In 1959, an orphan girl slips out of a revival tent and runs away from the sect who controls and crushes her life, unexpectedly finding her way to a house in the woods that's like something out of a fairytale. Sadly, she's soon taken back, but in 1965, and grown up, she flees her abusive …
Florence, 1538. We find Aldo working outside Florence, having run afoul of the moral code of his naive but honest protege, Strocchi, who threatened to expose his secrets. When he arrests a thief on a country estate, he finds himself on the fringes of the Constables disturbing case: a man was burned to death in …
Arnold Clover is an archivist, living in Venice following the recent death of his wife, when he's asked to assist the Carabinieri in the case of the murder of British TV historian Marmaduke Godolphin, who was killed in the same manner as Lorenzo de Medici in 1548. Not only had Clover recently been hired by …
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 …
A professor prepares for his coming doom, knowing that he will die that night. He seems to know a lot of things preternaturally, like what time he will die, which detective will be assigned to his murder case, what happened to the boy Christopher and how his grown up sister Katie will be drawn into …
4 years after the events of the novel My Heart Is A Chainsaw, Jade Daniels is back in Proofrock Idaho, right on time for Dark Mill South to arrive, a prolific indigenous serial killer who has just escaped from a prison transfer, and start killing teens like a classic slasher movie villain. (According to the …
Continue reading Don’t Fear The Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones
Tanz is an out of work actress who takes a job in a New Age store when she finds she needs to make ends meet between jobs. While at her new workplace, she meets a psychic medium, who helps her uncover her own ability, and soon she's discovering a gift she never knew she had. …
When Keith returns to his dying home town in Taiwan, after being released from prison in Germany, his homecoming coincides with the Ghost Festival, when the gates of Hell are opened (as the book describes it). His return brings a lot of ghosts, from the literal ones of family members who have died, to the …
Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta is the star witness in a polarising case that's creating civil unrest, when the sister of the presiding judge is murdered under strange circumstances. The body shows no sign of physical violence and there are also dead plants, insects and small animals. As Scarpetta begins her investigation, she meets resistance …
Continue reading Livid: A Scarpetta Novel by Patricia Cornwell
At the reunion of an elite school in London, an alumni who is now an MP is killed in the bathrooms and found with cocaine around his nose. Cassie, a former friend and a member of the London police force, finds herself embroiled in the case, not just because she was at the party, but …
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