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6:30 Man #4 By: David Baldacci Narrators: Zach Villa, Christine Lakin, Mela Lee, Jim Meskimen ISBN: 9781538758069 Publisher: Grand Central Publication Date: 11/10/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) NOV 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS In this exciting thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci, the 6:20 Man is leaving U.S soil—this time drawn into a storm of billion-dollar secrets and international power plays that could shatter the world order. When fear
Judith D Collins
5 days ago5 min read
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Mercury Carter Thrillers Book #3 By: Andrew Welsh-Huggins ISBN: 9781613168608 Publisher: Penzler Publishers The Mysterious Press Publication Date: 03/30/2027 Format: Hardcover My Rating: TBR (ARC) MAR 2027 MUST-READ BOOKS In this new Mercury Carter thriller, the self-styled freelance mailman crisscrosses the Southwest as he juggles his latest delivery with his search for his father’s killer and for a missing fitness fanatic. Mercury Carter’s current assignment seems innocuo
Judith D Collins
Oct 272 min read
The Parkwood Murders
Detective Nicola Bridge #2 By: Chris Chibnall ISBN: 9780593831601 Publisher: Viking Penguin Pamela Dorman Books Publication Date: 12/01/2026 Format: Other My Rating: TBR (ARC) DEC 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS The gripping new mystery from the bestselling author of Death at the White Hart Parkwood Holiday Village is a serene haven: idyllic woodland, a sparkling lake, customer service on tap around the clock. It’s the kind of place families return to year after year. But for Detective
Judith D Collins
Oct 272 min read
The Silence Keepers
Northwoods #3 By: Amy Pease ISBN:9781668078785 Publisher:Atria Books Publication Date: Format: Hardcover My Rating: TBR (ARC) APR 2027 MUST-READ BOOKS From the award-winning author of Wildwood and Northwoods (which was called "an indelible debut" by The New York Times) comes a stand-alone sequel in which the small town sheriff's office is drawn into a cold case with far-reaching consequences. In the small resort town of Shaky Lake, Wisconsin, Deputy Eli North and his mother,
Judith D Collins
Oct 222 min read
All the Little Secrets
All the Little Houses #2 By: May Cobb Narrators: Malin Akerman, Allyson Ryan, Alexandra Hunter, James Fouhey, Devon Sorvari, Hillary Huber, Gary Tiedemann ISBN: 9781464239205 Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark Publication Date: 11/17/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) NOV 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS The highly anticipated follow-up to All the Little Houses From the USA Today bestselling author of The Hunting Wives (now a hit Netflix series) comes a deliciously wicked stand-al
Judith D Collins
Oct 215 min read
To His Ex-Wife
The Stone Family #2 By: Willow Rose Narrator: Madeline Pell ISBN: 9781807222758 Publisher: Bookouture Audio Publication Date: 10/15/2026 Format: Audio My Rating: 5 Stars (ALC) OCT 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS She sent me a letter. I thought she was dead. Hidden away in their remote cottage in Florida, Emma and her stepdaughter Lily are finally safe to live a peaceful life. Each morning, they plan their new lives over fresh strawberries and perfectly cooked eggs. But despite the loc
Judith D Collins
Oct 144 min read
Big Cult Energy
Peter Key #2 By: Jack Friday ISBN: 9781250428646 Publisher: St. Martin's Press | Minotaur Books Publication Date: 06/01/2027 Format: Other My Rating: TBR (ARC) JUN 2027 MUST-READ BOOKS Jack Friday's wickedly funny and irrepressible PI Peter Key returns with two new baffling cases. After surviving a brush with death, Peter Key is debating if he wants to stay in the detective game. On the one hand, his last case left him with a house in Austin, a loyal dog and enough money to c
Judith D Collins
Sep 302 min read
The Secrets We Hide
By: Karin Slaughter North Falls #2 Narrator: Kathleen Early ISBN: 978-0063458789 Publisher: Willliam Morrow Publication Date: 08/11/2026 Format: Audio My Rating: 5 Stars AUG 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS The next thrilling mystery in the new North Falls series from Karin Slaughter, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Girls and the Will Trent Series. Welcome back to North Falls — a small town with big secrets. Sheriff Emmy Clifton and her sister, ex-federal agent Jude Archer
Judith D Collins
Aug 305 min read
Murder on Charity Lane
A Marigold Cottages Mystery #2 By: Jo Nichols Narrators: Jim Meskimen, Meg Price ISBN: 9781250356574 Publisher: Minotaur Books Publication Date: 08/18/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) AUG 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Months after the shocking murders at Marigold Cottages, eccentric landlady Mrs. B finds the peace and quiet a little too peaceful. That’s why she invites her young friend CJ Moore to move into a now-vacant cottage: CJ is a suspect in the death of her employer
Judith D Collins
Aug 294 min read
Brimstone Hollow
An Annie Gore Novel #2 By: Archer Sullivan Narrator: Emily Pike Stewart ISBN: 9781250338716 Publisher: St. Martin's Press | Minotaur Books Publication Date: 08/11/1026 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 4.5 Stars (ARC) AUG 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Following her powerful debut in The Witch’s Orchard, private investigator Annie Gore returns in Brimstone Hollow, bringing readers back to the mountains that author Archer Sullivan, a ninth-generation Appalachian, knows so well. There isn’
Judith D Collins
Aug 295 min read
Big Little Truths
Big LIttle Lies #2 By: Liane Moriarty Narrators: Caroline Lee, Ella Le Fournour, Liane Moriarty ISBN: 978-0593798638 Publisher: Crown Publication Date: 08/25/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars AUG 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BIG LITTLE LIES, THE RUNAWAY PHENOMENON THAT INSPIRED THE MEGAHIT HBO SERIES In this highly anticipated sequel, Liane Moriarty examines the complexities of modern women’s lives, shining light on family dynamics
Judith D Collins
Aug 246 min read
Take Hart
