When Flora gives birth to baby Iris a few weeks prematurely, her husband is still deployed overseas, and she finds herself struggling to cope alone. She starts to see strange beetle infestations, has night terrors, and her childhood imaginary friend re-emerges. In a moment of desperation, she emails her estranged mother, who responds by turning …
Maple Bay, Nova Scotia, is famous for it's stories of buried pirate treasure which has fascinated locals and tourists for generations. It's also a town full of secrets. When three strangers converge on the small town, they set off a chain of events that brings long held secrets to light, and leads to murder. Tom …
Subtitled "15 portals to wonder through science and poetry", The Universe in Verse is a lovely illustrated volume of poetry and science, which explores the sense of wonder in life and our experiences, and how these two different things, literature and scientific discovery, overlap. It features chapters that start with a short essay about a …
Det Kaitlyn Kruse has a very unusual ability: she dreams about her past lives, and the memories help her solve her cases, often through the professional knowledge of her past selves. When investigating a crime on a Seattle hiking trail, Kruse and her partner Joe think they may have found the body of a missing …
Continue reading Killer Insight by Karoline Anderson (Bk 1. Kaitlyn Kruse Series)
This book opens with an introduction speaking directly to the reader that goes for a few pages, letting us know that not everyone can see magic. Some people are mundane and aren't special, and those unmagical types will not like this book. It reminded me of The Emperor's New Clothes. If you like this book, …
Continue reading The Enchanted Lies of Celeste Artois by Ryan Graudin
This stunning volume is Scotland the Strange: Weird Tales From Storied Lands, one of the latest in the Gilded Nightmares Series from The British Library. I love this series and have quite a few from the collection. They feature beautiful binding and cover art, and each one contains horror or ghost stories collected around a …
In the day's leading up to Agne's daughter's wedding, Uncle Malcolm decides to give Agnes a letter, written by her mother, that he's been holding on to since the war, while Joe anticipates seeing Agnes, whose therapist he was and who he has feelings for. Agnes, meanwhile, thinks back over her failed marriage and the …
Ah, my good (fictional) friend Tanz is back. This is the third book in the Accidental Medium series, which tells the story of Tanz, a 30-something actress who recently discovered that she has psychic powers. She lives in a flat in London with her cat Inka, and has two mentors in her journey to understand …
Continue reading Cross Bones (The Accidental Medium #3) by Tracy Whitwell
When James Taylor was in school, he and his two best friends were known as the Three Musketeers because they were inseparable, but as they grew up, they also grew apart. As the novel opens, James is at Barnie's funeral, thinking that his friend didn't turn out so well and he's only attending for old …
Continue reading One Of Us Is Dead (Roy Grace #21) by Peter James
When the body of a missing staff member is found in the early hours on the common outside Rosebank, a care home for teens, DCI Vera Stanhope is assigned the case. The death seems linked to missing 14 year old Chloe, which is unsettling. Vera does not want to believe that a troubled 14 year …
Continue reading The Dark Wives by Ann Cleeves (Vera Stanhope #11)
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