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End-of-the-Year Contest 2018

Congratulations to the winners of our 2018 End-of-the-Year Contest! One Grand Prize winner received all 45 of Carol Fitzgerald's Bookreporter.com Bets On picks from 2018, while nine others won a selection of five of these titles. You can see all the winners below, along with 2018's Bets On books.

Summer Reading 2018: July Prize Books

Summer will be here before you know it! At Bookreporter.com, this means it's time for us to share some great summer book picks with our Summer Reading Contests and Feature. We will be hosting a series of 24-hour contests for these titles on select days through August 24th, so you will have to check the site each day to see the featured prize book and enter to win.

Linwood Barclay, author of A Noise Downstairs

College professor Paul Davis is a normal guy with a normal life. Until, driving along a deserted road late one night, he surprises a murderer disposing of a couple of bodies. That’s when Paul’s "normal" existence is turned upside down. After nearly losing his own life in that encounter, he finds himself battling PTSD, depression and severe problems at work. His wife, Charlotte, brings home a vintage typewriter to encourage him to get started on that novel he’s always intended to write. However, Paul swears that it is possessed and types by itself at night.

A Noise Downstairs by Linwood Barclay

August 2018

After reading A NOISE DOWNSTAIRS by Linwood Barclay, I daresay that you will not look at an Underwood typewriter the same way again. In it, Paul, a college professor, has been a witness to a terrible crime that has him suffering from PTSD. His wife brings home an Underwood typewriter as a present, hoping that seeing it will encourage him to share his thoughts on the tragedy that has befallen him and help him move on. Soon Paul starts hearing the typewriter typing downstairs during the night, and left for him are terse messages that only increase his angst.

Week of April 29, 2019

Paperback releases for the week of April 29th include Lee Child's PAST TENSE, in which family secrets come back to haunt Jack Reacher; SPYMASTER, the 18th installment in Brad Thor's series featuring counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath, who must do whatever it takes to prevent the United States from being dragged into a deadly war; THE DEATH OF MRS. WESTAWAY, Ruth Ware’s fourth novel about a tarot card reader who mistakenly receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance; A NOISE DOWNSTAIRS by Linwood Barclay, a haunting psychological thriller about a man who is troubled by odd sounds for which there is no rational explanation; and Kelly Corrigan's TELL ME MORE, a story-driven collection of essays on the 12 powerful phrases we use to sustain our relationships.

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