Shannon's bookshelf: all en-US Wed, 30 Apr 2025 23:49:04 -0700 60 Shannon's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Here One Moment 208894791 If you knew your future, would you try to fight fate?

Aside from a delay, there will be no problems. The flight will be smooth, it will land safely. Everyone who gets on the plane will get off. But almost all of them will be forever changed.
Ěý
Because on this ordinary, short, domestic flight, something extraordinary happens. People learn how and when they are going to die. For some, their death is far in the future—age 103!—and they laugh. But for six passengers, their predicted deaths are not far away at all.
Ěý
How do they know this? There were ostensibly more interesting people on the flight (the bride and groom, the jittery, possibly famous woman, the giant Hemsworth-esque guy who looks like an off-duty superhero, the frazzled, gorgeous flight attendant) but none would become as famous as “The Death Lady.�
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Not a single passenger or crew member will later recall noticing her board the plane. She wasn’t exceptionally old or young, rude or polite. She wasn’t drunk or nervous or pregnant. Her appearance and demeanor were unremarkable. But what she did on that flight was truly remarkable.
Ěý
A few months later, one passenger dies exactly as she predicted. Then two more passengers die, again, as she said they would. Soon no one is thinking this is simply an entertaining story at a cocktail party.
Ěý
If you were told you only had a certain amount of time left to live, would you do things differently? Would you try to dodge your destiny?
Ěý
Liane Moriarty’s Here One Moment is a brilliantly constructed tale that looks at free will and destiny, grief and love, and the endless struggle to maintainĚýcertainty and control in an uncertain world. A modern-day Jane Austen who humorously skewers social mores while spinning a web of mystery, Moriarty asks profound questions in her newest I-can’t-wait-to-find-out-what-happens novel.]]> 505 Liane Moriarty 0593798619 Shannon 0 currently-reading 4.18 2024 Here One Moment
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]]> The Haunting of Brynn Wilder 51118201
But in this inviting refuge, where a century of souls has passed, a mystery begins to swirl. Alice knows things about Brynn, about all of them, that she shouldn’t. Bad dreams and night whispers lure Brynn to a shuttered room at the end of the hall, a room still heavy with a recent death. And now she’s become irresistibly drawn to Dominic—even in the shadow of rumors that wherever he goes, suspicious death follows.

In this chilling season of love, transformation, and fear, something is calling for Brynn. To settle her past, she may have no choice but to answer.]]> 289 Wendy Webb 1542020115 Shannon 3 3.87 2020 The Haunting of Brynn Wilder
author: Wendy Webb
name: Shannon
average rating: 3.87
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rating: 3
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]]> Big Little Lies 20510868 Big Little Lies follows three women, each at a

Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She’s funny and biting, passionate, she remembers everything and forgives no one. Her ex-husband and his yogi new wife have moved into her beloved beachside community, and their daughter is in the same kindergarten class as Madeline’s youngest (how is this possible?). And to top it all off, Madeline’s teenage daughter seems to be choosing Madeline’s ex-husband over her. (How. Is. This. Possible?).

Celeste is the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare. While she may seem a bit flustered at times, who wouldn’t be, with those rambunctious twin boys? Now that the boys are starting school, Celeste and her husband look set to become the king and queen of the school parent body. But royalty often comes at a price, and Celeste is grappling with how much more she is willing to pay.

New to town, single mom Jane is so young that another mother mistakes her for the nanny. Jane is sad beyond her years and harbors secret doubts about her son. But why? While Madeline and Celeste soon take Jane under their wing, none of them realizes how the arrival of Jane and her inscrutable little boy will affect them all.

Big Little Lies is a brilliant take on ex-husbands and second wives, mothers and daughters, schoolyard scandal, and the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive.




From the Hardcover edition.]]> 465 Liane Moriarty 0698138635 Shannon 4 4.36 2014 Big Little Lies
author: Liane Moriarty
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average rating: 4.36
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rating: 4
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]]> The Sun Down Motel 46136180 Something hasn’t been right at the roadside Sun Down Motel for a very long time, and Carly Kirk is about to find out why in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls.

Upstate New York, 1982. Viv Delaney wants to move to New York City, and to help pay for it she takes a job as the night clerk at the Sun Down Motel in Fell, New York. But something isnĘĽt right at the motel, something haunting and scary.

Upstate New York, 2017. Carly Kirk has never been able to let go of the story of her aunt Viv, who mysteriously disappeared from the Sun Down before she was born. She decides to move to Fell and visit the motel, where she quickly learns that nothing has changed since 1982. And she soon finds herself ensnared in the same mysteries that claimed her aunt.]]> 340 Simone St. James 0440000181 Shannon 4 4.11 2020 The Sun Down Motel
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]]> The Third Gilmore Girl 207617668 Brought to you by Penguin.

Beloved award-winning actress Kelly Bishop, famous for playing the iconic Emily Gilmore in Gilmore Girls , finally tells the whole story of her six decades in show business.

Kelly Bishop’s storied career has been defined by landmark achievements, from winning a Tony Award for her turn in the original Broadway cast of A Chorus Line to her memorable performance as Jennifer Grey’s mother in Dirty Dancing, but it is probably her role as matriarch Emily in the modern classic Gilmore Girls that cemented her legacy.
Now, Bishop reflects on her remarkable life and looks towards the future, sharing some of her greatest stories and the life lessons she’s learned on her journey. From her early transition from dance to drama, to marrying young to a compulsive gambler, to the losses and achievements she experienced—among them marching for women’s rights and losing her second husband to cancer—Bishop offers a rich, genuine celebration of her life.
Full of witty insights, The Third Gilmore Girl is a warm, unapologetic, and powerful memoir from a woman who has left indelible impressions on her audiences for decades.

]]> 255 Kelly Bishop 1668023792 Shannon 5 4.40 2024 The Third Gilmore Girl
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]]> Mary: An Awakening of Terror 60301558 Nat Cassidy’s highly commercial, debut horror novel An Awakening of Terror, blends Midsommar with elements of American Psycho and a pinch of I'll Be Gone in the Dark.Mary is a quiet, middle-aged woman doing her best to blend into the background. Unremarkable. Invisible. Unknown even to herself.But lately, things have been changing inside Mary. Along with the hot flashes and body aches, she can’t look in a mirror without passing out, and the voices in her head have been urging her to do unspeakable things.Fired from her job in New York, she moves back to her hometown, hoping to reconnect with her past and inner self. Instead, visions of terrifying, mutilated specters overwhelm her with increasing regularity and she begins auto-writing strange thoughts and phrases. Mary discovers that these experiences are echoes of an infamous serial killer. Then the killings begin again.Mary’s definitely going to find herself.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.]]> 400 Nat Cassidy 1250265223 Shannon 0 3.76 2022 Mary: An Awakening of Terror
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average rating: 3.76
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]]> In a Dark, Dark Wood 27834600
Sometimes the only thing to fear…is yourself.

When reclusive writer Leonora is invited to the English countryside for a weekend away, she reluctantly agrees to make the trip. But as the first night falls, revelations unfold among friends old and new, an unnerving memory shatters Leonora’s reserve, and a haunting realization creeps in: the party is not alone in the woods.]]> 352 Ruth Ware 1501112333 Shannon 3 3.76 2015 In a Dark, Dark Wood
author: Ruth Ware
name: Shannon
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2015
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Dread the Night: A Dear Celeste Novel]]> 219291275 A year ago, a hit-and-run nearly killed Celeste Cleary. Instead, it left her with a chilling the ability to see the dead. She uses her new power to unravel the mysteries behind the missing and murdered.

But now it's time for her to return home to West Virginia, where her own life began, and where her mother abandoned her family decades before.

Celeste is about to confront her darkest fears. And some of them might lead her right to the truth about her own past—a truth buried deep, waiting to be unearthed.]]> 378 J.R. Erickson Shannon 5 4.71 Dread the Night: A Dear Celeste Novel
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]]> Daughters of the Lake 36530830
One hundred years ago, a love story ended in tragedy, its mysteries left unsolved. It’s time for the lake to give up its secrets. As each mystery unravels, it pulls Kate deeper into the eddy of a haunting folktale that has been handed down in whispers over generations. Now, it’s Kate’s turn to listen.

As the drowned woman reaches out from the grave, Kate reaches back. They must come together, if only in dreams, to right the sinister wrongs of the past.]]> 321 Wendy Webb 1503956342 Shannon 0 currently-reading 4.02 2018 Daughters of the Lake
author: Wendy Webb
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average rating: 4.02
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]]> Beacon 23 26247312
In the 23rd century, this job has moved into outer space. A network of beacons allows ships to travel across the Milky Way at many times the speed of light. These beacons are built to be robust. They never break down. They never fail.

At least, they aren't supposed to.]]> 256 Hugh Howey Shannon 0 currently-reading 4.09 2015 Beacon 23
author: Hugh Howey
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average rating: 4.09
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]]> The Broken Girls 59053218 A suspense novel from the award-winning author of The Haunting of Maddy Clare...

Vermont, 1950. There's a place for the girls whom no one wants--the troublemakers, the illegitimate, the too smart for their own good. It's called Idlewild Hall. And in the small town where it's located, there are rumors that the boarding school is haunted. Four roommates bond over their whispered fears, their budding friendship blossoming--until one of them mysteriously disappears.Ěý.Ěý. .

Vermont, 2014. As much as she's tried, journalist Fiona Sheridan cannot stop revisiting the events surrounding her older sister's death. Twenty years ago, her body was found lying in the overgrown fields near the ruins of Idlewild Hall. And though her sister's boyfriend was tried and convicted of murder, Fiona can't shake the suspicion that something was never right about the case.

When Fiona discovers that Idlewild Hall is being restored by an anonymous benefactor, she decides to write a story about it. But a shocking discovery during the renovations will link the loss of her sister to secrets that were meant to stay hidden in the past--and a voice that won't be silenced.Ěý.Ěý. .]]> 334 Simone St. James Shannon 4 4.18 2018 The Broken Girls
author: Simone St. James
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average rating: 4.18
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rating: 4
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]]> Murder Road 174137255 A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deserted road in this terrifying new novel.

July 1995. April and Eddie have taken a wrong turn. They’re looking for the small resort town where they plan to spend their honeymoon. When they spot what appears to a lone hitchhiker along the deserted road, they stop to help. But not long after the hitchiker gets into their car, they see the blood seeping from her jacket and a truck barreling down Atticus Line after them.

When the hitchhiker dies at the local hospital, April and Eddie find themselves in the crosshairs of the Coldlake Falls police. Unexplained murders have been happening along Atticus Line for years and the cops finally have two witnesses who easily become their only suspects. As April and Eddie start to dig into the history of the town and that horrible stretch of road to clear their names, they soon learn that there is something supernatural at work, something that could not only tear the town and its dark secrets apart, but take April and Eddie down with it all.]]> 363 Simone St. James 0593200403 Shannon 4 3.81 2024 Murder Road
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]]> Never Lie 62080187
But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter storm traps them at the estate� with no chance of escape until the blizzard comes to an end.

