Ellie and Drake, a recently engaged couple, come across magical cinema one night down a fog covered alleyway. When they enter, they're given ten tickets to see midnight movies that play them significant memories of their lives. Ellie wants to come back, hoping to find out more about a night she can't remember clearly, while …
It's Winter in the 90's in Dalton, Maine. Rose has made a steady life for herself and her two sons, and is even contemplating a romance with Nate, the local policeman, when her abusive ex Tommy returns to town, with a lot of promises to stop drinking and also secretly toting a gun... Meanwhile, college-aged …
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On Halloween, a group of teens go to an area called Sally In The Wood, a local road that's said to be haunted by a murdered girl. The next morning, one of them is found dead, and laid out strangely. Rachel, the school guidance counselor at the expensive school the girl attended, struggles to deal …
A stay-at-home dad, who feel emasculated by his workaholic wife and lack of career, is drawn into the case of a drowned man when the death is ruled an accident. He suspects foul play because the man was someone he knew before being laid off from his job in finance, a Wall Street investor, and …
Harry Bliss is a cartoonist who has drawn covers and images for the New Yorker, has illustrated over 25 childrens books and created a book with Steve Martin. In this book, he shares essays, journal entries, cartoons and artworks from his life, talking about a range of subjects from losing his beloved dog Penny after …
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 …
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 …
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In 1979, 9 year old Michelle Fortier, the child of a wealthy family, went missing without a trace from her home in a small town in Quebec. Years later, following her failure to launch a podcast about the mystery and start a new life in the city, Stephanie, the daughter of the town drunk, decides …
Set in London in the 90's, Ordinary Human Failings is the story of Carmel and her family, Irish immigrants whose youngest member, 10 year old Lucy, has been involved in the death of a neighbors 3 year old on their housing estate. Tom, an ambitious and amoral reporter, hopes to exploit the story of the …
Many of us grew up on VC Andrews books, reading them when we were probably a little too young, and being shocked by the dark, winding and, well, problematic contents. With the recent release of a biography on the mysterious and reclusive author, I decided to take a little dive into her books and her …
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