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Every find yourself wondering, “How did that book end, again?” Then this is the place to come for quick, concise recaps of book endings to jog your memory.

Categories Book Review, Lisa Jewell, Speedy Spoilers

Lisa Jewell | The Night She Disappeared

The Book:  The Night She Disappeared by Lisa JewellPublished September 7, 2021 by Atria BooksDate read: September 15, 2021 The Characters:  Tallulah Buy it on…

May 9, 2023August 23, 2023
Categories Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen, Speedy Spoilers

Greer Hendricks | The Golden Couple | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: Wealthy Washington suburbanites Marissa and Matthew Bishop seem to have it all—until Marissa is unfaithful. Beneath their veneer of perfection is a relationship driven…

March 12, 2023March 12, 2023
Categories Katherine Center, Speedy Spoilers

Katherine Center | Things You Save In A Fire | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: Cassie Hanwell was born for emergencies. As one of the only female firefighters in her Texas firehouse, she’s seen her fair share of them,…

February 25, 2023February 16, 2023
Categories JP Delaney, Speedy Spoilers

JP Delaney | The Girl Before | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: Please make a list of every possession you consider essential to your life. The request seems odd, even intrusive – and for the two…

February 24, 2023February 16, 2023
Categories Megan Miranda, Speedy Spoilers

Megan Miranda | The Perfect Stranger | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: Confronted by a restraining order and the threat of a lawsuit, failed journalist Leah Stevens needs to get out of Boston when she runs…

February 23, 2023February 16, 2023
Categories Shari Lapena, Speedy Spoilers

Shari Lapena | The End of Her | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: Stephanie and Patrick are adjusting to life with their colicky twin girls. The babies are a handful, but even as Stephanie struggles with the…

February 22, 2023February 16, 2023
Categories BA Paris, Speedy Spoilers

BA Paris | The Dilemma | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: It’s Livia’s 40th birthday, and her husband Adam is throwing her the party of a lifetime to make up for the wedding they never…

February 21, 2023February 16, 2023
Categories Erica Spindler, Speedy Spoilers

Erica Spindler | The Look-Alike | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: Sienna Scott grew up in the dark shadow of her mother’s paranoid delusions. Now, she’s returned home to confront her past and the unsolved…

November 29, 2022
Categories Alison Gaylin, Speedy Spoilers

Alison Gaylin | And She Was | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: On a summer afternoon in 1998, six-year-old Iris Neff walked away from a barbecue in her small suburban town . . . and vanished….

November 29, 2022
Categories Speedy Spoilers

Mary Beth Keane | Ask Again, Yes | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: How much can a family forgive? Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope, rookie NYPD cops, are neighbors in the suburbs. What happens behind closed doors…

November 9, 2022November 29, 2022
Categories Speedy Spoilers, Lisa Jewell

Lisa Jewell | The Family Upstairs | Ten Second Spoilers

This is a spoiler post! Do not read on unless you have already read The Family Upstairs or want to be spoiled. Summary: Soon after…

July 26, 2022July 26, 2022
Categories Alison Gaylin, Speedy Spoilers

Alison Gaylin | Never Look Back | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: When website columnist Robin Diamond is contacted by true crime podcast producer Quentin Garrison, she assumes it’s a business matter. It’s not. Quentin’s podcast, Closure,…

February 27, 2022November 29, 2022
Categories Tana French, Speedy Spoilers

Tana French | The Witch Elm | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who’s dodged a scrape at work and is celebrating with friends when the night takes a turn that will…

February 26, 2022September 19, 2022
Categories Riley Sager, Speedy Spoilers

Riley Sager | The Last Time I Lied | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: Fifteen years ago, summer camper Emma Davis watched sleepily as her three cabin mates snuck out of their cabin in the dead of night….

