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 Promise
Author: Teresa Driscoll
Synopsis: It was their darkest secret. Three schoolgirls made a promise – to take the horrible truth of what they did to the grave.
Thirty years later, Beth and Sally have tried to put the trauma behind them. Though Carol has distanced herself from her former friends, the three are adamant that the truth must never come to light, even if the memory still haunts them.
But when some shocking news threatens to unearth their dark secret, Beth enlists the help of private investigator Matthew Hill to help her and Sally reconnect with estranged Carol – before the terrible act they committed as teenagers is revealed.
Beth wishes she could take back the vow they made.
But somebody is watching and will stop at nothing to ensure the secret stays buried. Now, with her beloved family in peril, can Beth still keep the promise?
Genre: mystery & thriller
Publisher: Amazon Publishing UK
Publishing: 14 Feb 2019
Title: A Life To Kill
Author: Matthew Hall
Synopsis: The day they’ve all been waiting for is at hand. The last British combat soldiers in the Helmand province of Afghanistan are counting the minutes until their departure home to Highcliffe: a small town in the south of England. For their families, it spells the end of an agonizing six month wait.
But in the final hours, disaster strikes. Nineteen-year-old Private Pete ‘Skippy’ Lyons is taken hostage in the night and the patrol sent out to locate him is ambushed. One killed, two injured. And one still missing in action.
Their loved ones are left desperate for answers the Army is reluctant to provide. How was Private Lyons abducted from a heavily fortified command post? And why are officers trying to disguise what happened during the mission to save him?
Their only hope lies with Coroner Jenny Cooper, who must take on the full might of the military to stop the truth being buried along with the boy soldiers. But in a town filled with secrets and rumours, it’s not only the Army that has something to hide.
Genre: mystery & thrillers
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Publishing: 19 Feb 2019
Title: Closer
Author: K. L. Slater
Synopsis: I know my daughter better than I know myself and if there’s one thing I know for sure at this moment: it’s that Maisie is not OK.
My ex-husband Shaun and I are still friends.
We would do anything for our beautiful little girl, Maisie.
But now Shaun has moved in with Joanne and suddenly, Maisie has a brand new family.
And there’s something not quite right about it…I know Joanne isn’t everything she says she is. Yet no-one will listen.
I need to discover what she’s hiding.
Because if I don’t, my daughter will be in terrible danger.
Genre: mystery & thrillers
Publisher: Bookouture
Publishing: 24 Oct 2018
Title: The Suspect
Author: Fiona Barton
Synopsis: When two eighteen-year-old girls go missing in Thailand, their families are thrust into the international spotlight: desperate, bereft, and frantic with worry. What were the girls up to before they disappeared?
Journalist Kate Waters always does everything she can to be first to the story, first with the exclusive, first to discover the truth—and this time is no exception. But she can’t help but think of her own son, whom she hasn’t seen in two years, since he left home to go travelling.
As the case of the missing girls unfolds, they will all find that even this far away, danger can lie closer to home than you might think…
Genre: mystery & thrillers
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Publishing: 22 Jan 2019
Title: Golden State
Author: Ben H. Winters
Synopsis: Welcome to Golden State, where the worst crime you can commit is to lie.
Laz Ratesic is a veteran of the State’s special police. As one of the few individuals allowed to ‘speculate’ on what might have happened when a crime is committed, it’s his job to find the full and final truth.
But when a man falls from a roof in suspicious circumstances, it sets in motion a terrifying series of events which will shatter Laz’s world for ever.
Because when those in control of the truth decide to twist it, only those with the power to ask questions can fight back.
Genre: general fiction
Publisher: Random House UK, Cornerstone
Publishing: 24 Jan 2019
Title: Keep Your Friends Close
Author: June Taylor
Synopsis: Keep your friends close and your enemies closer…
A friend who won’t let you escape.
When Karin is taken on a romantic break by her loving partner Aaron, she can’t wait for him to propose. But her surprise weekend quickly becomes a nightmare from which she may never escape.
Who wants everything you have.
They are staying by the beach at the Midland – a grand hotel where Karin used to work. And where Karin’s dangerous and obsessive ex, whom she has been trying to leave behind for years, is waiting patiently for her to return.
Who won’t stop until your life is in ruins.
Now all of Karin’s darkest secrets are being dragged into the light and her friends are turning against her. When one of them is murdered, Karin begins to realise just how treacherous relationships can be…
Genre: mystery & thrillers, general fiction
Publisher: Harper Impulse and Killer Reads
Publishing: 26 Oct 2018
Title: The Nowhere Child
Author: Christian White
Synopsis: Kimberly Leamy is a photography teacher in Melbourne, Australia. Twenty-six years earlier, Sammy Went, a two-year old girl vanished from her home in Manson, Kentucky. An American accountant who contacts Kim is convinced she was that child, kidnapped just after her birthday. She cannot believe the woman who raised her, a loving social worker who died of cancer four years ago, crossed international lines to steal a toddler.
On April 3rd, 1990, Jack and Molly Went’s daughter Sammy disappeared from the inside their Kentucky home. Already estranged since the girl’s birth, the couple drifted further apart as time passed. Jack did his best to raise and protect his other daughter and son while Molly found solace in her faith. The Church of the Light Within, a Pentecostal fundamentalist group who handle poisonous snakes as part of their worship, provided that faith. Without Sammy, the Wents eventually fell apart.
Now, with proof that she and Sammy are in fact the same person, Kim travels to America to reunite with a family she never knew she had. And to solve the mystery of her abduction—a mystery that will take her deep into the dark heart of religious fanaticism where she must fight for her life against those determined to save her soul…
Genre: mystery & thrillers, general fiction
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Publishing: 22 Jan 2019
Title: Saving Meghan
Author: D. J. Palmer
Synopsis: Can you love someone to death?
Some would say Becky Gerard is a devoted mother and would do anything for her only child. Others claim she’s obsessed and can’t stop the vicious circle of finding a cure at her daughter’s expense.
Fifteen-year-old Meghan has been in and out of hospitals with a plague of unexplained illnesses. But when the ailments take a sharp turn, doctors intervene and immediately suspect Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a rare behavioral disorder where the primary caretaker, typically the mother, seeks medical help for made-up symptoms of a child. Is this what’s going on? Or is there something even more sinister at hand?
Genre: general fiction, mystery & thrillers
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Publishing: 09 Apr 2019
So that’s it for this week! I was expecting more horror books in the run up to Halloween! Maybe next week?
Anyway, have you requested any of these books, or now plan to? I’d love to hear your thoughts
Wow!! These are awesome Reads. I loved their blurbs!!
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Nice selection! A couple of these are on my tbr.
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Love this post! Thanks for the heads up on these.
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Thanks! 🙂
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Zuky! You keep picking books that look so amazing! Please request them all so I can read your reviews too! 😉
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I don’t ever request any of them, oops! I just try to ruin everyone else’s TBR hehehe 😛
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😂🤣😂
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I’ve been seeing Golden State everywhere, I hope it’s as amazing as it sounds!
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It does sound fab 😀
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I am intrigued by all of these!
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I’m doing so good with staying away from NG, but there are a few here that are so tempting – The Suspect and Golden State. I predict I’ll end up buying them at a later date, but I really want to curb the amount of review copies I get/request.
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I do too! I’m probably going to end up buying a few of the Netgalley books I’ve added to my TBR recently, feels far less pressured that way!
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