This month on BookTrib, Girls’s Fiction Writers Affiliation shares an inventory of girls’s fiction books with edge-of-your-seat suspense.
TAXED TO THE MAX by Michelle Cornish
This time they’ve gone too far . . .
All Cynthia Webber has ever needed was to maintain her son secure. A profession as a forensic accountant was supposed to assist her try this, however Cynthia’s world is rocked to its core when four-year-old Luke goes lacking from Chinook Centre, alongside along with his grandmother.
When Cynthia discovers the kidnapping has ties to one in every of her information, she’s extra decided than ever to get Luke and her mom again earlier than Christmas, even when it means risking her personal life.
THE MONEY SHOT by Anne Dano
Dr. Rebecca Matthews is the queen of daytime discuss. Her fairy-tale marriage, 9 Emmys, and 12 years because the top-ranked present show there’s no one higher at fixing a damaged relationship. However when her rankings slip and her largest sponsor bolts, the community pressures Becca to spice issues up. The fits need their cash shot. Making issues worse, Becca uncovers a troubling secret about her husband, Ryan, thrusting her right into a disaster that threatens not simply her marriage, however her present and profession.
By no means one to draw back from adversity, Becca decides to make her boss comfortable and restore her marriage on her hit present. As she navigates this uncharted territory, extra devastating discoveries come to gentle, testing her resolve and forcing her to query every thing she believes in. Determined for time and area to recuperate, Becca retreats to the one place she finds sanctuary: Her seashore home. There, she makes a sequence of discoveries that may alter the remainder of her life and drive her to query if the cash shot is value it.
BLIND SPOT by Maggie Smith
A gripping suspense novel with a twisty ending about an bold prosecutor attempting to find her sadistic stalker, solely to search out herself framed for homicide when he turns up lifeless.
Rachel Matthews is used to emphasize—from the cutthroat world of the district legal professional’s workplace to her escalating clashes along with her teenage daughter. So, when a stranger sends a lavish bouquet with a macabre message and leaves a disturbing video on her doorstep, she’s fast to behave. Teaming up with an previous classmate turned non-public investigator, she wades by way of previous case information, trying to find who’s harboring a grudge towards her.
However earlier than she will pinpoint a suspect, her stalker makes a requirement—he desires cash, numerous it, or he’ll harm her daughter. In a harmful gamble, Rachel meets her stalker on an remoted seashore, solely to search out herself fleeing from a stunning crime scene. Can she clear up the puzzle of who’s framing her earlier than she loses her household, her profession, and her freedom?
FLORIDA GIRLS, A Novel by L.L. Kirchner
A struggle bond tour stuffed with keen younger ladies. A sunny city with a seedy underbelly. When the Florida Ladies begin taking pictures again, will anybody survive?
St. Petersburg, Florida, 1944. Thelma Miles can’t stand injustice. Broke and orphaned, the 18-year-old joins a troupe of touring swimsuit fashions, solely to search out she’s stepped into the mafia’s lair.
Kathleen Younger has a one-track thoughts, typically lacking the apparent. Decided to get her emporium out of debt and take her sick husband to California’s therapeutic local weather, organizing the tour is the primary in a sequence of more and more drastic measures.
In opposition to the chaotic backdrop of late WWII America, Kirchner’s twisty story delves into organized crime and the rising pains of a nation. Peppered with real-life characters and in-depth analysis, this intricate weave of views affords up a fictional band of females who refused at hand over the reins of energy.
WHAT LIES WE KEEP by Janet Roberts
Cyber safety knowledgeable, Ted McCord, has been fired. He risked every thing in a recreation far past his management.
Charlotte McCord by no means understood her husband’s habit to the trimmings of company life – the titles, the cash, the promise of seen success he sees as reverse his Montana upbringing. Ted uncovered an embezzlement scheme, did one thing unthinkable to realize a promotion, and hid his actions from his spouse. Then the responsible co-conspirators turned the tables on him. Charlotte leaves, taking their daughter. As Ted works to clear his title, Charlotte leans on her pals. However one buddy’s secret upends every thing Charlotte believes about Ted. Uncertain who to belief, she jettisons from harm and anger to the tempting promise of solace within the arms of a good-looking River Rescue officer.
Stretching from Pittsburgh’s city skyline to the attractive ranch nation of Montana, What Lies We Hold is a transferring story of company ambition that shakes the very foundations of a wedding and asks: What occurs once we embrace the life we predict we should always have, reasonably than the life we’ve got?
UNDER JACKSON BRIDGE by Susan Specht Oram
She leads a busy life. However when this decided single mother stumbles on buried secrets and techniques, will the reality put a goal on her again?
