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The Country Road Murders
By: James Patterson and Mike Lupica Narrator: Tom Pelphrey ISBN: 9780316599870 Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Publication Date: 07/13/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS After a shocking accident, Silas Tucker’s legendary football career is suddenly over in this action-packed sports thriller powered by loyalty, competition, and family. Humbled, but never defeated, he returns to his backwoods hometown, Cross Rivers, North Carolina, where
Judith D Collins
11 hours ago5 min read
The Aunt
By: Courtney Psak ISBN: 978-1399748193 Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Publication Date: 09/22/2026 Format: Paperback My Rating: Currently Reading (ARC) SEP 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS SEP FEATURED #LITLIFTMINIAUTHORCHAT You think you know your sister? Think again... The day that Amy gets the call, her whole world falls apart. Her younger sister Lexi has been killed in a tragic boating accident, along with her husband. Despite being estranged for the last ten years, Amy never stopped
Judith D Collins
3 days ago2 min read
Take Back The Night
By: Kaira Rouda, Kimberly Belle, Heather Gudenkauf ISBN: 978-0778332992 Publisher: Park Row Publication Date: 01/12/2027 Format: Other My Rating: TBR JAN 2027 MUST-READ BOOKS Three friends. One unfinished story. A killer back from the depths to write his own ending—the bestselling authors and cohosts of the Killer Author Club join forces in this mind-bending thriller. Fifteen years ago, a group of college girls known as the “Dead Air Five” exposed a campus predator on live r
Judith D Collins
4 days ago2 min read
The Munich Affair
By: James Patterson & David Ellis ISBN: 9780316404099 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Publication Date: Format: Other My Rating: Currently Reading (ARC) SEP 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS "The Munich Affair is a master class in tension and a perfect historical thriller.” —Martha Hall Kelly, New York Times bestselling author of Lilac Girls “This World War II-era thriller feels startlingly modern and essential. As you watch a detective, a journalist, a resistance leader, and a professo
Judith D Collins
4 days ago2 min read
I'm Here To Help
By: Victoria Helen Stone ISBN: 9781662544309 Publisher: Lake Union Publication Date: 10/27/206 Format: Other My Rating: TBR (ARC) OCT 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS #CoverReveal To stop the corruption in her small town and avenge the victims, a therapist turns vigilante in a shocking novel of psychological suspense by the bestselling author of Jane Doe. Melody Stanford prides herself on being a good person. She’s a loving wife and mother, a school volunteer, a faithful friend, and a tr
Judith D Collins
4 days ago2 min read
Pretty As A Peach
By: Grace Helena Walz Narrators: Brittany Goodwin, Natalie Duke Thomas Nelson ISBN: 9781400352852 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publication Date: 07/14/2026 Format: Paperback My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS A preschool teacher and her retiree neighbor team up to take on a suspicious multi-level marketing scheme that has a vicelike grip on the women in their suburban Southern community. Delilah Thomas, beloved preschool teacher to the twos class, has always been
Judith D Collins
5 days ago6 min read
Tenderness
By: Rowan Beaird Narrators: Evan Sibley, Katharine Chin, Pete Cross ISBN: 9781250444288 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Publiczation Date: 07/21/2026 Format: Audio My Rating: 5 Stars (ALC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS “INTOXICATING...You’ll find yourself turning page after page, utterly swept up in the heady spell it casts.” —Megan Abbott, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author From the beloved author of The Divorcées comes a novel set in the 1970s during an island wedding, where the brid
Judith D Collins
5 days ago7 min read
Don't Look Away
By: Daniel Kenitz Narrators: Nancy Linari, Fred Sanders, Gary Tiedemann Simon & Schuster Audio ISBN: 9781668208656 Publisher: Scribner Publication Date: 07/07/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS From the author of The Perfect Home comes a harrowing domestic crime thriller where a former defense attorney is forced out of retirement to defend her husband—now the prime suspect in the serial murder case terrorizing Florida’s Gulf Coast. Leslie W
