Hello everyone! Here is my latest Netgalley picks blog post.
Keep reading to find Netgalley’s best uploads over the week – a few new interesting books to add to your TBR’s this week!
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Title: The Shadows We Hide
Author: Allen Eskens
Synopsis: Joe Talbert, Jr. has never once met his namesake. Now out of college, a cub reporter for the Associated Press in Minneapolis, he stumbles across a story describing the murder of a man named Joseph Talbert in a small town in southern Minnesota.
Full of curiosity about whether this man might be his father, Joe is shocked to find that none of the town’s residents have much to say about the dead man-other than that his death was long overdue. Joe discovers that the dead man was a loathsome lowlife who cheated his neighbors, threatened his daughter, and squandered his wife’s inheritance after she, too, passed away—an inheritance that may now be Joe’s.
Mired in uncertainty and plagued by his own devastated relationship with his mother, who is seeking to get back into her son’s life, Joe must put together the missing pieces of his family history—before his quest for discovery threatens to put him in a grave of his own.
Genre: mystery & thriller
Publisher: Mulholland Books
Publishing: 13 Nov 2018
Title: Little Darlings
Author: Melanie Golding
Synopsis: Everyone says Lauren Tranter is exhausted, that she needs rest. And they’re right; with newborn twins, Morgan and Riley, she’s never been more tired in her life. But she knows what she saw: that night, in her hospital room, a woman tried to take her babies and replace them with her own…creatures. Yet when the police arrived, they saw no one. Everyone, from her doctor to her husband, thinks she’s imagining things.
A month passes. And one bright summer morning, the babies disappear from Lauren’s side in a park. But when they’re found, something is different about them. The infants look like Morgan and Riley—to everyone else. But to Lauren, something is off. As everyone around her celebrates their return, Lauren begins to scream, These are not my babies.
Determined to bring her true infant sons home, Lauren will risk the unthinkable. But if she’s wrong about what she saw…she’ll be making the biggest mistake of her life.
Genre: horror, mystery & thrillers
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
Publishing: 30 Apr 2019
Title: The Dead Ex
Author: Jane Corry
Synopsis: One man’s disappearance throws four women’s lives into chaos–and not all will survive. . .
Vicki works as an aromatherapist, healing her clients out of her home studio with her special blends of essential oils. She’s just finishing a session when the police arrive on her doorstep–her ex-husband David has gone missing. Vicki insists she last saw him years ago when they divorced, but the police clearly don’t believe her. And her memory’s hardly reliable–what if she did have something to do with it?
Meanwhile, Scarlet and her mother Zelda are down on their luck, and at eight years old, Scarlet’s not old enough to know that the “game” her mother forces her to play is really just a twisted name for dealing drugs. Soon, Zelda is caught, and Scarlet is forced into years of foster care–an experience that will shape the rest of her life . . .
What really happened on the night of Daniel’s disappearance? And how can Vicki prove her innocence, when she’s not even sure of it herself? The answer lies in the connection among these four women–and the one person they can’t escape.
Genre: mystery & thrillers
Publisher: PENGUIN GROUP Viking
Publishing: 29 Jan 2019
Title: The Plotters
Author: Un-su Kim
Synopsis: Behind every assassination, there is an anonymous mastermind–a plotter–working in the shadows. Plotters quietly dictate the moves of the city’s most dangerous criminals, but their existence is little more than legend. Just who are the plotters? And more important, what do they want?
Reseng is an assassin. Raised by a cantankerous killer named Old Raccoon in the crime headquarters “The Library,” Reseng never questioned anything: where to go, who to kill, or why his home was filled with books that no one ever read. But one day, Reseng steps out of line on a job, toppling a set of carefully calibrated plans. And when he uncovers an extraordinary scheme set into motion by an eccentric trio of young women–a convenience store clerk, her wheelchair-bound sister, and a cross-eyed librarian–Reseng will have to decide if he will remain a pawn or finally take control of the plot.
Genre: mystery & thrillers
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Publishing: 29 Jan 2019
Title: Hunting Game
Author: Helene Tursten
Synopsis: Twenty-eight-year-old Embla Nyström has been plagued by chronic nightmares and racing thoughts ever since she can remember. She has learned to channel most of her anxious energy into her position as Detective Inspector in the mobile unit in Gothenburg, Sweden, and into sports. A talented hunter and prize-winning Nordic welterweight, she is glad to be taking a vacation from her high-stress job to attend the annual moose hunt with her family and friends.
