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Continue reading →: Book Review: Edenville by Sam Rebelein
Unsettling and immersive! Sam Rebelein holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. Sam’s work has appeared in a number of speculative fiction publications, including Bourbon Penn, Coffin Bell Journal, The Dread Machine, Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year, and elsewhere. His award-nominated story “Black Fanged Thing” was…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Dark Chapter by Winnie M. Li
Terrifying, dark, and inspiring. Winnie M Li is an author and activist, who has worked in the creative industries over three continents. Taiwanese-American and raised in New Jersey, Winnie studied Folklore and Mythology at Harvard, and later Irish Literature as a George Mitchell Scholar. Since then, she has written for travel…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
Smart, suspenseful, and fearless. Jessica Knoll is the New York Times bestselling author of The Favorite Sister and Luckiest Girl Alive—now a major motion picture from Netflix starring Mila Kunis. She has been a senior editor at Cosmopolitan and the articles editor at Self. She grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and graduated from the Shipley School…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: The Leftover Woman by Jean Kwok
Heartfelt and wildly entertaining. Jean Kwok is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of Girl in Translation and Mambo in Chinatown. She has been selected for numerous honors, including the American Library Association Alex Award, the Chinese American Librarians Association Best Book Award and the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award international shortlist. She received…
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Continue reading →: Book Review: The Stranger Upstairs by Lisa M. Matlin
Riddled with suspense! Lisa M. Matlin was a guitarist in a rock band before switching from songwriting to story writing. She lives in Melbourne, Australia, with her husband, pug, and golden retriever. She’s probably rewatching The Walking Dead right now and trying not to laugh at her own jokes. Matlin is a passionate…
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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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