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How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix #bookreview #audiobook

How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix #bookreview #audiobook

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher:Berkley / Penguin Audio Published: January 17, 2023   Summary: Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a thrilling new novel that explores the way your past—and your family—can haunt you like nothing else. When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter…

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The Angel Maker by Alex North #bookreview

The Angel Maker by Alex North #bookreview

Thank you Celadon Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Angel Maker in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Celadon Books Published: February 28, 2023   Summary: A dark, suspenseful new thriller about the mysteries of fate, the unbreakable bond of siblings, and a notorious serial killer who was said to know the future. Growing up in a beautiful house in the English countryside, Katie Shaw lived a charmed life.…

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Little Eve by Catriona Ward #bookreview

Little Eve by Catriona Ward #bookreview

Thank you Tor Nightfire, #partner, for the advanced copy of Little Eve in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Tor Nightfire Published: October 11, 2022   Summary: A heart-pounding tale of faith and family, with a devastating twist “A great day is upon us. He is coming. The world will be washed away.” On the wind-battered isle of Altnaharra, off the wildest coast of Scotland, a clan prepares to bring about…

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Book of Knives by Lise Haines #bookreview #audiobook

Book of Knives by Lise Haines #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Dreamscape Media/Netgalley, #partner for the ALC of Book of Knives in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Dreamscape Media Published: October 6, 2022   Summary: There are thirteen knives. One by one they begin to disappear Nora didn’t expect Hidden Lake Camp to be in a state of ruin. Dock full of rotten boards, smashed windows, cabins falling apart. To her new husband, Paul, the camp is the…

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We Spread by Iain Reid #bookreview #audiobook

We Spread by Iain Reid #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and @BookClubFavorites & Gallery/Scout Press #partner,  for the finished copy of We Spread in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Gallery/Scout Press / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: September 27, 2022   Summary: A new work of philosophical suspense. Penny, an artist, has lived in the same apartment for decades, surrounded by the artifacts and keepsakes of her long life. She…

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The Ravenous Dead by Darcy Coates #bookreview #series

The Ravenous Dead by Darcy Coates #bookreview #series

Thank you Poisoned Pen Press, #partner for the advanced copy of The Ravenous Dead in exchange for my honest review.   Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Published: March 15, 2022 Summary: He’ll never let go…. Keira, hired as Blighty Graveyard’s new groundskeeper, lives surrounded by the dead. They watch her through the fog. They wordlessly cry out. They’ve been desperately waiting for help moving on—and only Keira can hear them. But…

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Jackal by Erin E. Adams #bookreview

Jackal by Erin E. Adams #bookreview

Thank you Random House Publishing Group/Netgalley #partner, for the advanced copy of Jackal in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Bantam Books Published: October 4, 2022   Summary A young Black girl goes missing in the woods outside her white Rust Belt town. But she’s not the first—and she may not be the last. . . . It’s watching. Liz Rocher is coming home . . . reluctantly. As a…

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Shutter by Ramona Emerson #bookreview #audiobook

Shutter by Ramona Emerson #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Libro.fm / Recorded Books for the ALC and Soho Crime #partner, for the advanced copy of Shutter in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: SoHo Crime / Recorded Books Published: August 2, 2022   Summary: This blood-chilling debut set in New Mexico’s Navajo Nation is equal parts gripping crime thriller, supernatural horror, and poignant portrayal of coming of age on the reservation Rita Todacheene is a forensic photographer…

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Hokuloa Road by Elizabeth Hand #bookreview #audiobook

Hokuloa Road by Elizabeth Hand #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Hachette Audio for the ALC and @NovelSuspects & Mulholland Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Hokuloa Road in exchange for my honest review.  Publisher: Mulholland Books / Hachette Audio Published: July 19, 2022   Summary: From Shirley Jackson Award-winner Elizabeth Hand comes a haunting and atmospheric new mystery perfect for fans of White Lotus , about a young man hired to work as a caretaker in Hawaiʻi who is drawn into…

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Review: The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig

Review: The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig

Publisher: Del Ray Books Published: July 20, 2021 Source: Personal copy   Summary: A family returns to their hometown—and to the dark past that haunts them still—in this masterpiece of literary horror by the New York Times bestselling author of Wanderers Long ago, Nathan lived in a house in the country with his abusive father—and has never told his family what happened there. Long ago, Maddie was a little girl making dolls in…

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Review: Home Before Dark by Riley Sager (reread)

Review: Home Before Dark by Riley Sager (reread)

Publisher: Dutton Books Published: June 30, 2020 Source: Personal copy   Summary: What was it like? Living in that house. Maggie Holt is used to such questions. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a nonfiction book…

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Review: No One Goes Alone by Erik Larson (audio)

Review: No One Goes Alone by Erik Larson (audio)

Publisher: Random House Audio Published: September 28, 2021 Source: ALC via Libro.fm   Summary: From New York Times best-selling author Erik Larson comes his first venture into fiction, an otherworldly tale of intrigue and the impossible that marshals his trademark approach to nonfiction to create something new: a ghost story thoroughly grounded in history. Pioneering psychologist William James leads an expedition to a remote isle in search of answers after…

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Blog Tour & Review: The Lighthouse Witches by C.J. Cooke

Blog Tour & Review: The Lighthouse Witches by C.J. Cooke

Publisher: Berkley Books Published: October 5, 2021 Source: Netgalley via Publisher   Summary: Two sisters go missing on a remote Scottish island. Twenty years later, one is found–but she’s still the same age as when she disappeared. The secrets of witches have reached across the centuries in this chilling Gothic thriller from the author of the acclaimed The Nesting. When single mother Liv is commissioned to paint a mural in…

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Review: The Noise by James Patterson & J.D. Barker (audio)

Review: The Noise by James Patterson & J.D. Barker (audio)

Publisher: Hachette Audio Published: August 16, 2021 Source: ALC via Hachette Audio / Libro.fm   Summary: If you hear it, it’s too late. Can two sisters save us all? In the shadow of Mount Hood, sixteen-year-old Tennant is checking rabbit traps with her eight-year-old sister Sophie when the girls are suddenly overcome by a strange vibration rising out of the forest, building in intensity until it sounds like a deafening…

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Review: Survive the Night by Riley Sager

Review: Survive the Night by Riley Sager

Publisher: Dutton Books Published: June 29, 2021 Source: Publisher   Summary: It’s November 1991. George H. W. Bush is in the White House, Nirvana’s in the tape deck, and movie-obsessed college student Charlie Jordan is in a car with a man who might be a serial killer. Josh Baxter, the man behind the wheel, is a virtual stranger to Charlie. They met at the campus ride board, each looking to…

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Review: Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

Review: Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

Title: Home Before Dark Author: Riley Sager Published: June 2020, Dutton Books Format: ARC E-copy, 384 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary:  What was it like? Living in that house. Maggie Holt is used to such questions. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of…

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