In THE DORIANS, we follow a group of senior citizens who had all opted for MAID. On the eve of their planned deaths, they’re approached by a mysterious woman offering a chance to change their destiny. Shortly after agreeing to this option, they all wind up on a remote island in Ontario with a proposition…
The new governess of Esnor House, Winifred Notty, arrives with three months to spare until Christmas. While she intends to spend her time raising and educating the two children entrusted to her care, she has other plans for the family and staff of the estate. I had heard a few things about this book over…
Poppy Stringer spends her day telling her multitudes of followers what to wear and how to go about their lives. Her nights? She steals corpses from funeral homes for cash. When her celebrity idol and 80s icon Eddie Michaels is killed in a brutal car accident, she’s approached by a mysterious caller asking her to…
A single mother, Ella is raising her twin children while also struggling to keep her bed and breakfast afloat. While she has some help, she’s always had to carry the weight of the world on her shoulders ever since losing her parents at a young age. If that wasn’t enough, her brother Ryan is killed…
Charlie Parker is tasked with investigating the unexpected death of a high schooler in the backwoods of a small Maine community. The boy’s father, a convicted felon, believes the official ruling of suicide is nonsense, so he looks to Parker for help. At the same time, Connolly writes of a group of serial killers who…
Having fallen through the ice in their younger years, nineteen year old Kit McNair has always felt different. Taking place during the 1930s in Southern Ontario, a farmgirl running around in boy’s clothes is not an everyday sight in a small town in the mid-20th century. When a German family arrives, with the father taking…
Sometime in the future, humanity is forced into underground silos to protect themselves from toxic air. Every so often, either by volunteering or via punishment, a lone individual must leave the safety of the silo to clean the cameras outside. This is a one-way trip as no one is expected to survive. When a sheriff…
It’s the winter of 1975 and Duane Minor is back from a tour of duty in Vietnam. He spends his nights tending the bar of The Last Call, a hole in the wall joint owned by his in-laws on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon. During the day, he lives above the bar with his wife…
In the final installment of her critically acclaimed Cal Hooper series, Tana French returns to Ardnakelty. This time around, a young woman named Rachel is found dead in a ditch with the cause attributed to the ingestion of antifreeze. Rachel’s fiance’s father, local power broker Tommy Moynihan, wants Cal to look into Rachel’s death, but…
“No one has a family without wounds. It always comes, whether it’s from living with them or in their absence” Lauren has spent a lifetime crafting an outward persona that is free of controversy and filled with altruistic and philanthropic activities. Her girlfriend, Alex, is a professional dancer, currently sidelined with a devastating injury. Together,…
Elle, responsible for tending a lighthouse on a desolate island off the coast of Halifax, Nova Scotia, spends her nights assisting safe navigation for passing ships. She isn’t alone, however, as she resides on the rock with her younger sister Liney, a girl for whom she made a deal with the devil to protect. While…
Margot and her mother reside in a small cabin off the beaten path in rural England. The pair spend their days in isolation – when Margot isn’t in school – and keep an eye out for wandering souls they call “strays”. Mama lures them in with promises of food, warmth and shelter, but unfortunately for…
Returning from a graveyard shift at a local diner, struggling actress Jess finds a young boy hiding in the bushes near her apartment. After the boy’s father shows up in a rage looking for him, Jess and the boy run for their lives in search of safety. There is a moment early on that makes…
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