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Agent Pendergast’s Secrets Authors: Douglas Preston & Lincoln Childs The mystery of the museum beast and opening day massacre is long behind him, so journalist Bill Smithback has his sights on other record-breaking stories and on getting his longtime girlfriend, Nora, to move in with him. Everything seems ordinary, but something suspicious and dark is lurking just beneath the surface. When a pale FBI agent shows up on scene, the mystery descends into chaos, which descends into death, long buried secrets, and a family tie-in for the enigmatic Agent Pendergast. Enter the finding of a charnel house, right where a powerful [...]

Frances Carden2024-09-29T16:34:20-07:00September 29th, 2024|Tags: Agent Pendergast, book review, horror, mystery, Pendergast, read, reading, techno thriller, thriller|

Consultant, The

Bosses from Hell Author: Bentley Little There is no denying it – the corporate world is full of hellish bargains, backroom backstabbing, evil schemes, and nose-diving employee morale. What better “normal” location to showcase the unique, insidious horror of the everyday? What if the amoral creature that lurked in your work corridors wasn’t just your terrible boss, but a demonic presence with a mysterious goal, a goal that made you (and everyone else) entirely expendable, physically and mentally? What if there was more to it all than corporate profits, and what if termination was a lot more ominous than unemployment and [...]

Frances Carden2024-09-15T15:53:01-07:00September 15th, 2024|Tags: book review, Comedy, horror, paraody, read, reading|

Burning Girls, The

Irrational, Irreligious, and Irritating Author: C.J. Tudor Reverand Jack Brooks and her fourteen-year-old daughter have been sent to the disheveled, gothic village of Chapel Croft after the previous vicar’s gruesome in-church suicide. Neither woman wants to be part of this new place, but Reverand Jack is on shaky ground, and she can’t say no. When she gets to the village, fearful of the man who murdered her husband and is now out of jail, tracking her, she is welcomed by a dark history and an exorcism kit complete with an ominous verse: “But there is nothing covered up that will not [...]

Frances Carden2024-09-14T22:51:08-07:00September 14th, 2024|Tags: book review, horror, read, reading|