The debut novel by Tabitha Potts, The House of Dust and Shadows, is a gothic thriller with all the right beats: family secrets, mysterious apparitions, and crumbling mansions. The novel starts with the discovery of a body, but the corpse is only one piece of this multi-threaded novel. From there, […]
C. Rae D’Arc’s Dead and Back Again series chronicles the life of private investigator Aeron Spade, also known as Earl Aeron Fromm, the Haunted, of Margen. He lives in the magical world of Novel where each “land” represents a literary genre. For example, on the map “Fantasy” exists across the […]
In the YA thriller Little Creeping Things by Chelsea Ichaso, a teenage girl named Cassidy (Cass) overhears a potential murder and hunts for the victim. Cass, also known as Fire Girl, is haunted by her past where she may have accidentally killed her best friend. Unfortunately for Cass, the high […]
The First Time I Hunted is the third in the Garnet McGee series by Jo Macgregor. A psychological thriller, Hunted expands both characters and setting beyond the world of Pitchford, Vermont. In this third installment, Garnet again becomes embroiled in the middle of a mystery with time running out to […]
I’ve read that in the times of Dickens, many books were written as serials and later published together as a book. One of the most famous of these is A Christmas Carol with each chapter entitled as a stave. I’m saddened that this type of publishing has gone the way […]