Judith D Collins
6 days ago5 min read
All the Lies We See
Jess Lambert Thriller #3 By: Christina McDonald ISBN: 978-1738518425 Publisher: Intrigue Ink Publishing Publication Date: 07/07/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS JUL FEATURED #LitLiftMiniAuthorChat Framed for murder. A viral video proves it. The case she abandoned after her daughter died could save—or destroy her, from the USA Today bestselling author of The Night Olivia Fell. Detective Jess Lambert is days away from the trial of the woman a
Judith D Collins
6 days ago9 min read
Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt
By: Ben Reeves Narrator: Mike Frankland ISBN: 9781668216361 Publisher: Avid Reader Press Simon & Schuster Publication Date: 07/07/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS TOP BOOKS OF 2026 "One of the most original, riveting, and moving books I’ve read in a long while." —Graeme Simsion, New York Times bestselling author of The Rosie Project For fans of Fredrik Backman and Virginia Evans, an unforgettable and exquisitely moving novel about finding b
Judith D Collins
6 days ago8 min read
Pretty Dead Things
By: Kelsey Cox Narrators: Narrated by Andrew Eiden; Brittany Pressley; Mia Wurgaft; Saskia Maarleveld; Stevi Incremona ISBN: 9781250446930 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Minotaur Books | St. Martin's Press Publication Date: 07/07/2026 Format: Audiobook My Rating: 5 Stars + (ALC) (ARC) JUL 2026-MUST-READ BOOKS Top Audiobooks of 2026 Secrets emerge as a Texas beauty pageant turns deadly in this rich and addictive novel with a jaw-dropping twist from psychological suspense author K
Judith D Collins
6 days ago8 min read
The Safe Room
By: Lisa Unger Narrator: Vivienne Leheny ISBN: 978-1662537653 Publisher: Amazon Original Stories Publication Date: 07/01/2026 Format: e-book My Rating: 5 Stars JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Private investigator Rae Donovan’s relationship with her father is distant to the point of estrangement. But when she learns he’s dying in hospice, she drops everything to be at his side. By the time she arrives, he’s already too far gone to speak, and a doctor says his death is consistent with
Judith D Collins
Jul 64 min read
In Wonderland
By: Joyce Maynard Narrator: Joyce Maynard Brilliance Audio ISBN: 9781662540899 Publisher: LIttle A Publication Date: 07/14/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars + (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS TOP BOOKS OF 2026 In one golden summer, Frances trades her working-class world for an elite Maine lakeside estate—where privilege and betrayal turn into a deadly game. Frances believes she’s found a ticket to paradise when a wealthy couple hires her for the summer as their mother’s he
Judith D Collins
Jul 56 min read
How To Kill A Crime Writer
By: Sarah Lotz Narrator: Ashley Tucker Penguin Audio ISBN: 9780593436790 Publisher: Berkley Pub Publication Date: 07/21/2026 Format:Other My Rating: 4.5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS JUL #BlogTourStop After the untimely death of her bestselling crime novelist mother, a young woman teams up with the fictional “ghost” of the heroine from her mother’s series in order to solve her mother’s murder. After the tragic death of bestselling crime writer Annie Morrisey, her daugh
Judith D Collins
Jul 55 min read
The Season of Sinking
By: Daphne Woolsoncroft Narrator: Natalie Van Sistine ISBN: 9781538770931 Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Publication Date: 07/07/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 4.5 Stars (ARC) JUL 20265 MUST-READ BOOKS From a hit true crime podcaster turned novelist, a woman’s unsettling past creeps back into her consciousness as she returns to her hometown and begins to suspect the locals are hiding a terrible secret swirling around her mother's recent death. When Imogen Bly's mother su
Judith D Collins
Jul 55 min read
Hot Girl Murder Club
By: Ashley Winstead Narrator: Brittany Pressley Macmillan Audio ISBN: 9781250401212 Publisher: Minotaur Books Minotaur Books Publication Date: 07/14/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS TOP AUDIOBOOKS OF 2026 From national bestselling author Ashley Winstead comes a buzzy, bloody new thriller about success, sisterhood, and demanding justice…by any means necessary. What’s a girl got to do to get some fame, a few million record sales, and justice
Judith D Collins
Jul 47 min read
