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29/02/2024

Liam Cass is anything but a 16-year-old archetype in ‘The Perfect Son’ by Freida McFadden, who also penned the bestselling novel ‘The Housemaid‘. He’s attractive, popular, straight-A student, Debate Team champion, and he’s also a psychopath.

No wonder he’s a prime suspect once his classmate, Olivia Mercer, disappears; many others in the community share that belief. Though her friends advised her to avoid him, her attraction to him persists; he throws pebbles at her window in the middle of the night and kisses her deeply in her backyard.

She doesn’t know how she got there, but suddenly she is in a dirt hole with a skeleton and next to nothing in the way of water or food. He has kept her alive, but just for himself. It is apparent that she will die in there.

This book had me on the edge of my seat for hours, and I spent the whole time hearing it from Olivia Mercer’s viewpoint and reading transcripts of police interviews. I had to find out what was going to happen no matter what, even if that meant I wouldn’t be able to sleep. He must have liked the girl since he kidnapped her.

29/02/2024

Book or movie? Let's settle the debate! Share your thoughts on a thriller/horror adaptation you've watched. 🍿

29/02/2024

Chloe Davis was twelve when six girls in her town went missing. Chloe’s father was arrested as a serial killer and promptly put in prison. Chloe and the rest of the family are trying to move forward while dealing with the aftermath of the case.

Two decades later, Chloe is a psychologist and preparing for her wedding with her perfect fiancé. Her life begins to unravel as the pattern of murders begins to repeat itself. While struggling with anxiety Chloe starts to investigate the case in order to put a stop to them. She starts to suspect someone around her may be involved.

Is she’s paranoid or she’s going to unmask the killer? Meanwhile, her father is behind the bars.

27/02/2024

Struggling with alcoholism, Dan Torrance remains traumatized by the sinister events that occurred at the Overlook Hotel when he was a child. His hope for a peaceful existence soon becomes shattered when he meets Abra, a teen who shares his extrasensory gift of the "shine." Together, they form an unlikely alliance to battle the True Knot, a cult whose members try to feed off the shine of innocents to become immortal.

27/02/2024

Bookish dilemma: You can save one character from your favorite horror novel. Who would it be, and why? Let the debate begin! 💔📚

27/02/2024

Shelby Tebow is the first to go missing. Not long after, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, vanish just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen, striking fear into their once-peaceful community. Are these incidents connected? After an elusive search that yields more questions than answers, the case eventually goes cold.

Now, eleven years later, Delilah shockingly returns. Everyone wants to know what happened to her, but no one is prepared for what they’ll find…

In this smart and chilling thriller, master of suspense and New York Times bestselling author Mary Kubica takes domestic secrets to a whole new level, showing that some people will stop at nothing to keep the truth buried.

25/02/2024

The Co-Worker, Freida Mc-Fadden’s newly released psychological thriller, is as twisty as they come! McFadden tells a lot of the story through emails; the correspondence is mainly between Dawn, a socially awkward accountant who writes long narratives to her only friend, Mia, who doesn’t always reply. When she does, the replies are a fraction of the length of what Dawn wrote. That got me thinking…what is up with Mia?

Meanwhile, the core of the narrative is told through first person point of view. Our protagonist, Natalie, is a salesperson and office-mate to Dawn. But while Dawn is strange and unpopular, Natalie is the queen bee, proving that some people don’t change a lot since high school. Still, it’s Natalie we’re rooting for, right? Because when Dawn goes missing, it’s Natalie who looks for her, finds a pool of blood in her home, and slowly falls under suspicion for Dawn’s disappearance, especially with the police detective, who was bullied as a kid.

This is my fourth McFadden novel, so I assumed that whatever I thought was going on was probably inaccurate, and I was right! This author never disappoints when it comes to jaw-dropping twists, and The Co-Worker was a lot of fun! It will keep you guessing for sure.

25/02/2024

Unpopular opinion time: Share a controversial thought you always have in mind about a popular thriller or horror book. Let's discuss! 🤔📖

25/02/2024

Fairy Tale is a novel by renowned horror author Stephen King, published in 2022 by Scribner. While King is best known for his works of psychological and supernatural horror, he is also a prolific fantasy writer; he considers his eight-volume fantasy series, The Dark Tower, his magnum opus. Fairy Tale is a portal fantasy about 17-year-old Charlie Reade’s journey through the land of Empis, a fairy tale-inspired alternate reality that is under the control of dark forces. Totaling over 600 pages, it is an epic, coming-of-age tale that encompasses themes of the struggle between good and evil, fate vs. free will, and the consequences of moral decisions. Fairy Tale is a story within a story and is King’s testament to the way that reading and writing shape our humanity.

23/02/2024

In The Guest List, on a small island off the coast of West Ireland, guests have gathered for the wedding. The bride and groom are online magazine publisher Julia “Jules” Keegan and celebrity host and survivalist William Slater. They've gathered their relatives and loved ones to celebrate in true destination wedding style, with plenty of champagne and fashionable people.

But as a storm brews, the guests and their shared histories collide with one another, and when the lights go out, a body is found. Between William's old boarding school friends and Jules's close friends and relatives, there's plenty of secrets and intrigue to around. As old secrets get revealed, the question that remains is, who did it and why?

