer Reads
Publishing: 06 Apr 2018
Title: His First Lie
Author: Mark Hill
Synopsis: Connor Laird frightens people: he’s intense, he’s fearless, and he seems to be willing to do anything to protect himself and those he loves. He arrives in the Longacre Children’s Home seemingly from nowhere, and instantly becomes hero and villain to every other child there.
Thirty years later, someone is killing all of those who grew up in the Longacre, one at a time. Each of them has secrets, not least investigating cop DI Ray Drake.
One by one the mysteries of the past are revealed as Drake finds himself in a race against time before the killer gets to him.
Who is killing to hide their secret?
Genre: mystery & thrillers
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group UK
Publishing: 01 Mar 2018
Title: A Double Life
Author: Flynn Berry
Synopsis: Claire is a hardworking doctor living a simple, quiet life in London. She is also the daughter of the most notorious murder suspect in the country, though no one knows it.
Nearly thirty years ago, while Claire and her infant brother slept upstairs, a brutal crime was committed in her family’s townhouse. Her father’s car was found abandoned near the English Channel the next morning, with bloodstains on the front seat. Her mother insisted she’d seen him in the house that night, but his powerful, privileged friends maintained his innocence. The first lord accused of murder in more than a century, he has been missing ever since.
When the police tell Claire they’ve found her father, her carefully calibrated existence begins to fracture. She doesn’t know if she’s the daughter of a murderer or a wronged man, but Claire will soon learn how far she’ll go to finally find the truth.
Genre: mystery & thrillers
Publisher: Penguin Group Viking
Publishing: 31 Jul 2018
Title: Girl Targeted
Author: Val Collins
Synopsis: Aoife’s life is finally on track. She’s happily married, pregnant with her first child and has the world’s best mother in law. But when Aoife accepts a job as an office temp, her entire life begins to unravel.
Is one of Aoife’s colleagues a murderer? Is Aoife the next target? Why is her husband unconcerned?
Genre: mystery & thrillers
Publisher: Val Collins
Publishing: 23 Jan 2018
Title: The Zero and The One
Author: Ryan Ruby
Synopsis: A bookish scholarship student, Owen Whiting has high hopes of Oxford, only to find himself immediately out of place. Then he meets Zachary Foedern from New York. Rich and charismatic, Zach takes Owen under his wing, introducing him to a world Owen has only ever read about.
From Oxford to the seedy underbelly of Berlin, they dare each other to transgress the boundaries of convention and morality, until Zach proposes the greatest transgression of all: a suicide pact. But when Zach’s plans go horribly awry, Owen is left to pick up the pieces and navigate the boundaries between illusion and reality to preserve a hold on his once bright future.
Genre: general fiction, literary fiction
Publisher: Legend Press
Publishing: 15 Mar 2018
That’s it for this week everyone! Quite a number of good sounding books this week!
Have you requested any of these books, or now plan to? I’d love to hear your thoughts
Definitely going to request The Silent Woman, even I have loads on my shelf at the moment 😄
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I thought you might like that one when I read the synopsis 😄 I hope you get accepted!
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I got approved 😀
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Yay!! 🙂
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A Double Life has that creepy cover, and the synopsis looks absolutely exciting! The Next Girl slightly put me back because of the word “girl” on the title (there are way too many thriller novels with the word “girl” on the title!) but it definitely sounds intriguing. Great picks!
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A Double Life definitely does sound pretty good! 🙂
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I also have if you go down to the woods 🙂
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I hope you enjoy it!
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I want to request too many of these! Great finds 🙂 A Double Life would probably be top of my list, though!
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I like the sound of that one too 😀
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I have Doll Face and The Next Girl. A Double Life sounds intriguing too!
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I hope you enjoy the book you’ve got! 😀
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