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Continue reading →: Book Review: The Last Thing to Burn by Will Dean
Intense and terrifying. I couldn’t put this down. Will Dean grew up in the East Midlands, living in nine different villages before the age of eighteen. After studying law at the LSE, and working many varied jobs in London, he settled in rural Sweden with his wife. He built a…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: One Night by Georgina Cross
Steady-paced and immersive. Georgina Cross is the author of ONE NIGHT and NANNY NEEDED with Bantam, Penguin Random House, and THE STEPDAUGHTER, THE MISSING WOMAN, and THE NIECE with Bookouture, Hachette Publishing. All works are psychological suspense/thriller. Georgina has been writing since she was a child. After graduating from Louisiana…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Post-Traumatic by Chantal V. Johnson
Taut, intimate, and raw. Chantal V. Johnson is a tenant lawyer and writer. A graduate of Stanford Law School and a 2018 Center for Fiction Emerging Writers Fellow, she lives in New York. Published April 5th, 2022. This book is a heartfelt masterpiece. I took my time reading and was immediately…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Hearts of Darkness by Jana Monroe
Gripping and insightful. I couldn’t put this down. Jana Monroe had a distinguished 22-year career in the Federal Bureau of Investigation where she held a variety of field investigative and operational roles across the United States, including more than five years as a criminal profiler at Quantico, Virginia. Her career culminated…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: A Killer in the Family by Gytha Lodge
Gytha Lodge is a multi-award-winning playwright, novelist and writer for video games and screen. She is also a single parent who blogs about the ridiculousness of bringing up a mega-nerd small boy. Her debut crime novel, She Lies in Wait, has been published by Penguin Random House in the US…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: The Center by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
Eerie, immersive, and totally addictive! Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi has previously published short stories, reviews, translations, essays, monologues, and poetry. She has also worked as an editor and a playwright. Ayesha was contributing editor for the Serial Productions podcast The Trojan Horse Affair, and has been anthologized by Tilted Axis Press, Peepal Tree…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: The Swallows by Lisa Lutz
Dark academia with a twist of revenge. Lisa Lutz is the author of the New York Times bestselling, Edgar Award– and Macavity Award–nominated, and Alex Award–winning Spellman Files series, as well as the novels How to Start a Fire, The Passenger, and The Swallows. She lives and works in upstate New York. Published August 13th, 2019. When…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: My Murder by Katie Williams
Disturbing, original, and wildly entertaining. Katie Williams is the author of the novel Tell the Machine Goodnight, which was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, and young adult novels, The Space Between Trees and Absent. Her short fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, American Short Fiction, Prairie Schooner and elsewhere. Williams earned her MFA from…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Nineteen Claws and a Blackbird by Agustina Bazterrica
A fun twist on some very dark topics. Agustina Bazterrica was born in Buenos Aires in 1974. She has a degree in Arts (UBA). In 2013 she published the novel “Matar a la niña” (Textos intrusos). In 2016 she published the book of short stories “Antes del encuentro feroz” (Alción…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: It Could Be Anyone by Jaime Lynn Hendricks
Lots of drama and shocking secrets. IT COULD BE ANYONE was described as “Riveting from its opening scene” by bestselling author Robyn Harding. NYT Bestselling author Mary Kubica said it “starts with a bang and never lets up.” Publisher’s Weekly says, “Hendricks maximizes the suspense of her Clue-style premise, smoothly…
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