Corey in Los Angeles #2 By: Jaime Parker Stickle Narrator: Sarah Naughton ISBN: 978-1662531750 Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 08/04/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) AUG 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Between her LAPD consulting gig, fledgling indie news blog, and postpartum panic disorder, former TV journalist Corey Tracey-Lieberman is barely keeping it together. Then a mother named Sonja Hart vanishes in her Highland Park neighborhood, and the case is all but
Judith D Collins
Aug 27 min read
Meet the In-laws
Meet the Parents #2 By: Emily Shiner Narrators: Elise Roth, Madeline Pell Hachette UK ISBN: 978-1807221713 Publisher: Bookouture Publication Date: 07/30/2026 Format: e-book My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS BLOG TOUR STOP JUL 31 Featured #LitLiftMiniAuthorChat JUL 31 As my mom greets my husband for the first time, I spot the new diamonds in her ears. She’s trying to impress him, although I know her smile is fake. But that’s okay. Because so is mine… The mother
Judith D Collins
Jul 248 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 214 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 25 min read
The Armchair Detectives On Holiday
The Armchair Detective Mysteries #2 By: Matt Dunn ISBN: 978-1805505747 Publisher: Bookouture Publication Date: 06/22/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) JUN 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Martin and Albie are jetting off for some sun and sangria. But they didn’t bank on finding a body on the beach… Fresh from their last case at Twilight Lodge, Martin and Albie reward themselves with a relaxing trip to the sun-soaked island of Menorca, joined by Martin’s daughter Dionne and belo
Judith D Collins
Jun 165 min read
Beneath a Broken Sky
Ben Packard #4 By: Joshua Moehling Narrator: Linda Jones Sourcebooks ISBN: 978-1728279053 Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Publication Date: 05/26/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) MAY 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS From USA Today bestselling author Joshua Moehling comes a tense, atmospheric thriller about one detective's search for a mysterious killer in the chaos following a deadly storm… It's a hot, miserable summer in the small town of Sandy Lake. Detective Ben Packard has
Judith D Collins
May 276 min read
The Midnight Train
The Midnight World #2 By: Matt Haig Narrator: James Norton ISBN: 978-0593833377 Publication Date: 05/26/2026 Publisher: Penguin Audio Format: Audio My Rating: 5 Stars MAY 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS When your life flashes before your eyes, where would you stop? No one can change the past, but the Midnight Train can take you there. The chance to re-live the moments that meant most. To see what kind of person you really were. For Wilbur his best days were with Maggie, the love of his
Judith D Collins
May 234 min read
Ironwood
Catalina #2 By: Michael Connelly Narrator: Will Damron ISBN: 978-0316595384 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Publication Date: 05/19/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars + (ARC) MAY 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Best Crime Procedural Series of 2026 Sworn to protect a scenic island meant to be far from the evils of the mainland, Detective Sergeant Stilwell can feel danger closing in. Detective Sergeant Stilwell knows that his posting on Catalina Island is no paradise, but to most res
Judith D Collins
May 186 min read
The Wolf At The Door
Margot Phalen FBI Series By: Kate Wiley Narrator: Lauryn Allman Dreamscape Media ISBN: 9781837001637 Publisher: Storm Publishing Publication Date: 05/19/2026 Format: e-book My Rating: 4.5 Stars (ARC) MAY 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS When seven skeletons are unearthed along the Appalachian Trail, FBI Special Agent Margot Phalen thinks she already knows who put them there. Margot knows how predators hunt. As the daughter of one of America’s most notorious serial killers, she’s turned
Judith D Collins
May 175 min read
Bitterfrost
By: Bryan Gruley A Bitterfrost Thriller #1 ISBN: 9781448315406 Publisher: Severn House Publication Date: 04/01/2025 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars + (ARC) APR 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS The first in a brand-new crime thriller series from Edgar nominee and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Bryan Gruley. Feisty defence attorney, Devyn Payne faces off against veteran detective, Garth Klimmek as they work to solve a vicious double homicide in their small, icy town of Bitterfrost. Thi
Judith D Collins
May 136 min read
The Delivery
A Mercury Carter Thriller #2 By: Andrew Welsh-Huggins Narrator: Peter Berkrot ISBN: 9781696622363 Publisher: Highbridge Audio Publication Date: 03/24/2026 Format: Audio My Rating: 5 Stars (ALC) MAR 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Merc Carter is not your typical deliveryman. A former postal inspector, he specializes in moving sensitive or dangerous packages—of all sorts—from point A to B. And sometimes he needs his gun to do so. Carter's current mission leads him to Providence, Rhode Is
Judith D Collins
Apr 146 min read
Hope Rises
Walter Nash #2 By: David Baldacci Narrators: MacLeod Andrews, Will Collyer, Shiromi Arserio, Christine Lakin, Larry Herron, Tim Lounibos ISBN: 978-1538758021 Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Publication Date: 04/14/2026 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) (ALC) APR 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Walter Nash began a journey down a dark path of seemingly no return, and now he finds himself questioning everything that got him there in this thrilling sequel to Nash Falls from
Judith D Collins
Apr 136 min read
The First Widows
By: S.E. Reed Narrator: Caitlin Shannon ISBN: 9781837001866 Publisher: Storm Publishing Publication Date: 03/23/2026 Format: e-book & audio My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) MAR 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Some people will do anything for family. Even kill for it… When Sophia, a wealthy woman far from home, meets Rebecca, a struggling nurse and mother, at a paint-and-sip class in New York, their friendship unfolds just as you might expect. The lonely outsider finds her place. The overwhelmed
Judith D Collins
Mar 225 min read
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