Bestseller

Brian and Barbara review the book Happy Place by Emily Henry, number one on the New York Times hardcover fiction list for five weeks, from May 12 to June 25, 2023.

Harriet and Wyn are the perfect couple--well, except they broke off their engagement five months ago and haven't yet told any of their friends. In this romantic beach-read set in a Maine resort town, we see how it goes when two ex-lovers join their friends for a week-long getaway and agree to pretend they're still together--even sharing the same bedroom--so as not to spoil the perfect happiness of their best friends' wedding day.

Twenty minutes with us, and you'll know whether to read it ... or regift it!

Episode 8 of bestseller, recorded on July 10, 2023

Brian and Barbara review the book Simply Lies by David Baldacci, number one novel on the New York Times hardcover fiction list of May 7, 2023.

In Baldacci's latest thriller of psychological suspense, single mother and former detective Mickey Gibson is drawn away from the security of her desk job--tracking down the hidden assets of deadbeat billionaires--and back into the field when an anonymous call by a suspicious, possibly psychotic woman lures her to the site of a stashed murder victim: accountant Harry Langhorne, who'd been hiding from the wrath of the New Jersey crime family he long ago betrayed.

Twenty minutes with us, and you'll know whether to read it ... or regift it!

Episode 7 of bestseller, recorded on 6/24/2023

Brian and Barbara review the book Dark Angel by John Sandford, number one on the New York Times hardcover fiction list of April 30, 2023.

In the second suspense novel featuring Homeland Security agent Letty Davenport (the adopted daughter of Minneapolis detective Lucas Davenport from the 32-volume "Prey" series), Letty is partnered with NSA computer nerd--and reluctant field operative--Rod Baxter and charged with infiltrating a terrorist hacker organization known as "Ordinary People" before they can wreak havoc upon a major U.S. city by crashing its energy system.

Twenty minutes with us, and you'll know whether to read it ... or regift it!

Episode 6 of bestseller, recorded on 5/10/2023

Brian and Barbara review the book I Will Find You by Harlan Coben, number one novel on the New York Times hardcover fiction list of April 2, 2023.

Coben's new thriller of murder and mistaken identity: five years into a life sentence for killing his three-year-old son Matthew, David Burroughs gets unexpected evidence that Matthew is still alive and resolves to escape his maximum security prison, find his son, and figure out what really happened.

Twenty minutes with us, and you'll know whether to read it ... or regift it!

Episode 5 of bestseller, recorded on 4/26/2023

Brian and Barbara review the book Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, number one on the New York Times hardcover fiction list for FOURTEEN weeks from December 25, 2022 to April 23, 2023 (in other words, from Christmas to Shakespeare's birthday--or is it his deathday?).

In this stunningly successful debut novel, single mother Elizabeth Zott confronts the entrenched sexism of early-1960s corporate culture as she makes ends meet by developing the kind of cooking show she thinks housewives need, while hoping to find a way back into the field of her first passion, research chemistry.

Twenty minutes with us, and you'll know whether to read it ... or regift it!

Episode 4 of bestseller, recorded on 3/25/2023

Brian and Barbara review the book "Storm Watch" by C.J. Box, number one on the New York Times hardcover fiction list of March 19, 2023.

In the 23rd novel of his suspense series, Wyoming Game Warden turned homicide detective Joe Pickett races against gathering storm fronts to solve the murder of a University of Wyoming professor, his partially decapitated body spotted outside a mysterious high-tech facility hidden in the remote wilderness.

Twenty minutes with us, and you'll know whether to read it ... or regift it!

Episode 3 of bestseller, recorded on 3/18/2023

Brian and Barbara review the book Encore in Death by J.D. Robb, number one on the New York Times hardcover fiction list of February 26, 2023.

In this, the 56th novel in the author's futuristic "In Death" suspense series, New York City detective Eve Dallas investigates the murder of stage and film star Brant Fitzhugh, who collapses at his wife's glittering play-opening party, poisoned by cyanide slipped into his champagne cocktail.

Twenty minutes with us, and you'll know whether to read it ... or regift it!

Episode 2 of bestseller, recorded on 3/11/2023

Brian and Barbara review the book Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo, number one on the New York Times hardcover fiction list of January 29, 2023.

In this follow-up to her bestselling fantasy novel Ninth House, Galaxy "Alex" Stern must navigate the magic, violence, and guarded lore of Yale University's secret societies to break her friend and mentor Darlington out of purgatory.

Twenty minutes with us, and you'll know whether to read it ... or regift it!

Episode 1 of bestseller, recorded on 2/7/2023