Bookwild - 10 More Amazing Kindle Unlimited Thrillers

Episode Date: February 23, 2023

We had so many books we wanted to talk about on Kindle Unlimited so here are 10 more great thrillers to pick up!Follow us on Instagram:Gare @gareindeedreadsKate @thegirlwiththecookonthecouchBooks We Talked AboutBooks We Talked AboutWhisperThe ShardsThe Angel MakerDeath of a Dancing QueenThe Long and Faraway GoneWe Lie HereAnd Now She’s GoneThese Toxic ThingsHis & HersRazorblade TearsThe DryBeneath Devil’s BridgeThe Memory WatcherUnmissingStill MissingThe Wife Between UsSome Choose Darkness  Get Bookwild MerchCheck Out My Stories Are My Religion SubstackCheck Out Author Social Media PackagesCheck out the Bookwild Community on PatreonCheck out the Imposter Hour Podcast with Liz and GregFollow @imbookwild on InstagramOther Co-hosts On Instagram:Gare Billings @gareindeedreadsSteph Lauer @books.in.badgerlandHalley Sutton @halleysutton25Brian Watson @readingwithbrian 

Hey guys, welcome to the Killing the Tea podcast. This is Gare and Kate. And we are going to be discussing all things, chills, thrills and kills. Kate and I are going to be talking about our favorite books, TV shows and movies that are in the thriller or crime fiction genre, as well as some reading habits and other items related to how we met on Bookstagram that will fit in with this podcast. So, Thank you so much for joining us, and we hope that you have fun and get totally terrified. I don't have an icebreaker tonight. Do you? I don't either. I do have...

I don't think about it. Instead of an icebreaker, I have, like, what would you call it? A tidbit, a 411, hot news, fresh off the press. Yes. there is a thriller that given the books that you and I have recommended to the people that still listen to us. For some reason. For some reason. There's a hot new thriller coming out this summer, July 18th.

It is called Whisper by Brian Dearborn. Yes, I've seen a post about this. Love the cover. It sounds so good. So add this to your TBR. It is a suspense novel dealing with a serial killer. And it is called Whisper by Brian Dearborn, July 18th. I'll just read the description because we got to hype it up.

It sounds so good. Fresh off of a breakup and finally coming to terms with the death of her father, young biotech professional Madison Parker is ready to move forward with her life in California. That is until her home. hometown best friend from affluent Connecticut is viciously murdered. Bama bum. Murder.

Murder. With Madison still reeling from the tragedy, the killer begins to target other members of her inner circle, and she finds herself at the center of a string of increasingly brutal murders that span coast to coast. As she struggles to understand

the killer's motive and protect her remaining friends, the victim of the deadly game. but catching the killer once and for all means uncovering alarming secrets in her own life secrets she might be better off leaving alone that sounds great right i know this is twisted i only i swear i only like this in fiction but when a killer is targeting a friend group it just reminds me of like the scream movies and the 90s flashers that like i watch for comfort so like this synopsis like California, Connecticut, everything in between murder, serial killer targeting a group of friends.

Yes. It's also everything you loved about the shards. It is. Or a lot of the things. I think that it's also going to be half of the length of the shards. So it'll be nice. It'll be nice to not feel like I'm cross-eyed when I finish it. Yeah.

Because I'm not going to lie, multiple times I've been like, Is that what I should start? And I'm never in the mood to do that big of a book. So I just haven't started it. I will say two things to piggyback off that statement. Nice. You don't realize your potential as a reader sometimes, you personally. Right.

Your potential as a reader is as incredible as your bangs. Just remember that every morning when you look in the mirror. It's going to be my new affirmation. I love it. And also, the shards, when you start reading it, you're not like, oh, my God, I have 500 more pages ago. You're like, you just keep reading it and you're like, I could read this if it was like a thousand pages. Right. Yeah. Like, yeah. I know. I might read it next. I don't know. I'm kind of caught up on my, like, my neck galleys. So like I have some time to read some, I know. I mean, I have stuff in March, but like, I don't have anything left in February.

