ANGEL DOWN follows Private Cyril Bagger, and four of his fellow soldiers, on the front lines near the end of the first World War. The five men are sent to investigate incessant screaming from outside of their trench to the middle of no man’s land. Upon discovery, the troop uncovers what appears to be a…
Demon Copperhead, a modern re-telling of Charles Dickens’ classic David Copperfield, follows Damon, a boy thrust into the foster system following the untimely death of his mother. Throughout the years, he experiences hardship and strife until landing in the unlikely care of an extremely successful high school football coach. Experiencing love and acceptance for the…
Fiction / Horror / Nick Cutter
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…
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