Bookwild - More Kindle Unlimited Thrillers We Love

Episode Date: March 28, 2025

Gare, Steph and I share more Kindle Unlimited thrillers so you can basically read for free.Blacktop WastelandValentineThe Devil and Mrs DavenportFracturedThe ButcherStrange Sally DiamondLike a SisterThe Good LieDarling GirlsThe Memory WatcherRicochetSuch Quiet GirlsA Killer’s CodeThe Secret WitnessSlewfoot 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 

Oh my God, the trio is back. The trio is back. I'm excited to be with you all again. I feel like my schedule is sift. I miss you guys. I know, I feel like I saw you in person and then not digitally until now. This is Kate's third night having to hang out with me this week. It's been great.

That's nice. Gives you a lot. I feel like it's always a nice way to spend time when some things aren't as fun. It's like something to look forward to. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I'm just recording like crazy right now. That's exciting.

I've one at one today. Then we have this one. I have another one tomorrow. I have like five over the course of three days. But I have some content banked, which is great. Yeah. That's what I was saying. Is that going to be nice for you then to if you need a break?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I like having stuff into the future. I fell behind for a little bit because fucking. winter just kept happening winter was brutal this year i was rough everything in my life feels very chaotic and behind right now and i only listen to two podcasts like in the entire world i listen to book wild and crime junkie mm-hmm he's wearing the merch guys and i'm so behind on both that i'm like overwhelmed and like i just like sometimes will be like oh i have 48,000

in arcs for June and I have 100 episodes of podcasts to listen to. It's hard to do it all. It is. It is. But I feel like I'm in a reading slump. That sucks. That was like a lot of January and February for me.

Yeah. I don't know if it's like I'm probably kind of out of it. I'm just like there's other stuff to do. But I hate feeling that way. I haven't felt that way in years. I am. Okay. I'm in a. reading slump right now because I've been struggling with a book that I'm reading.

And it's like like when I pick it up, I get back into it. And I'm like, oh, okay. Like I'm kind of enjoying where this is going like 150 pages the other night. But then like today I had like a few different times where I could have like picked it up and read. And I'm just like, I just don't. It's not feeling it. But I'm really looking forward. I'm going to read the new Freedom McFadden and the new Jamie Lynn Hendricks this weekend. That'll help. That's a good one. And I'm going to go to Canada. Nice. For all the food. And I'm going to take my mom out to lunch. Oh.

That's a good sign. That's really nice. I love that. Do you say you have an icebreaker? I do. I do. Because I'm like, well, it was announced today. So I guess I can, I don't care if I say it on here.

But I'm going to be one of the panel moderators at the Montreal Mystery Festival. Yay. And I'm so cool. I'm so excited. It's like a Friday and Saturday thing. But I'm like going to Montreal Thursday night and I'm going to check into my hotel. I'm going to say Thursday, Friday, Saturday and then come home Sunday.

But there's so many like I think I have like 11 books that I'm bringing with me to be signed by people. But I also am like, I'm going to be in Montreal for three days. Like what is your ratio when you're trying? traveling to like how many books you would like plan on or bring with you on vacation. Like if you were gone for three days, would it be like a book a day? Would it be like two books? Like I'm always like, I'm always like nervous that like I'm going to be like, oh, I'm going to bring these two books and then like not be able to get into them and be like not be able to read. Well, I take all my books with me everywhere.

True. Um, but also like the times that I've traveled now. Now, granted, they've been, like, probably a lot shorter than the way most people travel, but at the time I've been able to do some stuff. I'm also doing things the whole day that I'm there, so I barely have time to read. So, but, like, if I was finally, this is all I want right now, like, literally, if I could finally just go to, like, a fucking dark room right now. And my dogs didn't need anything from me and Tyler didn't need anything from me and my clients didn't need anything from me. and I could just sit there for like five days. I'd probably need at least five books.

Oh, wow. I know I'm going to be like doing things. Yeah. And I'm going to be busy and I'm going to be shopping and I'm going to be eating like every thing that I can find. But I'm just like, I think three books is good. Are you going solo or are you going with somebody that you'll be having like breakfast, lunch and dinner with somebody?

I'm going solo. but like there's like a few other like book togrammers that are also moderators that like I've like been friends with online for years and there's also like people that are going like there's I think she's like one of my soulmates um coffee I want to get her username right because I think that she has an amazing aesthetic um coffee and books blend um um I'm on Instagram. I love all of her pictures. But we really like bonded over our like mutual love of like the same books. But then like we also like randomly realize that like we also love like 90s and early 2000s horror movies. Even like the ones that everyone else is like, oh, this movie sucks. Like Valentine with Denise Richards in it. We both like love. So like she's going to be there and she lives in Montreal. So like, I'm probably going to be hanging out with people a lot too. That's so cool. Like we're probably going to get dinner and like go to like Indigo. And are you flying? No, I'm driving.

Oh. Because it's like an hour, maybe an hour and a half for me. You're like such a faster reader than I am because like it depends to me. Like if I'm going to a resort or like a time where we're going to be driving a lot or flying a lot, I'll probably be able to read more. But otherwise I feel like I'm a book every. maybe two to three days. Mm-hmm.

