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The Garden of Blue Roses by Michael BarsaThe adult son of an acclaimed horror writer is forced to confront his family's past after the "accidental" death of his parents.
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| Glimpse by Jonathan Maberry Recovering addict Rain borrows a cracked pair of glasses en route to a job interview and begins seeing a child who looks like the long dead ex-boyfriend she still mourns. A "thriller that explores what happens when reality and nightmares converge, and how far one will go to protect the innocent when their own brain is a threat"--Amazon.com. |
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The Outsider by Stephen KingAn unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation...An eleven-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. The case seems ironclad, especially when Anderson and the district attorney are able to add DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses. But Maitland has an alibi, and it turns out his story has incontrovertible evidence of its own. How can two opposing stories be true
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| The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell In 1865 rural England, pregnant widow Elsie Bainbridge travels to her husband's ancestral home, where she encounters suspicious villagers, frightened servants, and mysterious 17th-century wooden figures that seem eerily alive. The Silent Companions features a parallel narrative structure that keeps readers one step ahead of Elsie -- but plenty of suspense will leave them guessing how the story ends.
For fans of: Gothic fiction mainstays Shirley Jackson and Daphne du Maurier. |
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This panoramic fictional oral history begins with one small mystery: the body of a young woman found in an Arizona border town, presumed to be an illegal immigrant, disappears from the town morgue. To the young CDC investigator called in to consult with the local police, it's an impossibility that threatens her understanding of medicine. Then, more bodies, dead from an inexplicable disease that solidified their blood, are brought to the morgue, only to also vanish. Soon, the U.S. government--and eventually biomedical researchers, disgruntled lawmakers, and even an insurgent faction of the Catholic Church--must come to terms with what they're too late to stop: an epidemic of vampirism that will sweep first the United States, and then the world |
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| The Motion of Puppets by Keith DonohueWhat it's about: Newly arrived in Quebec, Kay is chased into an unusual toy shop, where she is transformed into a puppet. Her husband Theo desperately searches for clues to her disappearance.
Pulling the strings: Author Keith Donohue deftly blends psychological horror, mystery, and magical realism in this engaging love story.
Did you know? The Motion of Puppets is an adaptation of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth. |
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| The Small Hand and Dolly: Two Novels by Susan HillWhat it is: a complementary pair of classically inspired novellas exploring childhood malevolence and otherworldly vengeance.
Want a taste? "And as I stood I felt a small hand creep into my right one, as if a child had come up beside me in the dimness and taken hold of it. It felt cool and its fingers curled themselves trustingly into my palm."
Reviewers say: "These poetic and emotionally painful nightmares lay waste to the claim that the ghost story is dead and buried" (Publishers Weekly). |
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| The Winter People by Jennifer McMahonWhat it's about: After her mother goes missing, 19-year-old Ruthie discovers the diary of Sara Harrison Shea, a woman whose flayed body was found at Ruthie's Vermont farmhouse in 1908 after the death of her young daughter. As Ruthie sets out to find her mother, using the diary for clues, she fears her mother's fate may be linked to Sara -- and that history is repeating itself.
Try this next: Karen Novak's Five Mile House, another small-town New England thriller featuring a centuries-old mystery. |
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