I’m not sure if The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson, is a horror story […]
The Shadow District, by Arnaldur Indriðason
While this latest novel from Arnaldur Indriðason does not feature his well-known Inspecter Erlendur, The Shadow District shares […]
The scariest books I’ve ever read…
The books that scare me most aren’t the most obviously scary. In fact, few of […]
The Midnight Queen, by Sylvia Izzo Hunter
After a heavy read like The Revolution of Marina M., I needed something like Sylvia Izzo […]
The Revolution of Marina M., by Janet Fitch
Communism never took human nature into account, which meant that the workers’ paradise was always […]
Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance, by Ruth Emmie Lang
I was utterly charmed by Ruth Emmie Lang’s Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance, a novel about a […]
Hotel Tito, by Ivana Bodrožić
Ivana Bodrožić’s Hotel Tito closely follows the author’s own life. Like her nameless narrator, Bodrožić was a young […]
The Last Best Friend, by George Sims
Few people would do what Ned Balfour does in George Sims’ The Last Best Friend. After Balfour’s […]