2019 in Books

January

  1. The Last Straw – Ed Duncan – 3.5/5
  2. Let Me Lie – Clare Mackintosh – 5*/5
  3. The Woman in the Window – A.J. Finn – 5*/5
  4. The Plea – Steve Cavanagh – 5/5
  5. The Accident – C.L. Taylor – 4/5
  6. Red Bones – Ann Cleeves – 3.5/5

February

  1. You – Caroline Kepnes – 4/5
  2. Never Tell – Lisa Gardner – 4/5 (ARC)
  3. Twisted – Steve Cavanagh – 4/5 (ARC)

March

  1. Beautiful Bad – Annie Ward – 5/5 (ARC)
  2. The Lady of the Rivers – Philippa Gregory – 5/5
  3. A Whole New World (a twisted tale) – Liz Braswell – 3/5
  4. Sleep – C. L. Taylor – 4/5 (ARC)
  5. Opposite of Always – Justin A. Reynolds – 5/5 (ARC)

April

  1. Blacklands – Belinda Bauer – 4/5
  2. The White Queen – Philippa Gregory – 4/5
  3. Columbine – Dave Cullen – 5/5
  4. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman – 5/5
  5. I Know Who You Are – Alice Feeney – 4/5
  6. The Corset – Laura Purcell – 4/5

May

  1. Fixed Odds – William McIntyre – 4/5 (ARC)
  2. The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle – Stuart Turton – 5/5
  3. Hidden Bodies – Caroline Kepnes – 4/5
  4. Watching Edie – Camilla Way – 5/5
  5. The Silent Patient – Alex Michaelides – 4/5
  6. The Shut Eye – Belinda Bauer – 4/5
  7. Pet Sematary – Stephen King – 5/5

June

  1. The Furies – Katie Lowe – 4/5 (NetGalley)
  2. Aprillilumi (Snow in April) – Rosamunde Pilcher – 3/5
  3. The First Lady – James Patterson & Brendam DuBois – 4/5
  4. The Passengers– John Marrs – 4/5
  5. An Unwanted Guest – Shari Lapena – 5/5
  6. Daughters for a Time – Jennifer Handford – 3/5
  7. The Chain – Adrian McKinty – 4/5 (ARC)
  8. Life After Death: An American Family, book 2 – Jackson Baer – 2/5
  9. The Fault in Our Stars – John Green – 5*/5

July

  1. One Of Us is Lying – Karen M. McManus – 5/5
  2. The Chain – Adrian McKinty – 4/5
  3. The Librarian of Auschwitz – Antonio Iturbe – 5*/5
  4. After the End – Claire Mackintosh – 4/5
  5. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption – Stephen King – 5/5
  6. The Night You Left – Emma Curtis – 5/5
  7. Keep You Close – Karen Cleveland – 5/5

August

  1. The Retreat – Sherri Smith – 3/5
  2. Psycho – Robert Bloch – 5/5
  3. The Perfect Wife – JP Delaney – 3/5
  4. The Choice – Edith Eger – 5*/5
  5. Blaze – Stephen King – 4/6
  6. The Whisper Man – Alex North – 4/5
  7. Don’t Wake Up – Liz Lawler – 2/5
  8. Two Can Keep A Secret – Karen M. McManus – 3.5/5

September

  1. Through the Wall – Caroline Corcoran – 5/5
  2. Tangerine – Christine Mangan – 3.5/5
  3. A Spark of Light – Jodi Picoult – 4/5
  4. Lock Every Door – Riley Sager – 4/5

October

  1. Annie’s Room – Amy Cross – 4/5
  2. The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz – Jeremy Dronfield – 5*/5
  3. The Exorcist – William Peter Blatty – 4/5
  4. The Shining – Stephen King – 4/5

November

  1. What Dementia Teaches Us About Love – Nicci Gerrard – 5/5
  2. The Bankers Wife – Cristina Alger – 3/5
  3. Bone China – Laura Purcell – 3/5
  4. Rosemary’s Baby – Ira Levin – 2/5
  5. A Nearly Normal Family – M. T. Edvardsson – 4/5

December

  1. Truth or Die – Katerina Diamond – 5/5
  2. Seven Days – Alex Lake – 4/5
  3. The Chestnut Man – Soren Sveistrup – 4/5
  4. Guilt – Amanda Robson – 2/5
  5. Cilka’s Journey – Heather Morris – 3/5