In search of a book to keep her entertained until the snow abates, Tricia happens upon a secret room. One that contains audio transcripts from every single patient Dr. Hale has ever interviewed. As Tricia listens to the cassette tapes, she learns about the terrifying chain of events leading up to Dr. Hale’s mysterious disappearance.

Tricia plays the tapes one by one, late into the night. With each one, another shocking piece of the puzzle falls into place, and Dr. Adrienne Hale’s web of lies slowly unravels.

And then Tricia reaches the final cassette.

The one that reveals the entire horrifying truth.]]> 286 Freida McFadden Shannon 2 4.09 2022 Never Lie
author: Freida McFadden
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average rating: 4.09
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This is an example of trying so hard to surprise the readers at the end that the rest of the book doesn’t make any sense. It gets two stars because at least I was interested enough in the mystery that I actually read the whole thing.
]]> Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1) 13453029
The first Wool story was released as a standalone short in July of 2011. Due to reviewer demand, the rest of the story was released over the next six months.

This is the story of mankind clawing for survival, of mankind on the edge. The world outside has grown unkind, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. But there are always those who hope, who dream. These are the dangerous people, the residents who infect others with their optimism. Their punishment is simple. They are given the very thing they profess to want: They are allowed outside.

Alternate cover for B0071XO8RA]]> 509 Hugh Howey Shannon 5 4.22 2012 Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1)
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average rating: 4.22
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]]> <![CDATA[Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories]]> 2282 162 Truman Capote 067960085X Shannon 2 classics 3.87 1958 Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories
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average rating: 3.87
book published: 1958
rating: 2
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]]> <![CDATA[The Last House on Needless Street]]> 56535970 The Last House on Needless Street is a shocking and immersive read perfect for fans of Gone Girl and The Haunting of Hill House.

In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three.

A teenage girl who isn’t allowed outside, not after last time.
A man who drinks alone in front of his TV, trying to ignore the gaps in his memory.
And a house cat who loves napping and reading the Bible.

An unspeakable secret binds them together, but when a new neighbor moves in next door, what is buried out among the birch trees may come back to haunt them all.]]> 342 Catriona Ward Shannon 0 currently-reading 3.83 2021 The Last House on Needless Street
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average rating: 3.83
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]]> The Apartment Across the Hall 221173866 They say you can’t pick your neighbors� but can you survive them?

When Salem Ripley moves into her apartment in New York City, she’s disheartened to find it isn’t exactly like the pictures. Still, with her past, she’s lucky to find a place at all.

Her neighbor across the hall is tall, dark and handsome. After seeing his beautiful girlfriend, Salem can’t help but obsess over the couple and their perfect life.

Then Salem sees her neighbor with another girl. And another. And another. The strangest part? She never sees the women leave.

Salem should ignore it.. After all, it’s really none of her business. But she can’t shake the strange feeling that something is wrong–and that lives are at stake. She has no choice–she has to find out what’s going on in the apartment across the hall�

Fans of Freida McFadden and Daniel Hurst will love this page-turning psychological thriller, filled with twists, turns and an ending so shocking it’ll make you want to read the whole book over again.]]> 230 Jack Dane Shannon 2 3.81 2025 The Apartment Across the Hall
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average rating: 3.81
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]]> Piranesi 52702097
There is one other person in the house—a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.]]> 246 Susanna Clarke Shannon 5 4.24 2020 Piranesi
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average rating: 4.24
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rating: 5
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]]> The September House 61311377 A woman is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes a haunted nightmare in this compulsively readable, twisty, and layered debut novel.

When Margaret and her husband Hal bought the large Victorian house on Hawthorn Street—for sale at a surprisingly reasonable price—they couldn’t believe they finally had a home of their own. Then they discovered the hauntings. Every September, the walls drip blood. The ghosts of former inhabitants appear, and all of them are terrified of something that lurks in the basement. Most people would flee.

Margaret is not most people.

Margaret is staying. It’s her house. But after four years Hal can’t take it anymore, and he leaves abruptly. Now, he’s not returning calls, and their daughter Katherine—who knows nothing about the hauntings—arrives, intent on looking for her missing father. To make things worse, September has just begun, and with every attempt Margaret and Katherine make at finding Hal, the hauntings grow more harrowing, because there are some secrets the house needs to keep.]]> 352 Carissa Orlando 0593548639 Shannon 5 3.99 2023 The September House
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average rating: 3.99
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]]> <![CDATA[Killing the Bordens: Lizzie Borden and the Unsolved 1892 Borden Murders]]> 216692646 "Masterfully crafted tale of one of history’s greatest unsolved crimes.� - BookLife Reviews, Editor's Pick

Did Lizzie Borden really murder her parents?

“Lizzie Borden took an axe,
Gave her mother forty whacks,
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty one.�

On the morning of August 4, 1892, Abby and Andrew Borden were brutally murdered in their home just a few steps from passersby on busy Second Street. No trace of the killer or killers was found.

There were suspects, though.

The daughters, Emma and Lizzie Borden, were suddenly wealthy women. Lizzie and the Borden family maid, Bridget, had both been home at the time of the murders but swore they saw nothing. Uncle John had stayed, unexpectedly, in the Borden guest room the night before the murders, though he'd brought no luggage.

Lizzie quickly became the focus of attention and then the main suspect.

But did she kill?

Exhaustively researched, Killing the Bordens tells the true crime Borden murder mystery and the life of Lizzie Borden as a novel, and reveals who committed the murders, how, and why.]]> 316 C. Cree 1964439027 Shannon 0 currently-reading 4.01 2024 Killing the Bordens: Lizzie Borden and the Unsolved 1892 Borden Murders
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]]> The Pram 195945795
Willy and Marianne’s farmhouse in Maine has acres of meadow and fresh air, and a lonesome bridle path in the forest along which Willy daydreams and ambles. When he’s loaned a decrepit old baby stroller to cart his groceries home, the rickety squeak of the wheels comforts him. So do the sweet coos of a baby Willy knows can’t be real. Can it? In this twisted thicket, wishes come true—with a price.

Joe Hill’s The Pram is part of Creature Feature, a collection of devilishly creepy stories that tingle the spine and twist the mind. They can be read or listened to in one petrifying sitting.]]> 58 Joe Hill 1662516894 Shannon 3 3.75 2023 The Pram
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average rating: 3.75
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rating: 3
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]]> Ushers 218362004 A young man who has improbably escaped death twice reveals his secret in a spine-tingling short story by New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill.

Martin Lorensen is a twenty-three-year-old counselor for disturbed teenagers. He’s bright, compassionate, attractive, and outgoing. He’s also—and this is the most interesting thing—not dead. Martin has improbably survived not one but two deadly disasters that claimed dozens of lives. The kid is riding one hell of a lucky streak. Two federal agents think there is something darker at play. Now that they’ve arranged to interview Martin, they want answers. Martin is ready to share everything he knows. One thing is for certain: when it comes to escaping death, luck doesn’t figure into it at all.]]> 29 Joe Hill 1662527942 Shannon 5 4.23 2024 Ushers
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]]> Elevation 39931828
In the small town of Castle Rock, the setting of many of King’s most iconic stories, Scott is engaged in a low grade—but escalating—battle with the lesbians next door whose dog regularly drops his business on Scott’s lawn. One of the women is friendly; the other, cold as ice. Both are trying to launch a new restaurant, but the people of Castle Rock want no part of a gay married couple, and the place is in trouble. When Scott finally understands the prejudices they face—including his own—he tries to help. Unlikely alliances, the annual foot race, and the mystery of Scott’s affliction bring out the best in people who have indulged the worst in themselves and others.

Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine. The latest from legendary master storyteller Stephen King, a riveting, extraordinarily eerie, and moving story about a man whose mysterious affliction brings a small town together—a timely, upbeat tale about finding common ground despite deep-rooted differences. ]]> 160 Stephen King Shannon 4 4.01 2018 Elevation
author: Stephen King
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average rating: 4.01
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rating: 4
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]]> If It Bleeds 46015758 If it Bleeds is a collection of four new novellas �Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, The Life of Chuck, Rat, and the title story If It Bleeds� each pulling readers into intriguing and frightening places.

A collection of four uniquely wonderful long stories, including a stand-alone sequel to The Outsider.

News people have a saying: 'If it bleeds, it leads'. And a bomb at Albert Macready Middle School is guaranteed to lead any bulletin.

Holly Gibney of the Finders Keepers detective agency is working on the case of a missing dog - and on her own need to be more assertive - when she sees the footage on TV. But when she tunes in again, to the late-night report, she realizes there is something not quite right about the correspondent who was first on the scene. So begins 'If It Bleeds' , a stand-alone sequel to The Outsider featuring the incomparable Holly on her first solo case.

Dancing alongside are three more long stories - 'Mr Harrigan's Phone', 'The Life of Chuck' and 'Rat' .

The novella is a form King has returned to over and over again in the course of his amazing career, and many have been made into iconic films, If It Bleeds is a uniquely satisfying collection of longer short fiction by an incomparably gifted writer.]]> 438 Stephen King Shannon 5 3.99 2020 If It Bleeds
author: Stephen King
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]]> Mirror World 204795681 If you stare in the mirror long enough, you might see something sinister staring back.
At first, she thought it was her imagination, but when sixteen-year-old Chloe discovers she can travel through mirrors, she is thrilled to have found a way to escape the dreariness of her life.

But as she explores these new worlds, she realizes they’re not as safe as she initially thought. Something malevolent known as the Shadow Fiend has followed her back to her world, and it’s threatening to destroy everything she holds dear.

Can Chloe find a way to stop the Shadow Fiend from destroying the mirrorverse and her world before it’s too late?]]> 322 Boris Bacic Shannon 3 4.11 2024 Mirror World
author: Boris Bacic
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average rating: 4.11
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]]> <![CDATA[The Worst Kind: A Dear Celeste Novel]]> 212414404 What began as an innocuous advice column for Celeste Cleary has transformed into an all-consuming obsession, and her former existence as a scientist now feels like a distant memory.

As she immerses herself in the troubles of others-at times solving their dilemmas with messages from beyond the grave-an ability that has invaded her life since the hit-and-run accident that nearly killed her months before, Celeste grapples with the news that the accident may have been attempted murder.

One afternoon, a disturbing letter arrives at her advice column.

A young woman haunted by the ghostly absence of her birth mother begs for help in tracing her mysterious past. Celeste steps into the labyrinth of secrets, unaware that she is traveling down a treacherous road that might lead her into the clutches of a remorseless killer.]]> 364 J.R. Erickson Shannon 4 4.61 The Worst Kind: A Dear Celeste Novel
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]]> <![CDATA[Selections from Fragile Things, Volume Six: A Short Fiction]]> 6495043




—New York Times Book Review, Editor’s Choice







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“Dazzling tales from a master of the fantastic.”—Washington Post Book World







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Fragile Things is a sterling collection of exceptional tales from Neil Gaiman, multiple award-winning (the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Newberry, and Eisner Awards, to name just a few), #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Graveyard Book, Anansi Boys, Coraline, and the groundbreaking Sandman graphic novel series. A uniquely imaginative creator of wonders whose unique storytelling genius has been acclaimed by a host of literary luminaries from Norman Mailer to Stephen King, Gaiman’s astonishing powers are on glorious displays in Fragile Things. Enter and be amazed!]]> 500 Neil Gaiman 0061848751 Shannon 5 fairy-tales 4.44 2009 Selections from Fragile Things, Volume Six: A Short Fiction
author: Neil Gaiman
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average rating: 4.44
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]]> <![CDATA[The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane]]> 6525011 (hachettebookgroup.com)]]> 349 Katherine Howe 1401394434 Shannon 0 to-read 3.86 2009 The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
author: Katherine Howe
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average rating: 3.86
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]]> <![CDATA[The Town Erased by Time (The Town That Shouldn't Exist #3)]]> 216770372 Can they escape the crimson tide before it consumes them?
The cult may be gone, but an even greater threat looms. The red sea from Elysian Garden is spreading relentlessly, threatening to consume the town—and ultimately, the world. As the crimson plague inches closer, the townsfolk must unite for a final, desperate attempt to halt its advance.

