On the 13th October, 1972, a plane going from Uruguay to Chile carrying a rugby team crashed in the Andes, leaving the survivors to try to survive for weeks, unsure if anyone was or could come to rescue them. Intense cold, hunger, thirst and despair gripped the team, as they resorted to eating the dead …
Tanz, along with her friend and mentor Sheila, are out celebrating a ghostbusting job that went well, when mysterious and magnetic Einar approaches their table, and gives Tanz his number. After a steamy date, he offers her a place to stay in his native Iceland where she can have a writing retreat, but when she …
Continue reading The Hidden Dead (Accidental Medium #4) by Tracy Whitwell
Orri, the 19 year old son of a farmer in Iceland, decides to take a break from his University course, and returns home to his parents farm. Over the course of the year, he finds direction through his sense of capability as he helps his father farming, through his friendship with a local farmers daughter, …
Bonny knew her father was a Holocaust survivor, and she knew he wanted her to write his story one day, but she couldn't quite look that much pain and tragedy in the eye and get to writing. This book is her story, a woman who grew up under the shadow of her father's experiences, but …
When Andy Correns's mother died, he wrote a no-holds-barred, painfully honest obituary for her, which really struck readers, and ended up going viral, reaching people all over the world and getting strong reactions, both positive and negative. Thus, this memoir was born, a memoir of his mother, both a celebration and a denigration, and the …
Freya Lockwood and her Aunt Carole are back into his sequel to the popular Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder (which we previously reviewed HERE) When a painting goes missing from a maritime museum and a dead body is found, they're on the case under the banner of their new business as stolen antiquities hunters. The …
Continue reading The Antique Hunter’s Death On The Red Sea by CL Miller
In the Summer of 1966, Robert decides to realise his dream of opening a cafe when he sees the dilapidated corner cafe in the Carmelite market Square in Vienna is closing. A war orphan, raised by nuns, Robert is a kind and hardworking man, and though his cafe is not in a fashionable part of …
Det Vicky Paterson is investigating a bizarre murder in her small town, and barely notices the massive number of cicadas until they've reached plague proportions and attack her child Sadie. Meanwhile, Will and Alicia are private investigators looking for a wealthy heiress who has joined a cult, and their investigation shows a link between the …
This book of short stories, titled Doomed Romances: Strange Tales of Uncanny Love is from the British Library Tales of the Weird series. It features 12 stories of doomed or dark romances from some best loved authors, from Mary Shelley and Wilkie Collins to Angela Carter and Nalo Hopkinson. A nice snap shot of this …
Continue reading Doomed Romances (Tales Of The Weird Series) ed. by Joanne Ella Parsons
Clove lives the life of her dreams: A loving husband, two gorgeous children, a beautiful home with organic foods and a full closet, but the fears of her secret past coming to light or history repeating means she compulsively takes supplements and uses affirmations and impulse buying to keep the lies she's told in place. …
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