Seventy-three-year-old Sybil Van Antwerp, a woman who makes sense of the world through the letters she writes each morning. Through correspondence with friends, family, authors, and even institutions, Sybil reveals her sharp wit and reflective nature while quietly keeping the people who love her at a distance. When letters from someone tied to a painful…
Category: Debut
How to Get Away with Murder
How to Get Away with Murder is a clever debut thriller that blends a traditional murder investigation with a chilling meta twist. After six months away from work recovering from a breakdown, Scotland Yard detective Samantha Hansen returns to duty when a fourteen-year-old girl is found murdered in a local park. The only clue is…
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….
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…
The Witch’s Orchard
Archer Sullivan brings the mountains of North Carolina to life in The Witch’s Orchard, an atmospheric and twisty debut introducing private investigator Annie Gore. Former Air Force Special Investigator Annie has traded military life for PI work, and her latest case drags her deep into an Appalachian holler much like the one she grew up…
The Hounding
A small village is shaken when strange occurrences begin to stir, particularly around a group of girls and an old, tightly woven community. Told through the alternating perspectives of the townspeople, the girls, and a grandfather named Joseph, the story weaves together suspicion, fear, and whispers that quickly grow into something far more dangerous. As…
A Grimm Reaper’s Guide to Catching a Killer
Sometimes it takes working with the dead to start living. Kathy Valence is 42, mid-divorce, and pregnant with her ex-husband’s baby which is not exactly the typical protagonist you’d expect in a paranormal mystery. Oh, and she’s also a reaper, working for S.C.Y.T.H.E. (Secure Collection, Yielding, and Transportation of Human Essences). Her job? Escort souls…
Coram House
Coram House by Bailey Seybolt is a slow-burn mystery inspired loosely by the real-life horrors of St. Joseph Orphanage. Through a mixed media format and lyrical prose, Seybolt transports readers to a small town steeped in secrets and silence. The novel follows Alex, an outsider who becomes entangled in the town’s haunted past and troubling…
Every Sweet Thing is Bitter
Providence hasn’t been back home since before she went to prison at the age of 17. But when her mom goes missing, she knows she has to go back, at least for her sisters. Though they’re more strangers than sisters now, Providence return is met with resistance, suspension, and welcome. As the town searches for…
Passion Project
Deep in depression – Bennet is barely surviving in New York City. After the death of her boyfriend, she though moving to the city he dreamed of living would help her through her grief. But all she’s done since moving there is hide away in her room watching Criminal Minds and avoiding any sort of…