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Tag: St. Martin’s Press

Categories Book Review, Jessie Garcia, Reviews with Spoilers

Jessie Garcia | THE BUSINESS TRIP Spoilers

The Plot (from Goodreads): Stephanie and Jasmine have nothing and everything in common. The two women don’t know each other but are on the same…

December 14, 2024April 30, 2025
Categories Book Review, Katherine Center

Katherine Center | The Rom-Commers

The Plot (from Goodreads): Emma Wheeler desperately longs to be a screenwriter. She’s spent her life studying, obsessing over, and writing romantic comedies―good ones! That…

June 5, 2024December 20, 2024
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Categories Book Review, Reviews with Spoilers, Sally Hepworth

Sally Hepworth | DARLING GIRLS Spoilers

The Plot (from Goodreads): For as long as they can remember, Jessica, Norah, and Alicia have been told how lucky they are. As young girls…

April 1, 2024June 19, 2024
Categories Book Review, Rachel Hawkins, Reviews with Spoilers

Rachel Hawkins | The Heiress

The Plot (from Goodreads): When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she’s not only North Carolina’s richest woman, she’s also its most notorious. The…

March 3, 2024May 24, 2024
Categories BA Paris, Book Review, Reviews with Spoilers

BA Paris | The Guest

The Plot (from Goodreads): Iris and Gabriel seem to have it all: a beautiful home in the British countryside, a daughter happily working in Greece,…

February 20, 2024May 24, 2024
Categories Book Review, Carola Lovering, Reviews with Spoilers

Carola Lovering | Bye, Baby

The Plot (from Goodreads): A missing baby. A fraught friendship. A secret that can never be told. On a brisk fall night in a New…

December 22, 2023December 22, 2023
Categories Book Review

Sarah Pekkanen | Gone Tonight

The Plot (from Goodreads): Catherine Sterling thinks she knows her mother. Ruth Sterling is quiet, hardworking, and lives for her daughter. All her life, it’s…

August 11, 2023August 11, 2023
Categories Book Review

Katherine Center | Hello Stranger

The Book:  Hello Stranger by Katherine CenterPublished July 11, 2023 by St. Martin’s PressDate read: May 5, 2023 The Characters:  Sadie Buy it on Bookshop.org…

May 31, 2023August 23, 2023
Categories Book Review, Reviews with Spoilers, Sally Hepworth

Sally Hepworth | The Younger Wife

The Plot (Goodreads): THE HUSBANDA heart surgeon at the top of his field, Stephen Aston is getting married again. But first he must divorce his…

May 21, 2023January 8, 2024
Categories Book Review, Reviews with Spoilers, Sally Hepworth

Sally Hepworth | The Soulmate

The Plot (from Goodreads): There’s a cottage on a cliff. Gabe and Pippa’s dream home in a sleepy coastal town. But their perfect house hides…

May 3, 2023May 31, 2023
Categories BA Paris, Book Review, Reviews with Spoilers

BA Paris | The Prisoner

The Plot (from Goodreads): Amelie has always been a survivor, from losing her parents as a child in Paris to making it on her own…

January 13, 2023January 13, 2023
Categories Book Review, Kate Alice Marshall, Reviews with Spoilers

Kate Alice Marshall | What Lies In The Woods

The Book:  What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice MarshallPublished January 17, 2023 by Flatiron BooksDate read: December 31, 2022 The Characters:  Naomi Shaw…

January 8, 2023March 13, 2024
Categories Book Review, Jessica Strawser, Reviews with Spoilers

Jessica Strawser | Almost Missed You

The Book:  Almost Missed You by Jessica StrawserPublished: March 2017 by St. Martin’s Press Almost Missed You is actually how I found “How Did That…

September 17, 2022October 11, 2022
Categories Book Review, Megan Goldin, Reviews with Spoilers

Megan Goldin | Stay Awake

The Plot (from Goodreads): Liv Reese wakes up in the back of a taxi with no idea where she is or how she got there….

September 12, 2022September 15, 2022
Categories Book Review, Katherine Center

Katherine Center | The Bodyguard

The Book:  The Bodyguard by Katherine CenterPublished July 19th 2022 by St. Martin’s PressDate read: July 2, 2022 The Characters:  HannahJack Buy it on Bookshop.org…

July 21, 2022March 18, 2024
Categories Book Review, DJ Palmer, Reviews with Spoilers

DJ Palmer | My Wife Is Missing

The Plot (from Goodreads): A family vacation turns into a nightmare for Michael Hart when he discovers his wife and two children have disappeared from…

April 27, 2022April 27, 2022
Categories Book Review, Jessica Strawser, Reviews with Spoilers

Jessica Strawser | The Next Thing You Know

The Plot (from Goodreads): As an end-of-life doula, Nova Huston’s job—her calling, her purpose, her life—is to help terminally ill people make peace with their…

April 24, 2022April 24, 2022
Categories Book Review, Reviews with Spoilers, Wendy Walker

Wendy Walker | Don’t Look For Me

The Plot (from Goodreads): One night, Molly Clarke walked away from her life. The car abandoned miles from home. The note found at a nearby…

December 29, 2021February 24, 2022
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Categories Book Review, Rachel Hawkins, Reviews with Spoilers

Rachel Hawkins | Reckless Girls

The Plot (from Goodreads): When Lux McAllister and her boyfriend, Nico, are hired to sail two women to a remote island in the South Pacific,…

October 25, 2021July 3, 2022
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Categories Book Review, Mary Kay Andrews