They will either find a way out, or die trying.
]]> 465 Boris Bacic Shannon 4 4.38 The Town Erased by Time (The Town That Shouldn't Exist #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Town Where Echoes Linger (The Town That Shouldn't Exist, #2)]]> 216108790 Alternative cover edition of ASIN B0D2B5YQLD

The blizzard was only the beginning.
As the blizzard finally subsides, the town faces a new a devastating earthquake that splits the earth surrounding the town and bringing with it a wave of nightmares and hallucinations. With tensions already at a boiling point, the town is on the brink of anarchy.

The true terror, however, lies beyond their shattered streets. As the snow recedes, a hidden city emerges in the distance, an ominous specter signaling an inevitable conflict. The survivors must not only wrestle with their own crumbling trust and the town's relentless challenges but also face the threat from the mysterious city, a doom they are hopelessly unprepared to combat.]]> 425 Boris Bacic Shannon 4 4.32 The Town Where Echoes Linger (The Town That Shouldn't Exist, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Town the World Forgot (The Town That Shouldn't Exist, #1)]]> 216085323 No one ever escapes from this town.

Newlyweds Lisa and John’s summer drive through the Oregonian wilderness takes a chilling turn when an unexpected blizzard traps their car. Desperate for refuge, they find hope in a sign: WELCOME TO ____. Bundling up, they trek through the storm and find that, within the town, the blizzard ceases, though it rages just beyond the town's limits.

The streets are eerily quiet, lined with lifelike ice statues. Lisa and John soon realize they are being watched by the wary townsfolk, who reveal a haunting truth: this town is a prison, and the storm is a trap. As night falls, a deadly entity stalks the streets, claiming victims and leaving ice statues in its wake.

Trapped in this perpetual winter nightmare, Lisa and John must unravel the town's dark secrets to survive—or become the next frozen monument.]]> 404 Boris Bacic Shannon 5 4.19 2024 The Town the World Forgot (The Town That Shouldn't Exist, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Our Mother in the Lake: A Novel]]> 173410232 A mysterious invitation. A haunting lakeside ritual. A family reunion to die for.

Thirteen years after their mother's disappearance upended their lives, Drew and her brother Isaac receive a disturbing letter � an invitation to a reunion long overdue, signed by the missing woman herself. The directions are dangerously vague. But Drew and Isaac are desperate for answers. Only one thing is for neither of them are prepared for the nightmare ahead.

Deep in the mountain wilderness lies a secluded commune. A place of secrecy and solitude, the residents are highly superstitious. Each night they gather at the lake, hoping to glimpse what they believe lurks in its haunted depths. Where Drew and Isaac will soon learn that you can't always escape the monsters of your past... sometimes you must fight to survive them.]]> 344 Abe Moss Shannon 4 3.94 Our Mother in the Lake: A Novel
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]]> The Child's Child 19037453 302 Barbara Vine 1451695217 Shannon 0 currently-reading 3.53 2012 The Child's Child
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]]> Mansfield Park 45032 488 Jane Austen Shannon 3 3.86 1814 Mansfield Park
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rating: 3
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]]> The Picture of Dorian Gray 35113385
Oscar Wilde’s only novel takes a witty, philosophical, and harrowing look at our obsession with youth and the price we pay for it.

AmazonClassics brings you timeless works from the masters of storytelling. Ideal for anyone who wants to read a great work for the first time or rediscover an old favorite, these new editions open the door to literature’s most unforgettable characters and beloved worlds.

Revised edition: Previously published as The Picture of Dorian Gray, this edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.]]> 171 Oscar Wilde 1542097436 Shannon 0 currently-reading 4.16 1890 The Picture of Dorian Gray
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]]> Morsels 213066340 Meeting the family is scary. Surviving them is a nightmare.

Connie can’t deny she’s nervous about meeting her boyfriend’s family. Spending the weekend at their ritzy woodland summer home, Evan’s already given her fair warning: that his parents are cold, snobbish, and especially unpleasant toward those outside their usual social circles.

So when Evan’s mother warmly greets them with open arms, Connie is as confused as he is. Evan’s parents are nothing like he described. They’re so friendly, in fact, Evan himself can hardly believe they’re real.

Then, while helping Evan’s mother with dinner preparations, Connie overhears strange noises coming from the basement—what almost sounds like voices calling out for help.

Connie doesn't realize that once the door is opened, it can’t be closed. Or that once she descends those rickety steps into the darkness below... she may never see the light of day again.

From horror author Abe Moss comes a relentlessly fast-paced supernatural nightmare that will leave you gripping the pages long into the night, and afraid to turn out the lights long after you're done. ]]> 305 Abe Moss Shannon 0 currently-reading 3.70 2024 Morsels
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]]> Rosemear 212717656 But to many, Abigail seemed far too kind to have committed such atrocities.
Others insisted she was not only capable of murder but was the only one with a motive as old as time.
Revenge.

Nearly two hundred years after the brutal murders at Rosemear, Spencer and Isabella Boyd move their young family into the dilapidated mansion, hoping to mend after a devastating loss. Desperate for a fresh start, Isabella dives into the restorations, hoping to return the manor to its former glory. But soon after the renovations begin, phantom footsteps, eerie whispers, and strange knocks echo throughout the halls of Rosemear. And Martin appears—an invisible â€friendâ€� only Isabella’s five-year-old daughter can see.
To unearth the truth, Isabella, with the help of her best friend, Luna, begins to research Rosemear’s dark past, uncovering a terrifying pattern of abuse, obsession, and mysterious deaths. As she delves deeper into the home’s history, Isabella is forced to confront a horrible truth�
Either the skittering shadows and unexplained cries in the night are a creation of an ill mind refusing to heal, or Rosemear is, indeed, inhabited by ghosts.
Ghosts who are very, very angry.
And in a house thirsty for vengeance, the dead will not be silenced.]]> 399 Quinn Noll Shannon 0 currently-reading 4.41 Rosemear
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]]> Sociopath 177059532
Patric Gagne realized she made others uncomfortable before she even started kindergarten. Something about her caused people to react in a way she didn’t understand. She suspected it was because she didn’t feel things the way other kids did. Emotions like fear, guilt, and empathy eluded her. For the most part, she felt nothing. And she didn’t like the way that “nothing� felt.

She did her best to pretend she was like everyone else, but the constant pressure to conform to a society that she knew rejected anyone like her was unbearable. So Patric stole. She lied. She was occasionally violent. She became an expert lock-picker and home-invader. All with the goal of replacing the nothingness with…something.

In college, Patric finally confirmed what she’d long suspected. She was a sociopath. But even though it was the very first personality disorder identified—well over 200 years ago—sociopathy has been neglected by mental health professionals for decades. She was told there was no treatment, no hope for a normal life. She found herself haunted by sociopaths in pop culture, madmen, villains, and monsters. Her future looked grim.

But when Patric reconnects with an old flame, she gets a glimpse of a future beyond her diagnosis. If she’s capable of love, it must mean that she isn’t a monster. With the help of her sweetheart (and some curious characters she meets along the way) she embarks on a mission to prove that the millions of Americans who share her diagnosis aren’t all monsters either.]]> 365 Patric Gagne Shannon 5 3.99 2024 Sociopath
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average rating: 3.99
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]]> Gone Girl 13261812 What have we done to each other?

These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they weren't made by him. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone.

So what did happen to Nick's beautiful wife?]]> 422 Gillian Flynn Shannon 4 4.16 2012 Gone Girl
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average rating: 4.16
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]]> Sharp Objects 54774986
Sent to investigate the disappearance of two little girls, Camille finds herself reluctantly installed in the family mansion, reacquainting herself with her distant mother and a precocious thirteen-year-old half-sister she barely knows. Haunted by a family tragedy, troubled by the disquieting grip her young sister has on the town, Camille struggles with a familiar need to be accepted.

But as clues turn into dead ends, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims and realises: she will have to unravel the puzzle of her own past if she's to survive this homecoming.]]> 272 Gillian Flynn Shannon 5 4.02 2006 Sharp Objects
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average rating: 4.02
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]]> <![CDATA[Come Home, Katie (Dear Celeste #1)]]> 209020778
A terrible hit and run accident took Celeste Cleary's life until doctors managed to bring her back. But now she's... different. Once a respected scientist, she walks the thin veil between the living and the dead.

As she struggles to return to her former life, Celeste receives an email-a heart-wrenching letter from a stranger, a woman begging for help locating her seventeen-year-old sister, Katie, who vanished a year before. Celeste's first impulse is to say no-what does she know about finding a missing person? But late one snowy night Celeste is drawn into the forest where the spectral form of Katie awaits her and, though the girl does not speak, the message is clear. Katie wants Celeste to uncover the truth behind her disappearance.

As Celeste delves into the mystery surrounding Katie's vanishing, she is ensnared in a sinister labyrinth of secrets and lies. Someone doesn't want her to find out the truth and there's nothing they won't do to stop her.

Get lost in a dark paranormal mystery that blurs the lines between reality and nightmare.]]> 360 J.R. Erickson Shannon 5 4.48 Come Home, Katie (Dear Celeste #1)
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]]> Holly (Holly Gibney #3) 83638977
“Sometimes the universe throws you a rope.� —BILL HODGES

Stephen King’s Holly marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly’s gradual transformation from a shy (but also brave and ethical) recluse in Mr. Mercedes to Bill Hodges’s partner in Finders Keepers to a full-fledged, smart, and occasionally tough private detective in The Outsider. In King’s new novel, Holly is on her own, and up against a pair of unimaginably depraved and brilliantly disguised adversaries.

When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just died. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny Dahl’s desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down.

Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. They are the picture of bourgeois respectability: married octogenarians, devoted to each other, and semi-retired lifelong academics. But they are harboring an unholy secret in the basement of their well-kept, book-lined home, one that may be related to Bonnie’s disappearance. And it will prove nearly impossible to discover what they are up to: they are savvy, they are patient, and they are ruthless.

Holly must summon all her formidable talents to outthink and outmaneuver the shockingly twisted professors in this chilling new masterwork from Stephen King.

