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The Hill
By: Harriet Clark Narrator: Maggie Thompson ISBN: 9781250436177 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Publication Date: 05/05/2026 Format: Audio My Rating: 5 Stars (ALC) MAY 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS BEST DEBUT After her mother is sentenced to life in a hilltop prison, Suzanna vows to return to the hill forever. An unexpectedly funny and deeply moving novel about the many ways we punish and return to each other. Suzanna Klein was a baby when her mother got up early one morning to rob a bank
Judith D Collins
Apr 197 min read
Brain Damage
By: Freida McFadden ISBN: 978-1464290817 Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Publication Date: 08/18/2026 Format: Hardcover My Rating: TBR (ARC) AUG 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS From #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Intruder! How can you survive when you can't remember who wants you dead? Dr. Charly McKenna had the perfect life: a thriving dermatology practice, a luxury apartment overlooking Central Park, and a handsome husband who adored her. Until the night a bullet tore throu
Judith D Collins
Apr 192 min read
A Murder Most Camp
By: Nicolas DiDomizio Narrator: Mark Sanderlin Sourcebooks ISBN: 9781464250064 Publication Date: 04/28/2026 Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Format: Paperback My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) APR 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS The Guncle meets Every Time I Go On Vacation Someone Dies in this fun, twisty mystery following a spoiled nepo baby forced to work at a struggling summer camp who stumbles into a real-life murder mystery he has no choice but to solve. Rustic cabins. Lakefront bonfires. A pa
Judith D Collins
Apr 186 min read
How To Get Away With Murder
By: Rebecca Philipson Narrators: Michael Geary; Tamsin Kennard Macmillan Audio ISBN: 9781250434586 Publisher: Minotaur Books Publication Date: 02/24/2026 Format: Audio My Rating: 5 Stars (ALC) FEB 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS "If you picked up this book because you truly want to get away with murder, you will not be disappointed. Simply turn the page and we'll get started." This fresh debut thriller finds a Scotland Yard detective trying to find the author of a self-help book that p
Judith D Collins
Apr 176 min read
Bad Intentions
By: Iliana Xander ISBN: 9781464264283 Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Publication Date: 08/25/2026 Format: Paperback My Rating: TBR (ARC) AUG 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS The next heart-pounding thriller from bestselling author Iliana Xander. Josie Boots messed up. Really badly. So she returns to her small hometown of Burnville to care for her ailing grandmother. It's been twenty-five years since an unspeakable crime rocked Burnville. Twenty-five years since her grandmother's trial. Tw
Judith D Collins
Apr 171 min read
Missing Molly
By: Natalie Barelli ISBN: 9781464247514 Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Publication Date: 10/20/2026 Format:Paperback My Rating: TBR (ARC) OCT 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS From bestselling author Natalie Barelli comes a dark psychological thriller about a cold case, the newspaper investigating it, and the woman for whom it all hits a little too close to home… Millions are searching for the truth. Only she knows it's all a lie. Rachel Holloway has built a quiet life in London. She has a
Judith D Collins
Apr 172 min read
The Only One Who Knows
By: Lisa M. Matlin Narrator: Nikki Thomas ISBN: 9780593599983 Publisher: Ballantine | Bantam Publication Date: 03/03/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 4.5 Stars (ARC) MAR 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS A disgraced TV news reporter returns to her violent hometown to investigate a series of deadly shark attacks in this nail-biting suspense novel from the author of The Stranger Upstairs. “A gothic coastal noir about generational violence and the cyclical nature of predation, The Only One Who
Judith D Collins
Apr 175 min read
In Her Defense
By: Philippa Malicka Narrator: Anna Popplewell IBBN: 9781668033623 Publisher: Scribner Publication Date: 02/03/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) FEB 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS A young woman at the periphery of a high-stakes celebrity trial is the only one with the evidence that can make or break the case—but spilling her secret could ruin her life. The whole country has been riveted by the trial: beloved TV star and national treasure Anna Finbow has accused therapist Jean
Judith D Collins
Apr 166 min read
Lake Effect
By: Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney Narrator: Marin Ireland ISBN: 9780063377684 Publisher: Ecco Publication Date: 03/03/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) MAR 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS From the New York Times bestselling author of The Nest and Good Company comes a wry and tender portrait of two families forever changed by one lovestruck decision that will reverberate for decades. It’s 1977 and an air of restlessness has settled on the residents of Cambridge Road in Rochester, Ne
Judith D Collins
Apr 156 min read
You'll Be Sorry
By: Lisa Gardner ISBN: 9781538765142 Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Publication Date: 08/11/2026 Format: Other My Rating: TBR AUG 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS From a master storyteller comes a “chilling, gripping” standalone (Lisa Jewell): A newlywed couple each with their own secrets. An abandoned lodge with a horrific decades-old mystery. And a small mountain town where everyone believes they know their neighbors…except they don’t. For Raquel and Theo Collins, it appeared to b
Judith D Collins
Apr 153 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 156 min read
Handle With Care
By: Marybeth Mayhew Whalen Narrator: Jane Oppenheimer ISBN: 978-1400345069 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Fiction Publication Date: 04/14/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars + (ARC) (ALC) APR 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Apr featured #LitLiftMiniAuthorChat Three women walk into a post office. No, this isn't the beginning of a joke. It's the beginning of a hostage situation. On an ordinary spring afternoon in a small-town post office, a domestic dispute spirals out of control. The husband
Judith D Collins
Apr 1413 min read
Too Close to Home