23/02/2024

If you could attend a dinner party with three thriller or horror authors, living or dead, who would they be? Tag the authors you'd invite to your spooky party! 🍽️📚

23/02/2024

Minnesota, 1977. For the teens of one close-knit community, summer means late-night swimming parties at the quarry, the county fair, and venturing into the tunnels beneath the city. But for two best friends, it’s not all fun and games.

Heather and Brenda have a secret. Something they saw in the dark. Something they can’t forget. They’ve decided to never tell a soul. But their vow is tested when their friend disappears—the second girl to vanish in a week. And yet the authorities are reluctant to investigate.

Heather is terrified that the missing girls are connected to what she and Brenda stumbled upon that night. Desperately searching for answers on her own, she learns that no one in her community is who they seem to be. Not the police, not the boys she met at the quarry, not even her parents. But she can’t stop digging because she knows those girls are in danger.

21/02/2024

A Seattle homicide detective is thrust back into a painfully personal case when the remains of her 20-years-vanished younger sister are uncovered in a shallow grave near Cedar Grove, the Washington mountain town where they grew up.

Forty-two-year-old Tracy Crosswhite has long felt responsible for what happened the night her goofy, fun-loving sister, Sarah, disappeared. Former lawyer Dugoni (The Conviction, 2012, etc.) retells the events of that evening in flashback, recounting how, upon leaving a shooting championship, Tracy asked Sarah to drive her truck back to Cedar Grove during a storm so Tracy and her boyfriend could make it to their romantic dinner reservation. The next morning, the empty truck was discovered on a county road with Sarah nowhere to be found, and her disappearance turned both the Crosswhite family and the town itself upside down. As Tracy's engagement fell apart and her parents lost themselves to grief, Tracy found herself doubting the legality of the trial that eventually put local oddball Edmund House in prison for Sarah's apparent murder. Now, with the fresh evidence of her sister's remains in her arsenal, Tracy seizes the opportunity to reinvestigate Sarah's fate—and the possible conspiracy she believes led a man to get convicted for a crime he didn't commit. The majority of the book centers on Tracy's quest to uncover the truth and secure a new trial for House. Though the book is well-written and its classic premise is sure to absorb legal-thriller fans, it grows a bit plodding at times, with too many pages dedicated to House's retrial.

Though the pace lags at times, the characters are richly detailed and true to life, and the ending is sure to please fans.

21/02/2024

Bookish confession time! What's the one thriller or horror book that kept you up all night because you just couldn't put it down? 🌙📖

21/02/2024

The Thursday Murder Club is a mystery fiction novel focused around a murder at a retirement home called Coopers Chase. It was written by Richard Osman in 2020 and published by Penguin. Osman is a British television show producer, and the chosen style of narrative reflects this in the novel; the chapters are often left on cliffhangers and switch to follow different characters as a television show would when compiling several plot threads together. The novel alternates between a first-person narrative told through the perspective of the protagonist Joyce and her diary entries, and a third-person narrative focusing on all the characters. The story follows Joyce and her friends as they attempt to solve a series of murders happening at Coopers Chase. Together, the group works with the police and proves their worth by racing to solve the murders before the detectives assigned the case do.

19/02/2024

In the novel's first part, "Jane Steele," the protagonist narrates her life as a dog walker in Thornfield Estates, where she meets Eddie Rochester and becomes involved in his wealthy world. Meanwhile, a second storyline unfolds through diary entries by Bea, Eddie's deceased wife, revealing her tumultuous past and suspicions about Eddie. As Jane and Eddie's relationship develops, Jane learns about Bea's death and begins to suspect Eddie's involvement. Tripp, Bea's former husband, is arrested for the murders, but doubts linger.

In the second part, Jane and Eddie's engagement is strained by Jane's suspicions, especially after encountering Tripp and a police visit. Bea's diary entries divulge her complex relationships with Eddie and Tripp, shedding light on her manipulations. Jane uncovers her real identity, Helen Burns, and confronts her troubled past, including blackmail and a foster family tragedy.

The climax reveals Bea's fate in a hidden panic room, Jane's discovery of Bea's diary, and Eddie's shocking confession. The narrative shifts to Eddie's perspective, unveiling his deceitful motives and a tragic history with Bea. As Jane and Bea consider calling the police, the story takes a mysterious turn, leaving the fates of Eddie and Bea uncertain. Jane inherits their fortune, retreating to a cottage, while Eddie and Bea's ultimate fate remains shrouded in ambiguity.

19/02/2024

Challenge: Describe your current read using only emojis. Let's see if others can guess the spine-chilling tale you're immersed in! 🤔📚

19/02/2024

More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia's teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have not spoken since, and now their lives could not be more different. Claire is the glamorous trophy wife of an Atlanta millionaire. Lydia, a single mother, dates an ex-con and struggles to make ends meet. But neither has recovered from the horror and heartbreak of their shared loss - a devastating wound that's cruelly ripped open when Claire's husband is killed.

The disappearance of a teenage girl and the murder of a middle-aged man, almost a quarter-century apart: what could connect them? Forming a wary truce, the surviving sisters look to the past to find the truth, unearthing the secrets that destroyed their family all those years ago ... and uncovering the possibility of redemption, and revenge, where they least expect it.

Powerful, poignant, and utterly gripping, packed with indelible characters and unforgettable twists, Pretty Girls is a masterful thriller from one of the finest suspense writers working today.

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