damppebblesThe Mercy Chair by M.W. Craven
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“Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin . . . Washington Poe has a story to tell. And he needs you to listen. You’ll hear how it started with the robber birds. Crows. Dozens…
The Outback by Sara Ochs
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“It was supposed to be paradise. For one group of friends, it’s a study abroad program like no other: a month-long adventure filled with sunshine, whirlwind romances, and all-night parties. B…
The Final Vow by M.W. Craven
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“An invisible killer with a 100% success rate. No one is safe. Not even those closest to Washington Poe . . . A shooting at Gretna Green. A bride is murdered on her wedding day, seconds after…
The Night I Killed Him by Gill Perdue
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“The world of beloved influencer, Gemma Fitzgerald, seems ready to implode when the body of her brother, Max – who disappeared 18 years earlier – is washed up on a beach. Everyone thought Max…
How to Survive a Horror Movie by Scarlett Dunmore
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“Horror movie enthusiast Charley is determined to keep a low profile when she’s enrolled to a girls’ boarding school on a remote island. That is, until someone starts killing off …
The Lost Victim by Robert Bryndza
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“When schoolgirl Janey Macklin disappeared from the seedy side of London in 1988, her case went cold, with no body and no witnesses. Now, thirty years later, private detective Kate Marshall h…
Heads Will Roll by Josh Winning
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“Willow is in need of an escape. A former sitcom star, she’s been publicly shamed on the internet after posting something she really shouldn’t have. She checks in to Camp Castaway, an adults-…
The Lifeline by Libby Page
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“Everybody needs saving sometimes… For Kate, having a newborn baby means she is almost never alone. But that doesn’t mean she isn’t lonely. The move from London to Somerset …
Estella's Revenge by Barbara Havelocke
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“You know Miss Havisham. The world’s most famous jilted bride. This is her daughter’s story. Raised in the darkness of Satis House where the clocks never tick, the beautiful Estella is …
House of Bone and Rain by Gabino Iglesias
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“From the Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Devil Takes You Home, a group of five teenage boys in Puerto Rico seek vengeance after one of their mothers is murdered. …
Influencer by Adam Cesare
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“FOLLOW HIM OR DIE. When The Speaker posts, his followers must listen … no matter the consequences. Exposed as the masked social media influencer The Speaker by shy misfit Crystal, Aaro…
Fiend by Alma Katsu
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“Some families have skeletons in their closets. This one has a demon in its boardroom. When Maris Berisha was nine years old, she heard something scratching at the walls of her family’s…
How to Survive a Horror Sequel by Scarlett Dunmore
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“Can you be a final girl and survive your own horror movie – twice? Almost a year after the horrors of Harrogate, Charley is slowly regaining some semblance of a normal life in a small …
The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman
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“Who’s got time to think about murder when there’s a wedding to plan? It’s been a quiet year for the Thursday Murder Club. Joyce is busy with table plans and first dances. Elizabe…
59 Minutes by Holly Seddon
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“If you knew you had fifty-nine minutes until everything and everyone you love would be lost forever, what would you do with that time? It’s an ordinary evening. People are coming home …
Legacy by Chris Hammer
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“MARTIN SCARSDEN IS ON THE RUN. WILL THE DESERT SAVE HIM – OR BURY HIM? A bomb at his book launch. Gunfire in his hometown. Someone wants journalist Martin Scarsden dead. Fleeing for hi…
Ring the Bells by C.K. McDonnell
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“It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas . . . For most people, that means a time of celebration, relaxation and inebriation, but not for the staff of The Stranger Times. While a book clu…
The Othello Club by J.D. Pennington
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“Emily had the perfect life – the perfect job, the perfect house, the perfect husband – before she was blindsided and betrayed and lost it all. Now she’s sitting in a divorce counsellin…
The Captive by Kit Burgoyne
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“A darkly comedic, cinematic horror about a revolutionary group who kidnap an heiress, only to discover she’s pregnant with the antichrist, and she’s about to give birth. Underground revoluti…
Darker Days by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
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“In Lock Haven, a quiet little town in Washington State, there is a very special street. Bird Street. The residents of Bird Street are all successful, wealthy, healthy and happy. And their ch…
No Safe Place by Hannah Brennan