By: Seraphina Nova Glass Narrators: Brittany Pressley, Rebecca Lowman, Karissa Vacker Harlequin Audio ISBN: 978-0778306436 Publisher: Park Row Publication Date: 04/14/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) APR 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS The two-time Edgar Award–nominated author of ON A QUIET STREET and THE VACANCY IN ROOM 10, Seraphina Nova Glass, is back with TOO CLOSE TO HOME Nothing in this idyllic community is quite what it seems… Those lucky enough to live in the elite la
Judith D Collins
Apr 145 min read
The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives
By: Elizabeth Arnott Narrators: Saskia Maarleveld, Karissa Vacker Penguin Audio ISBN: 9780593952993 Publisher: Berkley Publication Date: 03/03/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) MAR 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 BY MARIE CLAIRE AND A BEST BOOK FOR BOOK CLUBS IN 2026 BY GLAMOUR A remarkable trio whose lives have been cracked wide open by their husbands’ crimes unite to catch a serial killer in this dazzlingly captivating novel. Beverley,
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 146 min read
When They Find Me
By: Carter Wilson ISBN: 9781464272684 Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Publication Date: 11/10/2026 Format: Paperback My Rating: TBR (ARC) NOV 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Some secrets don't fade. They hunt. Expanse, Colorado. Population 313. A town so remote it barely exists on a map—the perfect hiding place for Annie Wolfe and her daughter, Coral. Their cabin is nearly off the grid, and Annie has done everything to keep them safe. Everything. But she knows the people hunting her don't
Judith D Collins
Apr 133 min read
This Weekend Doesn't End Well for Anyone
Vacation Mysteries #3 By Catherine Mack Narrated by Elizabeth Evans ISBN: 9781250445650 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Publication Date: 04/28/2026 Format: Audio My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) APR 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS The third in the witty and captivating series following bestselling author Eleanor Dash, who once again has to swap her sun hat for her detective hat, when a body is found at a murder mystery writing conference in the Bahamas. "[Narrator] Elizabeth Evans masterfully voice
Judith D Collins
Apr 136 min read
Finders Keepers
By: Natalie Barelli Narrators: Perry Daniels, Rachel Leblang Dreamscape Media ISBN: 9781464247507 Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Publication Date: 02/24/2026 Format: Paperback My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) FEB 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS "Dear Diary. Today I'm going to kill her. Love, Rose." When Rose discovers her troubled past splashed across the pages of a bestselling book, she knows her carefully constructed life is about to unravel. The author, Emily Harper, claims the story is fict
Judith D Collins
Apr 124 min read
If A Face Could Kill
A Brigid Quinn Thriller #5 By: Becky Masterman ISBN: 9781448317899 Publisher: Severn House Publication Date: 03/03/206 Format: Other My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) MAR 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS "Chilling, smart . . . and what a voice"—Gillian Flynn The hunt for a neighbor’s killer . . . reveals chilling secrets close to home. Former FBI agent Brigid Quinn hasn’t forgiven herself for the testimony that led to young mother Nicole Gleason being convicted for the manslaughter of her abusiv
Judith D Collins
Apr 123 min read
Then He Was Gone
By: Isabel Booth Narrators: E.J. Lavery, Ryan Duncan, Ray Conley Spotify Audiobooks ISBN: 9798892424691 Publisher:Crooked Lane Books Publication Date: 02/24/2026 Format: Paperback My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) FEB 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Desperate parents search for their missing son in this tense thriller, perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell and Jennifer Hillier. When attorney Elizabeth English and her husband, Paul, catch up to their energetic sons at the end of their hike, they expe
Judith D Collins
Apr 125 min read
Cleo Dang Would Rather Be Dead
By: Mai Nguyen Narrator: Elyse Dinh Simon & Schuster Audio ISBN: 9781668080863 Publisher: Atria Books Publication Date: 04/14/2026 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) APR 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS A darkly humorous yet uplifting novel about a grieving mother who starts working at a funeral home and discovers that the best way to honor the dead is to live—from the author of the “insightful, moving” (Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author) Sunshine Nails. All
Judith D Collins
Apr 126 min read
The Book Witch
By: Meg Shaffer Narrator: Mia Hutchinson-Shaw Random House Audio ISBN: 9780593983584 Publisher: Ballantine Publication Date: 04/07/2026 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) APR 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS She can hop into any novel, she just can’t stay there. Come along with the book witch in this magical and inspiring love letter to reading from the USA Today bestselling author of The Wishing Game. Rainy March is a proud third-generation book witch, sworn to defend works of
Judith D Collins
Apr 105 min read
Dog Person
By: Camille Pagan Narrator: Mark Bramhall Random House Audio ISBN: 9798217092055 Publisher: Ballantine | Delacorte Press Publication Date: 04/07/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) APR 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS "Not since A Dog's Purpose have I been so besotted by a novel's canine. Just like a good dog, Harold and this beautiful book will break your heart open and mend it all at once. “ —Colleen Oakley, USA Today bestselling author of Jane & Dan at the End of the World In
Judith D Collins
Apr 107 min read
Dear Mother
By: Rea Frey Narrator: Jennifer Jill Araya ISBN: 9781662532283 Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 04/28/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) APR 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS In a tense thriller set deep amid the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a determined mother works to uncover the secrets of her family’s dark past, fearful of what their history may reveal. After a childhood riddled with trauma and unanswered questions, Isabelle Archer vows to chase down the tru
Judith D Collins
Apr 94 min read
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