In "The Prisoner of Hell Gate", Dana Wolff (a pseudonym) has written an intriguing variation on a familiar horror story trope.
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Book Review: ‘Vinegar Girl’ by Anne Tyler
'Vinegar Girl' by Anne Tyler reworks William Shakespeare's 'The Taming of the Shrew' in a delightful and engaging modern tale.
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A novel that evokes the chilling horror of the Manson Family murders, Emma Cline's 'The Girls' constructs similar events within a gripping psychological tale.
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Kim Hooper's 'People Who Knew Me' is a shocking tale of how the choices we make can irrevocably change our lives forever.
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"The Geek Feminist Revolution" by Kameron Hurley is one of the more perceptive and insightful works of non-fiction I have come across in years.
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In Return to the Isle of the Lost by Melissa De La Cruz, we once again return to Auradon, to find that Mal as well as her other friends have received messages telling them to return home.
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A new police procedural trilogy set in an isolated group of northern islands proves moody and involving.
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In ' This Too Shall Pass' Milena Busquets seeks to weave a touching story about the tragedy of loss. Unfortunately, this never happens.
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In 'Kowloon Bay' by Ty Hutchinson we catch up to Abby Kane one more time as she continues her work with the FBI. However, on holiday in China in order to help her children understand their background, she is drawn into a mystery that could well be the destruction of the very family she has come to view as her own.
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The recipe for Houston’s Loon Lake Mystery’s success lies in the author’s tasty seasoning of rural mayhem and murder with a large dollop of fishing lore.
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