“I could never let Holly Gibney go. She was supposed to be a walk-on character in Mr. Mercedes and she just kind of stole the book and stole my heart. Holly is all her.� —STEPHEN KING]]> 464 Stephen King Shannon 5 4.32 2023 Holly (Holly Gibney #3)
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average rating: 4.32
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]]> Episode Thirteen 61054281 From the macabre mind of Bram Stoker Award nominated author Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen is a heart pounding novel of horror and psychological suspense that takes a ghost hunting reality TV crew into a world they could never have imagined possible. A beautiful Russian doll of a story... Episode Thirteen hooks you, creeps you out, and then it overwhelms you. It's House of Leaves meets Haunting of Hill House, in all the best possible ways. -- Peter Clines, NYT bestselling author of The Broken Room Fade to Black is the newest hit ghost hunting reality TV show. Led by husband and wife team Matt and Claire Kirklin, it delivers weekly hauntings investigated by a dedicated team of ghost hunting experts. Episode Thirteen takes them to every ghost hunter's holy grail: the Paranormal Research Foundation. This brooding, derelict mansion holds secrets and clues about bizarre experiments that took place there in the 1970s. It's also famously haunted, and the team hopes their scientific techniques and high tech gear will prove it. But as the house begins to reveal itself to them, proof of an afterlife might not be everything Matt dreamed of. A story told in broken pieces, in tapes, journals, and correspondence, this is the story of Episode Thirteen -- and how everything went terribly, horribly wrong. An epistolary descent into a living nightmare . . . well-written and genuinely unsettling. Fans of paranormal documentaries, ghost-hunting shows, and found-footage horror will lose their minds over this one. - Kealan Patrick Burke, Bram Stoker Award winning author of Kin For more from Craig DiLouie, check out: The Children of Red Peak Our War One of Us]]> 467 Craig DiLouie 0316443204 Shannon 0 currently-reading 3.60 2023 Episode Thirteen
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]]> The Teacher 198218463 A mind-bending, psychological thriller from Freida McFadden, the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Housemaid!

Lesson #1: trust no one

Eve has a good life. She gets up each day, gets a kiss from her husband Nate, and heads off to teach math at the local high school. All is as it should be. Except�

Last year, Caseham High was rocked by a scandal involving a student-teacher affair, with one student, Addie, at its center. But Eve knows there is far more to these ugly rumors than meets the eye.

Addie can't be trusted. She lies. She hurts people. She destroys lives. At least, that's what everyone says.

But nobody knows the real Addie. Nobody knows the secrets that could destroy her. And Addie will do anything to keep it quiet.

From the New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden comes a story of twisting secrets and long-awaited revenge.]]> 362 Freida McFadden Shannon 4 4.15 2024 The Teacher
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average rating: 4.15
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]]> The Weejee Man 200466691
Forced by his publisher to deliver a fresh manuscript by the end of the year, author Rick Rooney retreats to a secluded cottage in the West of Ireland in search of inspiration.

After a night of dabbling with a spirit board at the local pub, strange events begin to unfold at the cottage, while a menacing figure lurks in the trees outside.

When Rick digs deeper into the area’s dark history, he makes a chilling discovery about a local family, a devastating fire, and a centuries-old curse. Has Rick disturbed an ancient evil, and who, or what, is stalking him now?

Some souls should never be summoned...]]> 248 NP Cunniffe 1916458521 Shannon 4 3.59 The Weejee Man
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]]> <![CDATA[The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)]]> 36391334
The Mysterious Affair at Styles was not only Agatha Christie’s debut; it also introduced her illustrious detective character to the world. Poirot’s “little grey cells� would be put to the test in thirty-three more novels, but it was here that Christie and her unflappable Belgian sleuth would set the unimpeachable standard for the modern murder mystery.

AmazonClassics brings you timeless works from the masters of storytelling. Ideal for anyone who wants to read a great work for the first time or rediscover an old favorite, these new editions open the door to literature’s most unforgettable characters and beloved worlds.

Revised edition: Previously published as The Mysterious Affair at Styles, this edition of The Mysterious Affair at Styles (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.]]> 181 Agatha Christie 1503955222 Shannon 0 currently-reading 4.10 1920 The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Inheritance: a psychological thriller with a killer twist]]> 210124384 Jane must return to the one place she fears most. Her family home.

Jane’s father was murdered in cold blood at the family home. The killer was never found.

In the years since, Jane has done everything in her power to stay away from that house. To forget the nightmare and get on with her life.

But now she has to go back.

Her mother is ill and Jane must care for her. Her husband Joe goes with her but soon after they arrive at her family home, he begins to act strangely. Adding to her unease, Jane’s brother Dan is openly hostile.

Increasingly unnerved, Jane feels compelled to uncover the secrets of the old house. And discovers that her father may have been killed by someone close to her. Someone who’s been hiding in plain sight all these years.

Now it’s a race against time. Can Jane discover the shocking truth about her father’s death before it’s too late? Can she right the wrongs of the past?

Or will the killer get to her first?

The Inheritance � a gripping psychological thriller that’s guaranteed to keep you turning the pages.


What readers are saying about The Inheritance:

“This had everything a psychological thriller should have - a dysfunctional family, secrets, lies, plot twists. I loved it and it kept me guessing until the end. I’ll be happy to recommend…� -Netgalley Reviewer

“â¶Ä¦keeps you guessing, that's for sure. There are twists and turns aplentyâ€� the writing is so skillfully doneâ€� and made me keep reading till the outcome which I definitely didn't see coming. It’s a great read.â€� -Ĺ·±¦ÓéŔÖ Reviewer

“This is a great novel� Kevin is a newish author to me and I really enjoyed his writing style. The pacing is good and I raced through it.� -Netgalley Reviewer

“Love everything by this author. He never disappoints. Writes in such a way that you cannot put the book down and leaves you hanging in suspense in the best way possible.� -Netgalley Reviewer

“â¶Ä�a real nail bitter, impossible to put down, I enjoyed it immensely and the ending was surprising and satisfactory. Definitely recommended!â€� -Netgalley Reviewer

“Lynch masterfully ratchets up the tension with each passing chapter, keeping readers on the edge of their seats... The plot twists and turns are expertly executed, leading to a satisfying conclusion…� -Netgalley Reviewer
]]> 240 Kevin Lynch 1837563624 Shannon 0 currently-reading 3.81 The Inheritance: a psychological thriller with a killer twist
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]]> Total Recall 16001705 31 Philip K. Dick Shannon 4 3.97 1966 Total Recall
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average rating: 3.97
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rating: 4
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]]> Those Left Behind 209975932
Ten years later, Danny is released from The Lodge, a long-term mental health care facility. Against the wishes of his doctor, Danny returns to Millfield, MA. The town hasn’t changed much, but there’s something strange going on in Danny’s childhood home.

Donald Jacobs, former journalist turned true crime blogger, never believed the man convicted of the Beecher murders was guilty. When Jacobs hears of Danny’s return, he renews his commitment to find the real killer.

But there’s more to the Beecher murders than anyone could have guessed. Not all the victims are resting quietly. Is Danny's mental health failing as his doctor warned? Or is someone reaching from beyond the grave to avenge the murders before the killer can strike again?]]> 381 Tom Deady Shannon 5 4.37 Those Left Behind
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]]> The Sister Under the Stairs 206143815 Please note this is a revised edition of Lies We Tell Ourselves.

My twin sister disappeared twelve years ago.

Jess went missing on our way home from school. We were sixteen. Dad’s golden rule was Never walk home alone. But I was in a hurry and she was flirting with boys. She just vanished. No word. No sightings. Nothing. My family destroyed.

I blame myself. And I won’t ever give up looking for her.

Each year, on the anniversary of Jess’s disappearance, a bunch of flowers is delivered to our home, along with a note. Two words: I’m sorry.

It’s the only clue we’ve ever had as to what happened. Until the day I get a text: I found her.

And in my desperation to know the truth, I’m walking into a carefully-laid trap . . .

The truth about what happened to my twin is even worse than I could ever have imagined.]]> 356 Steena Holmes 1835263755 Shannon 3 4.07 2020 The Sister Under the Stairs
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name: Shannon
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2020
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Haunted Asylum Series : Four Stand-Alone Paranormal Murder Mysteries (Haunted Asylum Novels)]]> 81067864 Four chilling haunted house murder mysteries inspired by a real former asylum.

This boxed set includes the first four Northern Michigan Asylum Some Can See, Calling Back the Dead, Ashes Beneath Her and Dead Stream Curse.

Some Can A chilling ghost story that spans generations. Get lost in a twisted tale of cold case murder, a sinister asylum and a woman who speaks to the dead.

Calling Back the A Halloween party in an eerie Gothic mansion ends in murder. When Corrie awakens covered in blood, her nightmare is only just beginning.

Ashes Beneath Ashes Beneath Her combines a chilling paranormal tale with an edge-of-your-seat serial killer mystery. When Hazel's best friend vanishes during a bike ride in northern Michigan, she soon discovers Orla was not the first young woman to disappear and she will not be the last.

Dead Stream Deep in the forest, far back on Spellway Road, sits a long forgotten mansion where secrets are drifting up from the darkness. Get lost in a creepy tale of Norse magic, cold-blooded murder, and ghosts.

What readers are saying...

Praise for Some Can

"Excellent! One of the best ghost stories/ psychological thrillers I have read." -Good Reads Reviewer

"Wow! I was expecting a scary ghost story but this book is is more about the characters than the ghosts. I had the hardest time putting it down at night, I found myself holding my breath and I couldn't tell you how many times I teared up!" Amazon Reviewer

Praise for Calling Back the

"I couldn't read before bed. It touched me on so many levels." -Good Reads Reviewer

"Calling Back the Dead has all the necessary elements for a haunted thriller. Ghosts, a haunted house, and possession! Toss in a murder mystery and you have the recipe for a fantastic read."- Amazon Reviewer

Praise for Ashes Beneath

"I have FULL BODY CHILLS after reading this." -Good Reads Reviewer

"Very good read! Fast paced page turner. Couldn’t put it down. Read it in one day." -Amazon Reviewer

Praise for Dead Stream

"If you haven’t discovered this eerily wicked series, do it now!" -Good Reads Reviewer

"True evil does exist. Filled with murder, ghosts, magic and curses, this story will take you on a long journey - on a quest for answers, resolution and absolution." - Amazon Reviewer

What are you waiting for?

Grab the Haunted Asylum Boxed Set today...
]]> 1321 J.R. Erickson Shannon 5 4.58 Haunted Asylum Series : Four Stand-Alone Paranormal Murder Mysteries (Haunted Asylum Novels)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Scream Sisters (Troubled Spirits #10)]]> 182921384 A dark paranormal mystery inspired by an eerie true crime...

Teagan Kelso's freshman year takes a chilling turn when her best friend and roommate mysteriously disappears. Determined to unveil the truth, Teagan follows a trail of clues that all converge on the enigmatic sorority her friend was rushing. In a race against time, she must navigate a treacherous web of secrets, risking everything to uncover the sinister reality lurking beneath the sorority's glamorous facade.

Don't miss this chilling ghost story.]]> 384 J.R. Erickson Shannon 5 4.51 2023 The Scream Sisters (Troubled Spirits #10)
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average rating: 4.51
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]]> The Great Alone 34912895 Unpredictable. Unforgiving. Untamed.
For a family in crisis, the ultimate test of survival.

Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: he will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier.

Thirteen-year-old Leni, a girl coming of age in a tumultuous time, caught in the riptide of her parents� passionate, stormy relationship, dares to hope that a new land will lead to a better future for her family. She is desperate for a place to belong. Her mother, Cora, will do anything and go anywhere for the man she loves, even if it means following him into the unknown.

At first, Alaska seems to be the answer to their prayers. In a wild, remote corner of the state, they find a fiercely independent community of strong men and even stronger women. The long, sunlit days and the generosity of the locals make up for the Allbrights� lack of preparation and dwindling resources.

But as winter approaches and darkness descends on Alaska, Ernt’s fragile mental state deteriorates and the family begins to fracture. Soon the perils outside pale in comparison to threats from within. In their small cabin, covered in snow, blanketed in eighteen hours of night, Leni and her mother learn the terrible truth: they are on their own. In the wild, there is no one to save them but themselves.

In this unforgettable portrait of human frailty and resilience, Kristin Hannah reveals the indomitable character of the modern American pioneer and the spirit of a vanishing Alaska―a place of incomparable beauty and danger. The Great Alone is a daring, beautiful, stay-up-all-night story about love and loss, the fight for survival, and the wildness that lives in both man and nature.]]> 435 Kristin Hannah Shannon 5 4.44 2018 The Great Alone
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average rating: 4.44
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]]> Later 54798175
Later is Stephen King at his finest, a terrifying and touching story of innocence lost and the trials that test our sense of right and wrong. With echoes of King's classic novel It, Later is a powerful, haunting, unforgettable exploration of what it takes to stand up to evil in all the faces it wears.]]> 248 Stephen King Shannon 5 3.99 2021 Later
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average rating: 3.99
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]]> <![CDATA[The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Stories]]> 36596878
At the beating heart of each of these eighteen tales - and his tour de force in verse, “The Raven� - is proof that Poe can still surprise, shock, unsettle, and hold readers in thrall after more than a century.

AmazonClassics brings you timeless works from the masters of storytelling. Ideal for anyone who wants to read a great work for the first time or rediscover an old favorite, these new editions open the door to literature’s most unforgettable characters and beloved worlds.

Revised edition: Previously published as The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Stories, this edition of The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Stories (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.]]> 290 Edgar Allan Poe 1503956571 Shannon 0 currently-reading 4.09 1843 The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Stories
author: Edgar Allan Poe
name: Shannon
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1843
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[After She Fled: A Troubled Spirits Novel]]> 180199442 332 J.R. Erickson Shannon 5 4.58 After She Fled: A Troubled Spirits Novel
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average rating: 4.58
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]]> The Suffering 122494901
Recreating the séance that led to the infamous Victorian Suffering massacre seems like a good idea at the time. But Kyle Birbeck soon discovers that the ghosts his distant ancestor banished into the walls of Brackenby House in 1876 have been lurking, waiting for a chance to come out.

One by one the 5 terrifying ghosts latch onto each of the students who reside at Brackenby, preying on their deepest fears: A 3-eyed Incan giant. A member of the Hellfire Club who struck a deal with the devil to keep his fortune in the afterlife. A thieving factory hand who fell to his death, torturing them with endless footsteps. An oracle with a horde of dead sailors to do her bidding, and a 17th century axe-wielding executioner with a murderous hobby.

It’s up to Kyle and his friends to uncover the real secrets of the séance and banish the ghosts for good. But they soon come to realise it isn’t Brackenby House that’s haunted. They are. And the ghosts will stop at nothing to continue The Suffering…]]> 328 M.J. Mars Shannon 0 currently-reading 3.99 2023 The Suffering
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name: Shannon
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2023
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]]> After She Fled 175761878
In the wake of her family's shattered happiness, Max is caught in a nightmarish whirlwind of horrors that defy the laws of our world. The epicenter of these malevolent forces resides within the crumbling walls of an abandoned farmhouse, burdened by a sinister history.

The house harbors secrets, both old and new. Secrets that might just reveal the fate of a young woman who has gone missing. A woman with ties to Max’s own former life in Draven.

Step into a bone-chilling paranormal story inspired by a true crime.]]> J.R. Erickson Shannon 0 to-read 4.36 After She Fled
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]]> <![CDATA[The Woman in White (AmazonClassics Edition)]]> 50657673 Art teacher Walter Hartright is on the road to London when he encounters an enigmatic woman dressed entirely in white. She’s an unnerving portent of strange things to come as Hartright starts a new job as drawing-master at Limmeridge House. There the teacher falls in love with Laura, his betrothed pupil, who bears a striking resemblance to the woman in white. Soon Walter is drawn into a family intrigue of greed, secrets, madness, and revenge.

Written in the form of testimonies, letters, and diary entries, Wilkie Collins’s gothic epistolary novel is regarded as the first “sensation� mystery. More than 150 years later, it continues to keep readers guessing.

Revised edition: Previously published as The Woman in White, this edition of The Woman in White (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

]]> 56 Wilkie Collins 1542024420 Shannon 0 currently-reading 4.31 1859 The Woman in White (AmazonClassics Edition)
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name: Shannon
average rating: 4.31
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]]> The Yellow Wallpaper 49946305 In a long-unoccupied mansion, a new mother is confined to what was once a nursery. She is assured by her physician husband that it is a necessary cure to ease her “nervous depression.� Isolated and powerless, she becomes obsessed with the peeling, sickly colored wallpaper. In it, she sees what no one else can: a prisoner desperate to escape its maddening design.

A condemnation of the patriarchy, The Yellow Wallpaper explores with terrifying economy the oppression, grave misunderstanding, and willful dismissal of women in late nineteenth-century society.

Revised edition: Previously published as The Yellow Wallpaper, this edition of The Yellow Wallpaper (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

]]> 30 Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1542023203 Shannon 0 currently-reading 3.96 1892 The Yellow Wallpaper
author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
name: Shannon
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1892
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]]> The School for Good Mothers 58256450 In this taut and explosive debut novel, one lapse in judgement lands a young mother in a government reform program where custody of her child hangs in the balance.

Frida Liu is struggling. She doesn’t have a career worthy of her Chinese immigrant parents� sacrifices. She can’t persuade her husband, Gust, to give up his wellness-obsessed younger mistress. Only with Harriet, their cherubic daughter, does Frida finally attain the perfection expected of her. Harriet may be all she has, but she is just enough.

Until Frida has a very bad day.

The state has its eyes on mothers like Frida. The ones who check their phones, letting their children get injured on the playground; who let their children walk home alone. Because of one moment of poor judgment, a host of government officials will now determine if Frida is a candidate for a Big Brother-like institution that measures the success or failure of a mother’s devotion.

Faced with the possibility of losing Harriet, Frida must prove that a bad mother can be redeemed. That she can learn to be good.

A searing page-turner that is also a transgressive novel of ideas about the perils of “perfect� upper-middle class parenting; the violence enacted upon women by both the state and, at times, one another; the systems that separate families; and the boundlessness of love, The School for Good Mothers introduces, in Frida, an everywoman for the ages. Using dark wit to explore the pains and joys of the deepest ties that bind us, Chan has written a modern literary classic.]]> 328 Jessamine Chan 1982156147 Shannon 0 3.61 2022 The School for Good Mothers
author: Jessamine Chan
name: Shannon
average rating: 3.61
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Grave Devotion: A Troubled Spirits Novel]]> 75481706 Grave Devotion is a stand-alone paranormal murder mystery inspired by a true crime.

Not all love stories have happy endings�For Kale Goodwin it’s love at first sight when he sees Annie working at the county fair. Darkly beautiful, she’s unlike anyone he’s ever met. There’s an electricity to her-something dangerous and magnetic.

Their love is fast and passionate. Kale is quickly swept away.

But when Annie calls on him for help, the innocence of their new love is shattered. Kale is forced to question everything he thought he knew about the woman he fell in love with.

In the days that follow, Kale is plagued by violent nightmares and dark visitors who drift in the shadows.

Looking for your next impossible to put down read? Pick up Grave Devotion today.]]> 304 J.R. Erickson Shannon 4 4.47 Grave Devotion: A Troubled Spirits Novel
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average rating: 4.47
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]]> <![CDATA[Black Hollow Hideaway (Troubled Spirits, #7)]]> 61431867 272 J.R. Erickson Shannon 5 4.55 2022 Black Hollow Hideaway (Troubled Spirits, #7)
author: J.R. Erickson
name: Shannon
average rating: 4.55
book published: 2022
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Some Can See (Northern Michigan Asylum #1)]]> 42961675 The dead have stories to tell. Are you listening?

On a sunny August morning, in 1935, thirteen-year-old Sophia Gray finds her friend, Rosemary wandering in the woods. Rosemary’s yellow dress is tattered and stained, she walks with a strange lurch, and her eyes are vacant and glassy. She beckons to Sophia, desperate to show her something, and Sophia follows.

In an abandoned cabin, beneath a tattered blanket, Sophia discovers Rosemary’s body.

It was not Rosemary who led her there, but Rosemary’s ghost.

Step into the Northern Michigan Asylum for the Insane

Twenty years after Sophia discovers Rosemary’s body, she finds herself trapped in the sprawling, and eerily beautiful, Northern Michigan Asylum for the Insane, in the hands of a malevolent doctor who preys on patients who exhibit paranormal abilities.

Sometimes the dead don’t rest

In present day 1965, Hattie, much like her mother, thirty years before, is led by a ghost. A newspaper hidden in an attic reveals a secret that has shaped the lives of Hattie and her siblings. Hattie with her sister, Jude, embark on a crusade to remedy the wrongs of the past and discover the tale of deception that stole their mother a decade before.

Hattie and Jude are in a race against time to discover a murderer and save their mother from a horrific fate.

Get lost in a uniquely chilling story that spans the life of a family and the ghosts who haunt them. ]]> 544 J.R. Erickson Shannon 5 4.24 2018 Some Can See (Northern Michigan Asylum #1)
author: J.R. Erickson
name: Shannon
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2018
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Dark River Inn (Troubled Spirits, #1)]]> 56058372
It’s the day of his ex-wife’s wedding when Dan makes the winding mountain journey to a remote cabin for an escape from the life that another man has stepped into.

Less than 48 hours into his reprieve, the forest tranquility is shattered when he looks through a telescope and witnesses the violent abduction of a young woman.

Dan springs into action, but there’s no evidence of an abduction nor reports of a missing woman.

That is, until Dan sees the missing person’s poster for Ivy Trent.

He’s sure it’s the woman he saw get kidnapped just days before. There's only one problem. Ivy disappeared ten years ago.

If you’re searching for a paranormal thriller that you’ll be reading with the lights on, grab Troubled Spirits today-the first in a series of stand-alone haunted mysteries inspired by true stories.]]> 256 J.R. Erickson Shannon 5 4.23 2021 Dark River Inn (Troubled Spirits, #1)
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name: Shannon
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2021
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Flowers in Her Bones (Troubled Spirits, #6)]]> 60711144
Two years ago, Gloria Cline had the worst night of her life. A music festival deep in the woods near the Porcupine Mountains turned deadly when Gloria and her best friend, Wren went for a night walk.

