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End-of-the-Year Contest 2021

Congratulations to the winners of our 2021 End-of-the-Year Contest! One Grand Prize winner received all 44 of Carol Fitzgerald's Bookreporter.com Bets On picks from 2021, while 11 others won a selection of four of these titles. You can see all the winners below, along with 2021's Bets On books.

Mary Dixie Carter, author of The Photographer

As a photographer, Delta Dawn observes the seemingly perfect lives of New York City’s elite: snapping photos of their children’s birthday parties, transforming images of stiff hugs and tearstained faces into visions of pure joy, and creating moments these parents long for. But when Delta is hired for Natalie Straub’s 11th birthday, she finds herself wishing she wasn’t behind the lens but a part of the scene --- in the Straub family’s gorgeous home and elegant life. That’s when Delta puts her plan in place, by babysitting for Natalie; befriending her mother, Amelia; finding chances to listen to her father, Fritz. Soon she’s bathing in the master bathtub and eyeing the beautifully finished garden apartment in their townhouse. It seems she can never get close enough, until she discovers that photos aren’t all she can manipulate.

The Photographer by Mary Dixie Carter

June 2021

THE PHOTOGRAPHER by Mary Dixie Carter is a brisk psychological thriller about a young woman named Delta Dawn, who photographs the birthday parties of children who come from privileged families. Not only does she shoot the parties, she manipulates the images to ensure that everyone looks happy and smiling.

Week of August 15, 2022

Paperback releases for the week of August 15th include THE NAMELESS ONES, which marks the return of John Connolly's white-knuckled series starring Charlie Parker, who is involved in a heart-pounding race to hunt down the deadliest of war criminals; FRIENDS LIKE THESE, a relentlessly twisty literary thriller from Kimberly McCreight, in which a desperate intervention brings together a group of college friends 10 years after graduation --- a reunion marked by lies, betrayal and murder; Mary Dixie Carter's THE PHOTOGRAPHER, a slyly observed, suspenseful story of envy and obsession, told in the mesmerizing, irresistible voice of a character who will make you doubt that seeing is ever believing; and TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE, a riveting memoir from Ellen McGarrahan, a private investigator who revisits the case that has haunted her for decades and sets out on a deeply personal quest to sort truth from lies.