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Publication Date:  December 5, 2023 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Mystery Publisher:  St Martins Press Length:   288 Pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis A year after arriving in Benedict, Beth Rivers is feeling very at home in Alaska, even as outsiders are starting to return to enjoy the brief summer perfection. Beth feels like she’s finally let go of most of her demons. She’s even found her father, Eddy Rivers—or, rather, he found her—and she's trying to find the middle ground between anger and forgiveness. One sunny July day, Beth boards a tourist ship to see the glaciers, the main reason visitors venture to the area, and something Beth hasn’t attempted until now. But when the captain has to navigate to an island, a bloodied woman i

Publication Date:  October 24, 2023 Format:  audio  Genre:   Cozy Mystery Narrator:  Tamsin Kinnard Publisher:  Dreamscape Select Length:   8 hours 4 minutes Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Widowed  Georgina Drake  has no regrets about moving to beautiful, sleepy Little Wenborough in rural Norfolk. Until she opens the door to her guesthouse and  finds the dead body of her latest guest , irritable university professor Roland Garnett. And on top of that she’s suddenly hearing a woman’s voice through her hearing aids. Completely shaken by the discovery, Georgina can hardly believe it when the police conclude that  Professor Garnett was poisoned, with a dinner delivered by Georgina  herself.  Is she about to be accused of murder?  Georgina needs to pull herself together,

Publication Date:  October 3, 2023 Format:  audio  Genre:   Gothic Horror Narrator:  Carol Monda Publisher:  Mulholland books Length:   10 hours 19 minutes Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Open the door . . .  .    Holly Sherwin has been a struggling playwright for years, but now, after receiving a grant to develop her play  Witching Night , she may finally be close to her big break. All she needs is time and space to bring her vision to life. When she stumbles across Hill House on a weekend getaway upstate, she is immediately taken in by the mansion, nearly hidden outside a remote village. It’s enormous, old, and ever-so eerie—the perfect place to develop and rehearse her play.   Despite her own hesitations, Holly’s girlfriend, Nisa, agrees to join Holly in renting

Publication Date:  October 23, 2023 Format:  audio  Genre:   Psychological Thriller Narrator:  Olivia Darnley Publisher:  Bookouture Length:   8 hours 47 minutes Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Four girls close their eyes. Only one wakes up. Leah  and her three best friends get changed into their pyjamas, eat pizza and argue about what film to watch. They laugh together until the early hours. But the next morning, Leah blinks open her eyes and sees three empty sleeping bags.  The other girls are gone. Twenty years later.  In her small hometown, still-haunted Leah has never been able to shake off the rumours and whispers.  How could she have slept through it all? She must know what happened. Now, a documentary is being made about the night Leah’s best friends disa

Publication Date:  October 10, 2023 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Food/Poverty/Addiction/Foster Care Publisher:  St Martins Press Length:   313 Pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Food is a conduit for connection; we envision smiling families gathered around a table—eating, happy, content. But what happens when poverty, mental illness, homelessness, and addiction claim a seat at that table? In  The Meth Lunches , Kim Foster peers behind the polished visions of perfectly curated dinners and charming families to reveal the complex reality when poverty and food intersect. Whether it’s heirloom vegetables or a block of neon-yellow government cheese, food is both a basic necessity and a nuanced litmus test: what and how we eat reflects our communities, our cultures

Publication Date:  June 5, 2018 Format:  audio  Genre:   Suspense Narrator:  Tavia Gilbert Publisher:  High Bridge Length:   9 hours 35 minutes Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Lives is comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous, murdered women―the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown Simpson, among many others―and the works are as compelling as they are disturbing, implicating a culture that is too accustomed to violence against women.  As the city’s richest art patrons pour into the Rocque Museum’s opening night, all the staff, including editor Maggie Richter, hope the event will be enough to save the

  Publication Date:  October 3, 2023 Format:  ebook  Genre:   Ghost story   Publisher:  Poisoned Pen Press Length:   240 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Grief has settled in at Hart House. For nine months, Alfie has been caring for his twin seven-year-old daughters after the sudden death of their mother, Pippa. One night, Alfie wakes to find Sylvie and Cassia at the foot of his bed, claiming there’s a man in their room. Alfie finds no sign of a man, but it isn’t long before the girls start talking about an imaginary friend. What seemingly begins as a harmless coping mechanism for the two grieving girls quickly develops into something more insidious.. Alfie calls upon Julia—Pippa’s twin and a psychiatrist—to oust the malignant tenant from their lives, but he doesn’t