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Monday, July 20, 2026

Monday Musings: 7/20/2026

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Monday Musings is the day for sharing interesting postings, articles, my thoughts, and everything book related. Come along for the journey and share your comments!

Happy Monday! May your week be filled with amazing books to read! #JustRead ✌📖

Sunday, July 19, 2026

Book Spotlight: Pretty Dead Things by Kelsey Cox

Pretty Dead Things by Kelsey Cox

Publisher: Minotaur Books / St. Martin's Press

Publication Date: July 7, 2026

Format: Hardcover - 336 pages

Audiobook - 9 Hours 43 Minutes

Kindle - 327 pages

Nook - 336 pages

ISBN (Hardcover): 978-1250378842

ASIN (Audiobook): B0FP48M1Q9

ASIN (Kindle): B0FLYPRSWV

BNID (Nook): 978-1250378859

Genre: Thriller

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Book Description:

Secrets emerge as a Texas beauty pageant turns deadly in this rich and addictive novel with a jaw-dropping twist from psychological suspense author Kelsey Cox.

2000: Isabelle Whitmore vanishes at Sherman Ranch in Anhalt, Texas, without a trace.

2025: The annual Lone Star Princess Pageant looms, bringing long-standing grudges to the surface. Ingrid fled Anhalt in the wake of her sister Isabelle’s disappearance and has now returned, just in time for a construction crew to start digging up Sherman Ranch; the pageant brings up past traumas that Melanie can't forget; Cat, newly sober, starts to feel threatened in ways that bring back old demons; and Sarah Lynn, who comes from a long line of pageant winners, knows that losing is not an option.

When old resentments and new confrontations reach their boiling point, temperatures drop to deadly degrees as a record-setting storm brings down the state’s power grid. With everyone trapped under one roof, scores will be settled, and more than one person will end up dead.

Some secrets are better left buried.

About The Author

Kelsey Cox received her MFA in fiction from Purdue University and works from home in the Texas Hill Country. You can often find her writing at Mammen Family Public Library, chasing around her two young daughters, or watching British mysteries with her mom and aunts. On nights when bedtime goes as planned, she enjoys curling up on the sofa, glass of wine in hand, and a book with complicated characters and a killer twist in her lap.

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Sunday Funday: 7/19/2026

Welcome to Sunday Funday!

Every Sunday is a fun day to read and relax. I will be sharing the book that I am currently reading. So, join in on the Sunday Funday and post a comment about the book that you are currently reading!