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 …
Continue reading The Dark Wives by Ann Cleeves (Vera Stanhope #11)
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 …
Continue reading Flowers In The Attic: VC Andrews and her books
Three people remain broken and inextricably linked by a tragedy in the past that threatens to rise to the surface. Cale has changed his name and sells real estate in Hawaii, drinking to forget the past. His brother Ambrose remains in their childhood home, trying to be a good father, but always guarding their dark …
In future New Zealand, wealthy immigrants are creating chaos as they flee climate change, generally driving up food prices, illegally buying land and creating a huge divide between the have and have nots. In this environment, Alice, a 30 year old just one IQ point short of genius and who is generally an underachieving in …
Max and Annie, with their 12 year old son, invite their old university friends and their families from London, to the dry run of their glamping site Wildernest in Cornwall. As fights break out between the children, the adults are soon embroiled in their own tensions with each other. When one of the group goes …
Meg Kissinger grew up in a family of 8, a rag tag bunch of kids in a loving home, but she also grew up hiding a secret: both of her parents were mentally ill and no one was talking about it. From her mother disappearing from the home for periods of time, to siblings struggling …
Sally is the town oddball in her small, Irish village, raised by a psychiatrist father and a GP mother, she avoids social interaction, is emotionally unattached and thinks she might be autistic. When her father dies in his sleep, she remembers that he said to just throw him out with the trash, so she puts …