So I might, who knows what I'll read? I know. I can't wait to find out. Yeah. What are you reading? Well, I vowed to never say anything negative about any books on here. Okay. So I just finished a book that was a mediocre three for me. It just not a lot of things didn't work. Yeah. I am looking forward to the next book that I'm starting, which is the angel maker by Alex North. Ooh, yeah, I've been seeing that.

We'll go with that. We'll go with that. We'll go with that. I just finished death of a dancing queen. And I am obsessed with, I was obsessed with it. I could not put it down. I'm so happy it's a series, but I wish I could read like 10 of them already. And like a really interesting thing that happened for me with that book, it is a noir. And it's, I would say like the feel of it is very similar to Jessica Jones if mobsters were the problem instead of like superhero stuff. And there's like there's more like family ties than that. However, as I was starting it, I was telling Tyler how I was like, I always love noir's. And so then when you like reach a point, you're like, oh, that's what this is. I was like, I've always loved these.

When I was in middle school, my favorite series that I read was the Sammy Keys series, which was like a modern day Nancy Drew series in the 2000s. And I was like, I have loved noir's my whole life. So I discovered that about myself or rediscovered it. Well, if you like noir, yeah, I'm telling you, with all of my aching heart, you will love the long and far away gone by Lou Bernie. Oh, okay.

It's very noir. It's on my. Okay, nice. and because of your, how do I say this? Because of your attention span as a reader where you're always trying to put pieces together, I think it'll be fun for you because there's a lot, there's a lot going on all at once. Nice. So. I'm writing notes about this because I've had it on my list.

I can't wait for you to read it and be like, oh my God, you were right. Oh my God, I'm crying. Oh my God. That was amazing. Oh, my God. Noir is my shit now. Yeah. I think that is probably what will happen. Probably. Probably. I will never forget the ending to that book. I really want to read it again.

I'm not going to say the name of the book. There was a book that I got approved for on that Galley that I'm going to give a try. I just haven't done it yet because it sounded really good like a serial killer thriller. and having detectives and police officers with like what they believe to be a personal connection to the serial killer through his victims. But when I looked it up on Amazon to tell my friend about it, it said that it was Christian suspense. Interesting. I'm a little nervous. I don't blame you. I'm a little nervous now to be like, is this Christian suspense in like the fact of, of there's religious aspects because of this community or the killer?

Or is this Christian suspense? Like somebody's going to come across a dead body and be like, oh, darn. Instead of like, what the fuck? Exactly. That is what we need to know. That is. So I'm a little curious on that. Yes.

I won't say the series name either, but growing up as a we pastor's child that I was. I got to shop at the Christian bookstores most of my life. And I can't think of what the most prominent one is, but anyone who grew up in the 2000s with like religious-ish Christian parents, you guys were all probably in a Christian bookstore at some point. And like my earlier reference to Sammy Keys, how I was kind of, I found that series in middle. school, there was a series that I totally got into, and it was Christian suspense. And so it was like,

I was getting as close to what I actually wanted to read as possible. But like, yes, there was like, it was like, oh, no, it's not like shit. We're like, oh, what the fuck are they doing? Like, Right, right. That's my only... I have read a version of that myself. I just, I guess my, like, thing is, is, like, how do you have, like, good, clean mystery of a serial killer without describing things that people want to know in crime fiction?

Like, how do you know... Like, I feel like there's, like, a lot of details, even if you don't read about the crime and, like, the person's already murdered, you read a lot of details about how it happened because of... they, that's how they kind of connect. They, that's how they kind of connect like other victims. You know what I mean? So I guess I'm just like very interested and curious about this.

So I might be trying to give that a shot to see. Don't get me wrong. If I'm 10% in and like somebody's like, oh darn. I'm out. What's going to be the most interesting to me is like, if there's like spontaneous prayer circles. There's also supposed to be, it's also supposed to be a romantic. suspense. Nothing gets me happier than like steam, spice, and hunting down a serial killer.

So if they're like... Three things I've never associated with Christ. Steam, spice, and serial killers. Yeah. So I don't know. If there's just lingering eye contact and a bunch of, oh, darns, I'm out. Listen. Yeah. I just want to say for anybody in a situation where there's, if you feel like you're in danger and there's like a serial killer on the loose or you're in a position where like you're living a thriller, hook up with whoever you want and do it quick. Yeah.

