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BOTM Predictions: January 2024

The Fury by Alex Michaelides

A thriller about a reclusive former movie starlet, Lana Farrar, who invites her famous friends to her private Greek island. The trip is soon upended by murder.

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The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins

Another Rachel Hawkins novel. This time it’s a gothic suspense story about an infamous heiress and the complicated inheritance she left behind. They didn’t carry her last book, but maybe they’ll pick her back up for this one.

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Family Family by Laurie Frankel

A story about a star, India Allwood, who says the wrong thing during an interview for her new movie. India is the proud adoptive parent of two children, and the movie is a tragic cliché about adoption. Pointing this out, however, was not her brightest moment. The book looks at what it means to be a family.

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The Book of Fire by Christy Lefteri

In present-day Greece, a wildfire consumes the home and village of a family. Months later, one of the family members stumbled upon the man who started the fire. A masterwork about the search for meaning in the wake of tragedy.

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Midnight by Amy McCulloch

From Amazon: In this pulse-pounding thriller, a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Antarctica—to camp beneath the legendary midnight sun—becomes a desperate battle for survival against a killer determined to follow their prey to the ends of the earth.

THE SUN NEVER SETS AND THIS KILLER NEVER SLEEPS

It’s the author of Breathless!

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Come & Get It by Kiley Reid

It’s by the author of Such a Fun Age, and centers around the story of a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a professor and three unruly students.

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Only If You’re Lucky by Stacy Willingham

Lucy and Margot are opposites. Lucy is outgoing and larger-that-life while Margot keeps to herself, which is why Margot is surprised when Lucy asks her to room together their sophomore year at a college in South Carolina. The girls go close, but in the middle of the year, on of the frat boys from the house next door is brutally murdered, and Lucy is missing.

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Anna O by Matthew Blake

A Gillian Flynn/Alex Michaelides style thriller about a woman who commits a double murder while sleepwalking, and then never opens her eyes again. Kayla has a history of sleepwalking. Should we be worried?

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A Fragile Enchantment by Allison Saft

They’ve picked up some young adult fantasy, and this was sounds too magical to pass up!

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The House of Last Resort by Christopher Golden

The mayor of the hilltop town of Becchina, Italy rebuilds the town and sells the abandoned homes for a single Euro as long as the buyer promises to liver there for at least five years. American couple Tommy and Kate Puglisi see this as the opportunity of a lifetime, but as soon as they move in, things get scary. BOTM needs more horror fiction.

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The Breakup Tour by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka

Riley Wynn writes a Taylor Swift-style breakup song that makes her an instant star, but when her ex-husband demands money for the song, which he says is about him, she calls Max Harcourt. He’s the musician ex-boyfriend the song was written for. He agrees to go public as her “muse” only if she’ll let him tour with her band.

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The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James

From Amazon: A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, The Bullet Swallower follows a Mexican bandido as he sets off for Texas to save his family, only to encounter a mysterious figure who has come, finally, to collect a cosmic debt generations in the making. Multi-generational and fascinating.

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The Clinic by Cate Quinn

A thriller set in a remote rehab clinic on the coast. The death of one of the patients prompts her sister to enter the clinic as a patient, herself, in order to find the truth. Perfect for fans of Stacy Willingham and Tarryn Fisher!

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Diva by Daisy Goodwin

A story of the scandalous love affair between the most celebrated opera singer of all time and one of the richest men in the world.

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Love, Naturally by Sophie Sullivan

Presley Ayers – city girl meets Beckett Keller mountain man and neither likes each other but they have chemistry. 

A charming opposites-attract romance, Love, Naturally is for anyone who ever stepped outside their comfort zone and found that all the best things can happen when you take a chance.

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Wander in the Dark by Jumata Emill

Two brothers must come together to solve the murder of the most popular girl in school after one of them is caught fleeing the scene of her death.

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