The Summer That Changed Everything by Brenda Novak MIRA (June 3, 2025) She returned to prove her father’s innocence, but there’s no telling what she’ll find… It’s been fifteen years since Lucy Sinclair saw her father. Fifteen long years since she sat in a courtroom and watched him sentenced to life in prison. He murdered … More BOOK REVIEW: The Summer That Changed Everything by Brenda Novak

The Other Side of Now by Paige Harbison St Martin’s Press (June 3, 2025) Friendship Fiction A hilarious and heartfelt novel about how loves and lives are never truly lost, for fans of Rebecca Serle and Taylor Jenkins Reid. With a leading role on a hit TV show and a relationship with Hollywood’s latest heartthrob, … More BOOK REVIEW: The Other Side of Now by Paige Harbison

Hidden Nature by Nora Roberts St. Martins Press (May 27, 2025) Murder Thriller/Women’s Romance/Crime Fiction The #1 New York Times-bestselling author presents a novel about an injured cop who must fight to bring down a pair of twisted killers… Natural Resources police officer, Sloan Cooper, and her partner had just taken down three men preying on hikers … More BOOK REVIEW: Hidden Nature by Nora Roberts

Death Row by Freida McFadden Amazon Original Stories 73 pages / domestic thriller With all hope of an appeal fading away, the fate of a condemned murderess takes a shocking turn in a breathtaking short story by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid. Talia Kemper is on death row for murdering her husband. She … More BOOK REVIEW: Death Row by Freida McFadden

Double-Edged Reckoning by Nicole Helm A Western Edge Mystery, Book 1 Tule Publishing, May 14, 2025 She seeks the truth, not revenge… As a teenager, Samantha Price helped bruised and bloody classmate Nate Bennet disappear after his father’s violent attack. Fifteen years later and now a private investigator, she hunts Nate down in Tennessee, needing … More BOOK REVIEW: Double-Edged Reckoning by Nicole Helm

The Neighbor by Lisa Gardner D.D. Warren series, Book 3 Bantam (June 4, 2009) Psychological Thriller A young mother, blond and pretty, vanishes from her South Boston home, leaving behind only one witness—her four-year-old daughter—and one suspect—her handsome, secretive husband. From the moment Detective Sergeant D. D. Warren arrives at the Joneses’ snug little bungalow, … More BOOK REVIEW: The Neighbor by Lisa Gardner

Bad Boy in Her Bed by Katja Desjarlais Serpent’s Tongue Ink, Book 1 Tule Publishing, April 24, 2025 Bad boy Birch Baker doesn’t run until he meets a woman worth running for. Tattoo artist Birch Baker has one goal : support his younger brothers so they can escape their hometown and build successful lives without … More BOOK REVIEW: Bad Boy in Her Bed by Katja Desjarlais

The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick Harper Muse (April 22, 2025) Friendship Fiction   Margaret Ryan never really meant to start a book club . . . or a feminist revolution in her buttoned-up suburb. By 1960s standards, Margaret Ryan is living the American woman’s dream. She has a husband, three children, a station … More BOOK REVIEW: The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick

Shattering Dawn by Jayne Ann Krentz The Lost Night Files, Book 3 Berkley (January 7, 2025) An unsettling investigation teaches two deeply suspicious people how to trust in the next thrilling novel of the Lost Night Files trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz. Amelia Rivers, a member of the Lost Night Files podcast team, hires … More BOOK REVIEW: Shattering Dawn by Jayne Ann Krentz

The Murder Show by Matt Goldman Forge Books (April 15, 2025) Fiction Showrunner Ethan Harris had a hit with The Murder Show, a television crime drama that features a private detective who solves cases the police can’t. But after his pitch for the fourth season is rejected by the network, he returns home to Minnesota … More BOOK REVIEW: The Murder Show by Matt Goldman