He's a serial killer on the loose and you're hunting him and he possibly killed your mother or your wife or your girlfriend or whatever the case may be. Don't have lingering eye contact with somebody for 60% of the story. get it in and get it done because you might die in the thriller. Yes. So if you're ever in a situation where you are experiencing a thriller-like plot in your life instead of on your lap and your hand, sleep with as many people as possible. This is the most important PSA of all the PSAs we've had. Yes. Yes.

It is necessarily, it's like in cruel intentions where she's like everybody does it. Nobody talks about it. but like literally if you are ever in a serial killer, just hook up with as many people as possible. Do it. Because you don't want to be on your deathbed. Or have one eye shot being like, oh, I should have hooked up with Sarah or Ryan or whoever.

Yeah. Sarah Michelle Geller and Ryan Phillipie. You're like, not that I thought about it. Not that I thought about it, not at all. I thought I recently watched Cruel intentions. The only thing that made me a little nervous was that, It's number 2,423 under Clean and Wholesome Romance. Oh, clean and wholesome.

Isn't that what they sometimes call, like, closed door? Yeah, but it says it's like chilling. I don't know. Who knows? I'm really intrigued. I am too, but I'm also really sad because I was like saving it. Maybe I'll look on good reads. Anyway.

Yeah. Well, so now that everybody knows that you were a wee child reading Christian mysteries while I was going to the movie theater when I was 12 years old to watch Girl Intentions and turned into a little heathen. Yes. Speaking of unlimited possibilities. Unlimited. Do you know what else we love that's unlimited? Kindle Unlimited? Yeah.

So I don't know about you, but I do know because we talked about it. But last week when we discussed some of our favorite reads that are on Kindle Unlimited, like we were talking about how hard it was to narrow them down because there are so many good options. And part two. We're doing it. I mean, who doesn't want to know how many books they could read for free-ish? Free, free-ish. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. If you're any more than one book a month, you're winning with it. I think it's what, $8 a month for Kindle Unlimited? We're not sponsored by Kindle, Unlimited, or Amazon, by the way. Yet. I know this sounds like a commercial because we're trying to be funny. But it's not.

but it's not. We both pay the $8. We both pay the $8. Well, you know what the thing is, too, is that, like, a lot of people, like, I feel like sometimes when I post a review or I, like, post something on Instagram, people are like, oh, my God, like, you're killing my wallet. Yeah, yeah. And I've said that to people, too.

So, but we're just trying to resuscitate your wallet. Yeah, exactly. With Kind of Unlimited. Yes. Buy yourself some. bookish tease, some new bookmarks, a new Kindle. Yeah. Represent.

I actually think if you buy a new Kindle, you get like three months of Kindle Unlimited for free. You do. And often, if you've never signed up for Kindle Unlimited, you can always find a deal that's like you get the first three months free. Yeah. They have that deal a lot. And if you're listening to us, your phone is listening to you. So you're going to start getting ads. So it's going to show up in your ads.

Yeah. You're welcome. I did see that there's a new. So I like the Kindle Paperwhite because it doesn't strain my eyes. And I did see that there's a new Kindle Paperwhite out and it comes in Agave and also Navy. Is this the one where you can write on it too? I'm not sure. I just looked at the colors because I'm a little shallow.

Oh, that's okay. I don't think it is. But I think it's just the paperway. Like, it's just like the standard whatever. Okay. Yeah. Kindle Unlimited. And here are some amazing choices.

Yep. So I'm going to hand it over to my girl, Kate, Great, to kick this motherfucker off. Yes. Ain't going to see that on Christian Mingle. So, like, the best news to keep adding on to this is you could literally pay for one months of Kind of Kind of Unlimited and read 10 books that we talk about in one month. So it's a true value here of this episode. But one that I read earlier, it was in 2022. Why did I say it like that? But recently read that also happens to be on Kindle Unlimited is We Lie Here by Rachel Howl Hall.

I'm going to try the synopsis belongs. I will try to summarize. But TV writer Yara Gibson's hometown of Palmdale, California isn't her first choice for a vacation. But she's back to host her parents' 20th anniversary party and find the perfect family mementos for the celebration. Everything is going to plan until Yara receives the disturbing text. I have information that will change your life. The message is from Felicia, who comes. claims to be a childhood friend of Yarra's mother, but they've been estranged for years.

