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Matthew Becker Author Of Run

From Matthew's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

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Matthew's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Matthew Becker Why Matthew loves this book

Thrillers that play with your expectations are always going to be high on any list of mine. Mary Kubica's latest, She's Not Sorry, perfectly encapsulates this, where you're given a relatively normal situation to begin with. It's not high octane, crazy events happening at warp-speed, just an intriguing scenario where you know there must be more lying just below the surface. With a thorough examination of our own actions, Mary Kubica weaves together the tale as we try to understand in real time just why this nurse is so taken by her patient. A bonus point, as if it needed it, for the perfectly compelling, draw-you-in, cover art.

By Mary Kubica ,

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1 author picked She's Not Sorry as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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The instant New York Times bestseller that BookTok is calling “absolutely A-M-A-Z-I-N-G” (@hollylovesbooks1519) and “impossible to put down” (@kurryreads), from the author of Local Woman Missing and Just the Nicest Couple

Everyone has secrets, but not everyone has remorse…

A terrible accident.

Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom and working full time as an ICU nurse, when a patient named Caitlin arrives in her ward with a traumatic brain injury. They say she jumped from a bridge and plunged over twenty feet to the train tracks below.

A shocking revelation.

When a witness comes…


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December on 5C4 by Adam Strassberg,

Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!

On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…

Book cover of If Something Happens to Me

Matthew Becker Author Of Run

From Matthew's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

Why am I passionate about this?

Author

Matthew's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Matthew Becker Why Matthew loves this book

Every novel of Alex Finlay's makes me think of Harlan Coben's mastery of the domestic, close to home, thriller dripping with heart and emotion. If Something Happens To Me takes you on a wild ride, where years after his girlfriend is kidnapped our protagonist Ryan sees the man responsible and is sucked right back into the depths of combined hope and despair. I loved the way the seemingly disparate plots came together, and Finlay absolutely nailed the ending. He is a firm must-buy for me and I'd strongly encourage any readers of this to do the same.

By Alex Finlay ,

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1 author picked If Something Happens to Me as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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A USA Today Bestseller!

From “one of the genre’s most exciting voices” (E! News) comes one of the year’s most-anticipated thrillers.

For the past five years, Ryan Richardson has relived that terrible night. The car door ripping open. The crushing blow to the head. The hands yanking him from the vehicle. His girlfriend Ali’s piercing scream as she is taken.

With no trace of Ali or the car, a cloud of suspicion hangs over Ryan. But with no proof and a good lawyer, he’s never charged, though that doesn’t matter to the podcasters and internet trolls. Now, Ryan has changed…


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