The Winds of Maracaibo Thank you to NetGalley and Knopf for providing me with an ARC of this ebook in exchange for an honest review. A propulsive family drama, the story of a woman determined to recover her kidnapped daughter in the ruins of Chávez’s social revolution—the fast-paced […]
The Girls in the Dark Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture Audio for providing me with an ARC of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. I stare at the security footage, heart pounding in my chest. I know who broke into my home—she has a face […]
The God of the Woods When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that […]
I Took Her First Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture Audio for providing me with an ARC of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. A child is missing. But I stole her first… I sit little Mila down at my kitchen table with a glass of […]
Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree On April 14, 2014, Boko Haram kidnapped 276 girls. Some managed to escape. Many are still missing. A new pair of shoes, a university degree, a husband—these are the things that a girl dreams of in a Nigerian village. A girl who works […]
Long Island Compromise Thank you to NetGalley and Random House for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review. In 1980 a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway in a cloistered town on the nicest part of Long Island, brutalized, and […]
Bye, Baby Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for providing me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: kidnapping, exploitation of person with dementia, sexual exploitation, grief, loss of a parent, sexual assault, alcoholism, murder, trauma, mention of abortion A […]
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