Drama best ignored and forgotten. But Yara can't forget Felicia who keeps texting, insisting that Yara talk to her before it's too late. But it's already too late because the next day Felicia is found in Lake Palmdale. Before she died, she left Yara a key to a remote lakeside cabin. And in the basement, she finds files related to a mysterious tragedy. unsolved since 1998. What Secrets was Felicia hiding and how much of what Yard knows

about her family has been true. I fucking love that book. Yeah, I love Rachel Housel Hall a lot. Me too. And I like, the way the book, like the setting, this is one of those ones where the settings of character and kind of like a plot point

and like the kind of the imagery and like how she like tells from the experience of Yars's point of view. Like you feel kind of like suffocated as you're, as she feels everything closing in. It was really good. I loved it. I did too. I did too.

I think she is a fucking powerhouse. I love her. Her writing is so cinematic and so twisty. And it's not like sometimes when this is what I get nervous about when I read a debut author. If you don't rope me in right away, like that's what happened with my last book. I just kept reading it and reading it,

waiting for it to rope me in. And I just didn't. But like she like writes like 450, 500 page books and like wrote you in like the first like three sentences. It's fucking insane. Yeah. I love her.

I love her books. Like all of them for that exact reason. And actually her book and now she's gone is one where if you liked and now if you read and now she's gone and you liked it, you would also really like death of a dancing queen. They're both very similar. I will keep that in mind. That one's not Kiddler Unlimited, but it's a bonus one.

Bonus for a donation. Speaking of Rachel Housel Hall, how? How? How did we do this? Out of all of the options on Kindle Unlimited, we both picked a Rachel. Rachel Housel Hall. That is a true testament to how much we love her. Yes. So if anybody's ever talked to me before about Rachel Housel Hall, this recommendation is no surprise but whatsoever. But these toxic things by Rachel Housel Hall is one of the best stories I've ever read. It is creepy and insane and it like cinematic. It's amazing. Yeah. It's about a woman named Mickey Lambert. She

She creates digital scrapbooks for her clients, ensuring that precious souvenirs aren't forgotten or lost. So when her latest client, Nadia Denham, a curio shop owner, dies from an apparent suicide, Mickey honors the old woman's last wish and begins curating her peculiar objects, a music box, a hair clip, a keychain, 12 mementos, and all that must have met so much to Nadia who collected them on her flea market scavenges across the country. But these tokens mean a lot to someone else too. Mickey has been receiving threatening messages to leave Nadia's past alone. It's becoming a mystery Mickey is driven to solve. Who once owned these odd treasures?

How did Nadia really come to possess them? Discovering the truth means crossing past with a long dormant serial killer and navigating the secrets of a sinister past. That one was so fun to read. And creepy. And creepy. Really creepy. really creepy. I can't guarantee this.

She really makes great atmospheres. Yes. And I can't guarantee this for everyone's reading experience for mine. It just really was sensational and scary when I was reading this book and a man tried to break into my house. Yes, that's this book. Oh, it would have been so terrifying. Yeah. And it was during a scary part. It was during a scary part. Of course. Like, you know when you see that person on TV in a scary movie and they're watching a scary movie? Mm-hmm.

And then the scary movie happens to them. That's what I felt like. It was very meta. It really was. I'm alive to tell this story so I can laugh out of now. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, oh my God, do I have a stalker?

How exciting. Oh, my gosh. What made you pick me? I mean, I get it, but like. Let me grab my bookmark. Just one second, sir. I need a whole. my place.

Just one second. Oh my gosh. Yes. But yeah, that would be so creepy to have that happen with. Yeah. Yeah. It's so good. 10 out of 10 experience to have somebody try to break into your house when you're reading it.

Yeah. Yeah. I did not have that experience, but I still loved the book. And I did tell her that story. Mm-hmm. So she was very appreciative. She's like, I love it. She's like, oh, wow.

I did not send him. She's like, this is not a gimmick when that comes with a book. Yeah, like part of the like merch box or something. Right. She's like, I didn't hand out free bookmarks, but everybody who reads this book, we're going to have an actor come and try to break into your house. Chapter 13. Oh, my God.

