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Book 32 (of 52) – The Secret Lives of Murderers’ Wives

The Secret Lives of Murderers’ Wives – Elizabeth Arnott

In 1960s Los Angeles, three women, bound together by the heinous crimes committed by their husbands, try to do what the police will not: investigate a series of murders that they believe were committed by the same man.  Using their unique insights and access, they manage to uncover connections between the crimes and victims that the police and the press do not and manage to track down and identify the killer.  But can they stop him from turning on them?

The Secret Lives of Murderers’ Wives, the Good Morning America Book Club Pick for March of 2026, is the first novel from Elizabeth Arnott, at least under that name.  It is an interesting idea for a story, but the execution was a little spotty at times.  I’m sure it will have a decent adaptation from some streamer within the next five years or so.

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Book 12 (of 52) – The Book Of Lost Hours

The Book of Lost Hours – Hayley Gelfuso

As the Nazis rise to power in Germany leading up to World War II, a young girl is stranded in the time space, a vast library where the memories of the dead are bound into books.  As she grows older, she finds soldiers from different countries entering the time space to destroy certain memories, changing the collective reality along the way.  When she starts to interfere, she becomes a target, eventually getting pulled out and forced to work for the CIA in order to protect the man she loves and their secret child.

The Book of Lost Hours, the debut novel from Hayley Gelfuso, was a nominee for Favorite Science Fiction in the 2025 Goodreads Choice Awards and was a Good Morning America book club pick.  This was a fine debut from Gelfuso, who covers some of the same ground as Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library while tackling the role that government, both ours and others, plays in shaping what we eventually come to think of as history.  I’ll be sure to keep an eye out for whatever she comes up with next.