The Last To Drown
By: Noelle W. Ihli Narrator: Vivienne Leheny ISBN: 979-8992716139 Publisher: Dynamite Books Publication Date: 07/16/2026 Format: e-book My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Five days. Twenty strangers. No way out. The rafting trip was supposed to be the adventure of a lifetime. But Kaia’s starting to think she made a mistake. Because ever since the whispers about Camas Creek began, all she feels is dread. Seven years earlier, a guide murdered a group of rafters o
Judith D Collins
Jul 45 min read
River Deep
Bitterfrost Thriller #2 By: Bryan Gruley ISBN: 978-1448316120 Publisher: Severn House Publication Date: 07/07/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars + (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS JUL #LITLIFTMINIAUTHORCHAT TOP BOOKS OF 2026 Attorney Devyn Payne is left navigating thin ice as her small-town community fractures in the wake of a shocking crime in River Deep, the second in the Bitterfrost thriller series from Edgar nominee and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Bryan Gruley. “Viscer
Judith D Collins
Jul 314 min read
Before I Disappear
By: Cate Quinn ISBN: 9781464293405 Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark Publication Date: 11/10/2026 Format: Paperback My Rating: tBR (ARC) NOV 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS From the acclaimed author of The Clinic and The Bridesmaid comes a pulse pounding thriller following a criminologist who wakes in a remote motel with no memory of how she got there, or the people who claim they will protect her. Criminologist April Anderson wakes up in a remote motel with a new name, a new identity, a
Judith D Collins
Jul 32 min read
Dead Men Don't Play Fetch
Andy Carpenter #33 By: David Rosenfelt Narrator: Grover Gardner ISBN: 9781250427625 Publisher: Minotaur Books | St Martin's Press Publication Date: 07/07/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Bestselling author David Rosenfelt returns with Dead Men Don't Play Fetch as Andy Carpenter investigates a wealthy dog lover's unusual death. It’s defense lawyer Andy Carpenter’s dream to retire. That goal is once again thwarted when he gets a call from Lou
Judith D Collins
Jul 35 min read
The Next Lie
The Secrets of Chapel Roads #2 By: Camden Baird Narrators: Megan Tusing, Amy Hutchins, Andrew Eiden, Wayne Mitchell, Sarah Naughton, Kate Rudd, Rosanna Pilcher ISBN: 9781662530265 Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 07/14/2025 Format: Paperback My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS In the unputdownable sequel to The Last Morning, author Camden Baird delivers another harrowing tale of lies and deceit, where a marriage is put to the test while jealousy and
Judith D Collins
Jul 35 min read
You'll Be Sorry
By: Liz Alterman Narrators: Christine Lakin, Stacy Carolan Simon Maverick ISBN: 978183756762 Publisher: Inkubator Books Publication Date: 08/02/2026 Format: Other My Rating: Currently Reading (ARC) AUG 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Revenge is a dish best served now. On the eve of her fortieth birthday, Amelia Montgomery flips through a magazine and freezes at the sight of a familiar face—Ethan Blackmore, the man who shattered her heart more than a decade ago. What should’ve been her.
Judith D Collins
Jul 22 min read
The Delivery
A Novella By: Gregg Hurwitz Narrator: Scott Brick Audible Studios ISBN: 9781662539343 Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 07/01/2026 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) MAY 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS From the New York Times bestselling author of the Orphan X series comes a tense novella, a psychological thriller about an AI companion that will do anything to serve—with terrifying consequences. Rebecca and Mark Higgins are doing their best to hold their family toget
Judith D Collins
Jul 25 min read
The Sky Beneath Her
By: Mary Ellen Taylor Narrator: Sarah Naughton ISBN: 978-1662530159 Publisher: Montlake Publication Date: 07/01/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS An unforgettable tale of lost love and buried truths, where the mysteries of a famous shipwreck hold the key to one woman’s future—and the truth of her mother’s final days. It’s been seven years since a tragic diving accident took her mother’s life, leaving Tula Cassidy with a crushing fear of the sea. T
Judith D Collins
Jul 26 min read
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