Oh, my gosh. That would be terrible. I don't have a good segue. I've been trying to think of one, and I don't. But my next one is... I'm going to give you credit, because if you didn't pick Rachel Housel Hall, I don't know if I would have had a good segue. Oh, nice.

So that was a team effort. Well, the other team effort is we both thought of this one. So that's the segue. Okay. I was like, you can have it. You let me have it. Yeah. But I was so excited to see that

his and hers is on Kendall Unlimited. Because I paid for it, but I was like, I'm so happy that I can just tell people to go read this one. So there are two sides to every story. Yours and mine, ours and theirs, which means someone is always lying. When a woman is murdered and blacked down a quintessentially British village,

newsreader Anna Andrews is reluctant to cover the case. Detective Jack Harper is suspicious of her. her involvement until he becomes a suspect in his own murder investigation. Someone isn't telling the truth and some secrets are worth killing to keep. And it is a masterpiece of like kind of unreliable, not not it's like unrealable narrators, but in the sense that like the crux of the story is like, oh, there's always two sides to the story. So you're constantly trying to figure out which parts are true.

I mean, if anybody's ever read Alice Fini or heard of Alice Fieny, like you should know that like you really can't trust any character, even the ones that are telling the truth. So right. I mean, that's a perfect explanation and description. But I love that book so much. I think that's one of her darkest ones. I think so.

There's a lot of stuff. I bet there are a lot of trigger warnings. too. Yeah. And I just remember the ending and I won't say anything but there's like a lot of imagery and like the setting and the ending where you get like the big reveal was very like cinematic.

Yeah. Yeah. So go Alice Fini. She's a badass. This is one that I do want to reread. It was not good. Me too. It was that good. Yeah. She's fantastic. I read it. In 2020. Mm-hmm.

She's so good. She's so good. I just love her. I actually have a book that I love so much. And I was so surprised to see this on Kindle Unlimited. It's like when you find like an Oscar nominated movie on Netflix. Yes. Um Razor Blade Tears by S.C. Cosby is one of my favorite books. It is Noir. I need to read this. Who do?

Yeah. Oh, you need to. It is a noir. Who done it? That will tug at your heartstrings. And it is just so badass. It's like a, it's like an emotional action movie. Oh, I love that. So Riserblade tears. it's go good. A black father, a white father, and two murdered sons.

A quest for vengeance. Ike Randolph has been out of jail for 15 years, but not so much as a speeding ticket and all that time. But a black man with the cops at his door knows to be afraid. The last thing he expects to hear is that his son, Isaiah, has been murdered, along with Isaiah's white husband, Derek. Ike had never fully accepted his son, but is devastated by. his loss. Derek's father, Buddy Lee, was also ashamed of Derek for being gay, as Derek was ashamed

of his father for being a criminal. Buddy Lee still has contacts in the underworld, though, and he knows, and he wants to know who killed his boy. Ike and Buddy Lee, two ex-cons with little else in common other than a criminal past and a love for their dead sons, banned together in their desperate desire for revenge. In their quest to do better for their sons in death than they did in life, Harden men like Ike and Buddy Lee will confront their own prejudices about their sons and each other as they rain down vengeance

upon those who hurt their boys. That sounds powerful. It is so good. I remember hearing about it and then I never picked it up. Yeah, it is so good. He's an incredible storyteller, but both of his stories are very like

noir and just, I mean, like hit you in the chest. chest. Even though I paid for it, like, even though I bought this book with my own money, I was like, damn, that was worth every penny and more. Like, have you ever read a book? Yeah. Have you ever read a book and you're like, I would have spent $100 on that book? Oh, yeah. That's razor blade tears for me. Like it's always a go-to recommendation. It's just so good. Right. It's a how I'm starting to feel about Taylor Jenkins read books. There's just such a, like, you're like, that was such a rich experience that you provided for me.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And his, um, his plots are always very, like, complex and, like, layered very well. So. So, yeah. Speaking of complex, layered plot lines. The Dry by Jane Harper is on Kindle Unlimited now.

