Category: Gothic
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SUCH PRETTY FLOWERS by K.L.CERRA
The Description: A woman investigating her brother’s apparent suicide finds herself falling for her prime suspect—his darkly mysterious girlfriend—in this edgy Southern gothic thriller. “Get it out of me.” This is the last message Holly receives from her brother, Dane. But what does it mean? Savannah can be a spooky place. Kind of Gothic in…
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LITTLE EVE by CATRIONA WARD
She’s back! The author who held us all in suspense with The Last House on Needless Street! With another wickedly delightful tale of horror, we could never imagine. I admire that in an author! And she does not disappoint either! “A great day is upon us. He is coming. The world will be washed away.”…
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A RIP THROUGH TIME by KELLEY ARMSTRONG
A Rip Through Time #1 With Armstrong finishing up her Rockton series, which we loved, she has given us a new one. A Rip Through Time is the series debut about a modern-day homicide detective from Vancouver who is in Scotland to be with her Nan, who is dying in hospital. She goes out for…
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THE CHILDREN ON THE HILL by Jennifer McMAHON
A genre-defying new novel, inspired by Mary Shelley’s masterpiece Frankenstein, which brilliantly explores the eerie mysteries of childhood and the evils perpetrated by the monsters among us. I was more than willing to go down the rabbit hole with this one. I do love a good ghost/horror story and with a Mary Shelley-inspired piece, who could…
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THE FALL by RACHAEL BLOK
The sins of the past echo in the present in the new literary thriller from Rachael Blok. The wind is cold this high up. The man shouts out, but nobody hears. The cathedral roof has caught his fall, but it will not hold him for long. The night is dark. And it is such a…
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THE SANATORIUM by SARAH PEARSE
Detective Elin Warner #1 The first thing you should know about this book is that it is her first novel! I found that so hard to believe. The cover alone had me pushing the buy now button. A Sanatorium? Yes, please. Le Sommet in the Swiss Alps is surrounded by forests and mountains. Its building…
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The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
This one shook me. It is a story of a serial killer and all of the above blurb. But it’s also the story of a girl who lost her little sister, a boy who was horribly abused, a parent who is a sociopath, a cat who reads the Bible and watches television and a lot…
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The Woman in the Mirror: A Novel by Rebecca James
They wanted her land. She didn’t want to give it. He made her fall in love with him. And then he labeled her a witch. She can hear the horses coming. She knows he has betrayed her. But if she is to die, it will be on her own terms and heaven help Ivan de…
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WHILE YOU SLEEP BY STEPHANIE MERRITT
It begins, they say, with a woman screaming… Zoe Adams has Scottish roots, so when she needs some time apart from her husband she heads to a remote island in Scotland. Responding to an advert for a recently restored Victorian on the beach. No cell service or internet is just the thing to help her…
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Song of the Damned (A Phineas Fox Mystery) by SARAH RAYNE
A macabre liturgy. A mysterious carving. An intriguing 200-year-old mystery for music researcher Phineas Fox to solve. Phineas Fox is one of my favorite characters, as is the lovely Arabella. When Phin is asked to authenticate an opera by the head of Cresacre Abbey School, Arabella is excited as she was once a student there…
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