Category: Mental Health
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Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
A dazzling novel about a young black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system–the debut of a blazingly original voice that “bursts at the seams of every page and swallows you whole” (Tommy Orange, best-selling author of There There) When I saw that the author wrote this…
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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 OTHER DR. GILMER by BENJAMIN GILMER
A rural physician learns that a former doctor at his clinic committed a shocking crime, leading him to uncover an undiagnosed mental health crisis in our broken prison system–a powerful true story expanding on one of the most popular This American Life episodes of all time. This is a true-crime as well as a biography. Dr.Benjamin Gilmer…
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THE FAMILY PLOT by MEGAN COLLINS
Author of The Winter Sister and Behind The Red Door is back with another twisty, shocking thriller! Twenty-six- year-old Dahlia Lighthouse is returning to her family home. A place she hasn’t been back to for years. Taking the ferry across to the island she was raised on with her twin brother Andy and much older…
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Songs in Ursa Major by Emma Brodie
Songs in Ursa Major is a love story set in 1969 through today. It is about so much more than the music industry in the ’70’s. Although that is a story that never gets old. Jane Quinn lives on an island off the coast of Massachusetts. She sings with her band along with her friends.…
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THE DROWNING KIND by Jennifer McMahon
Be careful what you wish for. It’s 1929, and 37- year- old Ethel Monroe, watches her husband play with the local children and is desperate to give him a child of his own. She’s tried everything, including superstitious legends about keeping a robin’s egg in your bra. Nothing is working. Until her husband takes her…
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THE WIFE UPSTAIRS by RACHEL HAWKINS
Jane is new to Alabama, running from a past she won’t discuss. Sharing an apartment with a creepy guy and walking dogs in the ritzy neighborhood of Thornfield Estates. Your typical Macmansion homes with bored, gossipy, nosy housewives with way too much time on their hands to notice if a shiny thing or two goes…
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Little Threats by Emily Schultz
The year is 2008 and Kennedy Wynn is finally being released from prison. Maybe now she can find out if she is really guilty or not. It’s the summer of 1993 and the Wynn twins, Kennedy and Carter are doing what every teen does and seeing just how much they can get away with. They…
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AFTER ALL I’VE DONE by MINA HARDY
Writing as Mina Hardy, New York Times bestselling author Megan Hart delivers a thrilling new psychological suspense for fans of The Woman in the Window and When the Lights Go Out. Diana Sparrow was in a car accident five months ago that left her broken and missing quite a bit of her memory. She’s beginning…
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