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End-of-the-Year Contest 2020

Congratulations to the winners of our 2020 End-of-the-Year Contest! One Grand Prize winner received all 42 of Carol Fitzgerald's Bookreporter.com Bets On picks from 2020, while 14 others won a selection of three of these titles. You can see all the winners below, along with 2020's Bets On books.

Lisa Unger, author of Confessions on the 7:45

Selena Murphy is commuting home from her job in the city when the train stalls out on the tracks. She strikes up a conversation with a beautiful stranger in the next seat, and their connection is fast and easy. The woman introduces herself as Martha and confesses that she’s been stuck in an affair with her boss. Selena, in turn, confesses that she suspects her husband is sleeping with the nanny. When the train arrives at Selena’s station, the two women part ways. Days later, Selena’s nanny disappears. As Selena is pulled into the mystery of the missing nanny, and as the fractures in her marriage grow deeper, Selena begins to wonder who Martha really was. But she is hardly prepared for what she will discover.

Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger

October 2020

CONFESSIONS ON THE 7:45 by Lisa Unger opens with a frazzled Selena boarding a commuter train home that has her behind schedule --- and then the train gets stuck in a tunnel. During this frustrating delay, she turns to the woman next to her and they start chatting. At first it’s idle chatter, but then her seatmate reveals that she is having an affair with her boss. This emboldens Selena to blurt out that her husband, Graham, is having an affair with their nanny, Geneva. Between them, they establish the kind of instant intimacy that often happens when in a confined space like this. I confess that I have been in dishy conversations on more than one airplane!

Week of July 12, 2021

Paperback releases for the week of July 12th include SPIN, a heart-pounding thriller from Patricia Cornwell, in which Captain Calli Chase races against time to thwart a plot that leaves the fate of humanity hanging in the balance; Lisa Unger's CONFESSIONS ON THE 7:45, a riveting work of psychological suspense about a chance encounter that unravels a shocking web of lies; A VERY PUNCHABLE FACE, a collection of hilarious essays from "Saturday Night Live" head writer and Weekend Update co-anchor Colin Jost, who learns how to take a beating; BETTY, a stunning, lyrical novel set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachians about a young girl and the family truths that will haunt her for the rest of her life; and ELIOT NESS AND THE MAD BUTCHER by Max Allan Collins and A. Brad Schwartz, the haunting story of Eliot Ness' forgotten final case --- his years-long hunt for "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run," a serial killer who terrorized Cleveland through the Great Depression.

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