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  • The Haunting of Bregoli Estate by Alexandria Clarke

    The Haunting of Bregoli Estate by Alexandria Clarke

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A lifelong legacy. A strange ability. A haunted island.Daisy’s heart breaks when Greg Bregoli, head of Bregoli Publishing, passes away, four years after she became a member of the Bregoli family. Then she learns that Greg has left everything—the business, the island, and the Bregoli Estate—to her. Competition leans in from all sides, but none so daunting as Byron Barnett, Daisy’s previous boss...
  • Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

    Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 74 ratings
    In the latest thriller from New York Times bestseller Riley Sager, a woman returns to the house made famous by her father’s bestselling horror memoir. Is the place really haunted by evil forces, as her father claimed? Or are there more earthbound—and dangerous—secrets hidden within its walls?What was it like? Living in that house.Maggie Holt is used to such questions...
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    dark  ghosts  gothic  hauntings  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook
  • The Nameless Ones by John Connolly

    The Nameless Ones by John Connolly

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    From the international and instant New York Times bestselling author of The Dirty South, the white-knuckled Charlie Parker series returns with this heart-pounding race to hunt down the deadliest of war criminals...
  • Dearest by Jacquie Walters

    Dearest by Jacquie Walters

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A new mom in need of help opens her door to her long-estranged mother—only to invite something much darker inside—in this "fast-paced and frightening debut" (Rachel Harrison) about the long shadows cast by family secrets, perfect for readers of Grady Hendrix or Ashley Audrain. Flora is a new mom enamored of her baby girl, Iris, even if she arrived a few weeks early...
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    dark  thriller  gothic  suspense  hauntings  ghosts  horror  fiction
  • Ghostwritten by Ronald Malfi

    Ghostwritten by Ronald Malfi

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Four brand-new horror novellas from “a modern-day Algernon Blackwood” all about books, stories, manuscripts – the written word has never had sharper teeth…From the bestselling author of Come with Me, four standalone horror novellas set in a shared universe! In The Skin of Her Teeth, a cursed novel drives people to their deaths. A delivery job turns deadly in The Dark Brothers’ Last Ride...
  • Come with Me by Ronald Malfi

    Come with Me by Ronald Malfi

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A masterful, heart-palpitating novel of small-town horror and psychological dread from a Bram Stoker nominee.Aaron Decker's life changes one December morning when his wife Allison is killed. Haunted by her absence--and her ghost--Aaron goes through her belongings, where he finds a receipt for a motel room in another part of the country...
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    dark  ghosts  gothic  hauntings  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook
  • The River by Noelle W. Ihli

    The River by Noelle W. Ihli

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A short post-script to Ask for Andrea by Noelle W. Ihli. Learn what happened to April...
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    suspense  thriller  ghosts  fiction  paranormal  horror  mystery  crime
  • The Patience of a Dead Man by Michael Clark

    The Patience of a Dead Man by Michael Clark

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He just spent everything on a house in disrepair, but he didn’t know someone was waiting inside. Tim Russell just put his last dollar on a handyman’s dream; a quaint but dilapidated farmhouse in New Hampshire. Newly single after a messy divorce, his plan is to live in the house as he restores it for resale...
  • The Reaper's Game by Layton Green

    The Reaper's Game by Layton Green

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Is it murder from beyond the grave . . . or the final ruse of a twisted serial killer?Three years ago, a deranged murderer dubbed the Halloween Killer butchered half a dozen people in New Orleans. He was caught and sentenced to die. Just before his execution, the Halloween Killer vowed to take revenge on the district attorney who put him behind bars...
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    suspense  thriller  adult  book  fiction  horror  investigator  mystery
  • The Haunting of the Midwife by James Hunt

    The Haunting of the Midwife by James Hunt

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Riveting Haunted House MysteryWhen the Maples family arrives in the small mountain town of Roster, Colorado, they’re convinced it will be the perfect place to raise their newborn daughter. But their dream home turns into a living nightmare when an otherworldly power abducts their child...
  • The Only One Left by Riley Sager

