Aria Stokes, a New York bookseller, is invited on an exclusive after-hours tour of the infamous Daedalus Library; a place known for its eerie, immersive rooms and whispered hauntings. But the night takes a deadly turn when the group becomes trapped inside and discovers there’s a murderer among them. As secrets unravel and danger closes…
Category: New York
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….
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…
Good Spirits
A modern, romantic twist on A Christmas Carol, but instead of ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future in the traditional sense, we get something way more charming and very B.K. Borison-coded. Harriet is our main character, and I loved her. She’s sweet, a little messy, very human, and written with so much charm that I…
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….