Synopsis Meet Bob, your local courier.You’ve barely noticed him. You’ve barely even looked his way.But he’s noticed you. He’s noticed everything about you.He’s been paying very close attention indeed.And he likes what he sees…You by Caroline Kepnes meets Engleby by Sebastian Faulks in Courier, a gritty psychological thriller novella about loneliness, warped thinking, and the dark side of desire. What […]
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Review: Molka by Monika Kim
Synopsis From the award-winning author of The Eyes Are the Best Part, praised by The New York Times Book Review as “violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original,” a provocative journey into a perilous world of voyeurism, scandal, female rage, and vengeance . . . pursued with a very sharp kitchen knife. Molka: an abbreviation of molrae-kamera, a “sneaky camera” […]
Review: What Comes Before by Molly Macabre
Synopsis Tess just wants a quiet weekend away, a break from the chaos of her job and the constant noise of other people’s expectations. A remote cabin in the woods sounds perfect. But peace is the last thing she finds. When she stumbles into Aiden, a man who seems just as lost as she is, […]
Review: Kiss Slay Replay by Rachel Harrison
Synopsis: Will this nightmare ever end? It’s the picture-perfect wedding weekend—the venue is dreamy, the weather is beautiful, love is in the air, and Willa Sullivan is having a bad time. She’s excited to celebrate her best friends finally having the big wedding they always wanted, but this is the first time she’s seeing her […]
Review: Abyss by Nicholas Binge
Synopsis Severance meets Lovecraft in this surreal tale of corporate horror and existential dread. Joe always had potential, but he doesn’t expect much, and he hopes that his new job as an admin assistant won’t expect much of him. But when he enters the offices of Ponos—a company he’s never heard of and knows nothing about—he […]
Review: The Hive by Ronald Malfi
Synopsis: The residents of Mariner’s Cove are changing… In the aftermath of a violent storm, a collective obsession is rapidly developing among the people of this quaint suburban neighborhood. Random, everyday items left scattered upon the lawns, the streets, and the shoreline all seem to call out to them. There is an item for almost […]
Review: Something Bad Happened Here by Zoe Rosi
Synopsis Lost and unmoored after her mother’s death, Carmen drifts from place to place. Moving from one Airbnb to the next, she is a ghost in the towns she passes through—an outsider, never quite belonging. With her inheritance dwindling away, and determined to stop drifting, Carmen decides it’s time to settle. Time to buy a […]
Review: Lost In The Dark and Other Excursions by John Langan
Lost In The Dark has finally cemented John Langan as a new favourite, auto-buy author.
Review: Youthjuice by E.K Sathue
Synopsis: A 29-year-old copywriter realizes that beauty is possible—at a terrible cost—in this surreal, satirical send-up of NYC It-girl culture. From Sophia Bannion’s first day on the Storytelling team at HEBE (hee-bee), a luxury skincare/wellness company based in New York’s trendy SoHo neighborhood and named after the Greek goddess of youth, it’s clear something is […]
Review: Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep by Paul Tremblay
Synopsis: Meet Julia Flang, a twenty-something former semi-professional gamer, living with her retired uncle, and working two jobs she doesn’t like. Out of the blue, her estranged mother, a CFO for one of the world’s largest tech companies, offers her a temp job with a payday Julia can’t refuse. One sham interview later, she’s offered […]
Review: The Brides by Charlotte Cross
Synopsis: ‘Come to me, and be mine for eternity’ 1884. When Mafalda journeys to Budapest to care for her grieving aunt, her secret love, Lucy, hurries from London to comfort her, with chaperone and lady’s maid in tow. But lady’s maid Alice, blessed and cursed with the Sight, is tormented by terrifying visions. When chaperone […]
Review: We Spread by Iain Reid
Synopsis: Penny, an artist, has lived in the same apartment for decades, surrounded by the artifacts and keepsakes of her long life. She is resigned to the mundane rituals of old age, until things start to slip. Before her longtime partner passed away years earlier, provisions were made, unbeknownst to her, for a room in […]