    The Only One Left by Riley Sager

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    At seventeen, Lenora HopeHung her sister with a rope Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it...
  • The Owlmen: If They See You They Will Come For You by S.E. England

    The Owlmen: If They See You They Will Come For You by S.E. England

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    THE OWLMEN - NEW FROM THE AUTHOR OF BESTSELLING OCCULT HORROR TRILOGY, FATHER OF LIES! IF THEY SEE YOU THEY WILL COME FOR YOU... Ellie Blake is recovering from a mental breakdown. Deciding to move back to her northern roots, she and her psychiatrist husband buy Tanners Dell at auction - an old water mill in the moorland village of Bridesmoor. However, there is disquiet in the village...
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    dark  ghosts  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror
  • My Darling Girl by Jennifer McMahon

    My Darling Girl by Jennifer McMahon

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A spine-tingling psychological thriller about a woman who, after taking in her dying, alcoholic mother, begins to suspect demonic possession is haunting her family.Alison has never been a fan of Christmas. But with it right around the corner and her husband busily decorating their cozy Vermont home, she has no choice but to face it. Then she gets the call...
  • A Ghost Arrives: A Novel by Abe Moss

    A Ghost Arrives: A Novel by Abe Moss

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Every family has its secrets, and every ghost has its reasons.★★★★★ "A creepy, slow burning ghost story with a twist that was dark in so many different ways! Imaginative, creative, and not afraid to deal the punches..." - Amazon ReviewerAfter moving back in with his elderly father, Wallace Harper discovers that something else has taken up residence in his childhood home..
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    ghosts  gothic  hauntings  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  family
  • Abberton House by Debbie Ioanna

    Abberton House by Debbie Ioanna

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Two families. 100 years apart. A sinister haunting...It was supposed to be the dream house for Adam, Catherine, and their daughter, Bella. But dream houses can hold secrets. Settling in to their new home, the family realise they are not the only inhabitants of Abberton House.A dark past continues to haunt the idyllic Yorkshire home, and those who remain want Adam and Catherine to know the truth...
  • River of Ashes by Alexandrea Weis, Lucas Astor

    River of Ashes by Alexandrea Weis, Lucas Astor

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Some truths are better kept secret. Some secrets are better off dead. ALONG THE BANKS OF THE BOGUE FALAYA RIVER, sits the abandoned St. Francis Seminary. Beneath a canopy of oaks, blocked from prying eyes, the teens of St. Benedict High gather here on Fridays. The rest of the week belongs to school and family—but weekends belong to the river.And the river belongs to Beau Devereaux...
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    suspense  gothic  dark  ghosts  horror  young-adult  fantasy  fiction
  • The Neighbor by London Clarke

    The Neighbor by London Clarke

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Claire Vogel is a recently divorced mother of four girls and a successful counselor living in a planned and prestigious community. She knows all her neighbors, and they know her. But Claire has a secret. To cope with hidden, deep-rooted pain, she often participates in risky, reckless behavior...
  • Let Me In by Claire McGowan

    Let Me In by Claire McGowan

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From the bestselling author of What You Did comes the story of a young couple who are about to discover that in a house full of secrets there’s nowhere to hide…For Helen and George, the remote fixer-upper in Cornwall was supposed to be a dream home, and a way to leave behind the problems they’re both running from. But something about the place feels wrong from day one...
  • The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James

    The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A true crime blogger gets more than she bargained for while interviewing the woman acquitted of two cold case slayings in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Sun Down Motel. In 1977, Claire Lake, Oregon, was shaken by the Lady Killer Murders: Two men, seemingly randomly, were murdered with the same gun, with strange notes left behind...
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    dark  ghosts  gothic  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book
  • Day of the Accident by Nuala Ellwood

