Black Rite has a lot of great things going for it, the first of which is Caraway can set up a mean mystery. The story pulls you in almost immediately ... Caraway gives you a town rich with characters and history, and really fleshes out the main characters so they are almost tangible ... Caraway does a phenomenal job dishing out just enough answers to keep you glued to the book ... ~ Steve Pattee, HorrorTalk.com ... Caraway's writing style is wonderfully descriptive ... Lilia Tombs, Horror Shock Lolipop After his brother's gruesome suicide, Bruce Kain wants nothing more than to live a quiet life on the Californian ranch that Gary Kain left him in his will. But when he discovers Gary's journal, which divulges his dangerous obsession with a disgraced actress who also committed suicide, Bruce's grief turns into disbelief and then horror when he learns that his infatuation had become murderous, Gary recording the events in... Views: 217
In UPON THE MIDNIGHT CLEAR, a heartwarming new Christmas short story featuring Tasha Alexander's beloved Victorian sleuth, Lady Emily and her husband, Colin, discover a clue in a Christmas cracker that leads to a true holiday miracle.While most of London society has fled to their country estates for the holidays, Lady Emily and her family are enjoying a few days in the city. On a shopping trip to Hamley's Toy Shop, a kind-hearted stranger gives Emily's son a Christmas cracker—but when he opens it to reveal a cryptic clue inside, Emily suspects there's more to the gift than Christmas cheer. By the next day, her suspicions seem well-founded when a Scottish stranger arrives with a heartbreaking tale and an urgent plea for help. He believes his long-lost daughter, kidnapped by her well-meaning grandparents as an infant, may be hidden away somewhere in London. As Colin and Emily trace the clues through the city's snowy streets, more mysterious crackers... Views: 217
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Humanity believes it has finally defeated the vampires, but then Olivia Morgan meets the mysterious Robert, who is anything but what he seems.
From the very first moment, something intangible connects them – an attraction that is almost indescribable.
What secret is Robert Tensington hiding?
Everyone Olivia loves seems to be in danger, and she has to decide whether she really can trust Robert with all her heart. Views: 217
An SF thriller examining the repercussions of rejuvenation and cloning on individuals' sense of identity and on wider society. Caitlin Hext's first shedding ceremony is imminent, but she's far from prepared to produce a Snakeskin clone. When her Skin fails to turn to dust as expected, she must decide whether she wishes the newcomer alive or dead. Worse still, it transpires that the Hext family may be of central importance to the survival of Charmers, a group of people with the inexplicable power to produce duplicates every seven years and, in the process, rejuvenate. In parallel with reporter Gerry Chafik and government aide Russell Handler, Caitlin must prevent the Great British Prosperity Party from establishing a corrupt new world order. Snakeskins is an SF thriller examining the repercussions of rejuvenation and cloning on individuals' sense of identity and on wider society, with the tone of classic John Wyndham stories and the multi-strand... Views: 217
"Superb, powerful . . . this novel is destined to be a classic."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Never sentimental; always thrillingly alive." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"[Choi's] finest novel. . . . exposing tenuous connections between fiction, truth, lies, and, of course, people. Literary deception rarely reads this well." —Booklist (starred review)NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2019 by Buzzfeed, Entertainment Weekly, New York Magazine, Electric Literature, The Millions, PopSugar, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Publishers Weekly, Lit Hub, Bustle, and The Huffington PostIn an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle and thrive in a rarified bubble, ambitiously pursuing music, movement, Shakespeare, and, particularly, their acting classes. When within this striving... Views: 217
The votes are in! Eccentric seventy-something Vivian Borne—elected county sheriff, to everyone's amazement but her own—springs into action. In her new role, the community playhouse diva appoints daughter Brandy reluctant deputy and makes their spunky shih tzu Sushi a K-9 unit of one. Soon the amateur-sleuths-turned-pro have a challenging case to solve as a series of creepy crimes plague an ill-fated Edgar Allan Poe festival, where a fiend is misguidedly dispensing Poe-etic justice. Small-town Antiqua, known for its quaint main street of antique shops, has set out to celebrate the gothic poet with food, fun, and rare memorabilia, only to have the Master of the Macabre's twisted tales come to deadly life. A purloined tome, a black cat, a musty mausoleum, and mysterious disappearances—these tell the tale of a heartless murderer. But Vivian and Brandy Borne are determined to decipher the cryptic clues to make sure a ravin'-mad killer... Views: 217
