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The Women In White
By: Sarah Pekkanen ISBN: 9781250349552 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Publication Date: 08/04/2026 Format: Hardcover My Rating: TBR (ARC) AUG 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Extrasensory perception. The Gift. A Sixth Sense. Or something else…. In 1964, four remarkable young women at a prestigious university became the subjects of parapsychology experiments by a visionary scientist. On the cusp of a historic breakthrough, the women mysteriously vanished and the program was erased from his

Judith D Collins
Jan 32 min read


The Shadow Friends
Martini Club #3 By: Tess Gerritsen ISBN: 978-1662533419 Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 08/25/2026 Format: Other My Rating: TBR (ARC) AUG 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Book 3 of 3: The Martini Club See all formats and editions From New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen comes a harrowing and emotional thriller where ghosts of the Cold War return with a vengeance—and cannot be outrun. When a renowned disease expert and Russian defector dies mysteriously during a

Judith D Collins
Jan 12 min read


The Unknown
By: Riley Sager ISBN: 979-8217044092 Publisher: Dutton Publication Date: 08/04/2026 Format: Other My Rating: TBR AUG 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS In 1926, five women disappeared from a remote island in Vermont. Now, one hundred years later, it’s happening again. Struggling actress Marin Keane is shocked when she lands a role in a major motion picture about the unsolved mystery of New Avalon, an island on sprawling Lake Faraday in Vermont. She’s even more surprised when she learns tha

Judith D Collins
Dec 25, 20252 min read


take Hart
Corey in Los Angeles #2 By: Jaime Parker Stickle ISBN: 978-1662531750 Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 08/04/2026 Format: Other My Rating: TBR 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 ignored. Sparked by maternal fury,

Judith D Collins
Dec 21, 20251 min read


The Amateur
By: Chris Bohjalian ISBN: 9780385551298 Publisher: Doubleday Publication Date: 08/04/2026 Format: Other My Rating: TBR AUG 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS When a young woman, a golf prodigy, kills a caddy with a stray ball at the country club, the investigation of this freak accident reveals a dark and shocking tale of secret affairs and predatory men, and suddenly a teenager is on trial in this spellbinding novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Flight

Judith D Collins
Dec 21, 20252 min read


Brimstone Hollow
By: Archer Sullivan ISBN: 9781250338716 Publisher: St. Martin's Press | Minotaur Books Publication Date: 08/11/1026 Format: Hardcoer My Rating: TBR (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’t much that happens in the Appalachian Mountains that Priva

Judith D Collins
Dec 19, 20252 min read


Heart of Glass
By: Jennifer Hillier ISBN: 978-1250763181 Publisher: Minotaur Books Publication Date: 08/25/2026 Format: Other My Rating: TBR AUG 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS A serial killer recants his long-ago confession regarding a small-town high school girl―and her then-best friends are forced to confront what really happened that night and what's happening now. Seaside is a small coastal town, known originally for the local amusement park. But twenty-five years ago, a serial killer dubbed Th

Judith D Collins
Oct 4, 20252 min read


Under the Falls
By: Richard Russo ISBN: 9780593805107 Publisher:Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor Publication Date: 08/11/2026 Format: Hardcover My Rating: TBR AUG 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls returns with his first stand-alone novel since Chances Are . . . —a spellbinding page-turner about a crime in a small town that exposes long-held secrets and betrayals among a group of lifelong friends When Tyler Sinclair left Stone Mountain at eighteen, he

Judith D Collins
Sep 24, 20252 min read






















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