    Day of the Accident by Nuala Ellwood

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Sixty seconds after she wakes from a coma, Maggie's world is torn apart.The police tell her that her daughter Elspeth is dead. That she drowned when the car Maggie had been driving plunged into the river. Maggie remembers nothing.When Maggie begs to see her husband Sean, the police tell her that he has disappeared. He was last seen on the day of her daughter's funeral...
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    ghosts  gothic  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  cozy
  • Nightingale House by Steve Frech

    Nightingale House by Steve Frech

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Daniel Price has just had the breakthrough of his life when his novel cracks the best seller list. He and his wife, Nicole, decide to move into the majestic Nightingale House on the shores of Willow Lake, in the town of Kingsbrook, Maine. But Daniel's world is shattered when Nicole is killed in a car crash, and he must raise their eight year-old daughter, Caitlyn, on his own...
  • Don't Look Back by Ben Cheetham

    Don't Look Back by Ben Cheetham

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Adam’s eyes swelled in horror at the sight that confronted him. Henry was standing with his back against the front door, pale and rigid, his left hand pressed to his neck. Blood was seeping between his fingers, running down his wrist and dripping from his elbow onto the back of Jacob’s head...
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    ghosts  gothic  hauntings  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  crime
  • The Intruders by Louise Jensen

    The Intruders by Louise Jensen

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    It should be the perfect a manor house available rent free in exchange for a bit of housesitting. But when Cass and James dig deeper, they find the place has been abandoned since a robbery left almost all the inhabitants dead almost thirty years ago. But they’ve got to save for a deposit somehow, so they move in, and things quickly take a strange turn...
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    suspense  thriller  dark  ghosts  horror  mystery  audiobook  crime
  • Pressure by Jeff Strand

    Pressure by Jeff Strand

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Alex stared at the red pocketknife shown to him by his daughter. A pocketknife owned by somebody he hadn't seen in years …CHILDRENThey met first in boarding school at age twelve. Alex Fletcher, shy and scared. Darren Rust, always furiously scribbling away in a private journal...
  • The Haunting of Leigh Harker by Darcy Coates

    The Haunting of Leigh Harker by Darcy Coates

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sometimes the dead reach back...Leigh Harker’s quiet suburban home was her sanctuary for more than a decade, until things abruptly changed. Curtains open by themselves. Radios turn off and on. And a dark figure looms in the shadows of her bedroom door at night, watching her, waiting for her to finally let down her guard enough to fall asleep...
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    dark  ghosts  gothic  hauntings  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane by Laird Koenig

    The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane by Laird Koenig

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Alone in the darkened house, with only fire's glow and thirteen flickering candles for illumination, silent except for the mounting chords of a Liszt concerto, Rynn was preparing a solemn celebration. Until a knock at the door shattered sanctuary.Rynn is the little girl who lives in the house at the end of the lane with her father-or so she says...
  • In The Blink Of An Eye by Wendy Corsi Staub

    In The Blink Of An Eye by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A new novel of suspense that promises to propel USA Today bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub into the ranks of the masters of the genre.When a medium returns to the small-town home where her childhood friend was killed, she intends to coax the secrets of the house out into the light -- before the murderous force residing there makes both she and her friend's daughter its next victims...
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    ghosts  gothic  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  cozy
  • Terminal by Michaelbrent Collings

    Terminal by Michaelbrent Collings

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "5 stars... another outstanding novel from author Michaelbrent Collings..." - Horror After Dark All passengers, please prepare for departure... An employee, a cop, and six passengers; a prisoner, a stowaway, and a madman. "A great read." - Sci-Fi and Scary These are the people waiting at the Lawton bus terminal...
  • Dark Corners by Liz Schulte