Twenty-four hours later, Gloria was found barely clinging to life with a horrific story of being abducted and nearly murdered.

No trace of Wren was ever found.

Today, Gloria has walled herself into a safe world that relies on routine and familiarity. She doesn’t leave her apartment-ever.

But somehow evil has gotten in...

When another young woman vanishes, Gloria realizes her hazy recollection of her own near-murder may hold the keys to finding the woman before she suffers a similar fate.

Don't miss this chilling paranormal murder mystery.]]> 313 J.R. Erickson Shannon 5 4.45 Flowers in Her Bones (Troubled Spirits, #6)
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name: Shannon
average rating: 4.45
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]]> Rough Draft 15768105
As the three trapped writers work together, struggling to understand and meet the demands of their blackmailers, they soon realize that they aren’t alone. There’s something else out there in the woods with them—something that doesn’t like visitors—and soon these masters of the macabre are caught right in the middle of their own very real horror story.]]> 210 Michael Robertson Jr. Shannon 2 Apostrophes are not for plurals.

I'm not sure I've ever seen so many typos in one book. But whatever. The bigger offense is these cookie cutter characters. You have your Handsome Hero with no personality. You've got your shy Geek Kid who loves comics and is apparently the smartest person in the room. And of course, you have the Useless Woman who just cries the whole time. Predictably, the Hero and the Woman fall for each other because he's handsome and she's a woman. Add to that the absolutely bonkers premise and it's all just too much.]]> 3.88 2012 Rough Draft
author: Michael Robertson Jr.
name: Shannon
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2012
rating: 2
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Apostrophes are not for plurals.

I'm not sure I've ever seen so many typos in one book. But whatever. The bigger offense is these cookie cutter characters. You have your Handsome Hero with no personality. You've got your shy Geek Kid who loves comics and is apparently the smartest person in the room. And of course, you have the Useless Woman who just cries the whole time. Predictably, the Hero and the Woman fall for each other because he's handsome and she's a woman. Add to that the absolutely bonkers premise and it's all just too much.
]]> Malefic (Sinister, #2) 75628446
Sophie Cooper has left the horrific events of Meadow Lane behind and assumed her role as Contessa Sofia DaTerra of the magnificent Palazzo Rosso.

And for a short while, life is every bit the fairy-tale, featuring a glamorously eccentric next-door neighbour, a new dream job, and a chance encounter with a handsome and mysterious stranger who may just be 'The one' - but Sofia quickly realises that her new life is not as perfect as it seems.

Deep in the shadows of labyrinthian streets of the medieval city, dark and malefic forces have conspired to ensure that the prophecy is fulfilled. For what has begun must be completed.

Now, Sofia has just ten days to unravel Palazzo Rosso’s shocking secrets and discover the hideous truth about her inheritance before a cataclysmic event that threatens not just her life, but that of the world.

In this highly anticipated sequel to SINISTER, #1 bestselling author, Tony Marturano, brings to life a stunning Venetian setting, weaving a breathtaking tapestry of beauty and terror, immersing readers in an atmospheric world of nerve-shredding suspense and immensely satisfying spine-tingling horror.

Get ready for an epic finale with shocking twists in this thrilling horror novel from #1 bestselling author Tony Marturano. Perfect for fans of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and Clive Barker.]]> 409 Tony Marturano Shannon 0 currently-reading 4.32 Malefic (Sinister, #2)
author: Tony Marturano
name: Shannon
average rating: 4.32
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]]> The Ceiling Man 33825471 A supernatural creature arrives in the small, fictional town of Port Massasauga and sets his sights on Abby, a girl with psychic powers similar to his own, in Lillie’s gripping debut...Lillie sidesteps horror clichés and presents characters who don’t make eye-rolling decisions...horror fans should expect an entertaining novel that’s tough to put down. Publishers Weekly/Booklife

A novel of slow burn horror.

Carole knows there can be no tie between her autistic daughter and the strange events in Port Massasauga. It’s not logical. It’s not possible.

The Ceiling Man has picked up other watchers in his travels, but they all dismissed him as a nightmare. The girl is different. She knows he’s real.

Teenage Abby is an innocent. The stranger only she sees and hears introduces her to evil. When Carole falls under the stranger’s sway, Abby must solve the puzzle of The Ceiling Man and save them both.

Lillie's work is powerful, intense and mindbogglingly good. Her characters are real and believable, and her plot channels the darkness of a truly virulent thunderstorm, complete with a tornado or two tossed in, as evil vies for dominance over innocence amidst a bright blue sky and late afternoon winter sun...Every so often, a debut novel shines so very brightly. The Ceiling Man is one of those rare treasures. Readers' Favorite 5-Star Review]]> 336 Patricia Lillie 1662502443 Shannon 0 currently-reading 4.03 2017 The Ceiling Man
author: Patricia Lillie
name: Shannon
average rating: 4.03
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]]> Sinister (Sinister, #1) 63103583
IT STARTED LIKE ANY OTHER DAY, BUT THEN THINGS TURNED...SINISTER

For the residents of Meadow Lane, the terror began unobtrusively. A comet in the sky. A missing pet. But then those other things happened... Evil, horrific things.

For Sophie Cooper, the day began like any other. Only today isn’t just any other day. Today, is her 21st birthday and life as she knows it is about to change, forever.]]> 413 Tony Marturano Shannon 5 4.07 2022 Sinister (Sinister, #1)
author: Tony Marturano
name: Shannon
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2022
rating: 5
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]]> Strung (Strung Trilogy, #1) 59580654 341 Per Jacobsen 8797329428 Shannon 3 3.80 2021 Strung (Strung Trilogy, #1)
author: Per Jacobsen
name: Shannon
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2021
rating: 3
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My original review was going to be kind of harsh because this book is oddly written. Strange wording choices and completely unnatural dialogue made it almost annoying to read. Then I looked into the author and found out this is a translation. English is not the language it was originally written in. Knowing that, I'll read the rest of the trilogy with a more forgiving eye. The story is interesting and I'm into it enough to find out what happens.
]]> Colony of the Lost 43228768
When the children of Glenwood begin vanishing one by one, baffling local and federal authorities alike, the idyllic New England suburb becomes anything but a utopia.

Built upon the ruins of a lost colony, Glenwood is home to a long-forgotten secret, and when three strangers are lured into the midnight woods by the phantom of a Puritan boy, they discover the truth of the town's dark past and must face a vision of its bloody future.

Together, this unlikely trio--Jay, an alcoholic school teacher, Tim, a wise-cracking new kid in town, and Sarah, a nine-year-old with a handful of imaginary friends--must find a way to rescue the town from a terrifying supernatural force to prevent history from repeating itself.


Silver Falchion Award Finalist for Best Horror (2016)
]]> 302 Derik Cavignano Shannon 4 3.80 2002 Colony of the Lost
author: Derik Cavignano
name: Shannon
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2002
rating: 4
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]]> A Rose for Her Grave 44652711 A Rose for Her Grave tells the story of Randy Roth from the razor-sharp perspective of Ann Rule. Rule attended the Roth trial and includes gripping accounts and details from her personal files on the case. A Rose for Her Grave delves into the heinous crimes of the monster Randy Roth; a man who seduced and manipulated vulnerable women into marrying him and opening up a large life insurance policy…all for him to collect when they conveniently met their untimely end. Rule exposes the heartbreaking facts of the investigation into his crimes, his last three wives and the tortured children left behind.]]> 359 Ann Rule 1938402847 Shannon 4 4.41 1993 A Rose for Her Grave
author: Ann Rule
name: Shannon
average rating: 4.41
book published: 1993
rating: 4
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]]> The End House 62222526 A mind-bending horror novel from the author of the Kindle Bestselling Lance Brody supernatural suspense series!

A forgotten farmhouse hidden in the mountains. An ancient book full of gruesome history. A struggling writer trying to keep his grasp on reality � and survive The End House.

When Declan Scheider wakes alone and confused in the abandoned old house, slowly the memories begin to flood him. Some feel right, some feel � off. Not his own. And soon, it’s more than memories that begin to creep out of the shadows.

He swears he’s hearing things, seeing things that aren’t really there, and he can’t shake the feeling that he’s never quite alone.

When he finds the ancient book bound in worn black leather, he begins to feel the line between what is real and what isn’t completely disappear as the book’s horrific tales consume him, and he starts to wonder...

Where is he? Who is he?

He thought he knew.

Praise for Michael Robertson Jr's â…â…â…â…â� "Almost Stephen Kingish in character building and imagination."

â…â…â…â…â� "The story pulls you in, and makes it hard to put down."

â…â…â…â…â� "I’m a fan of Dean Koontz and Stephen King and am always looking for a good thriller. Michael Robertson Jr is right up there with them. Love the Lance Brody Series"

â…â…â…â…â� "One of the best reads in ages! I was drawn in and felt like I knew the characters personally."

â…â…â…â…â� "This book was so well written. It captivated from page 1. It is truly written in the spirit of Linwood Barclay or Lisa Gardner. Very hard to put down. I just purchased the next series."

â…â…â…â…â� "I felt like I was part of the story with his vivid details. Lance is a great character, and his exploits are mysterious and will draw you in. Loved this series."]]> 250 Michael Robertson Jr. Shannon 3 3.83 The End House
author: Michael Robertson Jr.
name: Shannon
average rating: 3.83
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]]> You Belong to Me 52219516
“]±Ő> 284 Ann Rule 1938402855 Shannon 4 4.50 1994 You Belong to Me
author: Ann Rule
name: Shannon
average rating: 4.50
book published: 1994
rating: 4
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]]> Everything She Ever Wanted 44652697
Everything She Ever Wanted was made into a TV Mini-series for Lifetime in 2009, starring Gina Gershon and Victor Garber.]]> 697 Ann Rule 1938402790 Shannon 5 4.39 1992 Everything She Ever Wanted
author: Ann Rule
name: Shannon
average rating: 4.39
book published: 1992
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Exorcist's House (The Exorcist's House Universe #1)]]> 61044637 This psychological thriller follows a family to their Appalachian farmhouse, where they encounter an unimaginable horror.

In the summer of 1994, psychologist Daniel Hill buys a rustic farmhouse nestled in the rolling hills of West Virginia.

Along with his wife and teenage daughter, the family uproots their lives in Ohio and moves south. They are initially seduced by the natural beauty of the country setting. That soon changes when they discover a hidden room in the basement with a well, boarded shut and adorned with crucifixes.

Local legends about the previous owner being an exorcist come to light, but by then, all Hell has broken loose.

This 1990s horror novel is perfect for fans of family thriller books, stories of demonic possession, exorcism fiction, the occult, or thrillers like The Exorcist, A Head Full of Ghosts, and The Amityville Horror.

Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing—Tales from the Darkest Depths.]]> 288 Nick Roberts Shannon 0 currently-reading 4.11 2022 The Exorcist's House (The Exorcist's House Universe #1)
author: Nick Roberts
name: Shannon
average rating: 4.11
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]]> The Lost Village 54649337 The Blair Witch Project meets Midsommar in this brilliantly disturbing thriller from Camilla Sten, an electrifying new voice in suspense.

Documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt has been obsessed with the vanishing residents of the old mining town, dubbed “The Lost Village,� since she was a little girl. In 1959, her grandmother’s entire family disappeared in this mysterious tragedy, and ever since, the unanswered questions surrounding the only two people who were left—a woman stoned to death in the town center and an abandoned newborn—have plagued her. She’s gathered a small crew of friends in the remote village to make a film about what really happened.

But there will be no turning back.

Not long after they’ve set up camp, mysterious things begin to happen. Equipment is destroyed. People go missing. As doubt breeds fear and their very minds begin to crack, one thing becomes startlingly clear to Alice:

They are not alone.

They’re looking for the truth�
But what if it finds them first?]]> 341 Camilla Sten 1250249260 Shannon 4 3.72 2019 The Lost Village
author: Camilla Sten
name: Shannon
average rating: 3.72
book published: 2019
rating: 4
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]]> The Haunting of Leigh Harker 57130881
Leigh Harker’s quiet suburban home was her sanctuary for more than a decade, until things abruptly changed. Curtains open by themselves. Radios turn off and on. And a dark figure looms in the shadows of her bedroom door at night, watching her, waiting for her to finally let down her guard enough to fall asleep.

Pushed to her limits but unwilling to abandon her home, Leigh struggles to find answers. But each step forces her towards something more terrifying than she ever imagined.

A poisonous shadow seeps from the locked door beneath the stairs. The handle rattles through the night and fingernails scratch at the wood. Her home harbours dangerous secrets, and now that Leigh is trapped within its walls, she fears she may never escape.

Do you think you’re safe?

You’re wrong.]]> 272 Darcy Coates Shannon 4 4.14 2021 The Haunting of Leigh Harker
author: Darcy Coates
name: Shannon
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2021
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Vanishing Season (The Collector, #4)]]> 40173806
Eight-year-old Brooklyn Mercer has gone missing. And as accustomed as FBI agents Eliza Sterling and Brandon Eddison are to such harrowing cases, this one has struck a nerve. It marks the anniversary of the disappearance of Eddison’s own little sister. Disturbing, too, is the girl’s resemblance to Eliza—so uncanny they could be mother and daughter.

With Eddison’s unsettled past rising again with rage and pain, Eliza is determined to solve this case at any cost. But the closer she looks, the more reluctant she is to divulge to her increasingly shaken partner what she finds. Brooklyn isn’t the only girl of her exact description to go missing. She’s just the latest in a frightening pattern going back decades in cities throughout the entire country.

In a race against time, Eliza’s determined to bring Brooklyn home and somehow find the link to the cold case that has haunted Eddison—and the entire Crimes Against Children team—since its inception.

]]> 317 Dot Hutchison 1542090229 Shannon 4 4.20 2019 The Vanishing Season (The Collector, #4)
author: Dot Hutchison
name: Shannon
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2019
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Summer Children (The Collector, #3)]]> 35423609 This FBI agent has come to expect almost anything—just not this�

When Agent Mercedes Ramirez finds an abused young boy on her porch, covered in blood and clutching a teddy bear, she has no idea that this is just the beginning. He tells her a chilling tale: an angel killed his parents and then brought him here so Mercedes could keep him safe.

His parents weren’t just murdered. It was a slaughter—a rage kill like no one on the Crimes Against Children team had seen before. But they’re going to see it again. An avenging angel is meting out savage justice, and she’s far from through.

One by one, more children arrive at Mercedes’s door with the same horror story. Each one a traumatized survivor of an abusive home. Each one chafing at Mercedes’s own scars from the past. And each one taking its toll on her life and career.

Now, as the investigation draws her deeper into the dark, Mercedes is beginning to fear that if this case doesn’t destroy her, her memories might.]]> 300 Dot Hutchison 1542099889 Shannon 4 4.24 2018 The Summer Children (The Collector, #3)
author: Dot Hutchison
name: Shannon
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2018
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Roses of May (The Collector #2)]]> 36232011
Priya Sravasti’s sister fell victim to the killer years ago. Now she and her mother move every few months, hoping for a new beginning. But when she ends up in the madman’s crosshairs, the hunt takes on new urgency. Only with Priya’s help can the killer be found—but will her desperate hope for closure compel her to put her very life on the line?]]> 302 Dot Hutchison 1503994511 Shannon 5 4.09 2017 Roses of May (The Collector #2)
author: Dot Hutchison
name: Shannon
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2017
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)]]> 29981261
In this garden grow luscious flowers, shady trees…and a collection of precious “butterflies”—young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble their namesakes. Overseeing it all is the Gardener, a brutal, twisted man obsessed with capturing and preserving his lovely specimens.

When the garden is discovered, a survivor is brought in for questioning. FBI agents Victor Hanoverian and Brandon Eddison are tasked with piecing together one of the most stomach-churning cases of their careers. But the girl, known only as Maya, proves to be a puzzle herself.

As her story twists and turns, slowly shedding light on life in the Butterfly Garden, Maya reveals old grudges, new saviors, and horrific tales of a man who’d go to any length to hold beauty captive. But the more she shares, the more the agents have to wonder what she’s still hiding...]]> 288 Dot Hutchison 1503989712 Shannon 5 4.09 2016 The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)
author: Dot Hutchison
name: Shannon
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2022/10/02
date added: 2022/10/02
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]]> Ula (Born of Shadows Book 1) 36463937
Don't miss Ula, the captivating first book in J.R. Erickson's urban fantasy Born of Shadows Series. Murder, witches and, of course, love.

Abby Daniels has abandoned her life. As she grapples with the guilt of leaving her boyfriend, her family and her job, an enthralling stranger enters her small world. His name is Sebastian and his mysterious past and hypnotic blue eyes lull Abby from the fear of her hasty departure. However, her predictable life is truly flipped upside down when she stumbles upon the dead body of a young woman. As she uncovers the mysteries surrounding the woman's death, she unearths the previously invisible threads of her own secret identity. These threads, woven together with the aid of Sebastian, lead her to the Coven of Ula, a secret island in Lake Superior, inhabited by witches. Though their welcome is warm, the hidden island holds a truth that Abby cannot deny. She is a witch and her powers, whether she wants them or not, must be exercised. For Abby, the Coven of Ula represents an equally terrifying and exhilarating future. Alone, Abby faces the witches' most lethal enemy, the Vepar, whose demonic powers first enrapture and then destroy their victims.]]> 260 J.R. Erickson Shannon 0 currently-reading 4.23 2012 Ula (Born of Shadows Book 1)
author: J.R. Erickson
name: Shannon
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Still Falling (Troubled Spirits, #5)]]> 59704611 On a desolate peninsula, Skelling Hall has stood for more than a century.

When Iris Walsh flees to the Upper Peninsula in northern Michigan, she’s grappling with some deeply disturbing truths. She seeks solace at her grandmother’s home and, for a time, she finds it.

But on a frigid winter night, Iris glimpses a man fleeing through the forest from a dark entity, and she crashes her car.

Iris is swept into a mystery that began nearly a century ago when two little boys walked into the forest on the Skelling Peninsula and were never seen again.

Don’t miss this chilling paranormal tale...

Each novel in the Troubled Spirits series is a stand-alone, paranormal murder mystery inspired by a true crime]]> 328 J.R. Erickson Shannon 4 4.37 Still Falling (Troubled Spirits, #5)
author: J.R. Erickson
name: Shannon
average rating: 4.37
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction]]> 40513854 For fans of vintage YA, a humorous and in-depth history of beloved teen literature from the 1980s and 1990s, full of trivia and pop culture fun.

Those pink covers. That flimsy paper. The nonstop series installments that hooked readers throughout their entire adolescence. These were not the serious-issue novels of the 1970s, nor the blockbuster YA trilogies that arrived in the 2000s. Nestled in between were the girl-centric teen books of the �80s and �90s—short, cheap, and utterly adored.

In Paperback Crush, author Gabrielle Moss explores the history of this genre with affection and humor, highlighting the best-known series along with their many diverse knockoffs. From friendship clubs and school newspapers to pesky siblings and glamorous beauty queens, these stories feature girl protagonists in all their glory. Journey back to your younger days, a time of girl power nourished by sustained silent reading. Let Paperback Crush lead you on a visual tour of nostalgia-inducing book covers from the library stacks of the past.]]> 256 Gabrielle Moss 1683690796 Shannon 0 currently-reading 3.74 2018 Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction
author: Gabrielle Moss
name: Shannon
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> Man, Fuck This House 59224051
At first glance, the house is perfect. But things aren't what they seem.

Sabrina's hearing odd noises, seeing strange visions. Their neighbors are odd or absent. And Sabrina's already-fraught relationship with her son is about to be tested in a way no parent could ever imagine.

Because while the Haskins family might be the newest owners of 4596 James Circle, they're far from its only residents...]]> 158 Brian Asman Shannon 5 3.33 2021 Man, Fuck This House
author: Brian Asman
name: Shannon
average rating: 3.33
book published: 2021
rating: 5
read at: 2022/04/07
date added: 2022/04/07
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]]> If You Really Loved Me 44652687 644 Ann Rule 1938402804 Shannon 5 4.43 1991 If You Really Loved Me
author: Ann Rule
name: Shannon
average rating: 4.43
book published: 1991
rating: 5
read at: 2022/03/31
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]]> <![CDATA[Ashwood's Girls (Troubled Spirits, #4)]]> 58885937
In present day, Adam Tate is in a rush to build his wife’s dream home. She’s ill, and he lives with the looming fear that her days are numbered in months rather than years. As he digs the foundation for their new home, he makes a chilling discovery-long-buried skeletons. On impulse, he hides the grave and pushes it from his mind.

When Adam and his wife Holly move into their new home six months later, it becomes clear that Adam has awoken something that will not be silenced.

Step into a story of betrayal, murder, and voices from beyond the grave.]]> 334 J.R. Erickson Shannon 4 4.49 2021 Ashwood's Girls (Troubled Spirits, #4)
author: J.R. Erickson
name: Shannon
average rating: 4.49
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at: 2022/03/13
date added: 2022/03/13
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]]> <![CDATA[Darkness Stirring (Troubled Spirits, #3)]]> 58191359
Lorraine Hicks is fourteen-years-old when she watches her best friend, Beverly climb into a tree in the forest and never come back down. It’s a mystery that haunts her small town and embeds itself in Lorraine's life.

Fifteen years later, Lori is a grown woman, doing her best to move on from her troubled childhood. She reluctantly agrees to a night of camping, despite her secret terror of the woods. As she sits by a roaring bonfire, a man stands and tells the story of two fourteen-year-old friends who walked into the Manistee National Forest-only one of them walked back out.

The story is hauntingly similar to Lori’s own, and she embarks on a quest to discover if the two disappearances are linked.

As she unravels the truth behind the vanishings, she unearths a malevolence that forces her to question if evil truly exists.