I don't know. That's probably what's going to be realistic for me. Like, when I went to Vermont for, what was that, three days, I was there, I think. Yeah. I brought one book and I didn't even finish it. I think it depends if you can really focus. Because even sometimes I'll be sitting with my Kindle. And if I, if, like, I'm people watching too much, it's like, I could be reading right now.

And it's just, like, barely happening. Yeah. But it's also, like, a great city for, like, eating and shopping. Yeah. That sounds awesome. And I'm going to have like all of my clothes and then like 11 books that I want signed. So I'm like I don't want to show up and look like I'm moving to Andrea all officially. Who are you seeing authors-wise that you like know you want books signed by?

Yeah. Let me see here. I have the whole list because it's so exciting. Samantha Bailey. Andrea Barts Will Dean Shari Lipina Jennifer Hillier

Jennifer Hillier Vanessa Lilly Yeah Vanessa Lily is going to be there Claymont Smeesh alone Wow Wendy Walker Hank Philippi Ryan Yeah

I'm interviewing Hank That's so cool Yeah Yeah She seems awesome Lisa Custle is going to be there. Yeah, she does a lot of crazies. I don't think that woman sleeps between like the writing and her job and not like doing exciting things like this.

Lisa Custle is going to be there and I'm very excited to meet her because she's a Vermont. She's Vermont based. And she wrote The Widow on Dwyer Court that I read this summer and I love so much. So. Wow. we were thinking it was time for another Kindle Unlimited episode or what Gare and I've called a Save Your Wallet episode before and he brought the Mata Baby. I brought mine too.

Oh my gold baby. Here's babies. I love my baby. I should just bring my baby with me to Montreal. You should. Then I don't have to worry about, yeah. I was actually going to use that as a segue at one point. I was going to be like, or you could read Kindle Unlimited books. Oh, yeah. I've started doing that. That's when I, like, read a lot of my arcs is when I travel now if I just want to bring my Kindle.

I just rarely travel, like, twice a year is good for me. Yeah. I have traveled more in the last three months than I did in the last 14 years. You're a fucking jet-setter, dude. Yeah, I know. I love it for you. I'm just going places now. Who knew?

going book wild all over. I love it. Well, do you want to hear? Okay, for anyone who's watching on YouTube, I pulled a muscle in my lung, apparently. So if I just look weird and fidgety and keep grabbing myself, which sounds so weird, that's why. But do you want to hear my first book as I sit here,

crossing my arms across my chest but it makes it feel better so this is i picked one for my tBR too because this is also what we're going to be reading for book wilds backlist book club in april so we are reading blacktop wasteland by s a cobbie copy say cosby um so it begins it's not going to be able to read again tonight um i'm super excited about this one and it's on gend unlimited obviously so how do i pronounce his name biergard biergard bug montage husband father on his car mechanic but he was once known from north car carolina's the beaches of florida as the best getaway driver on the east coast just like his father who disappeared many years ago after a series of financial calamities worsened by the racial prejudices of the

the small town he lives in. Bug reluctantly takes part in a daring diamond heist to solve his money troubles and to go straight once and for all. However, when it goes horrifically wrong, he sucked into a grimy underworld which threatens everything and everyone he holds fear. I love a heist novel. And I also just, I'm a sucker for the trope of like, oh, I'm a morally gray assassin, getaway car driver, blah, blah, blah.

But I'm just trying to be good now. it just works for me so I'm excited all of essay Cosby's books if they were written by anyone else I would not want to read because they're like action packed or like you know like there's certain things that I'm like oh that's not like usually what I like in a thriller but like whenever he writes something I always am like no I'm going to read this and I like they're always five stars like that book is so good razor blade tears is incredible um you're going to love it you're going to freaking i'm so excited yeah i think i might read it next well no but club's not until the second week of april so i will not be reading it next but i'm

excited to read it i really liked all the sinners bleed too very good yes yes um if anybody is an audio person he has all the same the same person reads all of his books and his voices oh that's cool very attractive and buttery Ooh. We missed your audiobook editions. I know. I just am like I don't read a lot of books by men or like listen to a lot of books narrated by men. So when there's like a sexy voice, I'm like, okay.

I love essay Cosby. I'm like thinking about it. And I think like he's one of the only male authors that I like continuously buy. I was thinking about that lately. There aren't too many for me. It's him and Max Walker. So it's either like Southern Noir or like gay stuff. Gay stuff.

I have Rob Hart and what other men have I spoken to? I don't know. It's Marshall. Marshall. Yes, Marshall. Marshall for sure. But who else? Are there other men that I?

Marshall with the mouth like a sailor. Marshall, sailor mouth. So fun. But yeah, I really don't read books from any male perspective. So sometimes like Jamie Lynn Hendricks, I'm like, oh, a male perspective. Okay. Yeah. I just love his books have so many layers.

Like they're not only entertaining. Like he's able to weave in this like commentary that's. important, but it's also like you're in it for the story too. Good one. Very good one. Yeah. I actually have one by a male author as well. Ooh, we're breaching out today.