    Dark Corners by Liz Schulte

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ella Reynolds knew from the first moment she walked into the old house someone or something was watching her. Waiting. Her husband's violent murder sent her spiraling into a world of grief and isolation, but Ella isn't alone. Who or what is responsible for her husband's death is still with her. Darkness has engulfed the past year of Ella's life...
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    ghosts  hauntings  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  cozy
  • Host by Peter James

    Host by Peter James

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Like Dr Frankenstein, brilliant scientist Joe Messenger will stop at nothing in his quest for immortality ..
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    ghosts  suspense  thriller  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror
  • We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer

    We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The Turn of the Key meets Parasite in this eerily haunting debut and Reddit hit—soon to be a Netflix original movie starring Blake Lively—about two homeowners whose lives are turned upside down when the house’s previous residents unexpectedly visit...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  thriller  dark  ghosts  horror  mystery  fiction  lgbtq
  • The Children on the Hill by Jennifer McMahon

    The Children on the Hill by Jennifer McMahon

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Drowning Kind comes a genre-defying new novel, inspired by Mary Shelley’s masterpiece Frankenstein, that brilliantly explores the eerie mysteries of childhood and the evils perpetrated by the monsters among us.1978: At her renowned treatment center in picturesque Vermont, the brilliant psychiatrist, Dr...
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    ghosts  gothic  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  family
  • House Of Mirrors by Ben Cheetham

    House Of Mirrors by Ben Cheetham

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    You know, don’t you, that it’s not my soul the Devil wants, it’s yours?Two years ago the Piper family fled Fenton House after their dream of a new life turned into an unspeakable nightmare. The house has stood empty ever since, given a wide berth by everyone except ghost hunters and occult fanatics.Now something is trying to lure the Pipers back to Fenton House...
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    ghosts  gothic  hauntings  suspense  adult  book  crime  fiction
  • Hinton Hollow Death Trip by Will Carver

    Hinton Hollow Death Trip by Will Carver

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Five days in the history of a small rural town, visited and infected by darkness, are recounted by Evil itself. A stunning high-concept thriller from the bestselling author of Good Samaritans and Nothing Important Happened Today. 'Cements Carver as one of the most exciting authors in Britain...
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    suspense  gothic  dark  thriller  crime  horror  mystery  psychological
  • One by One by D.W. Gillespie

    One by One by D.W. Gillespie

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Easton family has just moved into their new fixer-upper, a beautiful old house that they bought at a steal, and Alice, the youngest of the family, is excited to explore the strange, new place. Her excitement turns to growing dread as she discovers a picture hidden under the old wallpaper, a child’s drawing of a family just like hers...
  • What Lies Below by Mark Lukens

    What Lies Below by Mark Lukens

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    WHAT LIES BELOW Genre: mystery/thriller, short novel Pam has been having recurring nightmares lately, and there's something buried in those nightmares ... a terrible secret trying to surface. Pam was eight years old when her mother left her without a note or a goodbye, leaving her alone to live with her domineering father, a world-famous psychiatrist...
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    ghosts  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery  psychological
  • Clever Little Thing by Helena Echlin

    Clever Little Thing by Helena Echlin

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A taut, powerful psychological thriller following a mother who must confront a sudden and terrifying change in her daughter after the abrupt death of their babysitter.Charlotte’s daughter Stella is sensitive and brilliant, perhaps even a genius, but a recent change in her behavior has alarmed her mother...
  • Duma Key by Stephen King

    Duma Key by Stephen King

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    When Edgar Freemantle moves to the remote island of Duma Key to escape his past, he doesn't expect to find much there.But Duma has been waiting for him, and something in the view from his window urges him to discover a talent he never knew he had.Edgar Freemantle begins to paint. And as he paints, the island's secrets begin to stir...
  • Mystery by Peter Straub

    Mystery by Peter Straub

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    After a tragic accident which he barely survives, Tom Pasmore develops an obsession with death--an obsession which leads him to investigate two murders--one in the past and one in the present...
  • Alex by Adam J. Nicolai

