⭐⭐⭐ Synopsis: A failed marine, Judd can't believe his luck when Catriona falls for him. He lives in Minnesota; she's from Scotland. They work for the same company, they've messaged online for ages. But when they finally video chat, she turns out to be gorgeous. They may be thousands of miles apart, but they share … Continue reading Review: The Cyclist by Anthony Neil Smith
Synopsis: Kat and Doug felt like Aurora Village was the perfect community. Minutes from the city, affluent without pretension, low crime with a friendly vibe—it’s everything Kat never had, and that she’s determined to provide for her infant daughter. Snagging a nice bungalow in this exclusive enclave was worth all the sacrifice. But everything changes … Continue reading Review: Neighborly by Ellie Monago
⭐⭐⭐ Synopsis: 'All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil' Published as a 'shilling shocker', Robert Louis Stevenson's dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality. The story of respectable Dr Jekyll's strange … Continue reading Review: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
⭐⭐⭐ Synopsis: "My father had more than fifty children." So begins the haunting memoir of Anna LeBaron, daughter of the notorious polygamist and murderer Ervil LeBaron. With her father wanted by the FBI for killing anyone who tried to leave his cult--a radical branch of Mormonism--Anna and her siblings were constantly on the run with … Continue reading Review: The Polygamist’s Daughter by Anna LeBaron
⭐⭐⭐ Synopsis: None of us ever agreed on the exact beginning. Was it when we started drawing the chalk figures, or when they started to appear on their own? Was it the terrible accident? Or when they found the first body? Review: Big thanks to Janel @ Keeper of Pages for sending me her copy … Continue reading Review: The Chalk Man by C. J. Tudor
⭐⭐⭐ Synopsis From the foggy streets of Victorian London to the eerie perfection of 1950s suburbia, the everyday is invaded by the evil otherworldly in this unforgettable collection of new ghost stories from the author of The Woman in Black. In the title story, on a murky evening in a warmly lit club off St … Continue reading Review: The Travelling Bag and Other Ghostly Stories by Susan Hill
⭐⭐⭐ Synopsis A strange encounter Neve comes across a troubled woman called Isabelle on Waterloo Bridge late one night. Isabelle forces a parcel into Neve’s hands and jumps to her death in the icy Thames below. An unexpected gift Two weeks later, as Neve’s wreck of a life in London collapses, an unexpected lifeline falls … Continue reading Review: In a Cottage In a Wood by Cass Green
