Mailbox Monday

I didn’t post last Monday, because I wanted to use that day to post my September recap, and now I have 5 books to post about!

BOOKS RECEIVED THESE PAST TWO WEEKS

Scare Me, by Richard Parker
Thriller
Published September 2016,
by Endeavour Press,
who sent me a free e-copy

“When did you last google yourself, Mr Frost?”
Will Frost, successful businessman and happy family man, is woken to a disturbing midnight caller who asks him just that question.
Unnerved, but hoping that he was simply a victim of a twisted prank caller, he goes back to sleep in readiness for his pregnant daughter, Libby, and her boyfriend’s arrival at Gatwick the next morning.
When Will goes online, he finds a website has been set up in his name, showing photographs of the inside of his home, along with photographs of six houses he’s never seen before.
In the first of these strange houses, a gruesome murder has already taken place.
Will is then told that his own family is in mortal danger.
The only way he can keep them safe is to visit each of the houses on the website in person – before the police discover what has happened there.
Seven houses.
Seven gruesome homicides.
Seven chances to save his daughter’s life…
Will must embark on his twisted journey, encountering grisly murder after murder, as his torturer plays with his fears of losing Libby in a sick scavenger hunt.
But can Will ever save his daughter?
Scare Me is an arresting thriller that will keep you in suspense until the very end.

Keto in 30 Minutes:
100 No-Stress Ketogenic Diet Recipes
to Keep You on Track,
by Jen Fisch, editor
Rockridge Press
1/22/2019
Nonfiction/Cookbooks

I already reviewed it here.
My verdict was:If you want to launch into the keto diet, this is the book!

I received this e-copy through The Callisto Publisher’s Club.
And I won another book by them, I’ll tell you about it when I receive it (mail).

And I received three upcoming novels:

Supernova Era, by Cixin Liu
Science-fiction/Chinese
US release date: October 22, by Tor Books

I won a print copy through BOOKishFirst

From Cixin Liu, the New York Times bestselling and Hugo award-winning author of The Three Body Problem, comes a new science fiction masterpiece.

In those days, Earth was a planet in space.
In those days, Beijing was a city on Earth.
On this night, history as known to humanity came to an end.
Eight light years away, a star has died, creating a supernova event that showers Earth in deadly levels of radiation. Within a year, everyone over the age of thirteen will die.
And so the countdown begins. Parents apprentice their children and try to pass on the knowledge they’ll need to keep the world running.
But the last generation may not want to carry the legacy of their parents’ world. And though they imagine a better, brighter world, they may bring about a future so dark humanity won’t survive.

Lady Clementine, by Marie Benedict
Historical fiction
US release date: Jan 7, 2020
by SourceBooks
I received an e-copy through Netgalley

Yes, a new one by Marie Benedict!

In 1909, Clementine Churchill steps off a train with her new husband, Winston. An angry woman emerges from the crowd to attack, shoving him in the direction of an oncoming train. Just before he stumbles, Clementine grabs him by his suit jacket. This will not be the last time Clementine Churchill saves her husband.
Lady Clementine is the ferocious story of the brilliant and ambitious woman beside Winston Churchill, the story of a partner who did not flinch through the sweeping darkness of war, and who would not surrender either to expectations or to enemies.

Dreamland, by Nancy Bilyeau
Historical Fiction
US release date: Jan 16, 2020
by Endeavour Quill
I received an e-copy directly from the publisher, who enjoyed my review of her amazing The Blue.
Now, this book is about 625 page slong, so I hope it’s just as good!

The year is 1911 when twenty-year-old heiress Peggy Batternberg is invited to spend the summer in America’s Playground.
The invitation to the luxurious Oriental Hotel a mile from Coney Island is unwelcome. Despite hailing from one of America’s richest families, Peggy would much rather spend the summer working at the Moonrise Bookstore than keeping up appearances with New York City socialites and her snobbish, controlling family.
But soon it transpires that the hedonism of nearby Coney Island affords Peggy the freedom she has been yearning for, and it’s not long before she finds herself in love with a troubled pier-side artist of humble means, whom the Batternberg patriarchs would surely disapprove of.
Disapprove they may, but hidden behind their pomposity lurks a web of deceit, betrayal and deadly secrets. And as bodies begin to mount up amidst the sweltering clamour of Coney Island, it seems the powerful Batternbergs can get away with anything…even murder.
Extravagant, intoxicating and thumping with suspense, bestselling Nancy Bilyeau’s magnificent Dreamland is a story of corruption, class and dangerous obsession.

ARE YOU PLANNING TO READ ANY OF THESE?
DO YOU LIKE THESE AUTHORS?
WHAT BOOK(S) DID YOU RECEIVE?