    Alex by Adam J. Nicolai

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Kindle Bestseller, Now Available On All Platforms"A tormented father must decide whether he's seeing the ghost of his dead son or visions brought on by psychosis in this thriller . . . featuring a riveting protagonist haunted by his own guilt." - Kirkus Reviews (Recommended Review)An empty house. A bereaved father. Alone with his loss, Ian Colmes has driven away everyone he loves...
  • Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra

    Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    ***Note that many reviews contain spoilers***A razor-sharp thriller about a mother forced to the breaking point when her life and the lives of her children are threatened by an intruderHome alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle of the night. She hears a noise—old houses are always making some kind of noise...
  • Hydra by Matt Wesolowski

    Hydra by Matt Wesolowski

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Elusive online investigative journalist Scott King investigates the case of Arla Macleod, who bludgeoned her family to death, in another episode of the chilling, award-winning Six Stories series...
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    dark  ghosts  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • The Broken Room by Peter Clines, Timothy Andrés Pabon

    The Broken Room by Peter Clines, Timothy Andrés Pabon

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Absolutely brilliant!” (Jonathan Maberry, New York Times best-selling author)The new supernatural thriller from New York Times best-selling author Peter ClinesYou can still owe the dead.Hector was the best of the best. A government operative who could bring armies to a halt and nations to their knees...
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    dark  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Whispers of Blackwell House by Amélia Cognet

    Whispers of Blackwell House by Amélia Cognet

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Don’t stare at the paintings. They might stare back.Reeling from grief and a recent breakup, River is desperate for a fresh start. When she sees a listing for a housemaid job in an isolated mansion, she leaps at the chance to get away.Despite being instructed to never speak to the rich family living within the mansion, she can’t ignore Dorian Blackwell...
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    gothic  ghosts  hauntings  dark  horror  paranormal  mystery  magic
  • Ghost Stories by Henry James

    Ghost Stories by Henry James

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    With an Introduction and Notes by Martin Scofield, University of Kent at Canterbury. Henry James was arguably the greatest practitioner of what has been called the psychological ghost story. His stories explore the region which lies between the supernatural or straightforwardly marvellous and the darker areas of the human psyche...
  • Lay Me to Rest by E.A. Clark

    Lay Me to Rest by E.A. Clark

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Some secrets never stay buried for long…Devastated by the death of her husband, Annie Philips is shocked to discover she is pregnant with his unborn child. Hoping for a fresh start, she travels to a remote stone cottage in Anglesey, amidst the white-capped mountains of North Wales.She settles in quickly, helped by her mysterious new neighbour, Peter...
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    ghosts  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • Primal Scream by Michael Slade

    Primal Scream by Michael Slade

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Decades ago, Inspector Robert DeClercq suffered a tragedy when his young daughter was kidnapped and killed after he was unable to save her. Only now, with a young girl named Katt in his life, can he put his demons to rest...
  • The Christmas Guest by Peter Swanson

    The Christmas Guest by Peter Swanson

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Peter Swanson pens a spectacularly spine-chilling novella in which an American art student in London is invited to join a classmate for the holidays at Starvewood Hall, her family's Cotswold manor house. But behind the holly and pine boughs, secrets are about to unravel, revealing this seemingly charming English village's grim history...
  • The Neighbor by Dean Koontz

    The Neighbor by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A prequel to The CityThe year is 1967. Malcolm Pomerantz is twelve, geeky and socially awkward, while his seriously bright sister, Amalia, is spirited and beautiful. Each is the other’s best friend, united by a boundless interest in the world beyond their dysfunctional parents’ unhappy home...
  • One Dark Night by Hannah Richell

    One Dark Night by Hannah Richell

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When a body is found the day after Halloween, a small British community must reckon with its past and the dangers lurking in its present in this spine-tingling novel from “not to be missed” (Hayley Scrivener, author of Dirt Creek) author Hannah Richell...
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