February 7, 2022August 19, 2024
Categories Kate White, Speedy Spoilers

Kate White | Have You Seen Me? | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: On a cold, rainy morning, finance journalist Ally Linden arrives early to work in her Manhattan office, only to find that she’s forgotten her…

January 26, 2022February 27, 2022
Categories Laura Lippman, Speedy Spoilers

Laura Lippman | Lady in the Lake | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: In 1966, Baltimore is a city of secrets that everyone seems to know–everyone, that is, except Madeline “Maddie” Schwartz. Last year, she was a…

January 4, 2022April 28, 2022
Categories Sarah Pinborough, Speedy Spoilers

Sarah Pinborough | Dead To Her | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: SOMETHING OLDMarcie’s affair with Jason Maddox catapulted her into the world of the elite. Old money, old ties, old secrets. Marcie may have married…

January 2, 2022February 26, 2022
Categories Speedy Spoilers, Kimberly Belle

Kimberly Belle | Stranger in the Lake | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: When Charlotte married the wealthy widower Paul, it caused a ripple of gossip in their small lakeside town. They have a charmed life together,…

July 21, 2021December 21, 2021
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Categories Speedy Spoilers, DJ Palmer

DJ Palmer | The New Husband | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: What makes Simon Fitch so perfect? -He knows all her favorite foods, music, and movies.-Her son adores him. He was there when she needed him…

July 20, 2021November 27, 2021
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Categories Speedy Spoilers, Riley Sager

Riley Sager | Home Before Dark | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: What was it like? Living in that house. Maggie Holt is used to such questions. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and…

July 20, 2021November 27, 2021
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Categories Speedy Spoilers, Elizabeth Cohen

Elizabeth Cohen | The Glitch | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: Shelley Stone might be a little overwhelmed. She runs the company Conch, the manufacturer of a small wearable device that attaches to the user’s…

July 11, 2021November 19, 2021
Categories Lucy Foley, Speedy Spoilers

Lucy Foley | The Guest List | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: A wedding celebration turns dark and deadly in this deliciously wicked and atmospheric thriller reminiscent of Agatha Christie from the New York Times bestselling…

June 29, 2021November 18, 2021
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Categories Speedy Spoilers, Jean Hanff Korelitz

Jean Hanff Korelitz | You Should Have Known | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself, devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer…

June 27, 2021November 15, 2021
Categories Speedy Spoilers, Caroline Kepnes

Caroline Kepnes | Hidden Bodies | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: In the compulsively readable sequel to her widely acclaimed debut novel, You, Caroline Kepnes weaves a tale that Booklist calls “the love child of Holden Caulfield…

June 25, 2021April 15, 2022
Categories Speedy Spoilers, Liv Constantine

Liv Constantine | The Last Time I Saw You | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: The internationally bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish follows that success with an addictive novel filled with shocking twists about the aftermath of a brutal…

June 23, 2021November 14, 2021
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Categories Speedy Spoilers, Liv Constantine

Liv Constantine | The Wife Stalker | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: Breezing into the tony seaside paradise of Westport, Connecticut, gorgeous thirtysomething Piper Reynard sets down roots, opening a rehab and wellness space and joining…

June 20, 2021November 14, 2021
Categories Speedy Spoilers, Liane Moriarty

Liane Moriarty | Truly Madly Guilty | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: Six responsible adults. Three cute kids. One small dog. It’s just a normal weekend. What could possibly go wrong? Sam and Clementine have a…

June 17, 2021November 14, 2021
Categories Speedy Spoilers, Emma Straub

Emma Straub | The Vacationers | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: For the Posts, a two-week trip to the Balearic island of Mallorca with their extended family and friends is a celebration: Franny and Jim…

June 15, 2021November 14, 2021
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Categories Speedy Spoilers, Emma Straub

Emma Straub | Modern Lovers | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: Friends and former college bandmates Elizabeth and Andrew and Zoe have watched one another marry, buy real estate, and start businesses and families, all…

June 14, 2021November 14, 2021
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Categories Speedy Spoilers, Liv Constantine

Liv Constantine | The Last Mrs. Parrish | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: Amber Patterson is fed up. She’s tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background. She deserves more—a life…

June 12, 2021March 22, 2024
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Categories Speedy Spoilers, Tarryn Fisher

Tarryn Fisher | The Wives | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: Thursday’s husband, Seth, has two other wives. She’s never met them, and she doesn’t know anything about them. She agreed to this unusual arrangement…

June 11, 2021December 7, 2021
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Categories Speedy Spoilers, Megan Goldin

Megan Goldin | The Escape Room | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: Welcome to the escape room. Your goal is simple. Get out alive. In the lucrative world of finance, Vincent, Jules, Sylvie, and Sam are…

June 11, 2021November 14, 2021
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Categories Speedy Spoilers, Samantha Downing

Samantha Downing | My Lovely Wife | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: A couple’s fifteen-year marriage has finally gotten too interesting… Our love story is simple. I met a gorgeous woman. We fell in love. We…

June 10, 2021November 14, 2021
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Categories Speedy Spoilers, Rachel Howzell Hall

Rachel Howzell Hall | They All Fall Down | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime. Delighted by a surprise invitation, Miriam Macy sails off to a luxurious private island…

June 8, 2021December 8, 2021
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Categories Speedy Spoilers, Celeste Ng

Celeste Ng | Everything I Never Told You | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet. So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio….