This is one I have read. So diverse. Over and over and over again. I've read this probably four or five times. And I'm not going to shut up about this book until everybody in their mother. reads it because it's one of my favorites and I love it. And it's called Valentine by Tom Savage. It's about Jillian Talbot, who seems to have everything, a lovely home in Greenwich Village, a small circle of close friends, a handsome and passionate lover who just proposed to her and a glamorous

career is a bestselling author of suspense novels. Her writing has captivated thousands of fans, but she always, but she has always been safe from the terrifying scene she creates until now. Somewhere in the shadows of New York City, someone is watching her. He knows her every move, her every fear, almost before she knows it herself. He is, as a devoted as a lover, courting her in his own mysterious way, leaving notes in her mailbox, gifts on her doorstep, and messages on her answering machine. His motives are as cryptic as the name he goes by, Valentine. But his intentions are deadly clear.

For Jill Talbot, the terror has just begun. Wherever she runs, he will find her. And soon she will meet him on his terrible day of judgment. judgment, his triumphant day, her darkest day, Valentine's Day. Oh, that sounds creepy. It's so freaking good. It is one of my favorite twists in a thriller that I've ever read in my entire life. And you've talked about this book since I've known you.

I need to read it. I read this book in 2001. Wow. And I have been since because it was. It's a movie. Well, there's a movie called Valentine. I was going to ask if it's the same. David Boryana's and Denise Richards. But like the book and the movie are completely different because they basically were like,

we just want to have the rights to the name. So like when the movie was coming out, I was like, well, I'm going to read the book first. And then I read the book and had different expectations. I love them both separately. But like the book has one of my favorite twists in the entire world. And it is so freaking good. Damn. it only has

1100 ratings and 141 reviews isn't that crazy for being out that one I think you're hyping it 3.94 is pretty good yeah it is yeah I mean it's a little it's a little dated you know like it's from like the 90s so like it's like a little like dated in some aspects but I just it's like one of those like comfort creepy

you know what I mean like it doesn't go like too dark or too far but it's like a stalker novel and it's fun. Nice. We love being stalked. So much fun. You do. Yeah. I do not claim that energy.

Yeah, I very much like being left alone. The first one that I saw, I actually saw this a while ago. I think Kate had brought this one up to me. and then I just keep seeing it all over. And then I saw it was Kindle Unlimited, but my library hole did come in today to go get it because I'm being part of the resistance. You know, as much as I can.

I feel like I need to go make a library video. Well, I just remember if there was someone that was like, check them out. Like, no one knows if you read them or not. But I don't know if I'll get to it. I might have to do something on my Kindle. I'm not sure. We'll see. But it's the devil and Mrs. Davenport.

I've seen so many good things. I honestly, like we've talked about with the Marcus Cowher, the one that you really love, Kate, that we don't know if we would get. I was like, I don't know if this one will be like that or if I'll be able to like easily digest it because I think it is technically horror. So I'm interested to see what it's like. But I heard rage and I was like, let's go. So the first day of autumn brought the fever and the fever came with the fever came the voices. Missouri, 1955. Loretta Davenport has led an isolated life as a young mother and a wife to Pete, an ambitious assistant professor at a Bible college. They're the picture of domestic tranquility until a local girl is murdered and Loretta begins receiving messages from beyond. Pete dismisses them as delusions of a fevered female imagination. Loretta knows they're real. And, frightening. Defying Pete's demands, Loretta finds an encouraging supporter in parapsychologist Dr. Curtis Hansen. He sees a woman with a rare gift, more blessing than curse.

With Dr. Hansen's help, Loretta's life opens up to an empowering new purpose, but for Pete, the God-fearing image he's worked so hard to cultivate is under threat. No longer in control of his dutiful wife, he sees the devil at work. As Loretta's powers grow stronger and the pleading spirits beckon, Pete is determined to deliver his wife from evil. To solve the mysteries of the dead, Loretta must first save herself. I'm glad you brought this one up again.

Yeah. I am too because, especially it being on Kindle Limited, like, this sounds so good. I know, and the cover is so cool. I love the cover. I love the vintage, like, and the crack. Yeah, and like,

just the more I've been thinking about it lately, I think one of my biggest fears is to be, like, not able to use my voice. And, like, I think back of, like, how women were just, like, silenced and, like, everyone thought you were crazy no matter what came out of your mouth, if you were, you know, being at all honest or, like, resisting. And so I'm just, like, so fascinated by that. Yeah, I saw she has another one that's coming out soon, too, but it's not on neck galley yet.

But anyway, I am going to go pick this up tonight. That's so cool. I love the timing. Good for you. Well, I have one that this one was really interesting to me, and I read it back in 2016. It was like the beginning of me reading Kindle Unlimited. Essentially, I just kept scrolling through all the ones I've raised. or whatever they call it.

But it's cool because there's a very interesting book within a book thing going on. It's called Fractured by Catherine McKinsey. So I'll tell you the synopsis, and then I'll get into what I was mentioning. Julie Prentice and her family move across the country to the idyllic Mount Adams District of Cincinnati, hoping to evade the stalker who's been terrorizing them

ever since the publication of her best-selling novel, The Murder Came. Since Julie doesn't know anyone in her new town, when she meets her neighbor John Dunbar, their instant connection brings measured hope for a new beginning. But she never imagines that a simple, benign conversation with him could set her life spinning so far off course. After a series of misunderstandings, Julie and her family become the target of increasingly unsettling harassment. Has Julie's stalker found her or are her neighbors out to get her too? As tension in the neighborhood rises, new friends turn enemies.