But when Embla arrives at her uncle’s cabin in rural Dalsland, she sees an unfamiliar face has joined the group: Peter, enigmatic, attractive, and newly divorced. And she isn’t the only one to notice. One longtime member of the hunt doesn’t welcome the presence of an outsider and is quick to point out that with Peter, the group’s number reaches thirteen, a bad omen for the week. Sure enough, a string of unsettling incidents follow, culminating in the disappearance of two hunters. Embla takes charge of the search, and they soon find one of the missing men floating facedown in the nearby lake. With the help of local reinforcements, Embla delves into the dark pasts of her fellow hunters in search of a killer.
Genre: mystery & thrillers
Publisher: Soho Press
Publishing: 26 Feb 2019
Title: Tell Me No Lies
Author: Alex Sinclair
Synopsis: How well do you really know your husband?
Grace Dalton is trying to put her life back together after her husband John died suddenly in a hit and run. Her perfect world is collapsing around her, the home she hoped to fill with children is huge and empty, and she’s paralysed with grief.
But as Grace sorts through her husband’s belongings, she realises the man she loved was lying to her. There’s a mysterious list of names hidden among his things, a secret bank account, and a shocking revelation about his family that he kept from her since the day they met.
Who was John Dalton?
As Grace tries to identify the names on the list she realises something is wrong. She’s imagining things: seeing John in the faces of strangers and finding things in an entirely different place to where she’d swear she left them.
Is Grace losing her grasp on reality, or is someone trying to stop her finding out the truth about her husband?
Genre: mystery & thrillers
Publisher: Bookouture
Publishing: 25 Oct 2018
Title: An Isolated Incident
Author: Emily Maguire
Synopsis: When 25-year-old Bella Michaels is brutally murdered in the small town of Strathdee, the community is stunned and a media storm descends. Unwillingly thrust into the eye of that storm is Bella’s beloved older sister, Chris, a barmaid at the local pub, whose apparently easygoing nature conceals hard-won wisdom and the kind of street-smarts that only experience can bring.
Genre: general fiction, mystery & thrillers
Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing
Publishing: 01 Nov 2018
Title: The Night Before
Author: Wendy Walker
Synopsis: Twelve hours earlier, she was…
Hopeful.
Excited.
Safe.
Now she’s gone.
Genre: general fiction, mystery & thrillers
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Publishing: 14 May 2019
Title: Say Nothing
Author: Patrick Radden Keefe
Synopsis: In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders, her children clinging to her legs. They never saw her again. Her abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible. But in a climate of fear and paranoia, no one would speak of it. In 2003, five years after an accord brought an uneasy peace to Northern Ireland, a set of human bones was discovered on a beach. McConville’s children knew it was their mother when they were told a blue safety pin was attached to the dress–with so many kids, McConville always kept it handy for diapers or ripped clothes.
Patrick Radden Keefe’s mesmerizing book on the bitter conflict in Northern Ireland and its aftermath uses the McConville case as a starting point for the tale of a society wracked by a violent guerrilla war, a war whose consequences have never been reckoned with. The brutal violence seared not only people like the McConville children, but also I.R.A. members embittered by a peace that fell far short of the goal of a united Ireland, and left them wondering whether the killings they committed were not justified acts of war, but simple murders. From radical and impetuous I.R.A. terrorists–or volunteers, depending on which side one was on–such as Dolours Price, who, when she was barely out of her teens, was already planting bombs in London and targeting informers for execution, to the ferocious I.R.A. mastermind known as The Dark, to the spy games and dirty schemes of the British Army, to Gerry Adams, who negotiated the peace and denied his I.R.A. past, betraying his hardcore comrades–Say Nothing conjures a world of passion, betrayal, vengeance, and anguish.
Genre: nonfiction, true crime
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Publishing: 26 Feb 2019
So that’s it for this week! Some really great sounding mysteries this week that I have added onto my crippling TBR… Oh well!
Anyway, have you requested any of these books, or now plan to? I’d love to hear your thoughts
I’m still debating on the Eskens book! And I have the Wendy Walker. Great selection!
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I hope you enoy the Walker book! 🙂
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These all look great- particularly excited for Little Darlings though!!
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Same here!!
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I told myself i shall look at these and remain calm.
I failed 😀
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Haha oops!! 😛
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Love this list! I just got approved for Little Darlings and am excited for it!
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Ooh, that’s cool, can’t wait to see what you think of it!
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I’m debating about Say Nothing, sounds so interesting!
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It really does!
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I need The Shadows We Hide. I loved The Life We Bury so I’m so excited to see there’s a sequel!!
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I told myself no more adding of books, but i swear i going to add five more this post to my tbr list, Gosh my books must be cursing me at the moment
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I’ve added a lot of Netgalley books to my TBR recenlty but I’ve been good enough to not actually request any 😛
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That true crime book sounds absolutely gripping and thrilling. Great picks for this week, thanks for adding more books to my TBR -_- :”)
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It sounds really interesting and is a case I’ve not heard of before! Sorry for adding more to your TBR lol!
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