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In 1919, Kitty Weekes, pretty, resourceful, and on the run, falsifies her background to obtain a nursing position at Portis House, a remote hospital for soldiers left shell-shocked by the horrors of the Great War. Hiding the shame of their mental instability in what was once a magnificent private estate, the patients suffer from nervous… Continue reading Silence for the Dead by Simone St. James
The Other Side of Midnight was a quick and enjoyable read. Simone St. James is one of those authors who consistently delivers when I'm in the mood for a creepy ghost story, and this time she added a historical twist that really worked for me. Set in 1925 London, this book combines murder mystery, paranormal… Continue reading The Other Side of Midnight by Simone St. James
Even though it’s January, Good Spirits is absolutely worth talking about. This was one of those reads that surprised me in the best way—I really liked it, and it only strengthened my desire to dive deeper into B.K. Borison’s backlist. A paranormal romance wasn’t something I knew I needed in December, but Good Spirits completely… Continue reading Good Spirits by B.K. Borison
Flora is a new mom enamored of her baby girl, Iris, even if she arrived a few weeks early. With her husband still deployed, Flora navigates the newborn stage alone. But as the sleepless nights pass in the loneliness of their half-empty home, the edges of her reality begin to blur. Just as Flora becomes… Continue reading Dearest by Jacquie Walters
The secrets lurking in a rundown roadside motel ensnare a young woman, just as they did her aunt thirty-five years before, in this new atmospheric suspense novel from the national bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls.Upstate NY, 1982. Every small town like Fell, New York, has a place like the Sun Down Motel.… Continue reading The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
“I don’t believe places can be haunted. Only people, and not in a supernatural way. People are only haunted by their pasts.” 1978: at her renowned treatment center in picturesque Vermont, the brilliant psychiatrist, Dr. Helen Hildreth, is acclaimed for her compassionate work with the mentally ill. But when she's home with her cherished grandchildren,… Continue reading The Children on the Hill by Jennifer McMahon
The Sentence asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. The Sentence by Louise Erdrich is a raw, poetic novel told about a book store that is haunted during the pandemic. This one is highly character driven, which I don't normally go for but I did enjoy.… Continue reading The Sentence by Louise Erdrich