Between repairing boat engines and caring for her teenage daughter, Irena Fishbone is at all times on the run. Nonetheless owed ten years baby assist by her ex-husband, she’s made her personal means and constructed a thriving enterprise. However when she and her ex be part of a shipboard celebration with a close-knit group of previous highschool pals, she’s livid when the cussed man refuses to put on a lifejacket and the 2 of them are swept away by a rogue wave.
Horrified that he by no means returned to the boat, because the Coast Guard scours the ocean the pushed lady organizes a search social gathering to trace down her lacking ex-husband. However returning to the marina empty-handed, her rising suspicions reveal damning monetary data, furtive pals, obscure messages… and a tangled net of lies.
Should you like brave heroines, unsettling battle, and jaw-dropping twists, you’ll be gripped by this chilling page-turner.
OF LIES AND HONEY by Donna Norman-Carbone
Harper Alexander is devastated by a miscarriage despite the fact that she thought she by no means needed to be a mom. Due to her husband’s willpower to create a household and her lack of ability to hold a baby to time period, they think about different choices.
As the results of a secret love affair, Callie Sebastian turns into pregnant. Her socialite mom is appalled by her teenage daughter’s conduct. To guard the household’s popularity, she sends Callie to a Catholic boarding college for wayward women.
When Raina Edwin’s third baby begins college, leaving her with an empty home, she begins to lengthy for an additional child. Sadly, their farm is not going to assist a brand new addition to their household. To fill the void, Raina begins a brand new enterprise: promoting honey.
As Harper, Callie, and Raina cope with their strife, their lives collide in surprising methods. A revealed secret forces every of them to make decisions that may alter their roles as moms and daughters ceaselessly.
A GIRL, STUCK by Kelly Elizabeth Huston
She desires in. He wants out. However their forbidden attraction places them each in peril.
A sometimes powerful non-public investigator and criminology professor, Harriet “Harry” Smith distracts herself from heartbreak by diving headlong into her newest surveillance job. On a steamy New York Metropolis night time, she units out on foot, cocksure and reckless, touchdown face-to-face with Trey Popov, a severe rising star within the Trubetzkoy crime household. She escapes the verboten interplay, however when the 2 meet once more, Harry plunges undercover as a healthful schoolteacher who turns Trey’s head regardless of his compulsion to climb the legal ladder.
Harry’s scheme and forbidden attraction combust in a violent catastrophe. As she works towards justice for her murdered police detective-dad, she hopes to rescue the good, dangerous man too far down the mistaken street to be saved. For Harry, doing the suitable factor can also be the toughest factor, however crossing some traces isn’t in your DNA whenever you bleed blue. Devastated by heartache, goaded by ambition, and blinded by attraction, Harry’s allegiances falter, and the variations between tutorial concept and actual life show that nobody makes it out unchanged. Hell, some don’t make it out in any respect.
THE WILD BETWEEN US by Amy Hagstrom
After inheriting his uncle’s lodge, Silas Matheson hopes the grandeur of the California Sierra Nevada will likely be a contemporary begin for his two younger sons, and an opportunity to lastly face his demons. It was right here, fifteen years in the past, that Silas and his pals Jessica, Danny, and Meg ventured into the mountain wilderness and Jessica vanished with no hint. When his boys go lacking in the identical darkish woods, the concern and guilt that Silas has been working from ever since come crashing again.
Silas’s panicked name brings within the native search and rescue unit, and two acquainted faces: Danny and Meg. Because the frantic search will get underway, the three pals are plunged right into a painfully recurring nightmare, every of them considering, This will’t be occurring once more.
With a storm brewing and the boys’ fates threatened with each determined hour, the secrets and techniques of the previous start to floor, and this time, for Silas, Danny, and Meg, there’s no escaping the reality.
HER PAST CAN’T WAIT by Jacqueline Boulden
Simply when every thing goes proper for Emily Archer, all of it goes terribly mistaken.
With a current promotion at work, a circle of supportive pals, and a loving sister, Emily’s future appears to be like vivid. However her world is shattered when an vital shopper gropes her at his firm’s annual gala. Emily responds by slapping the person within the face, virtually breaking a finger.
Compelled to take day without work, Emily begins working with an EMDR therapist to know why she snapped. Psychotherapy takes Emily down a path to a painful trauma she suffered as a teen.
Whereas she’s placing the items collectively and therapeutic from her previous, she discovers an area movie star is concentrating on ladies in her group. Regardless of warnings from the police and her therapist to steer clear, Emily is set to cease him.
Can she convey him to justice as soon as and for all, or will she turn out to be his subsequent sufferer?
