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Rachael Tamayo

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Born

in Tyler, Texas, The United States

Website

http://www.rachaeltamayowrites.com/

Twitter

rtamayo2004

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Thriller, Romance, Suspense

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Stephen King[3389
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Rachael Tamayo is the bestselling author of the award-winning Deadly Sins Series, and award-winning thriller, Crazy Love, among several other titles. Before she started her writing career, she was a highly awarded 911 emergency services dispatcher with twelve years of experience and many commendations under her belt. Upon exiting law enforcement, she’s focused her writing career on the dark, suspenseful, and psychological after beginning as a romance author. Now Rachael uses her dark thriller as a sort of self-therapy after all those years answering 911 calls and works all that she knows and was exposed to into the frighteningly realistic and layered characters her readers know and love her for. Rachael lives on the Texas Gulf Coast in Hous ...more

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Average rating: 4.23 · 463 ratings · 230 reviews · 18 distinct works • Similar authors

	Break My Bones (Deadly Sins, #1) 4.07 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crazy Love by Rachael Tamayo (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 97 ratings — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Carnal Knowledge (Deadly Sins, #2) 4.13 avg rating — 53 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mine (Deadly Sins, #3) 4.51 avg rating — 39 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lucifer's Game 4.24 avg rating — 41 ratings — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chase Me (Friend-Zone Series) 4.23 avg rating — 40 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Once Upon a Kiss 4.52 avg rating — 33 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reach for Me (Friend-Zone #2) 4.33 avg rating — 18 ratings — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Release 4.77 avg rating — 13 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Claim Me (Friend-Zone, #3) 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Faint Cold Fear: Karin Slaughter

Ooh, another winner by Karin Slaughter. She can't do any wrong, especially with the Grantg County series, which I am reading out of order. We are back with Sara, and this time, it's personal when her sister is hurt and s...

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Ooh, another winner by Karin Slaughter. She can't do any wrong, especially with the Grantg County series, which I am reading out of order. We are back with Sara, and this time, it's personal when her sister is hurt and strange "suicides" keep popping ...more
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Rachael Tamayo rated a book it was amazing Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This book is all they said it would be. One of the best of the year so far. I LOVED it. Meet Lucy, whose best friend was murdered years before, and she has no memory of the events of the night in question. True crime podcaster Ben has popped up and b ...more
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Rachael Tamayo rated a book it was amazing First Born by Will Dean	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This book was yet another Tiktok booktok find. It was supposed to be one of the best reads of 2024 and to be honest... it is. I loved this book. It left me audibly gasping and saying... wait... what? so many times. It's so well done. I didn't see the ...more
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Rachael Tamayo rated a book really liked it Never Let You Go by Chevy Stevens (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I didn't enjoy the narrator too much on this audible. She has a funky halting lilt and it took away from the book a little for me. That being said, It wasn't bad, just weird. It didn't flow like I would have liked. The book was good, but an atypical ...more
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Rachael Tamayo rated a book it was amazing First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This was a really good, well-done, twisty thriller. Meet Evie,who "works" for Mr. Smith, but has no idea who he is. She takes on new personas each time, abandoning her real identity, to do a job for the man in the shadows she's never met and only spo ...more
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This book is the very definition of dark and disturbing. Trigger warning city- so do some research before settling down with this read. This book is graphic, taboo, and touches on subjects that will bother your heart. But we are back with Sarah Linto ...more
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