Mary Kay Andrews | The Santa Suit

The Plot (from Goodreads): When newly-divorced Ivy Perkins buys an old farmhouse sight unseen, she is definitely looking for a change in her life. The…

September 26, 2021February 5, 2023
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Categories Book Review, Chevy Stevens, Reviews with Spoilers

Chevy Stevens | Dark Roads

The Plot (from Goodreads): The Cold Creek Highway stretches close to five hundred miles through British Columbia’s rugged wilderness to the west coast. Isolated and…

August 6, 2021December 6, 2021
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Categories Book Review, Reviews with Spoilers, Susan Wilson

Susan Wilson | The Dog I Loved

The Plot (from Goodreads): After spending years in prison for a crime she didn’t intend to commit, Rose Collins is suddenly free. Someone who knows…

June 7, 2021April 15, 2022
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Categories Book Review, DJ Palmer, Reviews with Spoilers

D.J. Palmer | The Perfect Daughter

The Plot (from Goodreads): Grace never dreamt she’d visit her teenaged daughter Penny in the locked ward of a decaying state psychiatric hospital, charged with…

April 19, 2021February 7, 2022
therapist ba paris
Categories Book Review, BA Paris, Reviews with Spoilers

B.A. Paris | The Therapist

Thank you to St. Martin’s Press for an advanced copy of The Therapist in exchange for an honest review. This book will be available on July…

March 10, 2021August 9, 2022
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Categories Book Review, Reviews with Spoilers, Wendy Walker

Wendy Walker | All Is Not Forgotten

The Plot (from Goodreads): In the small, affluent town of Fairview, Connecticut everything seems picture perfect. Until one night when young Jenny Kramer is attacked…

March 3, 2021December 4, 2021
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Categories Book Review, Katherine Center

Katherine Center | What You Wish For

The Plot (from Goodreads): Samantha Casey is a school librarian who loves her job, the kids, and her school family with passion and joy for…

March 2, 2021February 5, 2023
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Categories Book Review, Michele Campbell, Reviews with Spoilers

Michele Campbell | She Was the Quiet One

The Plot (from Goodreads): For Rose Enright, enrolling in a prestigious New England boarding school is the opportunity of a lifetime. But for Rose’s vulnerable…

December 18, 2020August 9, 2022
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Categories Book Review, Carola Lovering, Reviews with Spoilers

Carola Lovering | Too Good To Be True

It’s best to go into this book blind–I don’t even recommend reading the summary! I think the blurb from the publisher gives too much away. …

December 13, 2020July 3, 2022
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Categories Book Review, Rachel Hawkins, Reviews with Spoilers

Rachel Hawkins | The Wife Upstairs

The Plot (from Goodreads): Meet Jane. Newly arrived to Birmingham, Alabama, Jane is a broke dog-walker in Thornfield Estates––a gated community full of McMansions, shiny…

December 3, 2020August 23, 2023
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Categories Book Review, Michele Campbell, Reviews with Spoilers

Michele Campbell | A Stranger on the Beach

The Plot (from Goodreads): There is a stranger outside Caroline’s house. Her spectacular new beach house, built for hosting expensive parties and vacationing with the…

November 29, 2020December 4, 2021
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Categories Book Review, Michele Campbell, Reviews with Spoilers

Michele Campbell | The Wife Who Knew Too Much

The Plot (from Goodreads): Tabitha Girard had her heart broken years ago by Connor Ford. He was preppy and handsome. She was a pool girl…

November 20, 2020February 2, 2022
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Categories Book Review, Jessica Strawser, Reviews with Spoilers

Jessica Strawser | A Million Reasons Why

The Plot (from Goodreads): When two strangers are linked by a mail-in DNA test, it’s an answered prayer―that is, for one half-sister. For the other,…

November 15, 2020December 30, 2021
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Categories Book Review, Katherine Center, Reviews with Spoilers

Katherine Center | Things You Save in a Fire

The Plot (from Goodreads): Cassie Hanwell was born for emergencies. As one of the only female firefighters in her Texas firehouse, she’s seen her fair…

October 29, 2020July 3, 2022
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Categories Book Review, Reviews with Spoilers, Sally Hepworth

Sally Hepworth | The Good Sister

The Plot (from Goodreads): From the outside, everyone might think Fern and Rose are as close as twin sisters can be: Rose is the responsible…

October 28, 2020December 30, 2021
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Categories Book Review, Megan Goldin, Reviews with Spoilers

Megan Goldin | The Night Swim

The Plot (from Goodreads): After the first season of her true-crime podcast became an overnight sensation and set an innocent man free, Rachel Krall is…

October 22, 2020July 3, 2022
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Categories Book Review, Katherine Center, Reviews with Spoilers

Katherine Center | How to Walk Away

The Plot (from Goodreads): Margaret Jacobsen has a bright future ahead of her: a fiancé she adores, her dream job, and the promise of a…

October 8, 2020July 3, 2022
Categories Book Review, Reviews with Spoilers, Sally Hepworth

Sally Hepworth | The Family Next Door

The Book:  The Family Next Door, by Sally Hepworth, 2018 The Characters:  The residents of Pleasant Court: Essie and Ben, Essie’s mom Barbara, Fran and…

October 5, 2020December 30, 2021
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Categories Book Review, Reviews with Spoilers, Sally Hepworth

Sally Hepworth | The Mother-in-Law

The Book:  The Mother in Law by Sally Hepworth, 2019 The Characters:  Married couple Lucy and Ollie, Ollie’s mother Diana, and sister Nettie The Plot…

October 2, 2020December 30, 2021
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