And I just loved reading this one. In the grip of the worst drought in a century, the farming community of Kiwara is facing life and death choices daily when three members of a local family are found brutally slain. Federal police investigator Aaron Falk reluctantly returns to his hometown for the funeral of his childhood friend. loath to face the townsfolk who turned their backs on him 20 years earlier. But as questions mount, Falk is forced to probe deeper into the deaths of the Hadler family.

Because Falk and Luke Hadler shared a secret. A secret Falk thought was long buried. A secret Luke's death now threatens to bring to the surface in this small Australian town as old wounds bleed into new ones. And it was another one too where the setting is. like a big part of the story. Like you feel hot with him the whole time. Like you feel like you're in the dry Australian heat and like no everything is kind of heavy about kind of heavy about the story too. So it like fits the story. But there's like a lot of stuff going on and then it all comes together at the end and it's pretty cool. Yeah. That was such a good book. I love her storytelling.

She's an incredible author, and she does do really good with, like, imagery and atmosphere and stuff. She's just never done me wrong. Never done me wrong that, Jane. Speaking of setting. Yeah. I was like scrolling through like, uh, I have one. Okay, so I'm not going to lie to you. I kind of cheated a little bit.

because last week I had two recommendations, and then this week I have two other recommendations by authors that I talked about last week. Just a testament of how much I love them. Yeah, exactly. If you haven't read Laura Fan White, she's an amazing storyteller. And we've talked about how much we love when people put the podcast element into a crime fiction story. So if that's something that you love, then you should read Beneath Devil's Bridge by Laura Thane White. It is about a true crime podcaster named Trinity Scott, who is chasing breakout success.

And her brand new cereal may just get her there. Her subject is Clayton J. Pelley. More than two decades ago, the respected family man and guidance counselor confessed to the brutal murder of a teenage student, But why he killed her has always been a mystery. In a series of exclusive interviews from prison, Clayton discloses to Trinity the truth about what happened that night beneath Devil's Bridge. It's not what anyone in the Pacific Northwest town of Twin Falls expects. Clayton says he didn't do it. Was he lying then or lying now? As her listeners increase in the ratings skyrocket, Trinity is missing a key player in the story.

Rachel Walsack, the retired detective who exposed Pellie's twisted urges and put him behind bars. She's not interested in playing Clayton's game until Trinity digs deeper and the podcast reverb widens. Then Trinity begins to question everything she thinks she knows about the past. With each of Clayton's teasing reveals, one thing is clear. He's not the only one in Twin Falls with a secret. So good. That sounds so good. It sounds layered too. Barry, yes. Yeah. Definitely like dual perspective or multiple perspective, perhaps.

But you definitely follow like the podcast element. You get a look into the investigation like when the murder happened all those years ago. you get like the podcast transcripts. There's just like a lot going on. And I love when people take crime fiction and they include those little like sources of reading material as if you're reading like nonfiction. Yeah. I think it's a really cool structure for those kind of stories. Yeah.

It's really good. I love it. It's really good. And she is just bananas when it comes to storytelling. And I do believe this is based on. true story. Really? Like loosely based off a true crime.

Oh, that's kind of cool. So. I like it. That's my Laura Thane White recommendation of the week. Probably many more to come after that. Oh, it sounds like it. I need to read all of her things now.

I think most of her stuff is on Kindle Unlimited, to be honest. That's what I was starting to notice. Yeah. Also, this next one I have is an author who has most of her stuff on Kindle Unlimited. Ooh. So I recommend the memory watcher

from Minka Kent. When Autumn Carpenter stumbles upon the social media account of the family who adopted her infant daughter years ago, she finds herself instantly drawn into their picture perfect existence. From behind a computer screen, Autumn watches Grace's every memory.

From birthdays to holidays to bedtime snuggles. But what starts as an innocent fascination, spirals into an addictive obsession met with a screeching halt the day the McMullen family closes their insta face account without so much as a warning frantic and desperate to reconnect with her daughter autumn applies for a nanny position with the McMillans manipulating herself into Grace's life under false pretences and it's only then that Autumn discovers pictures lie the perfect family doesn't exist and beautiful people they have the ugliest secrets twisty, fun thrill ride. I loved it. I love the, I don't know, I guess like, we'll say like a trope in a thriller when somebody knows something about somebody and finds a way to like infiltrate their way into their lives. I have not read that one by her, but I need to because I love her. And she's always like, she's always like a,

I'm going to like keep you glued to your chair until this book is finished. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I loved it so much. Like I couldn't put it down when I read it. Yeah. Yeah.

