e-ALC, 09:37:49
Narrated by: Joy Nash & Sean Patrick Hopkins
Release Date: May 26, 2026
Published by: Books on Tape
Read from: May 23-24, 2026
Stand-alone
Source: Netgalley ( I received this ALC free from the publisher and Netgalley. This did nothing to influence my review.)
Content Warning: Murder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury Detail, Confinement, Sexual Content, Blood
For Readers of: Adult, Audio, Contemporary, Libby, Mystery, Realistic Fiction, Romance, ThrillersMurder has a way of bringing people together…
Harriet Baker thought that when she left Logan Island, she was leaving for good. But after getting fired from her dream magazine job, she finds herself stuck back in the sleepy New Jersey beach town living with her eccentric mother and desperate to escape.
And her ticket out might be…murder?
When Harriet’s extravagant birthday party ends with a dead body, all fingers point to Sara Allbright, the troublesome sister of none other than Nic, Harriet’s short-lived fling from years ago that she’s been eager to forget. And the feeling is entirely mutual. But murder makes for a good story, and when Harriet is told that she can get her old job back if she writes an article uncovering what really happened the night of her party, she readily agrees. To write her piece, Harriet will need Nic’s full cooperation, and if Nic wants to clear his sister’s name, he’ll need Harriet’s investigative skills. But working together? That’s less than ideal.
As the two team up to find the real killer, they’ll uncover the dark underbelly of their seemingly perfect hometown, uncover long buried feelings, and maybe, just maybe, realize that they might work well together after all.
*MY THOUGHTS*
This was….. weird. I forgot everything that happened until I read the first few chapters again. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t the amazing thriller that I waited my whole life for either. I just had a lot more ideas and it wasn’t at all what i had in mind.
Ok so the main thing that annoyed me was the MF that was the love interest. Like was he a child? He was complaining about literally everything. And then like, if you’re going to do all this extra, please have something else going for you. But he had nothing. And finally when they got together, it was still not great. They didn’t have any real chemistry. I wanna say because it happened so late in the book and then the excerpt was there. And it was weird.
The mystery was fun but the police? USELESS. And I mean, drive the plot anyway you want to. But at the VERY LEAST they could have run into some kind of resistance. But nope, nothing happened at all. They could literally have just not been there whatsoever. One of them was meh but she didn’t even like them. It was a whole hot mess. It felt like there were no stakes and they were just out there wylin. I just feel like in a thriller this shouldn’t be a thing? lol But what do I know?
This was ok, but nothing to write home about. I don’t think I was able to stop thinking about certain things and that took me out of it a bit. It did have its funny moments tho, that’s what ultimately saved it for me.
Overall, I give this
