The Prisoner begins with all the fraught tension you’d want in a thriller but quickly unravelled the longer it went on. The Prisoner opens with vicious men snat
Author Archives: Jasmine Marchand
Forget Me Not by Miranda Rijks
Forget Me Not has a slow start but gets progressively more gripping and twisty. Helen has pulled her life together since her husband Paul
The Bequest by Joanna Margaret
The Bequest is an atmospheric dark academia thriller, but it will not appeal to everyone. Isabel Henley just arrived in Scotland to begin her Ph.D. under the…
Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura
Lonely Castle in the Mirror is a touching magical realism story about mental health and friendships. The thought of returning to school makes Kokoro sick to her
A Dowry of Blood by S. T. Gibson
A Dowry of Blood is a dark and delicious story of Dracula and his first bride, Constanta, spread across centuries. Constanta lies in the mud on the brink of…
Malice House by Megan Shepherd
Malice House is a well-written dark mystery where things go bump in the night. After leaving her marriage, with nowhere else to go, Haven Marbury moves into
The House at Phantom Park by Graham Masterton
The House at Phantom Park delivers on the creepy vibes but not much else. Lillian and David are in charge of overseeing the conversion of an old hospital into
A Familiar Stranger by A. R. Torre
A Familiar Stranger is a bumpy ride to say the least. Lillian Smith lives a boring life; she repeatedly says so herself. Lillian used to write obituaries for…
Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
Elizabeth Strout returns with her sparse but beautiful prose in Lucy by the Sea, book four in the Amgash series. It’s the early days of 2020 when COVID-19 was
The Darkness of Others by Cate Holahan
The Darkness of Others is a slow-burn thriller set in the early days of the pandemic in NYC. It opens with the gruesome death of a famed movie director.