I have to check out more by her. I've read a few. Because she's just so, such a good storyteller. I know. Yeah, which is crazy because speaking of Mika Kent. Yes. Mika Kent's one of my choices. Oh my gosh.

This is so weird. We did not talk about this at all. No, the only one we talked about was Alice Feeney because I thought you did an Alice Feeney last week and you were like, I want to do his and hers, and I was like, you can take it. That was all we talked about. So my recommendation by Minka Kent this week is

Unmissing, which I love a missing person's story, and I feel like I'll never get sick of them because there are so many different directions you can take a missing person story, especially when they're investigated long after they've gone missing, or in this case, when the person comes back. Merritt Coletto and her husband, Luca, have the life they dreamed of, a coastal home, promising future, and a growing family. but that dream ends with a late-night knock on the door. Weak, broken, and emanciated.

It's Luca's first wife Lydia, who has been missing for 10 years and presumed dead. She's very much alive, and she has quite a story, including her kidnapping. A torturous confinement that should have ended with her dead, but finally she escaped. Wacked with the guilt over the beautiful life they built, Merritt and Luca agree to help Lydia get back on her feet,

because it's the least they can do. But the more in mesh Lydia becomes in Merritt's family, the more questions Merritt has. What is it about Lydia that's unnerving? Why hasn't she gone to the police with her harrowing tale? Why does she really want them? The answers, when they come, are terrifying because Lydia is not the only one with secrets. That sounds so fun. You've told me about how good it was before and I haven't read that one yet.

Yeah. I feel like this one's very layered just based on the plot alone because you have a story where somebody comes back and is trying to readjust to a normal life. It's kind of like what I said about still missing by Chevy Stevens where like somebody's been missing for 10 years. Like you've been held captive. You're not in society anymore. Yeah. So when you're trying to return to a normal life and deal with that trauma, but like, Like, just think of if you were gone for 10 years, the only thing that's like holding on hope for you is that if you escape is to be reunited with Tyler.

Right. And you go to your home because you escaped and you're like, I'm coming home. And some bitch opens the door. And she's like, I'm Tyler's wife. Who are you? Bitch, I'm Tyler's wife too. Didn't know there was another one of those. Yeah.

Or. It'd be terrible. Or in the same sense, imagine we get done recording tonight and somebody knocks on the door and says, I'm Tyler's wife and I've been missing for 10 years. So you. And this is married to him for 10 years. And this is dual timeline. So or dual time, dual perspective. So you get both of those.

Oh. Like nobody's in a good. position. Do you know what I mean? I have to read this one. This sounds so fun. It's so good. It's so good. It reminds me of Absincha, too, that show on Amazon where she comes back.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Highly recommend. Sounds so fun. And it's such a quick read. I think it's under 300 pages. Oh, really? Yeah, I think it's like, I think it's a little under 300. It went by super fast.

I couldn't put it down. I couldn't stop. It's the best feeling. It's kind of inconvenient to not want to put a book down because it makes you just like literally not want to do anything else. But it's also the best feeling. Yeah, it's really good. Yeah.

Well, I have a messy, a messy one to recommend as well. And that is the wife between us from Greer Hendricks and Sarah. Pecanon. When you read this book, you will make many assumptions. You will assume you are reading about a jealous wife. You will assume she is obsessed with her replacement, a beautiful younger woman who is about to marry the man they both love. You will assume you know the anatomy of this tangled love triangle, assume nothing. Twisted and deliciously chilling, Greer Hendricks and Sarah Peckoninons, the wife between us, exposes the secret complexities of an enviable. marriage and the dangerous truths we ignore in the name of love.

There's just doors like slamming downstairs and I'm like, I hope it's Tyler. I hope it's not his first wife. I hope it's not his fucking first wife. You know what's funny is when I started dating him, some of the dreams I would have. I had dreams that a kid would show up and that he'd be like, oh yeah, I did have a kid a couple years ago. Oh my God. This was like right. This was like I started to be interested in him and started having dreams that like he had a kid out there. That's insane. I can't decide if I'd rather get a kid or a wife, but I think I'd rather he had a wife. Yeah. Easier to help her move on.