And the results are deadly. So this one I read first. I think it came out first too. But the, like, very unique thing about it is that then she also wrote the book, The Murder Game. So that's like its own separate book that's like dark academia of like law school students, essentially, and that they kind of always play this game of like, it reminded me a lot of how to get away with murder is what the murder game is like and so then

fractured is like what she wrote first about the novel or about the author of that novel so it was just like so unique reading so freaking cool yeah reading those two together and I saw that and I was like oh yeah and it's still on Kindle Unlimited I saw it it's so funny that you brought that up because I think I was looking for things to talk about today and I saw this title and cover and I was like, oh, that looks good. Yeah. I love both of them.

I really like her. I really, really like her. I've read a few of hers, and I almost picked one. I almost picked one of her books. Sorry, not, I know. I was like torn between some. I don't know why that came out as I know.

It's like you were there. Are you my stockers? I was watching you. Oh my God. I would love that. You would be the best stalker in the whole. white world. I feel like she'd just be like, hey. She would just be like, oh, you need some alone time. Okay. I'll go home now. See you tomorrow. Bye. See you tomorrow. You just don't know when. Yeah. Yeah, she's cool. I like, I really liked I'll never tell. That was like her summer camp. Yes. Yes. So good. It's really good. So good. Okay. I might mean to.

Have you seen her, I think, is really, really good too. Yep. That one was good. That's the one in like the National Park, right? kind of like an outdoorsy one not my vibe at all but so good so good the way like the cast came together was fascinating which one was that have you seen have you seen her yeah the uh the text book blue and neon yellow text one um I remember reading that you got to have one I remember reading that when I first got Murphy like I only had him for like a few days and he was like a bad little puppy and I was just Oh, you're a bad little puppy.

Came out in 2023, so I feel like she was ahead of the times on the cover. Yeah. Yeah. She's Canadian, too, isn't she? Montreal, yes. Born and raised. Yeah, she's at that, at the event you're going to be at. Cool.

Speaking of Canadians. Yeah. Nice. Canadian Ladians. My favorite Canadian ladyen. Jennifer Hillier Nice Which one?

Garendeed Reads presents a book that I've never talked about on the podcast ever Called The Butcher Which Kindle Unlimited But also if you are a paperback fan, it just came out in a new paperback cover And it's like sick. It's like a red cover with like a huge axe on it. I need to go buy it tomorrow because I have like the mass paperback and I spent way too much money on it. But the butcher is so much fun.

It's so dark. cozy in for a serial killer thriller. A rash of grisly serial murders plagued Seattle until the infamous Beacon Hill Butcher was finally hunted down and killed by police chief Edward Shank in 1985. Now some 30 years later, Shank retired and widowed is giving up his large rambling Victorian house to his grandson Matt, who he helped raise. Settling back into his childhood home and doing some renovations in the backyard, to make the house feel like his own, Matt, a young up-and-coming chef and restaurateur, stumbles upon a locked crate he's never seen before. Curious, he picks the padlock and makes a discovery so gruesome it will hunt him forever.

Face with this deep, dark family secret, Matt must decide whether to keep what he knows buried in the past, go to the police, or take matters into his own hands. Meanwhile, Matt's girlfriend, Sam, has always suspected that her mother was murdered by the Beacon Hill butcher two years after the supposed butcher was gunned down as she pursues leads that will prove her right sam heads right into the path of matt's terrible secret a lot going on i haven't read that one it is uh when i read it last year two years ago it was probably one of the darker books i've i'm gonna say it's really dark right yeah yeah i think the only the i will honestly say the only book by her that I would not consider like super dark is little secrets. Yeah, that one seems really

universally recommendable for a less like, I mean, it is child disappearance, but I feel like still a lot of people would be able to handle that one. Everything else is like very disturbing. Yeah. Oh my God. She's such a fucking little angel. She's amazing. She's like, I would say she's my author soulmate. Like every book that she has written, I feel like was written for me. Like it's something that I like love in the thriller. I remember when I first started listening to this podcast, you guys talked about her a lot. And Gere's like, oh my God, and her hair is so good. And I like looked it up and like her hair is so good.

She's fucking amazing. I'm going to say something to her in Montreal about her hair. And I think I've actually said that to her before too. Like if you decide to stop writing, like please don't. But like I will gladly see you as like a pantine pro v model. Yeah. I know. And she's got like such a cute face too.

I know. Like I could just see her like smirking and like flipping her hair in a pantine proee commercial. Yeah and like lip gloss. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I love her. Oh, well, uh, crush on Jennifer Hillier moment.

Mm-hmm. So my next one I actually had to look at our list like three times because I was so surprised that it hadn't been talked about. But maybe it hasn't been on there for that long. Um, is Sally Strange Diamond. by Liz Nugent. Strange Sally Diamond. Oh, sorry. I always say you all.

Every single time. Sally Strange. I like it, though, too. Sally Strange Diamond. I think I've done that every single time. Anyway. I like, I love. I like yours better, actually.

I know. But where does it come from? Like, and I know, and the thing is, is like, it drives me nuts when people do that. I'm the king. I never get. I never get a title right ever. I love my dad, but he'll say like Chapolte. And he called on Drake from like every time he talks about Harry Potter, which he read.

