TTT: 10 All Time Favorites in Suspense/Mystery

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.  This week's theme features my favorite books in Suspense/ Mystery.  Here we go!

Don't Look Back by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Sam and Cassie disappear.  A few days later, Sam reappears with amnesia and no Cassie.  What happened to both girls?

After the Woods by Kim Savage

Almost abducted, Julia spends 48 hours in the woods running from her captor.

The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma 

What really happened on the night Orianna stepped between Violet and her tormentors? What really happened on two strange nights at Aurora Hills? Will Amber and Violet and Orianna ever get the justice they deserve—in this life or in another one?

The Body in the Woods by April Henry

Teen members of a search and rescue team find a dead body in the woods.

 Made for You by Melissa Marr
Eva gets hit by a car, wakes up with the power to foresee people's deaths.  She needs to figure out who would want her dead before it's too late.

The Devil You Know by Trish Doller

A road trip turns into a nightmare.

Killer Instinct by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

A teen profiler joins a team of exceptional teenagers to crack cases.

The Girl I Used to Be by April Henry

Everyone always suspected Olivia's father killed her mother.  Now when new evidence is uncovered, it means that the person who did it is still out there.

A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro

A new take on Sherlock Holmes and John Watson.

With Malice by Eileen Cook

 Jill suffers amnesia, and wonders if she really killed her best friend.

What are your favorite mystery/suspense books?
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With Malice by Eileen Cook

With Malice by Eileen Cook
Published by HMH Books for Young Readers in June 2016

"Eighteen-year-old Jill Charron wakes up in a hospital room, leg in a cast, stitches in her face and a big blank canvas where the last six weeks should be. She discovers she was involved in a fatal car accident while on a school trip in Italy. A trip she doesn’t even remember taking. She was jetted home by her affluent father in order to receive quality care. Care that includes a lawyer. And a press team. Because maybe the accident…wasn’t an accident.

As the accident makes national headlines, Jill finds herself at the center of a murder investigation. It doesn’t help that the media is portraying her as a sociopath who killed her bubbly best friend, Simone, in a jealous rage. With the evidence mounting against her, there’s only one thing Jill knows for sure: She would never hurt Simone. But what really happened? Questioning who she can trust and what she’s capable of, Jill desperately tries to piece together the events of the past six weeks before she loses her thin hold on her once-perfect life." -- From Goodreads

Will you like this?
THE ENDING.  First you're reading along thinking that this is just another book with another unreliable narrator.  That statement is true to a point, and I did like watching Jill struggle with her memories.  While the ending could have been suggested because of another event that happened, it felt pretty damn real.  If you like mystery/suspense books, you NEED to pick this up.

Disclosure: I borrowed a copy of this book from my local library.

The Crown by Kiera Cass

The Crown by Kiera Cass
Published by HarperTeen in May 2016.
The Selection #5

"When Eadlyn became the first princess of Illéa to hold her own Selection, she didn’t think she would fall in love with any of her thirty-five suitors. She spent the first few weeks of the competition counting down the days until she could send them all home. But as events at the palace force Eadlyn even further into the spotlight, she realizes that she might not be content remaining alone.

Eadlyn still isn’t sure she’ll find the fairytale ending her parents did twenty years ago. But sometimes the heart has a way of surprising you…and soon Eadlyn must make a choice that feels more impossible—and more important—than she ever imagined."

Will you like it?
The ending of The Heir really made me mad.  It was such a HUGE cliffhanger, and I expected that The Crown would start strong and really keep me on the edge of my seat until the end.  NOPE.  The cliffhanger at the end of book 4 is resolved within a few chapters.  Then it was a bunch of fluffy stuff until she has to make a really "hard" decision.  I liked this book.  I liked everyone except for Eadlyn, and I'm glad that this was the end of this series.

Disclosure: I bought my own copy of this book.

The Obsession by Nora Roberts

The Obsession by Nora Roberts
Published by Berkley in April 2016

"Naomi Bowes lost her innocence the night she followed her father into the woods. In freeing the girl trapped in the root cellar, Naomi revealed the horrible extent of her father’s crimes and made him infamous.

Now a successful photographer living under the name Naomi Carson, she has found a place that calls to her, thousands of miles away from everything she’s ever known. Naomi wants to embrace the solitude, but the residents of Sunrise Cove keep forcing her to open up—especially the determined Xander Keaton.

Naomi can feel her defenses failing, and knows that the connection her new life offers is something she’s always secretly craved. But as she’s learned time and again, her past is never more than a nightmare away." -- From Goodreads

Will you like it?
This was a classic Nora Roberts book for me.  The first half was a bit slow for me, and Naomi spent the majority of her time furnishing her house.  After the new round of abductions happen, that's when the story picked up the pace.  I also guessed the killer way before the end.  Overall a pretty good suspense novel.

Disclosure: I borrowed a copy of the audiobook from my local library.

Waiting on Wednesday: My Unscripted Life

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, which shines a light on eagerly anticipated upcoming releases.  This week, my pick is:

My Unscripted Life by Lauren Morrill
Publisher: Delacorte
Date: October 11, 2016

"Another sultry Georgia summer is about to get a lot hotter. Dee Wilkie is still licking her wounds after getting rejected by the precollege fine arts program of her dreams. But if she'd gone away, she wouldn't have been around to say yes to an unbelievable opportunity: working on the set of a movie filming in her small Southern town that just happens to be starring Milo Ritter, the famous pop star Dee (along with the rest of the world) has had a crush since eighth grade.

It's not like Dee will be sharing any screen time with Milo—she's just a lowly PA. And Milo is so disappointingly rude that Dee is eager to stay far away from him. Except after a few chance meetings, she begins to wonder if just maybe there's a reason for his offensive attitude, and if there's more to Milo than his good looks and above-it-all Hollywood pedigree. Can a relationship with a guy like Milo ever work out for a girl like Dee? Never say never. . ." -- From Goodreads

This book sounds like it's going to be cute and sweet.  It's going to be refreshing after all of the heavy fantasy that's going to grace my to-read shelf in September and October.