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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 37 min read
All In
6:30 Man #4 By: David Baldacci ISBN: 9781538758069 Publisher: Grand Central Publication Date: 11/10/2026 Format: Other My Rating: TBR (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 fearless war correspondent Theresa Lee is shot on a storm-swept Manhatta
Judith D Collins
Jul 312 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: 5 Stars (ARC) (ALC) 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 hap
Judith D Collins
Jul 316 min read
The Holiday Swap
By: A.J. McDine ISBN: 9504585242899 Publisher: Cherry Tree Publishing Publication Date: 07/30/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS AUG #LiftLiftMiniAuthorChats The Holiday Swap is the explosive new thriller by Amazon bestselling author AJ McDine. Perfect for fans of Freida McFadden, Claire Douglas and Andrea Mara. We’re broke. The last thing we can afford is a holiday. So when my husband Robin's wealthy boss offers to swap houses for the week,
Judith D Collins
Jul 319 min read
Behind the Mic With Melanie Crawley
Spotlight on a Masterclass in Northern Noir For our August feature on #AudioElevatorSeries, we are scaling new heights with an exclusive look into the dark, atmospheric world of “The Wythenshawe Dandy.” Joining us is a favorite, the brilliant, talented Earphones Award-winning narrator Melanie Crawley, whose 5-star performance transforms S.J. Galbraith’s gritty thriller into an unforgettable, claustrophobic audio experience. Review of The Wythenshawe Dandy ~British Voice Act
Judith D Collins
Jul 2912 min read
The Whisper
By: Chelsea Iversen Narrator: Beth Hicks ISBN: 9781464252297 Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark Publication Date: 07/28/2026 Format: Paperback My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS JUL featured #LitLiftMiniAuthorChats Perfect for fans of Alice Hoffman and Riley Sager's Middle of the Night, comes a sweeping, atmospheric thriller following a group of friends and the power given to them by the trees… Rule 1: When the trees whisper, listen. Rule 2: Don't go into the woo
Judith D Collins
Jul 288 min read
Indie Darling
By: Lauren Nossett Narrator: Amara Jasper ISBN: 9781250459046 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Publication Date: 07/28/2026 Format: Audio My Rating: 4 Stars (ALC) JUL 2026 MUST READ BOOKS A brilliant, breakout novel from ITW THRILLER AWARD-WINNING author Lauren Nossett—a mystery set in Nashville, where a Dolly Parton–loving private detective is drawn into the disappearance of an enigmatic pop star. "THRILLING...[A] propulsive, glittery mystery.” —Lisa Unger, NEW YORK TIMES bestsell
Judith D Collins
Jul 277 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 258 min read
Our Marriage Is Murder
By: Carol Goodman Narrator: Marni Penning ISBN: 9780063398788 Publisher: William Morrow Publication Date: 07/21/2026 Format: Paperback My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS In the latest thrilling mystery from Mary Higgins Clark Award–winning author Carol Goodman, a writers’ conference at an Italian castle turns deadly when a killer begins using a husband-and-wife writing team’s novel as a blueprint for murder. Fred and Thea Morgan-Lane are the envy of the myster
Judith D Collins
Jul 217 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
Jul 217 min read
Lost in the Fire
By: Robin Mahle ISBN: 9781805736615 Publisher: Joffe Books Publication Date: 07/21/2026 Format: Paperback My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS A woman stops me in the street. She’s young, pregnant, and she looks at me like she knows me. “I’m Sophie,” she says. “We used to be best friends.” “Please don’t marry him,” she whispers. “You don’t know who he really is . . . “ I’ve rebuilt my life from the ashes. I lost my husband and child in a devastating house fire. I
Judith D Collins
Jul 205 min read
All the Little Secrets
All the Little Houses #2 By: May Cobb ISBN: 9781464239205 Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark Publication Date: 11/17/2026 Format: Other My Rating: Currently Reading (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-alone sequel to All the Little Houses, as the fallout from an utterly unexpected death reverberates over every
Judith D Collins
Jul 202 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 205 min read
The Talking Bone
By: Rene Denfeld Narrators: Allyson Ryan, James Shippy ISBN: 9780063396890 Publisher: Harper Publication Date: 07/21/2026 Format: Audio My Rating: 5 Stars JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS “Rene Denfeld reminds us that storytelling remains one of the most powerful means we have of confronting our darkest human impulses and sometimes overcoming them.”—Washington Post From the revered bestselling author, a compulsive, page-turning thriller inspired by her real life work exonerating inno
Judith D Collins
Jul 206 min read
Across the Street
By: Christian Hakiza ISBN: 9798996749805 Publisher: Growth-Addicted Publishing Publication Date: 07/29/2026 Format: e-book My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS BEST LITERARY DEBUT 2026 A debut novel for readers of Ann Patchett, Ann Napolitano, and William Kent Krueger. “What is broken is not finished. Restoration is always possible, when someone finds the courage to face what was left undone.” In the literary tradition of Tom Lake, Hello Beautiful, and Ordinary G
Judith D Collins
Jul 196 min read
Mom Brain
By: Nicole Hackett Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld ISBN: 9781400350353 Publisher: Harper Muse Audiobooks Publication Date: 04/21/2026 Format: Audio My Rating: 5 Stars (ALC) APR 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS “Hackett’s skillful plotting and character work will keep readers hooked…” - Publishers Weekly Can a luxury resort transform her life by giving her back control? Georgia Evans thinks it sounds too good to be true. Turns out her motherly intuition isn't wrong . . . In the vein of Liane
Judith D Collins
Jul 176 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 165 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 157 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 157 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
Jul 146 min read
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
Jul 135 min read
The Golden Child
By: Lucinda Berry ISBN: 9781464292019 Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Publication Date: 01/12/2027 Format: Hardcover My Rating: TBR (ARC) JAN 2027 MUST-READ BOOKS One lie to save her future. One decision to destroy his. Ava and Bentley are Irish twins—eleven months apart, inseparable since birth. Ava is the golden girl: disciplined, driven, bound for success. Bentley is the screwup: reckless, restless, always one bad choice away from disaster. Until the night Ava makes a mista
Judith D Collins
Jul 122 min read
Bad Honeymoon
By: Jessie Garcia ISBN: 9781250429391 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Publication Date: 01/19/2027 Format: Other My Rating: TBR (ARC) JAN 2027 MUST-READ BOOKS With Jessie Garcia's signature multi-POV, rapid-fire style that will keep you on your toes until the last page, Bad Honeymoon is the next twisty thriller from the author of THE BUSINESS TRIP. In search of a ratings hit, TV reporter Becca Larson flies to Florida to cover what should be a simple story: a newlywed couple’s h
Judith D Collins
Jul 112 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
Jul 92 min read
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