And I'm like, oh, cool, we can talk about that. He calls Snape snipe. And like, all the names are wrong. And I'm just like, that was so Midwestern dad. I know. I know. And I have just so much to laugh. Thank you.

And I'm like, okay. And so I just like let it go. But it's like something I notice all the time. So when I do it, I'm like, no, that was just a funny like brain flip for you. I know. My mom does it. And it's just like, I'm like Kathy.

Like she says chef with a tea instead of chef. Sheft. Instead of what? Chef. Chef. Oh. And if you correct her, she's like, I don't give a shit. You know what I'm talking about. so we have like the same personality

okay so I think it's just like a parent thing yeah okay her name is Sally Diamond strange Sally Diamond okay Sally Strange Diamond Okay okay

Sally Diamond can I understand why she why what she did was so strange she was only doing what her father told her to do to put him out with the rubbish when he died. Now Sally is the center of attention. Always miss it when I'm reading the synopsis.

Don't make Kate laugh. My dog has just been losing his mind. I'm like, what is that happening? Okay. Okay. We can't. I don't know. It's funny.

Great. Okay. Now Sally is the center of attention, not only from the hungry media and worried police. but also a sinister voice from the past she has no memory of. As she begins to discover the horrors of her childhood, recluse Sally steps into the world for the first time, making new friends, finding independence,

and learning that people don't always mean what they say. But when messages start arriving from a stranger who knows far more about her past than she knows herself, Sally's life will be thrown into chaos once again. It's so good. So freaking good. I love characters. like Sally, honestly, I think I've read maybe three or four now where I'm like, if there's a

character that's kind like takes everything literally, I probably will love it. Mm-hmm. Same. And she was so like snarky. Yes. And very blunt and I'm like obsessed with that. I love that for her. It's like, well, why did it manage to be like really dark and had found family. It was kind of cool. It was very cool. Yeah. The like two different. timelines or whatever perspectives I was like cool oh my god

I would love to read that again yeah because I have such a bad memory I just like remember like loving it and then I remember like there being something in it that was very dark that I was like wow I was not expecting that that's wild because I feel like

you have the best memory about books or maybe just sometimes I don't know maybe if I read them more than one I kind of like quote shit but I love that for you I wish I could do that I want to quote Parker Posey from White Lotus.

One of my friends did last night at dinner. That's a dinner we should have been at. Nami. Nami. I can't do it. Buddhism. Piper, no. I love this.

She's like Larazepam. There's something about having a seizure that she said. that she said. Oh, yeah, she's like, I almost had a grand mal seizure. Yes. I forgot what we were talking about, but one of my friends busted that out. I love when she was like, no, I'm out of Larazepam, so I want to have to drink myself to sleep. That was hilarious.

So indignantly, she's like, now I'm about to drink myself to sleep. Like, it's such a task. I don't know if I've said on the podcast already that the father character, Mike White, told him, to go watch Southern Charm and he is channeling Thomas Ravenel and she's channeling Patricia from

Southern Charm. And if you watch, I don't watch it as much anymore. I haven't watched any of it this season. I've seen past seasons and I was like, oh yeah, this is perfect. I was showing Tyler clips of them and he was like

those are the real people. I was like, I was like, yeah, these are real people on reality TV. Real. There's a screen connection that I just found out the other day. Because Parker Posey was in Screen 3 with Emily Mortimer, who was, like, she's like a British actress. Emily Mortimer's son plays Victoria's son, Lockland. Whoa. Yeah.

That's cool. cool oh my gosh what do i think about her all the time oh she was in newsroom so my next one is like a sister by kelly garrett so good and i love kelly garrett when the body of disgraced reality tv star desiree pierce is found on a playground in the bronx the morning after her 25th birthday party the police and the media are quick to declare her death and overdose it's a tragedy certainly but not a crime. But Desiree's half-sister, Lena Scott, knows that can't be the case. A graduate student at Columbia, Lena has spent the past decade forging her own path far from the spotlight. But some facts about Desiree just couldn't have changed since their

childhood, and Desiree would never travel above 125th Street. So why is no one listening to her? Despite the bitter truth that the two haven't spoken in two years, torn apart by Desire's partying and by their father Mel, a wealthy and influential hip-hop mogul. Lena becomes determined to find justice for her sister, even if it means untangling her family's darkest secrets or ending up dead herself. All of her books are voicy, and I think that will carry me through a book. Not that I'm saying, that's the only thing that carries me through this one, but she has such a, she has sarcastic characters, and I love it.

I love Starkey. too. Dang. Dang. Speaking of snarky. Yeah. Go on. So I

recommend the good lie by A.R. Tori. I need to read that one. Oh my God, it's so freaking dark. I'll read it with you because I just can't get enough of her. 16s murdered, a suspect behind bars, a desperate father.

In a case this shadowy, the truth is easy to hide. Psychiatrist Dr. Gwen Moore is an expert on killers. She'd spent a decade treating California's most depraved predators and unlocking their motives, predators like the notorious bloody heart serial killer, whose latest teenage victim escaped and then identified local high school teacher Randall Thompson as his captor. The case against Thompson as the bloody heart killer is damning and closed as far as Gwen and the media are concerned. if not for one new development. Defense attorney Robert Kavan is still traumatized father whose own son fell prey to the B.H. killer.