Everybody write in what what would you prefer? That's a good question. Yeah. People can think about it. I don't know. That's a really tough one because you can always. always have somebody that can move on being single or move on to a different relationship. And in the same sense, if somebody's grown up without a parent, they already know what it's like so they can continue to grow up without that paternal role in their life, you know? That's a good point. It's all about if you believe in family or love. You can only pick one. Only pick one.

It's all you can have. I didn't get roses until I went to Duncan for coffee today, so I'm picking family. Yeah. I don't blame you. Yeah. I don't even have a segue. That's okay. But I saved my favorite for last.

We'll say that. My last Kindle Unlimited recommendation is none other than Some Choose Darkness by Charlie Dunley. Yes. I'm so glad you picked that one. It is such a good story. It's dual timeline. The synopsis is really long, so bear with me. It's worth hearing it. Yes. The truth is easy to miss, even when it's right in front of us. As a forensic reconstructionist, Rory Moore sheds light on a cold case homicides by piecing together crime

scene details others fail to see. cleaning out her late father's office once a week after his burial, she receives a call that plunges her into a decades-old case come to life once more. In the summer of 1979, five Chicago women went missing. The predator, nicknamed the thief, left no bodies behind and no clues behind, until police received a package from a mysterious woman named Angela Mitchell, whose unorthodox investigation skills appeared to have led to his identity. But before police could question her, Angela disappeared.

Now 40 years later, the thief is about to be paroled for Angela's murder, the only crime the DNA could pin on him. As a former client of her father's, Rory becomes reluctantly involved with the killer, though he continues to insist he didn't murder Angela. Now he wants Rory to do what her father once promised, prove that Angela is in fact still alive. As Rory begins reconstructing Angela's last days, killer emerges from the shadows replicating those long-ago murders. With every startling discovery she makes, Rory becomes more deeply entangled in the

enigma of Angela Mitchell and in the thief's tormented mind. Drawing connections between the past and the present is the only way to stop the nightmare, but even Rory can't be prepared for the full terrifying truth that is emerging. You made it. You did it. My God. is worth it because most people just have to be hooked at this point. Yes. It's so, so, so good.

It's so good. I love a dual timeline. I love a cold case. I love a plot that questions if the person that the police and everybody believes is responsible for a crime, if they question things much later and say maybe he didn't do it, maybe he's not guilty. or, you know, in this case, if people wonder if there's a copycat killer. Right. Yeah.

You know, is it a copycat killer? Was it an accomplice? Do we have the wrong guy? Like, there's so many questions. And again, so many different directions you can go in with a plot like that. Yeah. And it's so fast-paced. Like, there's always something new happening.

I also like with dual timelines how like something will like, like a chapter will end. And you're like, okay, what happens next? but then you go into the other timeline and you're like, oh my God, what happens next with this? And it's just the way he writes, it's impossible to put down anything with a singular timeline. But with this one,

it was especially hard to put down. Rory Moore so much. Me too. Me too. She's one of my favorite heroines. The only thing I don't like about Charlie Dunley's books is that when I include them in wrap-ups for she reads, and I want to,

like they prefer that when I write a synonym, about a book that I'm like, keep it to like three or four sentences. And as we all just witnessed, when they release the synopsis to one of his books, they are extremely long. Yeah. And the worst part is, you need that information to be prepared for what you're getting yourself into. But there's still all these twist and turns and reveals and stuff.

And you're like, how is your synopsis this long? And there's still more things that I didn't know going into it. Yes. That's exactly what his books feel like. He takes his time. Do you see that? Have you ever seen that meme that's like when you're trying to explain something to someone and it's the guy with like the crazy hair. Yeah. Yeah. It's like it's the map with all the red string everywhere. Yes. That's what I imagine Charlie Dunley looks like when he plots a book because there's just so much going on all the time. He must. That has to be what it is. Like he's just insane. But I love it. He is. We love all of his books in case you guys haven't heard us talk about it. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm very excited for his new one coming out in March. I know. I know. I'm so excited.

It'll be so good.