Disgraced former detective Eli Lamp spends his days working for The Crooked Wheel, a motorcycle gang controlling the drug trade in a small Oregon town. Over a decade prior, Eli made an error in judgement that ran him afoul of The Crooked Wheel’s competitor Brother Night during a desperate search for his missing daughter Hannah.…
Emily St John Mandel is back with her first novel in four years, EXIT PARTY. The story follows Ari, a woman recently released from prison, as she tries to navigate the fractured United States following a civil war. Landing in Los Angeles, Ari moves in with Gloria, a woman suffering from PTSD after being present…
MILKTEETH follows Beatrice, a vampire charged with nursing newly turned fledglings through their early years. You see, the recently turned cannot handle pure human blood and must be eased into their new diets through the blood of an established bloodsucker. Beatrice has experience with this, however, and has mothered many younglings throughout the years. A…
THE STRANGER TIMES is a weekly newspaper based in Manchester dedicated to publishing all the weird and the wonderful news that’s fit to print. Run by editor in chief, Vincent Bancroft, the staff is an assembly of misfits who spend as much time writing as they do trying to reign in their verbally abusive, alcoholic…
Cleo and Ethan suffered an unimaginable tragedy – the death of their child. With nothing left to make sense, Cleo attempts to head back to work before she is ready, and a workplace incident has her returning home to finish out her planned maternity leave. She receives a lifeline in the form of a job…
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…
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…
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