Good, solid storytelling sets a great foundation for an audiobook. But a unique way of telling that story makes for a stellar audiobook that you don’t want to stop listening to, and The Dead House is told in such a way that it excels head and shoulders above so many other stories in my opinion, […]
Tonight the Streets Are Ours is one of those books that is so realistic that it can make you feel a bit nostalgic for your lost teenage years one second, but in the next it reminds you just how much of a bitch those years actually were. This novel isn’t a romance, it’s a […]
The Southern Ghostly Mystery series has been a real treat to discover this year, and I’ve really enjoyed reading about Emma Lee Raines as she’s trying to find her footing as a Betweener Medium. While she juggles trying to help murdered ghosts cross over and her regular job at the family funeral home, Emma Lee […]
By now any of you who’ve read Katie McGarry’s books know that she has a formula that works: take a troubled girl and an equally but differently troubled boy, push them together, put them through the ringer, and then make them work for a fantastic happy ending. And it’s always told in alternating points of […]
Who hasn’t seen the news story about the discovery in 2010 of a Paris apartment that was locked away, untouched for seventy years? I was intrigued by the pictures that were released, and author Ella Carey was as well, enough so that this idea sparked a novel, Paris Time Capsule. New Yorker Cat Jordan receives […]
This has been my “Summer of Horror,” and to mark the end of the season and a lot of wonderfully dark and twisted books, Kevin P. Keating’s The Captive Condition was my end cap. I’d like to say that this novel lived up to my expectations, but maybe a chocked-full summer of great horror […]
From the back cover blurb for Broken Homes and Gardens, the comparisons are outright made with the movie when Harry Met Sally. Since I can’t really remember much of that movie after watching it when it was shown on cable for the first time way back, I’ll just say that you don’t need to make […]
William Todd Rose struck me as a horror author to not miss with his novella Crossfades (my review) that came out earlier this year. It was in this work that we first met Chuck, whose job it is to astral travel into the in-between areas called Crossfades and help stuck souls cross over into the light. […]
The Dark Screams anthologies edited by Richard Chizmar and Brian James Freeman have been pretty solid in terms of great short horror stories, but Dark Screams Volume Four is the first one where I enjoyed every single story in the volume. Horror heavy hitters such as Clive Barker and Heather Graham are featured and aren’t […]
To continue my summer of horror reading schedule, the alternate historical fictional retelling of the Civil War prisoner camp Andersonville by Edward M. Erdelac was up next. The author’s extensive research into the conditions of this southern prisoner camp that held Northern soldiers in deplorable conditions would have made for an excellent non-fiction book, […]
Find Secrets in the Grave Publication: September 2015 Get a Copy: Amazon Goodreads I’m so happy to bring you the cover for the third installment in Karen Ann Hopkins’ Serenity’s Plain Secrets series, Secrets in the Grave. This is another great cover by Jenny over at Seedlings Design Studio. I really loved this book, so make […]
I was introduced to Susan Mallery’s wonderful books through another one of TLC Book Tours offerings earlier this year with the offer to host an excerpt and review for the amazing start to a new series, The Girls of Mischief Bay (Excerpt, Review). When the next installment in her Fool’s Gold series came up, I […]
Emma Lee Raines is a Betweener Medium, whose job is to help ghosts who have been murdered solve their homicide so they can move on to the great beyond. But she’s also a Funeral Director, so she works with the living to make arrangements for their deceased family members as well as carryout the pre-needs […]