Don’t miss this chilling paranormal murder mystery.]]> 288 J.R. Erickson Shannon 4 4.35 2021 Darkness Stirring (Troubled Spirits, #3)
author: J.R. Erickson
name: Shannon
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at: 2022/02/27
date added: 2022/02/27
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]]> <![CDATA[Helme House (Troubled Spirits, #2)]]> 57130896
When Rowan and her family move into the 1800s home nestled in the woods on a bluff near Lake Michigan, she's looking forward to a summer reprieve. However, she soon discovers that Helme House harbors dark secrets including people who have vanished from the house and never been found.

As Rowan digs into the history of Helme House a series of troubling experiences soon become deadly.

Helme House is the second stand-alone novel in the Troubled Spirits Series-where paranormal fiction meets true crime.

Do you believe in ghosts?]]> 322 J.R. Erickson Shannon 0 currently-reading 4.28 2021 Helme House (Troubled Spirits, #2)
author: J.R. Erickson
name: Shannon
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Bitter Ground (Northern Michigan Asylum, #8)]]> 53926556 Riza is no longer that kid - troubled, angry, and filled with secrets. She’s grown up, and when she stumbles upon an on-line forum about the shuttered Northern Michigan Asylum, she tries to pretend it never happened - not the years of experimentation, nor the strange midnight writings, and most of all, not the murders.
But someone wants her to remember.
Deaths shockingly similar to those that occurred in 1989 are happening again.
As the killings get closer to home, Riza is forced to face her past one last time.
Get lost in a chilling story of childhood secrets, unsolved murder, and a malevolent asylum for the insane.
Bitter Ground is the final installment in the Northern Michigan Asylum Series.]]> 292 J.R. Erickson Shannon 4
I think there's a bit of genius in this series. The interweaving stories and timelines are incredibly well put together. I also enjoy the author's style. She pulls away from gratuitous crap, which I appreciate more than I can say. Too many books I read depict r*pe scenes or gore in trauma-inducing detail when it is absolutely not necessary. Erickson doesn't do that and it's really nice to read a book whose violent bits don't make me want to throw the book across the room. I appreciate the inclusion of LGBT characters who aren't just there "to be gay."

There are some problems, most of which can be attributed to an editor that isn't paying attention. Missing words ('Go to store' instead of 'Go to the store'), misnamed characters (Jake is suddenly referred to as Jack for a page or two, a headstone has the surname of a whole different character on it), a diary entry that slips from first person into third person for a few paragraphs. Sometimes I would read a sentence over and over again before giving up because it just didn't make sense. A good editor should have caught all that. Also too many reused character names. In one book there's a guy named Byron who owns a cabin, and in the next book a guy is hanging out at a cabin his uncle Byron used to own. So I'm thinking it's the same cabin, same family. But it wasn't, and that's confusing in a series where a lot of characters appear in multiple books. (By the way, I realize I sound like an elitist snob. Sorry.)

Most of the above mentioned mistakes would usually make me give up on a series because they drive me bonkers, but these stories are just so good that I couldn't put them down. Honestly, I really want to read them all again so I can map out the timelines and characters. If anyone wants to go in on a wiki with me let me know!]]> 4.49 Bitter Ground (Northern Michigan Asylum, #8)
author: J.R. Erickson
name: Shannon
average rating: 4.49
book published:
rating: 4
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date added: 2022/02/10
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This review is for the series as a whole. I read all eight books in about a week so it's kind of one big book in my mind.

I think there's a bit of genius in this series. The interweaving stories and timelines are incredibly well put together. I also enjoy the author's style. She pulls away from gratuitous crap, which I appreciate more than I can say. Too many books I read depict r*pe scenes or gore in trauma-inducing detail when it is absolutely not necessary. Erickson doesn't do that and it's really nice to read a book whose violent bits don't make me want to throw the book across the room. I appreciate the inclusion of LGBT characters who aren't just there "to be gay."

There are some problems, most of which can be attributed to an editor that isn't paying attention. Missing words ('Go to store' instead of 'Go to the store'), misnamed characters (Jake is suddenly referred to as Jack for a page or two, a headstone has the surname of a whole different character on it), a diary entry that slips from first person into third person for a few paragraphs. Sometimes I would read a sentence over and over again before giving up because it just didn't make sense. A good editor should have caught all that. Also too many reused character names. In one book there's a guy named Byron who owns a cabin, and in the next book a guy is hanging out at a cabin his uncle Byron used to own. So I'm thinking it's the same cabin, same family. But it wasn't, and that's confusing in a series where a lot of characters appear in multiple books. (By the way, I realize I sound like an elitist snob. Sorry.)

Most of the above mentioned mistakes would usually make me give up on a series because they drive me bonkers, but these stories are just so good that I couldn't put them down. Honestly, I really want to read them all again so I can map out the timelines and characters. If anyone wants to go in on a wiki with me let me know!
]]> <![CDATA[Dark Omen (Northern Michigan Asylum, #6)]]> 48925199 346 J.R. Erickson Shannon 4 4.45 Dark Omen (Northern Michigan Asylum, #6)
author: J.R. Erickson
name: Shannon
average rating: 4.45
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Rag Doll Bones (Northern Michigan Asylum, #5)]]> 48500239 Their mothers told them monsters weren’t real, but they were wrong.

It’s the start of summer vacation in 1983. Twelve-year-olds Ashley and Sid are excited for three months of swimming at the pit, playing arcade games, and getting lost in the woods.

But the woods aren’t safe.

Kids are going missing in their small town. One of them has been found dead. The cops are indifferent, the parents are clueless, and a summer of fun Is slowly turning into a summer of terror.

Sid and Ashley have come face to face with the monster, more boy than creature, and are desperate to reveal it.

Get lost in a twisted tale of abduction, supernatural forces and dark asylum secrets.

Grab your copy of Rag Doll Bones today.]]> 342 J.R. Erickson Shannon 4 4.23 Rag Doll Bones (Northern Michigan Asylum, #5)
author: J.R. Erickson
name: Shannon
average rating: 4.23
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rating: 4
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date added: 2022/02/09
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]]> <![CDATA[Dead Stream Curse (Northern Michigan Asylum #4)]]> 52406710
Deep in the forest, far back on Spellway Road, sits a long forgotten mansion. The curtains billow despite the still day, and in the dark, shadowy rooms lies a secret kept under lock and key for two decades.

The cursed; however, do not simply stay dead and buried.

Twenty years ago, Liv did a horrible thing. Now the past seeks to right those wrongs. Skeletal fingers reach into her dreams. They grab hold of her heart and squeeze. She must return to Northern Michigan to the place where it all began, to the scene of the murder, the curse, to Halloween night 1945.

Get lost in a creepy tale of Norse magic, cold-blooded murder, and ghosts.]]> 290 J.R. Erickson Shannon 4 4.38 2019 Dead Stream Curse (Northern Michigan Asylum #4)
author: J.R. Erickson
name: Shannon
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at: 2022/02/08
date added: 2022/02/08
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]]> <![CDATA[Ashes Beneath Her (Northern Michigan Asylum #3)]]> 45454459 Orla has a gift, an ability to sense things she touches: memories, traumas� murders.

On a sunny day in 1975, she sets off on a bike ride into the picturesque countryside and vanishes. She is not the first young woman to go missing and she will not be the last.

Ashes Beneath Her is the third novel in the stand-alone Northern Michigan Asylum Series.]]> 296 J.R. Erickson Shannon 4 4.47 Ashes Beneath Her (Northern Michigan Asylum #3)
author: J.R. Erickson
name: Shannon
average rating: 4.47
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rating: 4
read at: 2022/02/07
date added: 2022/02/07
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]]> The Queen's Gambit 41714396 Netflix’s most watched limited series to date!ĚýThe thrilling novel of one young woman’s journey through the worlds of chess and drug addiction.â€� When eight-year-old Beth Harmon’s parents are killed in an automobile accident, she’s placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. Plain and shy, Beth learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers she is a prodigy. Though penniless, she is desperate to learn more—and steals a chess magazine and enough money to enter a tournament. Beth also steals some of her foster mother’s tranquilizers to which she is becoming addicted. At thirteen, Beth wins the chess tournament. By the age of sixteen she is competing in the US Open Championship and, like Fast Eddie in The Hustler, she hates to lose. By eighteen she is the US champion—and Russia awaitsĚý.Ěý.Ěý. Fast-paced and elegantly written, The Queen’s Gambit is a thriller masquerading as a chess novel—one that’s sure to keep you on the edge of your seat. “The Queen’s Gambit is sheer entertainment. It is a book I reread every few years—for the pure pleasure and skill of it.â€� —Michael Ondaatje, Man Booker Prize–winning author of The English Patient]]> 266 Walter Tevis Shannon 4 4.42 1983 The Queen's Gambit
author: Walter Tevis
name: Shannon
average rating: 4.42
book published: 1983
rating: 4
read at: 2022/02/06
date added: 2022/02/06
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]]> <![CDATA[Calling Back the Dead (Northern Michigan Asylum #2)]]> 43425178 The sprawling Kerry Manor has stood abandoned for nearly a century.

But that hasn’t kept the darkness at bay. Stories about the cursed house trickle out. Violent deaths, strange sightings, and always the chilling sound of a little girl’s song permeates the murky halls.

Today, Kerry Manor is restored to its original grandeur. Corrie and Sammy Flynn, and their daughter Isis, move into the house for a winter retreat. As they settle into the dim, gothic rooms, they cannot imagine the terror that awaits them.

Kerry Manor houses a malevolence that spans a century. A twisted tale that began when a little girl went into the Northern Michigan Asylum for the Insane and emerged as something dark - something evil.

Kerry Manor is the second novel in a series of stand-alone stories in the Northern Michigan Asylum Series. Start your chilling journey today.]]> 298 J.R. Erickson Shannon 4 4.22 Calling Back the Dead (Northern Michigan Asylum #2)
author: J.R. Erickson
name: Shannon
average rating: 4.22
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rating: 4
read at: 2022/02/06
date added: 2022/02/06
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]]> <![CDATA[Let Her Rest (Northern Michigan Asylum, #7)]]> 51198079 A chilling ghost story that spans generations�Let Her Rest is a stand-alone paranormal murder mystery inspired by a real former asylum.

Jake Edwards hasn’t thought about the Northern Michigan Asylum in three decades-not since the terrifying night he fled the asylum as a child and never looked back.

When Petra, a mysterious woman from those forgotten days, appears at his business, he suspects a practical joke.

Until the woman vanishes, leaving behind a blood-spattered apartment and a trail of secrets that all lead back to the shuttered asylum.

As Jake digs into his dark past, he must face the sinister forces who have been hunting him for decades.

Don’t miss this gripping tale of the haunted, the hunted, and the secret that won’t stay buried. ]]> 322 J.R. Erickson Shannon 4 4.43 Let Her Rest (Northern Michigan Asylum, #7)
author: J.R. Erickson
name: Shannon
average rating: 4.43
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rating: 4
read at: 2022/02/03
date added: 2022/02/03
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]]> <![CDATA[Witch (The Cursed Manuscripts, #1)]]> 57904623
In December 2020, new manuscripts started turning up around the world.

If you find one, do not read it.]]> 195 Iain Rob Wright Shannon 4 3.72 2021 Witch (The Cursed Manuscripts, #1)
author: Iain Rob Wright
name: Shannon
average rating: 3.72
book published: 2021
rating: 4
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