The Briars

Sarah Crouch returns with a lush, atmospheric thriller set deep in the misty mountains of the Pacific Northwest. The story follows Annie Heston, a young woman escaping a broken relationship who takes a job as a game warden in the secluded town of Lake Lumin. As she warns the community about a roaming cougar, Annie…

A Box Full of Darkness

Violet, Vail, and Dodie return to the home they fled eighteen years earlier, summoned by the ghost of their long-missing brother, Ben, and his unsettling plea to “come home.” Fell, New York has always been a place where strange things happen: a mysterious drowning at the local motel, a young girl found dead by the…

The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre

The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre is a slasher with a twist, our ‘final’ girl is 78. Rose DuBois is living out her golden years at Autumn Springs when residents begin mysteriously dying one by one. At first, no one thinks much of it because accidents happen, and people die especially at a retirement home….

The Astrology House

A group of wealthy Manhattanites heads to an astrology-themed retreat on the coast in search of healing, rest, and clarity but instead, they find tension, buried secrets, and eventually murder. The weekend away at Stars Harbor, hosted in a restored Victorian mansion, begins as a chance to reset, but quickly devolves into something far more…

The World’s Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant

Berkley kindly sent over an early copy of The World’s Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant, and while I enjoyed it, I did feel it could have been leaner in places. Olivia Blunt, a former fact‑checker eager to break into detective work, becomes the assistant to Aubrey Merritt, the country’s most renowned private investigator….

Julie Chan is Dead

Debut energy and influencer chaos incoming… Julie Chan is stuck in a dead-end job, living a life worlds away from her estranged, glamorous twin sister Chloe VanHuusen—an influencer with millions of followers. When Chloe is found dead under mysterious circumstances, Julie makes a split-second decision to step into her sister’s shoes and take over her…

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…

What Happened to the McCrays?

When his father suffers a stroke, Kyle McCray find himself reluctantly back in his small hometown of Potsdam, New York. Kyle hasn’t seen his father, his friends, or his ex-wife, Casey, since he left. He wants more than anything to get his father back on his feet quickly and leave again as quickly as possible….

A Very Bad Thing

On the last night of her book tour, bestselling author Columbia Jones has been murdered. As the police start the investigation into her death, secrets long buried are starting to unravel and Columbia Jones may not be the person anything thought she was. I love a good J.T. Ellison book and this was no exception….

Kill for You, Kill for Me

How is this my first Steve Cavanagh book?! I’ve known who he was for a while but have just never picked up his books, and that is something I’m about to remedy. Eddie Flynn series, I’m coming for you! Wendy, and Amanda, are victims of crimes that have caused them unimaginable grief. Lost and saturated…