Convinced of Thompson's innocence, he steps in to represent him. Now Robert wants Gwen to interview the accused, create a psych profile of the killer in his victims, and help clear his client's name. As Gwen and Robert grow closer and she dives deeper into the investigation, grave questions arise. so does Gwen's suspicion that Robert is hiding something and that he might not be the only one with his secret? Never mind, I have read that one and I loved it. So freaking good.

Guys, 160,000, 597 ratings over 12,000 reviews of 4.12. That's really good. I, between now, between now and when I die, I want to take a week off and I want to leave my cell phone at home and I want to get like in a hotel or lay my chubby little ass on a beach and I just want to read her entire catalog all over again. Like she I want to do that with her and I want to do that with like Jennifer Hillier and like probably by the time I have time to do it I would love to do with like Ashley Winstead too because I'm sure she'll have some other bang or so. Yes. Oh yeah. That would be awesome. I keep wanting to read more of her.

her books and I'm I once again I probably mentioned this last time was so bummed I like missed out on her newest one on that galley it just like isn't available yeah that one's good that was the first one I read by her um I think it might have been here one of the first ones I did too I need to read the girl in 60s trilogy again because I loved the first book um the second book. I don't really remember a lot and then I never read the third one. Oh. So I need to like, I just want to read them all over again. Maybe I'll bring those

to Montreal. I would like if she did a fourth one, to be honest, but I don't know if that's in the cards. I just love her creativity with like how dark her books are. Oh yeah. And she's like not a fate, like not afraid of anything. No, she's not. Like, oh, like, because the details of like the serial killer in this book are like really

really gruesome. So. Okay. Well, I also was surprised that this one we haven't talked about from Kindle Unlimited, but maybe once again, it's newer in there. I am a little salute for Sally Hepworth. So this one is the darling girls, which is, I think, her newest one still. I think so. I would love more by her.

I need to get more into our backlist. I think they're more like family drama-ish, but I think like relevant issues. So you do get into that. For as long as they can remember, Jessica, Nora, and Alicia. Is that how they said it or was like Alicia? I don't know.

I say Alicia. I don't know. I've been told how lucky they are. As young girls, they were rescued from family tragedies and raised by a loving foster mother, Miss Fairchild, on an idyllic farming estate, and given an elusive second chance at a happy family life.

But their childhood wasn't the fairy tale everyone thinks it is. Ms. Fairchild had rules. Miss Fairchild could be unpredictable, and Miss Fairchild was never, ever to be crossed. In a moment of desperation, the three broke away from Miss Fairchild and thought they were free. Even though they never saw her again, she was always somewhere in the shadows of their minds.

When a body is discovered under the home they grew up in, the foster sisters find themselves thrust into the spotlight as key witnesses or are they prime suspects? Thirling page Turner about sisterhood secrets love and murder. I really want to read that one. I read, I didn't realize that. No, I read the good sister was the one I read when I was kind of getting more into her backlist, but I haven't read this one yet.

I do love the relationship that the sister, the foster sisters have a lot. And then like the ending is a little like wauze, wowza. That was dark. That's what I remember you guys saying. That's where I'm like, I need to read her dark one. Yeah, she's going there, I think. I mean, she always did in a way, but there it is now. I was like really surprised because I didn't think anything would beat the good sister for me.

Like I loved that one so much. And Darling Girls, I think is my favorite one by her so far. I think I've read four maybe. of her bucks. Oh yeah. Blasted through this one. I want to read. It was the first one and I was like, wow, who is this?

I have been missing out. I want to read the younger wife, I think. We're like the three sisters. Oh yeah, I haven't read that one. I really want to read that one. Yeah, she's good. I'll close sign that. I'll close sign that.

Go. Go Sally Go. I think I have something. I think there's something about like Australian authors I really like. I don't know if it's true. Oh, yeah. This might just be a coincidence of the ones have read so far, but I'm like...

Nice. Well, I have another one from 2016, because apparently I just scrolled all the way to the beginning of Kendall Unlimited, but we have talked about Minka Kent before. I don't know if we've talked about the Memory Watcher, which I just remember reading really quickly. Like, I could not put it down.

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. 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, daughter, Autumn applies for, autumn applies for a nanny position with the McMullen's, manipulating herself into Grace's life under false pretenses. And it's only then that Autumn discovers pictures lie. The perfect family doesn't exist. And beautiful people, they have the ugliest secrets. I got very angsty at the end. That sounds good. I like that you're going back. That's all, isn't it crazy, that's nine years? that's what I realized I was like I mean I knew I read it a while ago

but I wasn't thinking that long ago like I still remember parts of it Is that when you read it or is that when it came out or both Both Oh nice Damn Oh no well it came out December of 2016

And I read it in February of 2017 It was like a couple months after it came out It was really good It's crazy That's the one I haven't read yet And there's like a couple of hers I haven't read. It's very much like psychological thriller. Memory Watcher.

I think I have like most of her catalog somewhere around here. I'm like staring at like how I need to organize my books. I've never heard of that one by her. Is it her? I can't remember if it's her first one. It's one of her earlier ones. Yeah. She has so many.

