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In horror movies, the final girl is the one who's left standing when the credits roll. The one who fought back, defeated the killer, and avenged her friends. The one who emerges bloodied but victorious. But after the sirens fade and the audience moves on, what happens to her? Lynnette Tarkington is a real-life final… Continue reading Book Review: The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
After years of struggling to write following the deaths of his wife and son, English professor Connor Nye publishes his first novel, a thriller about the murder of a young woman. There's just one problem: Connor didn't write the book. His missing student did. And then she appears on his doorstep, alive and well, threatening… Continue reading Book Review: Kill All Your Darlings by David Bell
An unconventional vicar moves to a remote corner of the English countryside, only to discover a community haunted by death and disappearances both past and present--and intent on keeping its dark secrets--in this explosive, unsettling thriller from acclaimed author C. J. Tudor.Welcome to Chapel Croft. Five hundred years ago, eight protestant martyrs were burned at… Continue reading Book Review: The Burning Girls by C.J. Tudor
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Wilder Girlscomes a new twisty thriller about a girl whose past has always been a mystery—until she decides to return to her mother’s hometown . . . where history has a tendency to repeat itself.Ever since Margot was born, it’s been just her and her mother. No answers to… Continue reading Book Review: Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power
The secrets lurking in a rundown roadside motel ensnare a young woman, just as they did her aunt thirty-five years before, in this new atmospheric suspense novel from the national bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls.Upstate NY, 1982. Every small town like Fell, New York, has a place like the Sun Down Motel.… Continue reading Review: The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
She sleeps, a pale girl in a white room . . .Three years ago, Gabe saw his daughter taken. In the back of a rusty old car, covered in bumper stickers. He was driving behind the car. He watched her disappear. But no one believes him. Most people believe that his daughter, and wife, are… Continue reading Book Review: The Other People by C.J. Tudor
Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole survivor of a… Continue reading Book Review: Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
So sometime last year, I decided I was going to read every Agatha Christie book there is. If I read one a month (and manage to actually find all of them) it will take me about 5 1/2 years. Here’s a breakdown and mini reviews of all the ones I read this year! January: The… Continue reading A Year of Agatha Christie: Mini Book Reviews
Two of the worlds most famous detectives -- Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot -- are here for a battle of "Who did it better?" I love these two detectives. I've read every Holmes story, and I'm working my way through reading every Poirot. I have a deep love for both of these detectives, and don't… Continue reading Holmes vs Poirot: The Greatest Detective Showdown
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