The best books of 2024

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My favorite read in 2024

Book cover of My Darling Girl

Greta Boris ❤️ loved this book because...

I’ve been into ghostly tales this year and this one fit the bill. It had me guessing from the beginning.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Character(s)
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Jennifer McMahon,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked My Darling Girl as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Children on the Hill, a psychological thriller “that delivers both chilling scares and genuine emotion” (Chandler Baker, New York Times bestselling author) about a woman who, after taking in her dying, alcoholic mother, begins to suspect demonic possession is haunting her family.

Alison has never been a fan of Christmas. But with it right around the corner and her husband busily decorating their cozy Vermont home, she has no choice but to face it. Then she gets the call.

Mavis, Alison’s estranged mother, has been diagnosed with cancer and has only…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of Wrong Place Wrong Time

Greta Boris ❤️ loved this book because...

This was time travel at its best. The book began with a crime. The main character travels back through time and makes discoveries that finally enable her to prevent the tragedy from happening. The nature of time and one's understanding of their personal history were explored in a thought provoking way that never slowed down the plot.

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Originality 🥈 Thoughts
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Gillian McAllister,

Why should I read it?

11 authors picked Wrong Place Wrong Time as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

CAN YOU STOP A MURDER WHEN IT'S ALREADY HAPPENED?

'Perfection, every word, every moment. One of the best books I've ever read' LISA JEWELL
'Ingenious. A book to blow your mind and break your heart' ERIN KELLY
'Extraordinary' HARRIET TYCE
'I am totally in awe. This is one story I will not forget' HEIDI PERKS
'Genre-bending and totally original. A tour de force!' CLAIRE DOUGLAS

PRE-ORDER THE BOOK EVERYONE HAS BEEN TALKING ABOUT
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It's every parent's nightmare.

Your happy, funny, innocent son commits a terrible crime: murdering a complete stranger.

You don't know who. You don't know why. You…


My 3rd favorite read in 2024

Book cover of The Christmas Guest: A Novella

Greta Boris ❤️ loved this book because...

This was actually a novella, not a full-length book. I listened to it in one or two days. It was the perfect ghostly Christmas story complete with creepy British mansion, dark woods, and a psychopathic killer. Nothing says happy holidays like a haunting!

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Story/Plot
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Peter Swanson,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked The Christmas Guest as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

THE PERFECT STOCKING FILLER FOR BOOK LOVERS

'The twist will make you rethink everything.' New York Times Book Review
'A murder mystery set at a cosy Christmas country estate? We're so here for it.' Cosmopolitan
'Funny, clever and gripping.' Irish Independent

When Ashley Smith - a bright-eyed but lonely American studying in London - is invited to spend Christmas with her classmate's family at their Cotswolds manor house, it seems like a perfect country idyll.

And for Ashley - who records it all in her diary - there's the added romantic potential of her friend's twin brother, Adam, who she…


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

The Cliff House

By Greta Boris,

Book cover of The Cliff House

What is my book about?

Welcome to Murders Under the Sun, a podcast that takes a trip to the dark side of sunny Southern California. I’m Molly Shure, your host.

Our journey begins on the stunning cliffs of Laguna Beach, the bright sun shining on the turquoise water below. But this idyllic setting quickly becomes a nightmare for real estate agent Gwen Bishop.

She has just landed her dream listing, a multimillion-dollar beachfront property. The home has a dark past, however. Three months ago, another agent was found dead in one of the upstairs bedrooms.

Gwen believes the unsolved murder was random. When unsettling things occur, she tells herself the menace she feels is her imagination. When even stranger things happen—things that throw a wrench in her plans to get the home on the market—she brushes off the icy dread creeping through her.

The house itself couldn’t be evil…could it?

Gwen’s story is the first of seven linked by an almost invisible thread across five years. A thread I noticed while working as a crime journalist. In Season One, I pull that thread to see what unravels.

Travel with me to The Cliff House to learn what lay beyond its door.

Book cover of My Darling Girl
Book cover of Wrong Place Wrong Time
Book cover of The Christmas Guest: A Novella

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