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The Everlasting  is filled with rich adventure; twisty jaunts through time; tragedy and loss; dark turns The tone of the book is quiet, shadowy, and reflective, but there are rich, sordid, often unexpected twists

funny, self-deprecating, and irresistibly tender-hearted as he recounts his musical influences, the twists

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I loved Hochhauser's turning the traditional tale on its head, the details, and the twists.

follows Sitara through unlikely alliances, a desperate plan to escape her fiery homeland, and a life with twists

Panowich offers a story about a complicated family and sense of duty, with ruthless mountain gangsters, twists

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Alexandra Andrews's twisty-turny mystery about a reclusive author and the ambitious assistant she takes Maud Dixon has clever twists and turns that I didn't see coming and offers interesting gray areas regarding

Jars offers solid historical fiction details of Victorian London within a creepy mystery with dark twists

This is twisted, base, and funny, but sometimes also sentimental and poignant, with peeks into deceased

Sandwich made me laugh, twisted my heart, and kept me interested throughout.

follows Sitara through unlikely alliances, a desperate plan to escape her fiery homeland, and a life with twists

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The Last Thing He Told Me, Laura Dave's great mystery that offers unexpected (but not manipulative) twists

Things quickly get complicated, and there's a twist: circumstances demand that instinctual nemeses and

are set in Australia, and she makes me care about her characters while keeping me guessing through twists

magical and irresistible tale includes protagonists with kickass girl power; multiple and haunting twists

Her wild Australia settings, dark secrets, and twists and turns have me totally hooked.

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finding her way in her complicated family and in the world, Vera, or Faith ; I'm reading Steve Cavanagh's twisty Publishing Group and NetGalley. 02 Kill for Me, Kill for You by Steve Cavanagh In Steve Cavanagh's twisty

historical fiction set during the Dust Bowl, The Antidote ; and I'm listening to Gillian McAllister's newest twisty 03 Famous Last Words by Gillian McAllister Famous Last Words is another smart, twisty mystery from Gillian

This romance-laced mystery centered around a podcast and its host's disappearance includes some far-fetched-feeling elements, but Tiffany Crum's debut novel keeps up the pacing and kept me interested throughout, including the renegade justice that's served up. Benny and Joy are best friends who met under unusual circumstances; Joy, a narcoleptic, was asleep outside a bar bathroom when Benny woke her up. (Side note: this is presented as a zany meet-cute but felt a little jarringly oddball and potentially extremely dangerous to Joy.) Now Joy and Benny host one of the most popular podcasts around. Through their natural banter and conversations they came up with what turned out to be a slam-dunk premise: One friend poses a highly specific situation and asks the other to imagine how they would escape it. Then the duo reveals a real-life situation that has occured and which applies to the scenario and they speak to experts about how best to survive it. The podcast is entertaining, a huge hit--and extremely lucrative. In fact, Benny and Joy are in talks to sell the podcast for millions. When Joy and her husband Xander, who's been highly involved in the management of the podcast (and Benny and Joy's finances), go missing under mysterious circumstances, Benny is suspect number one. Because of this, and because of his adoration of Joy, Benny feels it's up to him to put together the pieces of what happened--and bring them home. It becomes clear that Benny and Joy have in the past had feelings for each other; that Xander has secretly and not-so-secretly been controlling and interfering; that Benny's ex-wife is a saint and also more key to the story than one might have anticipated; and that many things are not as they seem. The pacing of This Story Might Save Your Life moves along; Crum tracks back and forth in time, relies on snippets of the podcast as context, and shares various characters' points of view to reveal the real story piece by piece, all while present-day events continue to unfold. Joy is narcoleptic, has suffered from trauma, and is at times hallucinatory, so she is an unreliable narrator--until we know that we're getting the full story toward the end of the book. When the full extent of the secrets and lies at the heart of the mystery are revealed, some of them feel somewhat far-fetched and like significant reaches, but I was most intrigued by one unexpected key player, a seemingly unlikely but essential piece of the justice that is ultimately served up. I listened to This Story Might Save Your Life as an audiobook. More Books You Might Like This Story Might Save Your Life is Tiffany Crum's debut novel. Another mystery that invoves a podcaster is the great novel Listen for the Lie .

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The Everlasting is filled with rich adventure; twisty jaunts through time; tragedy and loss; dark turns

The Books I'm Reading Now Library audiobook alert: I'm listening to the twisty mystery First Lie Wins

and kept me hooked--through despair, love, duty, and resignation--with quiet power until the slightly twisty

Dunlap's debut novel is dark, twisty, gothic, and it's set in 19th-century Scotland as fictionalized

of assumptions, Missing Sam ; and I'm continuing my recent mystery mania by listening to the trusty, twisty

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery that plays with time, Wrong 01 Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery Wrong Place Wrong

Berry's recently published debut novel, a twisty mystery. What are you reading, bookworms?

This is twisty and odd, quirky and fun, and has lots of heart.

