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Gallows Hill

Family Curses Author: Darcy Coates Margot never knew her parents. They sent her away to live with her grandmother early in her life. They never wrote. Never visited. Never called. And now, they’re dead and she’s inherited their empire: a famous winery with a horrifying backstory. Coming to Gallows Hill for the first time, Margot looks over this house, this land that she now owns. The winery was built on a site where convicts used to be hanged. The hanging tree itself is the emblem of the winery, and the oldest and most expensive vintages are stored in wood barrels made [...]

Frances Carden2023-10-06T14:43:59-07:00September 4th, 2023|Tags: book review, horror, read, reading, reviews|

Silent Companions, The

Legacies of Despair Author: Laura Purcell She’s locked away now. Silent. Allegedly crazy. She did, after all, kill everybody. That’s what they say, anyway. They need her testimony for the trial. Her psychiatrist is convinced that he can get her story, that he can unlock her soundless lips. What he forces her to remember – what she writes to him in her little cell – is beyond what he expected. It’s beyond what the mind can handle. Elise had a checkered past. One that already had a lot of blood in it. But that’s all secret, all behind her when she [...]

Frances Carden2023-09-03T16:28:43-07:00September 3rd, 2023|Tags: book review, horror, read, reading|

No Exit

Survivor or Savior? Author: Taylor Adams Darby Thorne’s world has been turned upside down. She’s never been the best daughter, the best person. And now, it’s probably too late. She’s speeding through the night in her beat-up Honda, phone charger forgotten, no snow tires, trying to get to her dying mother’s bedside in time to say goodbye, to say that she is sorry. As the record-breaking snowstorm increases, Darby is forced to pull over at an unknown rest stop. She cannot go any further. She cannot get a cell signal. She cannot even find out if her mother is still alive. [...]

Frances Carden2023-09-03T10:23:14-07:00September 3rd, 2023|Tags: botm, read, reading, thriller|