"Vampires do not exist. Everyone knows this. So it's particularly annoying when they start popping up around Manchester . . . Nobody is pleased about it. Not the Founders, the secret organisation for whom vampires were invented as an allegory, nor the Folk, the magical people hidden in plain sight who only want a quiet … Continue reading #BookReview: This Charming Man by C.K. McDonnell @TransworldBooks @cobaltdinosaur #ThisCharmingMan #GuestReview #damppebbles
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#BookReview: Exiles by Jane Harper @panmacmillan #Exiles #damppebbles
"A mother disappears from a busy festival on a warm spring night. Her baby lies alone in the pram, her mother’s possessions surrounding her, waiting for a return which never comes. A year later, Kim Gillespie’s absence still casts a long shadow as her friends and loved ones gather to welcome a new addition to … Continue reading #BookReview: Exiles by Jane Harper @panmacmillan #Exiles #damppebbles
#BookReview: The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett @ViperBooks #TheMysteriousCaseoftheAlpertonAngels #AlpertonAngels #TheAlpertonAngels #damppebbles
"Open the safe deposit box. Inside you will find research material for a true crime book. You must read the documents, then make a decision. Will you destroy them? Or will you take them to the police? Everyone knows the sad story of the Alperton Angels: the cult who brainwashed a teenage girl and convinced … Continue reading #BookReview: The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett @ViperBooks #TheMysteriousCaseoftheAlpertonAngels #AlpertonAngels #TheAlpertonAngels #damppebbles
#BookReview: Devil’s Way by Robert Bryndza #DevilsWay #damppebbles
"THE TRUTH HIDES IN THE DARK When Private Investigator Kate Marshall is rushed to hospital after being pulled into a riptide current in the sea, the near-death experience leaves her shaken. During her recovery, she befriends Jean, an elderly lady on the same ward. Jean tells the harrowing story of how her three-year-old grandson, Charlie, went missing … Continue reading #BookReview: Devil’s Way by Robert Bryndza #DevilsWay #damppebbles
#BookReview: Black Widows by Cate Quinn @orionbooks #BlackWidows #damppebbles
"Aged nineteen, devout Rachel marries fundamentalist Mormon, Blake Nelson, and moves to a remote homestead in rural Utah. Isolated and alone, Rachel obeys her husband's advice to keep sweet and prepare for End of Days. Soon after their disappointing wedding night, Blake takes his second wife - emotionally-troubled, jailbait, Emily. Though it's not until the … Continue reading #BookReview: Black Widows by Cate Quinn @orionbooks #BlackWidows #damppebbles
#BookReview: The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard @CorvusBooks @CapitalCrime1 #TheNothingMan #damppebbles
"I was the girl who survived the Nothing Man. Now I am the woman who is going to catch him... You've just read the opening pages of The Nothing Man, the true crime memoir Eve Black has written about her obsessive search for the man who killed her family nearly two decades ago. Supermarket security guard … Continue reading #BookReview: The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard @CorvusBooks @CapitalCrime1 #TheNothingMan #damppebbles
#BookReview: The Stranger Times by C.K. McDonnell @TransworldBooks @cobaltdinosaur #TheStrangerTimes #damppebbles #GuestReview
"There are dark forces at work in our world (and in Manchester in particular), so thank God The Stranger Times is on hand to report them . . .A weekly newspaper dedicated to the weird and the wonderful (but mostly the weird), it is the go-to publication for the unexplained and inexplicable.At least that's their pitch. … Continue reading #BookReview: The Stranger Times by C.K. McDonnell @TransworldBooks @cobaltdinosaur #TheStrangerTimes #damppebbles #GuestReview
#BookReview: Bone White by Ronald Malfi @KensingtonBooks #BoneWhite #damppebbles
"A landscape of frozen darkness punctuated by grim, gray days. The feeling like a buzz in your teeth. The scrape of bone on bone. . . Paul Gallo saw the report on the news: a mass murderer leading police to his victims graves, in remote Dread s Hand, Alaska. It's not even a town; more … Continue reading #BookReview: Bone White by Ronald Malfi @KensingtonBooks #BoneWhite #damppebbles
#BookReview: Outback by Patricia Wolf @emblabooks @bonnierbooks_uk #Outback #damppebbles
"Two missing backpackers. One vast outback. DS Lucas Walker is on leave in his hometown of Caloodie, taking care of his dying grandmother. When two young German backpackers, Berndt and Rita, vanish from the area, he finds himself unofficially on the case. But why all the interest from the Federal Police when they have probably … Continue reading #BookReview: Outback by Patricia Wolf @emblabooks @bonnierbooks_uk #Outback #damppebbles
#BookReview: Ghostwritten by Ronald Malfi @TitanBooks #Ghostwritten #damppebbles
"Four brand-new horror novellas from “a modern-day Algernon Blackwood” all about books, stories, manuscripts – the written word has never had sharper teeth… BOOKS CAN BE DEADLY 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 … Continue reading #BookReview: Ghostwritten by Ronald Malfi @TitanBooks #Ghostwritten #damppebbles
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