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Sister of Mine

A Dour Thriller Author: Laurie Petrou Penny and Hattie are two sides of the same warped coin. Two sisters with a deadly secret and a toxic relationship, competing for love and attention, for success and attainment, for escape and meaning. As the years unfurl, the secrets get darker, more nuanced, the jealousies develop and invade, the favors owed and rendered multiply in seriousness, and the stakes increase with the introduction of a love affair, a dream, and a child. As Sister of Mine unspools, going back and forth in time, revealing petty betrayals, devastating secrets, and uncoiling jealousies, the story follows [...]

2024-03-23T17:26:11-07:00March 23rd, 2024|Tags: , , , , |

Murder and Mamon

The Series Is Waning Author: Mia Manansala The Calendar Crew is opening another new business in town (a laundromat) at a coveted spot. Feelings are running high, the competition is enraged, and the Aunties gossiping ways have gotten them in a lot of trouble. When Ninang April’s niece, the posh, I-can-take-your-man Divina, arrives in town, the friction just gets worse. When Divina ends up dead in the new laundromat, her broken body staged under a scrawled threat, it’s anyone’s guess who the killer is and what motived them. Is someone finally tired of the Aunties’ malicious gossip? Did Divina steal the [...]

2024-03-17T22:03:14-07:00March 17th, 2024|Tags: , , , , |

Watchers, The

What Hides in the Woods Author: A.M. Shine Mina is a loner. She likes her life and its aloofness. Her apartment with its lack of personality, its austere neutrality. Mina likes to avoid her sister, the one who has the perfect life, perfect husband, perfect child. Mina likes being on her own. Just her and her sketch pad, her silent studies of other people, never getting too close. But . . . Mina does need money, so when a chance encounter with a friend at the pub lands an easy job in her lap – drive a fancy parrot to its [...]

2024-03-17T13:05:31-07:00March 17th, 2024|Tags: , , , |
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