Whitaker offers several interconnected storylines, and while each one individually appealed to me, I felt a growing lack of connection to the characters as the tales melded into another: young friendship, serial killer, outlaw search, small-town intrigue, and longtime mysteries revealed. Chris Whitaker's novel All the Colors of the Dark  builds a story of a deep friendship between two young outcasts in small-town Monta Clare, Missouri: Patch, a pirate-playing young man missing one eye, whose mother is unreliable and a substance abuser; and Saint, a tomboy raised by her fearless grandmother. A kidnaper and serial killer intrudes on the quiet community and directly impacts Patch and Saint. The horrifying crimes seems to be motivated by religious fanaticism, and both Patch and Saint's futures are shaped by their ties to the darkly disturbing events. I adored the early building of the deep connection and affection between Saint and Patch. And I was intrigued by the disparate-seeming story that soon emerges, beginning with the premise of a serial killer whose actions haunt our main characters and whose horrifying spectre looms over them. There's yet another somewhat separate-feeling story of an outlaw, and a study on prison life, as well as an extended look at a life spend in law enforcement and seeking justice. There are deep betrayals, long-term mysteries, and, finally, many revealed truths (some of which you may anticipate, including the biggies). Each of these storylines would be one I'm interested in, and Whitaker offers a fascinating interconnectedness between them. But the storytelling frequently felt scattered to me, with overly dramatic moments, abrupt statements that are seemingly meant to add impact, and what felt like self-conscious attempts to be offbeat. Characters frequently offer grand speeches to each other about how the world works, and these didn't feel genuine or likely to me. A key character gives up everything to relentlessly seek out a dreamlike possibility of something that might be real, and this didn't sit comfortably with me after the early devotion illustrated between our main protagonists and the character growth evidenced in the meantime. This character's youthful romantic relationship, whose impact becomes pivotal in some ways, also didn't feel real to me. Yet the cast of characters is colorful, and I enjoyed the time I spent with them. I received a prepublication edition of this title, which was published June 25, courtesy of NetGalley and Crown Publishing. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book? Chris Whitaker is also the author of We Begin at the End , a novel I adored.

Dunlap's debut novel is dark, twisty, gothic, and it's set in 19th-century Scotland as (real-life) serial

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The Everlasting  is filled with rich adventure; twisty jaunts through time; tragedy and loss; dark turns This is twisty and odd, quirky and fun, and has lots of heart.

love a mix of historical fiction and fantasy, and while this novel isn't as layered and complex or as twisty

Starling House is another wonderful, dark, twisty story from Alix E.

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The steamy scenes, the twisty route to the relationship, the career shifts, and the science focus were

writes wonderful, character-driven suspense that keeps me hooked as she guides the reader through a twisty

Devious series delivers more smart, creative sleuthing from Stevie Bell and the gang, great dialogue, twisty

writes wonderful, character-driven suspense that keeps me hooked as she guides the reader through a twisty Harrow Starling House is another wonderful, dark, twisty story from Alix E.

The mystery within What Happened to the Bennetts is twisty without being manipulative, and the denouement

Yet Yarros's thrilling, twisty ending hooked me to find out what would happen in book two.

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think "science fiction," but Quantum Girl Theory is rooted in historical fiction and offers a solid, twisty

Willingham's debut thriller offers an unreliable narrator haunted by her father's decades-old serial killing--and her horrifying suspicion that recent disappearances are somehow connected to her past. The summer Chloe Davis was twelve, six girls went missing in her rural Louisiana community. By the end of that summer, Chloe's father had confessed to the crimes of killing those girls, was convicted as a serial killer, and was put in jail for the rest of his life. Twenty years later, Chloe struggles, but she has more good days than bad. She's a Baton Rouge psychologist who's preparing for her wedding, and she can mostly keep the terrors and trauma of the past at bay. She doesn't really let anyone in emotionally, including her fiancé, but she's doing her best. When a local young woman goes missing, Chloe fights her rising panic. As another girl disappears, this time one she's tenuously connected to, and when she realizes that aspects of the disappearances echo those of her childhood, the psychologist wonders if she's imagining connections to the crimes of decades earlier. Is there another killer who preys on young women, one paying homage to the twentieth anniversary of her father's heinous crimes? And what is Chloe going to do about it? When a reporter arrives in town, digging into Chloe's past and the recent disappearances, he sparks disturbing old memories and exacerbates the lurking fears and trauma that erupt for Chloe without warning. She spirals into an unreliable-narrator routine of pills and wine, not quite sure what she's seen or what to make of it, staggering through her days, unsure whether it's day or night and less sure than ever of who she can trust. Willingham made me suspect everyone, and while I'm sometimes frustrated by an unreliable-narrator setup, Chloe's swirling mind suited the story and allowed for uncertainty before the denouement. I didn't completely buy into Chloe as a psychologist (although the career suited the plot), and I found some minor plot points tough to believe (going through with the alarm installation in such a fraught situation--!), but I liked how Willingham allowed for resolutions without glossing over the irrevocable effects of the deep doubts and trauma on the relationships in the story. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book? A Flicker in the Dark is Stacy Willingham's first book. The story has been optioned by actress Emma Stone to be produced as a limited television series.

Claire North has crafted a fascinating, twisty, thoughtful time-travel story.

Riddle's twisty time-travel mind-bender that's also about responsibility and causality; and I'm listening