reviews

When Heroines Go Rouge Author: Dennis Lehane Rachel has always been a seeker. Seeking meaning, seeking love, seeking connection, seeking answers. As a young woman, she sought the answer for her famous mother’s coldness. She sought a father and found a friend, and later, she sought the love she had always wanted in a marriage that left her, once again, feeling worthless and alone. Only as a journalist does her bravery, her promise, exist, but when an assignment to Haiti breaks her emotionally, her promising career ends. Rachel has become a meme – that journalist who broke down on air – [...]

He Let Her In; He Can't Make Her Leave Author: Caroline Overington On the brink of Australia’s Covid-19 lockdown, Don Barlow, an elderly widower, opens his door to new chances and devastating revelations. Alone in his now empty house, unvisited by his busy, business-building daughter and son-in-law, Barlow doesn’t think twice before letting the young girl with the pink tinged hair into his home, his lockdown, his life. Morgan claims to be his erstwhile son’s only daughter – his granddaughter – and Barlow remembers his youth: giving the baby away, the chances, the opportunities, the sad triangle and years of [...]

Killer Rich People and Ancient Monsters Author: Bentley Little The rich are starting to go crazy and kill. One blood soaked villa after another, one slow, erratic, supernatural degeneration after another, one monstrosity after another. Is it all coincidence or is there some sort of link? Reporter Brian Howells thinks there is a link, one that ties back to his long absent father who has begun to leave strange letters and stalk the family, a link that ties into Brian’s own growing bloodlust. Social worker Carrie Daniels is also starting to suspect that something strange is happening in the city; she [...]