WE COULD BE RATS follows Sigrid, a young woman penning her suicide note. Each chapter takes the form of a draft of said note before abandoning it and starting over. I mean, how do you honestly put into words why you’re choosing to end your life when it isn’t as simple as “I’m depressed”? Over…
A well-meaning father drags his family into the California mountains for a quiet Christmas in a remote cottage with the intent to heal their fractured relationship. Unfortunately for the family, the property they chose to rent was the site of a grizzly murder ten years prior and the culprit may still be lurking in the…
It’s Christmas Eve in Boone County, West Virginia, and fledgling musician Jesse Walker is witness to a bizarre scene; Santa Claus racing through his neighborhood trying to outrun a pack of monsters. Although Santa appears to escape in his sleigh, a sack falls from the sky, landing in Jesse’s possession. The sack is life-changing to…
Author Benjamin Stevenson returns with his second Ernest Cunningham adventure, EVERYONE ON THIS TRAIN IS A SUSPECT. This time around, reeling from the success of a runaway best seller, “Ern” finds himself as a guest of the Australian Mystery Writers’ Society’s annual crime fiction festival. Taking place aboard a train travelling from the northern tip…
Ji-won’s family life is thrown for a loop when her father abruptly leaves her mother for another woman. Distraught and hopeless, Ji-won’s Umma longs for companionship while holding out hope her husband eventually returns. This all changes when Ji-won’s mother meets George, a middle-aged white man with questionable motives. Ji-won, overwhelmed from both a stressful…
Charlie and Eve are the proud owners of an old fixer-upper in the Pacific Northwest; a home they plan to flip and sell. While settling in, Eve is home alone when she hears a knock at the door. A man, Thomas, stands on the porch alongside his family. He says they are passing through town…
Discouraged following endless employment rejections, aspiring fashionista Dez (Desiree) Lane may have found her ticket to trendiness. While it means going out with creep Patrick Ruskin, this may allow her to crack open the door to meet Patrick’s mother – fashion icon and magazine magnate Marie Caulfield-Ruskin. After a few short weeks of dating, Dez…
Since childhood, Margaret and Charity have been inseparable. When Charity goes missing and no one seems to care, a mysterious package arrives on Margaret’s front step. Inside is an iPhone with a text that upends Margaret’s world and provides insight into Charity’s whereabouts and perhaps who she’s been all along. Set just outside Niagara Falls…
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