So I don't know when she started. I don't see anything yet. I love I love like this where I'm looking at it on Goodreads and you can see all like the cool covers from all over the world. Yeah. Yeah, those are cool.

Polish. That one's cool. Well, well, I have one. It's a little bit of a step in a different. direction. Not for me, but this is one that's on my TBR, and it is a dark MM hockey romance. Dark hockey, okay. Dark hockey, full of trauma. Let's go. Full of trauma. Ricketing by River Hale. And I hate how they set up synopsis with MM romances sometimes, but Callum Hayes' perspective is the first time I witnessed death.

was my mother's when I was eight years old. It devastated me. The second was at 16 when I stumbled on my stepfather's body after he was brutally murdered. That one screwed me up in a different way. Since then, I've kept my shadows at bay, my secrets locked up, tight. That is until Stone Wakefield joins my college hockey team. Five years ago, he saw something I meant to take to the grave. He saw me weak and I hate him for it. I have no choice but to keep hating him so he never cease past my mask again. And then Stone Wakefield's perspective is Callum hates me and he does nothing to hide it. While that makes it easy to get under his skin, it presents a problem on the ice. However, the bigger threat is growing need to protect and possess him. When I start to wonder if he's just

obsessed with me as I am with him, I'm not sure if I can stay away. I know I should be because I have secrets of my own, but what if the darkness in us both is the piece we've each been missing? Calam Hayes is mine. He just doesn't know it yet. Oh, I do like an enemy's to lovers. Give me some toxic hockey butts. Sign you up. Sign me up.

I'm so excited. Sounds good. Sounds like a little like... It sounds like a spicy too. Sounds like a spicy, dark hockey butt. Tell me lies. Oh, yeah. Mm-hmm.

covers cool yeah there's so many books called ricochet i couldn't remember the author when you said it but then it's it has like that exact thing a dark mhm hockey romance yeah spell it out yes i didn't realize until just now i was looking at the cover that that sketches of a hockey helmet like i thought it was just kind of abstract and then i'm like oh yeah okay oh you know i love that copy so much i'm like i do have it on kindle unlimited like it's on it's on the macha baby ready to be ready to be opened but that might be a one that may be one I have to get in paperback too the cover is cool yeah yeah yeah I think I'm gonna need I like it when they actually have like art you know what I mean like instead of Fabio well I'm not just like

I mean some of that I mean there are some very attractive romance covers but sometimes I'm like I'm not like a face cover girl like I know I have something creative um um Okay, as I was looking, this is a sign-note, kind of, but have you ever noticed when an author, or does it happen often on Kindle Unlimited? Like, for example, what just popped up, I finished the reformatory by Tananariv Do, and then, but only on Kindle Unlimited, she must have a series, but only book two and four are on Kindle Unlimited. Does that usually happen, or is it usually like a whole series? With a series that seems weird. It does. Like, those are the only two.

that I saw that she had. I was like, oh, maybe she has some other stuff that I'd be interested in. And then I'm like, oh, those are the only two I see Mark's Kindle Unlimited, like, kind of weird. Yeah. So anyway, this ended up not being one of my picks. So, but anyway, I am going to my good old Ms. Noel W. Ely, Ily. One of her, she has so many friggin books coming out. But this one is the, um, her, one of her newest, uh, historical fiction based on a real event called none left to tell. Um, this one, I will say there were parts. I'm usually not hard to read. Like nothing's usually hard for me to read, but this one there was some parts. Um, three women connected by one of the most brutal mass slings in U.S. history. Lucy is

sick of turning the other cheek. Ten years ago, an anti-Mormon mob drove her family and friends from their homes in Illinois. But now the tables have turned. Rumor has it, some of those same men are traveling through Utah on their way to California, and this time Lucy won't run. Katrina knew the Trek West would be difficult, but she had no idea she'd be walking straight into hell. The young mother of four is prepared to do whatever it takes to protect her family from the violence closing in, but the battle to survive will be more harrowing than anything she can imagine. Sally has just been gifted to a man she barely knows as his fourth wife. Trapped and lonely, she tries to make the best of her new life.

But when her husband insists on joining a group of religious zealots planned for revenge, she's forced to reconsider her loyalties, even if it means putting her own life on the line. Based on true events, this is the story of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. That was a really wild. Um, yeah. I need to read that one. Yeah. I think it would be, it would fit into like a bleak category.

It's like, I think it's hard when you think, when you realize that something actually happened and there were like families involved. Mm-hmm. Not just like adults, even if that sucks too. She just like keeps delivering and delivering and delivering and delivering. And she's really freaking pretty. You're really fucking pretty So sweet

How many boxes are you checking my ma'am? I still have to read Room for Rent None left to tell And I just got a package today She sent me a PR package of such quiet girls I almost talked about that one as being on my TBR That one sounds good

She sent me like A little crime scene envelope and there's pictures inside of it of like the real crime that inspired the book. She sent me some pixie sticks and a little keychain with a bus on it. Oh my gosh. I was like, you are the sweetest human being. Yeah. I really think it's interesting how she bases a lot of her books on real stuff.

