Just Like Mother delivers on all the creepy vibes oozing from its cover. Since she escaped from the cult she grew up in, Maeve has built a fortress of walls…
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Atomic Anna by Rachel Barenbaum
Atomic Anna by Rachel Barenbaum is a sci-fi time travel novel centred around the Chernobyl nuclear accident. 1986: Anna Berkova, an esteemed nuclear scientist..
What We Both Know by Fawn Parker
What We Both Know explores the MeToo movement and how power imbalances can shift. With her father’s health condition deteriorating, Hillary Greene recently…
An Honest Lie by Tarryn Fisher
An Honest Lie is a tense and addictive psychological thriller. A year ago, Rainy moved to Tiger Mountain with her boyfriend Grant. She spends her time…
Little Foxes Took Up Matches by Katya Kazbek
Little Foxes Took Up Matches is a sometimes dark, sometimes sweet coming-of-age tale. Mitya was just two when he swallowed his grandmother’s sewing needle…
The Younger Wife by Sally Hepworth
The Younger Wife drips with domestic suspense and manipulation tactics. Thirty-somethings, Tully and Rachel feel floored when their father Stephen announces…
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Sea of Tranquility will transport the reader throughout time. Emily St. John Mandel’s latest release loosely connects to her previous books…
Peach Blossom Spring by Melissa Fu
Peach Blossom Spring is a beautiful story of resilience, identity, and migration. It follows three generations of a Chinese family from 1938 to the 2000s…
The Summer We Buried
The Summer We Buried by Jody Gehrman is a suspenseful story with many reveals along the way. Twenty years ago, Tansy fell under Selene’s charming and erratic…
The Night Shift by Alex Finlay
The Night Shift by Alex Finlay is a compulsively readable thriller loaded with Y2K nostalgia. It’s New Year’s Eve 1999 when someone attacks four teens…