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(52) 🔎🔪🧨 The Survivors by Jane Harper (384 pages, 2020). Audiobook. Returning to his tiny Australian seaside town with his new wife and baby after some time away, Kieran finds there are still people who blame him for two accidental deaths that occurred during a giant storm in his teen years. The plot thickens when a young woman living in town turns up dead and Kieran’s father–suffering from quickly-progressing dementia–can’t account for his whereabouts that night. As police investigate, connections begin to surface between events in Kieran’s past and present.
(53) 🔎🔪🧨 The Therapist by B.A. Paris (298 pages, 2021). Audiobook. Alice has taken the plunge and bought a house with her boyfriend Leo at the newly renovated house in The Circle, a gated community of exclusive houses. But soon a number of suspicious occurrences and discoveries–one of them involving the young therapist Nina who lived in the house before–have Alice wondering if she’s made a terrible mistake. The neighbors are clearly hiding something, and an ominous warning from one has her wondering if she should get out while she still can.
(54) 🔎🔪🧨 The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell (416 pages, 2021). Audiobook. One summer night, Tallulah and her boyfriend Zach disappear without a trace; Tallulah’s mother Kim continues to search frantically for them while raising Tallulah and Zach’s baby daughter. A year later, a young writer (Sofie) moves to the area with her boyfriend, the new head teacher of the nearby boarding school and is soon captivated by the story of their disappearance. Soon a number of clues reopen the investigation, and Kim and Sofie team up to figure out the truth–perhaps something to do with Tallulah’s friend Scarlett, possibly the last person to see them before they disappeared and who has now herself disappeared–along with her entire family.
(55) 🔎🪐🧨 A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (464 pages, 2019). Audiobook. When current ambassador to the Teixcalaanli Empire Yskandr suddenly dies, Mahit Dzmare arrives to replace him–carrying in her brain a “recording” of Yskandr’s knowledge and personality to guide her in her work. Alas, Yskandr had not been back to their home station to “update” his recording in sometime–meaning the version Mahit has to guide her is fifteen years out of date. Mahit quickly begins to suspect that his death was not an accident, and that she might be next if she can’t successfully navigate the imperial intrigues in which she finds herself embroiled. Really enjoyed this one!
(56) 🔎🔪🧨 People Like Her by Ellery Loyd (288 pages, 2021). Audiobook. Mommy blogger Emmy (aka “Mama Bare”) is an #inspiration to harried moms around the world; meanwhile, her floundering writer husband seeths in resentment, her pre-insta IRL friendships languish, and someone out there blames her for their life’s greatest tragedy and is hatching a plot to ensure that Emmy gets what she deserves. A quick and engaging read, and the author did a good job of making the characters three-dimensional and multi-layered when it would have been so easy to fall back on one-dimensional cliches.
(57) 🎭📚💎 A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (512 pages, 2016). Paper book. In 1922, the Russian Count Alexander Rastov is sentenced to house arrest at his current place of residence: The luxurious Metropol Hotel in downtown Moscow. While the Count’s rooms and possessions are somewhat downgraded, he is still able to go about an interesting life in the hotel, interacting with a diverse series of visitors and other characters in the hotel over the course of the next few decades. One of my favorite reads this year!
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