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Continue reading →: Book Review: Revenge Plot by Stephanie Wrobel
Tense and filled with dread. Stephanie Wrobel is the USA Today and Sunday Times bestselling author of The Hitchcock Hotel, This Might Hurt, and Darling Rose Gold, which was a finalist for the Edgar Award and has been translated into twenty-one languages. Her fourth novel, Revenge Plot, will be published…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Everything Happens So Much by Andrew H. Murray
An absurdist multiverse adventure Andrew Hunter Murray is a writer and comedian. He is one of the writers and researchers behind the BBC show QI and also cohosts the spinoff podcast, No Such Thing As A Fish, which, since 2014, has released 250 episodes, been downloaded 200 million times, and…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Please Enjoy Your Stay by Tara Goedjen
Atmospheric and suspenseful! Perfect for fall. Tara Goedjen writes atmospheric thrillers and gothic suspense novels. Her forthcoming adult thriller, PLEASE ENJOY YOUR STAY, is coming out Fall 2026 with Emily Bestler Books/Atria. Growing up, Tara was inspired by Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, Toni Morrison, and RL Stine. Her short fiction…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Bad Words by Rioghnach Robinson
A slow-burn enemies-to-lovers. Rioghnach (REE-uh-nock) Robinson is the author of BAD WORDS, coming to shelves Oct. 6, 2026 from St. Martin’s Press (US) and HarperFiction (UK). She grew up in North Carolina, studied economics at Kenyon College, and recently moved to Brooklyn after many years in Chicago. She has also…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Children of the Wolf by Abby Geni
A compelling voice! Abby Geni is the author of The Wildlands, The Lightkeepers, The Last Animal, and The Body Farm, which will be published May 7, 2024. Her books have been translated into seven languages and have won the Barnes & Noble Discover Award and the Chicago Review of Books…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Untamed Coast by Kevin C. Morris
Atmospherically charged and tense! Kevin C. Morris is an engineer, writer, boater, pilot, entrepreneur, and deckhand. Born and raised in Texas, he has called Portland, Oregon, home for the past forty years, but spends summers leading boating expeditions up the Inside Passage to Southeast Alaska. Untamed Coast is Morris’s first…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Confessions of the Green River Killer by Maria DiLorenzo
Terrifying and deeply disturbing. Maria DiLorenzo received an MFA in Creative Writing from Hunter College in 2011. For several years she worked as a contributing writer for The Crime Report, and in 2020, she founded the website Beyond the Crime, which shares firsthand interviews with those incarcerated for murder to…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Unreliable Narrator by Araminta Hall
A dark and twisty psychological thriller! My latest book, UNRELIABLE NARRATOR, asks what you would do if you found your worst secret on the pages of a best-selling novel. It looks at the world of privilege and how some people get to tell their stories, whilst others don’t. It asks…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Nightjar by Emily Ruskovich
Haunting and tense! Emily Ruskovich grew up in the Idaho Panhandle on Hoodoo Mountain. She is the fourth American ever to win the Dublin International Literary Award for her debut novel, IDAHO, which has been translated into a dozen languages. Emily has also won an O. Henry Award, The Pacific…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Retro by Jessica M. Goldstein
So fun, with a unique hook! Jessica M. Goldstein is a journalist and humorist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vulture, Marie Claire, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and more. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, she was born and raised in New Jersey and…
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