Yeah, she's a fucking... At least lately. Killa. Well, my last one then is by Isabella Maldenado, A Killer's Code. It's the third in the Daniela, Vegas series. I think you would read them standalone in most cases. But this one just came out a couple of, in January. During a recent undercover sting gone bad, hitman Gustavo Toro died in the arms of FBI special agent

Daniela, Danny Vega. but Toro had secrets he refused to take to the grave. In the event of his death, Toro left behind a video that promises to expose a mysterious mastermind who has been operating with impunity for decades. But there's a catch. Danny's team must follow Toro's cryptic clues on a cross-country hunt for justice, and piecing together his past is more twisted than Danny could have imagined. But as Danny and her team raced together, the evidence it's clear this powerful adversary will stop at nothing.

to keep their secrets, including eliminating those who threaten to reveal them. If you love action thrillers, she just writes. She writes them so well. I love them. I haven't read this one, so this was kind of on my TVR, but I actually have a copy of it somewhere. I did not prep and bring it with me. I know you love her books. You've talked about other ones, but have you talked about that one before?

No. It just came out in January. Oh. Mm-hmm. But yeah, the whole series is on Kendall Limited, too. Nice. Dang. I, um...

She seems like everything she writes is like... Like, she's like, you're Jennifer Hillier. Like, everything she writes is, like, written for you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I love action. Fast-paced. No lag.

Hell, yeah. Hell yeah My last one is actually on my TDR as well and it sounds like a book that was written for Gera The Secret Witness by Victor Mathos Methos

It is the first installment in the Shepard and Grey series This is The Reaper speaking. So begins an anonymous letter published in a Utah newspaper after a young couple is viciously murdered. Tool County Sheriff Elizabeth Gray leads the investigation into the double homicide, which is eerily reminiscent of a string of brutal killings years ago. When the letter leads detectives to another body, Gray calls an old friend for help. Former prosecutor Solomon Shepard is still struggling to recover from the deadly courtroom attack that ended his career. He's been keeping a safe distance from the action, teaching criminology,

seminars about serial murders and the psycho pathology until Gray asked for his help on the Reaper case as the body count mounts Shepard and Gray race to unravel the deranged design of a copycat killer and find themselves in a face-off

with an enemy they never saw coming that does sound like a Garrett book. That does. He is super cool too. I read his silent watcher. It was creepy. I think you would like it. too.

That's on my TBR. I want to read this one. That's on my TBR because of you. And then once you recommended it, there are actually a ton of his books that sound like they would be up my alley. And he was like saying when I talked to him

like he writes horror and sci-fi as well under different names. He just writes all the genres. I think you told me that because didn't you say he was like doing like a horror, a sci-fi and then a thriller a year or something crazy? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. He literally, he was like, I just sit at home and I write. I was like, damn. Dude, he was a civil rights lawyer. He said he produces two books a year and he has a dog named Frazier and I love it. Yeah. Yeah.

He has a really cool perspective. This reminds me of Mind Hunter and I am so sad that I don't think there's going to be a third season of that show. Oh, I don't think so either. Oh. So. He has like another one too that's like, uh, it's that like plot, which I'll never get enough of where like a woman,

like her husband goes to prison because they believe he's a serial killer and then like serial killing start happening again like after he's in prison and like you don't know if it's a copycat or they have the wrong guy or whatever. But yeah. That does sound good. Oh my God. I don't know which one to do. This one I actually was kind of surprised was on there. So I will do this one. Nice.

I think I kind of want to buy it regardless of if I read it because it looks so cool. Slewfoot by Brom. So this book I've seen at the store and it is very beautiful and kind of an odd shape size and has like really gorgeous but like dark illustrations. and I'm into that. Set in colon, I have heard from some people, it is a little on the slower side,

but I've also heard it's a really good revengey, ragey book. Set in colonial New England, slewfoot is a tale of magic and mystery of triumph and terror as only the dark fantasist Brah can tell it. A spirited young English woman, Abatha, arrives in a Puritan colony

betrothed to a stranger, only to become quickly widowed, when her husband dies under mysterious circumstances. All alone in this pious and patriarchal society, Abatha fights for what little freedom she can grasp on to whilst trying to stay true to herself in her past. Enter Slufut, a powerful spirit of antiquity newly woken and trying to find his own role in the world.

Healer or destroyer, protector or predator, but as the shadows walk and villagers start dying, a new rumor is whispered, witch. Both Abatha and Slufut must swiftly decide who they are and what they must do to survive in a world intent on hanging any who metal in the dark arts. I think I'm picky about it, but I do love witches. I love I love... I'm intrigued by the illustrations in a thrillery, well, it's not thrillery. horror fantasy.

I love that cover. These are the illustrations and they're fucking cool. Whoa. In my opinion. Like those like dark art kind of things of like creatures. And like if I was just listening and not looking at the screen, I'd be like so stupid. But like if you see it and you kind of like, what's the word I'm looking for to describe this? I don't know.

I am not good when it comes to talking about. out. Art. In the episode I just recorded with Gare, I kept calling illustrated covers, cartoon covers, so I am not the right one.

I would say like folklore art. Yes. I would say it very much has a lore like feel to it. It does say a tale of bewitchery. Yes. Good job.

Thank you. Good job. I wouldn't have thought of that on my own. I think it's helpful, though, that that lore meme is going around. Mm-hmm. It does.