June 6, 2021May 2, 2024
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Categories Speedy Spoilers, Emma Straub

Emma Straub | All Adults Here | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: When Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town, it jostles loose a repressed memory from her young parenting days…

June 3, 2021November 14, 2021
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Categories Speedy Spoilers, Jennifer Weiner

Jennifer Weiner | Big Summer | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: Six years after the fight that ended their friendship, Daphne Berg is shocked when Drue Cavanaugh walks back into her life, looking as lovely…

June 1, 2021November 14, 2021
Categories Speedy Spoilers, Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen

Greer Hendricks | You Are Not Alone | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: Shay Miller wants to find love, but it eludes her. She wants to be fulfilled, but her job is a dead end. She wants…

May 30, 2021January 14, 2022
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Categories Speedy Spoilers, Janelle Brown

Janelle Brown | Pretty Things | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: Nina once bought into the idea that her fancy liberal arts degree would lead to a fulfilling career. When that dream crashed, she turned…

May 25, 2021November 14, 2021
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Categories Speedy Spoilers, Gilly MacMillan

Gilly Macmillan | The Nanny | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: When her beloved nanny, Hannah, left without a trace in the summer of 1988, seven-year-old Jocelyn Holt was devastated. Haunted by the loss, Jo…

May 22, 2021November 14, 2021
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Categories Speedy Spoilers, Michael Connelly

Michael Connelly | The Late Show | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: Renée Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing none as each morning she turns her cases over to day…

May 21, 2021November 14, 2021
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Categories Speedy Spoilers, Riley Sager

Riley Sager | Lock Every Door | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: No visitors. No nights spent away from the apartment. No disturbing the other residents, all of whom are rich or famous or both. These…

May 14, 2021November 14, 2021
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Categories Speedy Spoilers, Megan Miranda

Megan Miranda | The Last House Guest | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: The summer after a wealthy young summer guest dies under suspicious circumstances, her best friend lives under a cloud of grief and suspicion.Littleport, Maine,…

May 12, 2021November 14, 2021
Categories Mary Kubica, Speedy Spoilers

Mary Kubica | Every Last Lie | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary: “The bad man, Daddy. The bad man is after us.” Clara Solberg’s world shatters when her husband and their four-year-old daughter are in a…

May 10, 2021November 14, 2021
Categories Speedy Spoilers, Catherine Steadman

Catherine Steadman | Mr. Nobody | Ten-Second Spoilers

Book Blurb: A man lacking identification and unable to speak is found semiconscious on a British beach and immediately draws national press as Mr. Nobody….

May 8, 2021November 14, 2021
Categories Speedy Spoilers, Fiona Barton

Fiona Barton | The Suspect | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary The police belonged to another world – the world they saw on the television or in the papers. Not theirs. When two eighteen-year-old girls…

May 7, 2021November 14, 2021
Categories Speedy Spoilers, Kathleen Barber

Kathleen Barber | Are You Sleeping | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary The only thing more dangerous than a lie . . . is the truth. Josie Buhrman has spent the last ten years trying to…

May 5, 2021November 14, 2021
Categories Speedy Spoilers, JP Delaney

JP Delaney | Believe Me | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary A struggling actor, a Brit in America without a green card, Claire needs work and money to survive. Then she gets both. But nothing…

May 4, 2021November 14, 2021
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Categories Speedy Spoilers, Kathleen Barber

Kathleen Barber | Follow Me | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary Audrey Miller has an enviable new job at the Smithsonian, a body by reformer Pilates, an apartment door with a broken lock, and hundreds…

May 1, 2021November 14, 2021
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Categories Speedy Spoilers, Melissa de la Cruz

Melissa de la Cruz | The Birthday Girl | Ten-Second Spoilers

Summary Ellie de Florent-Stinson is celebrating her fortieth birthday with a grand celebration in her fabulous house in Palm Springs. At forty, it appears Ellie…

April 30, 2021November 14, 2021

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