From Our Shelf of Read and Unread Books by Authors

  • The Fury by Alex Michaelides

    Alex Michaelides is a masterful wordsmith, skillfully wielding a pen dipped in mystery and intrigue. His writing, much like a well-crafted spell, intricately weaves plots that ensnare the reader’s mind while dancing around the realms of sanity, reality and mystery. Possessing a knack for spinning spellbinding narratives and conjuring characters that linger in the shadows,

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  • Thrill for the Week: The Kind Worth Killing and The Kind Worth Saving by Peter Swanson

    Both The Kind Worth Killing and The Kind Worth Saving were on my winter reading list, and I am now just posting reviews for both. While they offer more chills than the cold weather outside, they will also send enough chills up your spine to cool you off on a summer day. I read TKWK

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  • Thrill for the Week: The Whispers by Ashley Audrain

    When The Push was released, I wanted to stand in a bookstore and hand it to everyone who came in and tell them they had to read it. It was a huge-selling book that needed no push to read. I feel the same about The Whispers, which releases on June 6, and I suspect it

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  • Thrill for the week: Those People Next Door by Kia Abdullah

    In Kia Abdullah’s latest, Those People Next Door, she gives something slightly different from her other books. She still has written a thought-provoking psychological thriller and courtroom drama with her trademark twist, but she adds more drama to the story while exploring class, race, aggression, community dynamics, and neighbors misbehaving, and the underbelly of a

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  • Thrill for the Week: The Last Word and Hairpin Bridge by Taylor Adams

    There is no better thrill than starting a book without wanting to put it down. One that captures your full attention, that you pause everything and are so excited you are turning the pages as fast as possible to see how it all turns out for your characters. That’s what an excellent cat-and-mouse game has

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  • Salvage This World and Rivers by Michael Farris Smith

    Michael Farris Smith knows how to write Southern-gothic stories set in a dystopian future where climate change has ravaged the Gulf Coast. He delves into the harsh and unforgiving landscape that has shaped the characters and has a way of creating a vivid sense of place by painting a stark and bleak picture. He sets

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