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End-of-the-Year Contest 2022

Congratulations to the winners of our 2022 End-of-the-Year Contest! One Grand Prize winner received all 40 of Carol Fitzgerald's Bookreporter.com Bets On picks from 2022, while eight others won a selection of five of these titles. You can see all the winners below, along with 2022's Bets On books.

Fall Preview 2022

Fall is known as the biggest season of the year for books. The titles that release during this latter part of the year often become holiday gifts, and many are blockbusters. While our series of 24-hour Fall Preview contests have ended, we encourage you to take a look at our featured titles. These are just some of the outstanding books that we know people will be talking about over the next few months.

Alice Feeney, author of Daisy Darker

Daisy Darker was born with a broken heart. Now, after years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker’s entire family is assembling for Nana’s 80th birthday party in her crumbling gothic house on a tiny tidal island. The family arrives, each of them harboring secrets. When the tide comes in, they will be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours. But at the stroke of midnight, as a storm rages, Nana is found dead. And an hour later, the next family member follows. Trapped on an island where someone is killing them one by one, the Darkers must reckon with their present mystery as well as their past secrets, before the tide goes out and all is revealed.

Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney

September 2022

While Alice Feeney crafts a good plot, what I really enjoy about her writing is her twist of a phrase. As I read her work, I find myself folding down one page after the next where the writing gives me pause. Her plotting aside, this is what makes me want to read one of her books, and DAISY DARKER fits the bill for this. I am not sharing them here as I want you to uncover these little Easter eggs of word joy for yourself.

Week of July 24, 2023

Paperback releases for the week of July 24th include SUSPECT by Scott Turow, a riveting legal thriller in which a reckless private detective is embroiled in a fraught police scandal; ENCORE IN DEATH, the 56th installment in J. D. Robb's captivating series that marks the return of Lieutenant Eve Dallas, the homicide cop with a passion for justice; Alice Feeney's DAISY DARKER, a delightfully twisty and atmospheric locked-room mystery in which a family reunion leads to murder; REPUTATION, a breathless psychological thriller from Sarah Vaughan about a politician whose less-than-perfect personal life is thrust into the spotlight when a body is discovered in her home; THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF AN ORDINARY MAN, the raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of iconic actor Paul Newman, who covers his traumatic childhood; his career; his drinking; his greatest roles; acting; his intimate life with Joanne Woodward; and his innermost fears, passions and joys; and the paperback original THE HOLLYWOOD JINX by Sariah Wilson, a fun, flirty novel in which the scene is set for an unpredictable romance when Hollywood comes to small-town Ohio.