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Review: The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. The sky is … Continue reading

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Review: Crash by J.G. Ballard

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: In Ballard’s hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a “TV scientist” turned “nightmare angel of the highways,” experiments with erotic atrocities among auto crash victims, each more sinister than … Continue reading

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Review: Death in the Downline by Maria Abrams

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: It’s multi-level murder in this darkly funny mystery novel about the glamorous world of MLM “huns”—and the dangerous secrets at the top of the pyramid. Drew thought she was destined to rise above her … Continue reading

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Review: Pretty Little Wife by Darby Kane

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Debut author Darby Kane thrills with this twisty domestic suspense novel that asks one central question: shouldn’t a dead husband stay dead? Lila Ridgefield lives in an idyllic college town, but not everything is … Continue reading

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Review: Hard Girls by J. Robert Lennon

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Two estranged twin sisters as they hunt down their elusive mother in this razor-sharp crime novel from “master of the dark arts” J. Robert Lennon. (Kelly Link) Jane Pool likes her safe, suburban existence … Continue reading

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Review: The Stranger Upstairs by Lisa M Matlin

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A social media influencer with a secret past buys a murder house to renovate, but finds more than she bargained for behind the peeling wallpaper in this gothic psychological debut. Sarah Slade is starting … Continue reading

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Review: Foxfire by Rowan Hill

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: In a remote Finnish resort, a group of potential investors gather to enjoy the Arctic beauty and the mesmeric Northern lights. But many of the guests aren’t who they appear to be, and everyone … Continue reading

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Review: The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A book deal to die for. Five attendees are selected for a month-long writing retreat at the remote estate of Roza Vallo, the controversial high priestess of feminist horror. Alex, a struggling writer, is … Continue reading

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Review: The Maidens by Alex Michaelides

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek Tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike—particularly by the … Continue reading

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Review: Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: From the author of Annihilation, a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered species, and the possible end of all things. Security consultant “Jane Smith” receives an envelope with a key to a storage unit … Continue reading

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