TOP TBR’S FROM PDI GUEST AUTHORS – VOL. 3

PDI Book Club: TBR’s from our author-guests…

 

This blog post highlights books that are on the TBR piles of our Author-Guests. Books are added to the list in the order they are received. This list comprised of book titles from all genres, including non-fiction and biographical. The Author’s List is published monthly. Clicking on the book image will take you to a full book summary on Amazon. Clicking on the submitting author’s name will take you to their PDI Adventure.

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“A smart and hugely entertainingly thriller... a model for superb thriller writing… 

 

In less than half a minute, a home-security camera captures the hidden resolve in fourteen-year-old Carly Liddell as she fends off a vicious attack just inside her own front door. The video of her heroic escape appears online and goes viral. As the view count climbs, the lives of four desperate people will be forever changed by what’s just barely visible in the corner of the shot… a 400 year old stolen painting…

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This book was suggested by K.J. Howe, author of SKYJACK
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“A deep dive into Los Angeles’ racial underbelly and tensions… two families forced to confront injustice…— The Los Angeles Times

 

In the wake of the police shooting of a black teenager, Los Angeles is as tense as it’s been since the unrest of the early 1990s. But Grace Park and Shawn Matthews have their own problems. Grace is sheltered and largely oblivious, living in the Valley with her Korean-immigrant parents, working long hours at the family pharmacy. She’s distraught that her sister hasn’t spoken to their mother in two years, for reasons beyond Grace’s understanding. Shawn has already had enough of politics and protest after an act of violence shattered his family years ago. He just wants to be left alone to enjoy his quiet life in Palmdale. But when another shocking crime hits LA, both the Park and Matthews families are forced to face down their history…

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This book was suggested by Lou Berney, author of NOVEMBER ROAD
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The prequel to Dracula, inspired by notes and texts left behind by the author of the classic novel

 

It’s 1868, and a twenty-one-year-old Bram Stoker waits in a desolate tower to face an indescribable evil. Armed only with crucifixes, holy water, and a rifle, he prays to survive a single night, the longest of his life. Desperate to record what he has witnessed, Bram scribbles down the events that led him here. A sickly child, Bram spent his early days bedridden in his parents’ Dublin home, tended to by his caretaker, a young woman named Ellen Crone. When a string of strange deaths occur in a nearby town, Bram and his sister Matilda detect a pattern of bizarre behavior by Ellen—a mystery that deepens chillingly until Ellen vanishes suddenly from their lives. Years later, Matilda returns from studying in Paris to tell Bram the news that she has seen Ellen—and that the nightmare they’ve thought long ended is only beginning…

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This book was suggested by Tosca Lee, author of A SINGLE LIGHT
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You’ll be captivated from start to finish by this latest tale from the dominant mystery/thriller author of the mountain West…

 

Former sheriff’s investigator Cassie Dewell is trying to start her life over as in private practice. She’s her own boss and answers to no one, and that’s just the way she likes it after the past few tumultuous years. All that certainty changes when an old friend calls in a favor: she wants Cassie to help exonerate a man accused of assaulting a young woman from an influential family. Against her own better judgment, Cassie agrees. But out by the Bitterroot Mountains of Montana, twisted family loyalty runs as deep as the ties to the land, and there’s always something more to the story. The Kleinsassers have ruled this part of Montana for decades; the Iron Cross Ranch is their stronghold and they want to see Blake Kleinsasser, the black sheep of the family, put away forever for the assault…

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This book was suggested by Glen Erik Hamilton, author of MERCY RIVER
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An absolute treat for anyone who likes cozy historical mysteries…

 

Wedding bells are set to ring as Dandy Gilver, family in tow, arrives in windswept Wester Ross on Valentine’s Day. They’ve come to celebrate Lady Lavinia’s fiftieth birthday and to meet her daughter Mallory, a less-than-suitable bride-to-be for Dandy’s son Donald. But soon love is the last thing on Dandy’s mind when the news breaks that Lady Lavinia has been found dead, brutally murdered in the middle of her famous knot garden. Strange superstitions and folklore abound among the Gaelic-speaking locals. But , Dandy suspects that the tangled boughs and branches around Applecross House hide something much more earthly at work…

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This book was suggested by Alexia Gordon, author of THE GETHSEMANE BROWN COZIES
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  • Please Note: Our reading lists are comprised of traditionally published works. There are many independently published authors who produce quality work, but there are an even larger number who produce work that could be of much higher quality with greater attention to editing and overall production value. Since we cannot vet them all, we have chosen to restrict the PDI Book Club lists to traditionally published work.
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