The Girls Before is a chilling, slow-burn thriller that intertwines two haunting storylines: a woman trapped in a dark room (“below”) and a search-and-rescue expert (“above”) haunted by her ex–best friend’s disappearance years earlier. As Audrey uncovers evidence suggesting a missing runaway may be tied to a powerful local family, the novel peels back decades of…
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Nowhere Burning
Set in the unforgiving maw of the Rocky Mountains, Nowhere Burning is Catriona Ward’s latest unsettling novel, blending isolation, cult dynamics, and simmering menace in a story that will appeal to fans of Yellowjackets. When Riley flees her uncle’s home with her younger brother to the ruins of an infamous movie star’s ranch, rumored to house feral children,…
So Old, So Young
So Old, So Young hooked me right away. The premise is strong, the writing is sharp, and so much of it immediately felt familiar. Grant Ginder does an excellent job capturing that millennial space between feeling young and realizing you’re suddenly not, especially when it comes to friendships and the passage of time. As a full-time…
Anatomy of an Alibi
Two women, Camille Bayliss and Aubrey Price switch lives for twelve hours to uncover secrets tied to Camille’s suspicious husband, Benjamin Bayliss. When Benjamin is found murdered the next morning, both women need an airtight alibi but only one of them has it. With timelines tangled and identities blurred, one wrong move could unravel everything….
Such Sheltered Lives
Following three wealthy but deeply troubled guests of the Rush Recovery center: Amelia Blue Harris, the daughter of a rock star grappling with an eating disorder and lingering questions about her mother’s mysterious death; Lord Edward of Essex, a British aristocrat battling addiction; and Florence Bloom, a singing hiding from scandal. When a body is…
My Husband’s Wife
Eden Fox is an artist on the brink of her big break when she returns from a run to find her life no longer belongs to her. Her key doesn’t work, a woman who looks eerily like her answers the door, and her husband insists that she is the imposter. Six months earlier, Birdy, a reclusive Londoner…
Is This a Cry for Help?
Darcy appears to have built a quietly perfect life: she’s a librarian, married to her wife Joy, living in a sun-filled house by the lake with two cats and shelves overflowing with books. But when she learns of her ex-boyfriend’s death, unresolved guilt sends her into a mental health crisis that forces her to step…
The Irish Goodbye
Over one Thanksgiving weekend, three adult sisters return to their childhood home on Long Island, forced back into close quarters and into the unresolved grief that has shaped their family for decades. Years earlier, a tragic accident involving their brother Topher’s boat set off a chain of events that ended in loss, lawsuits, and heartbreak…
Before I Forget
At twenty-six, Cricket Campbell feels stuck; adrift in early adulthood and weighed down by grief from a tragedy a decade earlier. When her father is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and her sister Nina suggests moving him into memory care, Cricket instead returns to her childhood home to become his caretaker, hoping to repair their relationship and…
The Gallagher Place
When Marlowe, an illustrator living in New York City, returns to her family’s Hudson Valley estate for the holidays, she’s drawn back into a past she never fully escaped. The discovery of a murder on the property reopens the unresolved disappearance of her teenage best friend twenty years earlier, forcing Marlowe to confront long-buried memories…