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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
Jun 178 min read
The Great Wherever
By: Shannon Sanders Narrator: Keylor Leigh ISBN: 9781250454102 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Henry Holt & Co. Publication Date: 07/07/2026 Format: Audio My Rating: 4 Stars (ALC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS One of Oprah Daily's Best Books of Summer 2026 One of NPR's 15 Most Anticipated Books of Summer One of Esquire's 22 Most Anticipated Books of 2026 A People's Must-Read Book for Summer 2026 One of Publishers Weekly's 10 Most Anticipated Literary Fiction titles for Spring/Summer 2
Judith D Collins
Jun 158 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
Jun 159 min read
Killer Vibes
A Peter Key Novel #1 By: Jack Friday Narrator: Max Meyers ISBN: 9781250428615 Publisher: Minotaur Books Publication Date: 07/14/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) (ALC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS A wild and wickedly funny series debut, introducing readers to the irresistible and irrepressible private investigator, Peter Key. "Everything you want in a great mystery."—Steven Rowley "Peter Key is my new favorite amateur sleuth."—Elle Cosimano Meet Peter Key: self-proclaim
Judith D Collins
Jun 126 min read
A Dark Path
And Other Kate Burkholder Short Stories By: Linda Castillo Narrator: Kathleen McInerney ISBN: 9781250433213 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Minotaur Books Publication Date: 06/076/2026 Format: Audio My Rating: 5 Stars (ALC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS For the first time in print comes a collection of five short stories in the Edgar award-winning Kate Burkholder series, PLUS one new, never-before-published story, from New York Times bestselling author Linda Castillo. When two young bo
Judith D Collins
Jun 126 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
Jun 117 min read
Don't Look Away
By: Daniel Kenitz ISBN: 9781668208656 Publisher: Scribner Publication Date: 07/07/2026 Format: Other My Rating: Currently Reading 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 Woodhouse’s most exciting days should be behind her. In a past life, she
Judith D Collins
Jun 43 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: Currently Reading (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS 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 helper at th
Judith D Collins
Jun 42 min read
Sisterhood Above All
By: Kathleen Barber and Amayah Shaienne Narrators: Narrated by Charlotte Lobdell; Khaya Fraites; Suzy Jackson ISBN: 9781250445087 Publisher: Macmilan Audio Publication Date: 07/14/2026 Format: Audio My Rating: TBR (ALC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Any girl would kill to be a Gamma. “Barber and Shaienne’s juicy, sexy, vicious collab is like America’s Next Top Model stitched with The Art of War. You’ll be equally riveted by the reality TV-level drama and the raw authenticity of t
Judith D Collins
Jun 13 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 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. “Visceral, vivid, and sus
Judith D Collins
May 2810 min read
This Changes Everything
By: Lisa Scottoline ISBN: 9781538770030 Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Publication Date: 07/14/2026 Format: Other My Rating: Currently Reading (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS In this “riveting, deeply felt and empowering thriller that is also a touching ode to female friendship” (Laura Dave) from #1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline, a woman risks her life to help her closest friend find justice for a tragic crime and realizes she has more power than she ever knew. Juli
Judith D Collins
May 273 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
May 235 min read
Meet the In-laws
Meet the Parents #2 By: Emily Shiner ISBN: 978-1807221713 Publisher: Bookouture Publication Date: 07/30/2026 Format: e-book My Rating: TBR (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS BLOG TOUR STOP 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-in-law: Carol has planned a weekend of home-cooked dinners and cocktails on the deck gettin
Judith D Collins
May 193 min read
The Sky Beneath Her
By: Mary Ellen Taylor ISBN: 978-1662530159 Publisher: Montlake Publication Date: 07/01/2026 Format: Other My Rating: TBR 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. The ocean she once loved is no
Judith D Collins
May 172 min read
The Safe Room
By: Lisa Unger ISBN: 978-1662537653 Publisher: Amazon Original Stories Publication Date: 07/01/2026 Format: e-book My Rating: TBR 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 poisoning. As she scours his
Judith D Collins
May 162 min read
The Country Road Murders
By: James Patterson and MIke Lupica ISBN: 9780316599870 Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Publication Date: 07/13/2026 Format: Other My Rating: TBR (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 his father was murdered. He
Judith D Collins
Apr 242 min read
Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt
By: Ben Reeves ISBN: 9781668216361 Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster Publication Date: 07/07.2026 Format: Other My Rating: TBR (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS "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 beauty, hope, and meaning in the brevity of li
Judith D Collins
Mar 273 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: TBR (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 suddenly
Judith D Collins
Mar 272 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: TBR (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 the
Judith D Collins
Mar 142 min read
The Delivery
A Novella By: Gregg Hurwitz ISBN: 9781662539343 Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 07/01/2026 Format: Hardcover My Rating: TBR (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 together. She’s healing from the pain of a misc
Judith D Collins
Feb 12 min read
Hot Girl Murder Club
By: Ashley Winstead Narrator: Brittany Pressley Macmillan Audio ISBN: 9781250401212 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Minotaur Books Publication Date: 07/14/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS 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 for murder? Ten yea
Judith D Collins
Jan 183 min read
The Last To Drown
By: Noelle W. Ihli ASIN: B0GJGBD3GC Publisher: Dynamite Books Publication Date: 07/16/2026 Format: e-book My Rating: TBR 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 on this same isolated stretch of water.
Judith D Collins
Jan 31 min read
Destination Funeral
By: Pagie Harbison ISBN: 9781250358103 Puublisher: St. Martin' Press Publication Date: 07/21/2026 Format: Other My Rating: TBR (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS The Big Chill meets About Time in this laugh-out-loud funny and equally heartbreaking novel, following a friend group so damaged that only a funeral could bring them back together. Perfect for fans of The Wedding People and One Italian Summer. When Babe—the complicated, magnetic matriarch of their teenage summers—dies,
Judith D Collins
Jan 12 min read
Mr. and Mrs. Dixon Hide a Body
By: Jennifer Holdich ISBN: 9781464229817 Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark Publication Date: 07/212026 Format: Paperback My Rating: TBR (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS From the author of Julie Tudor is Not a Psychopath ("wickedly funny and darkly compelling") comes a twisted new thriller following one couple who will do anything to get away with murder, even frame each other. Daisy Dixon lives in a stately home, but the grandeur on the outside hides a leaking roof, dusty rooms a
Judith D Collins
Dec 12, 20252 min read
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