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“You can’t hide from the past… Fifteen years ago, five vulnerable teenagers took part in a life-changing study of OCD. Now, their psychologist has been brutally stabbed and left for dea…
The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman
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“It’s the following Thursday. Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history. He’s made a big mistake, and he needs her help. His st…
Serial Killer Support Group by Saratoga Schaefer
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“When Cyra Griffin’s younger sister is murdered by a serial killer, Cyra knows better than to expect justice from the hands of the police department. With the investigation already dying its …
The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre by Philip Fracassi
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“Burgeoning with dark humour, violence and mystery, The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre is a blood-soaked slasher sure to keep readers flinching, laughing, and guessing until the very…
The Afterparty by Ruth Kelly
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“She was your best friend. Now she’s missing. And everyone suspects you. People drift apart. You and Georgie were inseparable once; she knew you better than anyone. But that was then. N…
The Place Where They Buried Your Heart by Christina Henry
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“On an otherwise ordinary street in Chicago, there is a house. An abandoned house where, once upon a time, terrible things happened. The children who live on this block are told by their pare…
The Lake by Catherine Cooper
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“A remote Scottish lake The guests arriving at Creaglie Castle are expecting discreet luxury, panoramic views, and perhaps a glimpse of one of its infamous ghosts. No means of escape When a v…
The Confessions by Paul Bradley Carr
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“LLIAM, what do I want for dinner? LLIAM, how can I get a better job? LLIAM, should I kill my husband? AI bot LLIAM powers society – but today, he went offline. Shops shut, planes were …
The Drop by S.R. Masters
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The Whistler by S.W. Kane
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“One is chasing justice. One is chasing the past. Both are being followed. Deep beneath London, urban explorer Connie Darke stumbles across a mutilated body in the city’s decaying sewer syste…
Mimik by Sebastian Fitzek
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“Hannah can always spot a killer. Until she looks in the mirror. Hannah Herbst is Germany’s most experienced facial resonance expert. She can successfully ‘read’ a suspect t…
Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay
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“Summer, 1993 – a group of young guerrilla filmmakers spend four weeks making Horror Movie, a notorious, disturbing, art-house horror film. The weird part? Only three of the film’s scen…
Broken Girls by Joy Kluver
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“The woman is dark-haired and young, judging by the short red dress. Any other signs of her identity have been erased during her long wait to be found, but it’s clear she was strangled: this …
Honeycomb by S.B. Caves
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“Amanda Pearson was once the hottest rising star in the music world. Not anymore. Washed up, broke and directionless following a public breakdown, she is certain she will never be adored agai…
Love Kills by David Jackson
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“HE’LL BREAK YOUR HEART. LITERALLY. Franklin B Goodman wants to spread love wherever he goes. But love is an emotion he doesn’t understand. In Franklin’s dangerously warped mind, a damaged re…
The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman
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“It is an ordinary Thursday and things should finally be returning to normal. Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club is concerned. A decade-old cold case leads them t…
In the Blink of an Eye by Jo Callaghan
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“In the UK, someone is reported missing every 90 seconds. Just gone. Vanished. In the blink of an eye. DCS Kat Frank knows all about loss. A widowed single mother, Kat is a cop who trusts her…
Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney
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“Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life. Grady calls his wife as she’s driving home to share some exciting news. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, the…
Strange Pictures by Uketsu
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“A series of drawings made by a young woman before her death. A child’s disturbing picture of his home. A desperate sketch made by a murder victim in his final moments. Each contains a …
Freakslaw by Jane Flett
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“A travelling funfair of seductive troublemakers arrive in a repressed Scottish town. What could possibly go wrong? It’s the summer of ’97 and the Scottish town of Pitlaw is itching for chang…
The September House by Carissa Orlando
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“A woman is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes a haunted nightmare in this compulsively readable, twisty, and layered debut novel. When Margaret and her husband Hal bo…