"LA, 1981. Buckley College in heat. 17-year-old Bret is a senior at the exclusive Buckley prep school when a new student arrives with a mysterious past. Robert Mallory is bright, handsome, charismatic, and shielding a secret from Bret and his friends, even as he becomes a part of their tightly knit circle. Bret’s obsession with … Continue reading #BookReview: The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis #TheShards #damppebbles
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#BookReview: Keeper by Jessica Moor @PenguinUKBooks #Keeper #damppebbles
"He's been looking in the windows again. Messing with cameras. Leaving notes. Supposed to be a refuge. But death got inside. When Katie Straw's body is pulled from the waters of the local suicide spot, the police decide it's an open-and-shut case. A standard-issue female suicide. But the residents of Widringham women's refuge where Katie … Continue reading #BookReview: Keeper by Jessica Moor @PenguinUKBooks #Keeper #damppebbles
#BookReview: The Killing Hills by Chris Offutt @noexitpress #TheKillingHills #damppebbles
"A literary master across genres, award-winning author Chris Offutt's latest novel The Killing Hills is a compelling, propulsive thriller in which a suspicious death exposes the loyalties and rivalries of a deep-rooted and fiercely private community in the Kentucky backwoods. Mick Hardin, a combat veteran now working as an Army CID agent, is home on … Continue reading #BookReview: The Killing Hills by Chris Offutt @noexitpress #TheKillingHills #damppebbles
#BookReview: Mirrorland by Carole Johnstone #Mirrorland #damppebbles
"The most dangerous stories are the ones we tell ourselves… No. 36 Westeryk Road: an imposing flat-stone house on the outskirts of Edinburgh. A place of curving shadows and crumbling grandeur. But it’s what lies under the house that is extraordinary – Mirrorland. A vivid make-believe world that twin sisters Cat and El created as … Continue reading #BookReview: Mirrorland by Carole Johnstone #Mirrorland #damppebbles
#BookReview: Tall Bones by Anna Bailey @DoubledayUK #TallBones #damppebbles
"When seventeen-year-old Emma leaves her best friend Abi at a party in the woods, she believes, like most girls her age, that their lives are just beginning. Many things will happen that night, but Emma will never see her friend again. Abi's disappearance cracks open the façade of the small town of Whistling Ridge, its … Continue reading #BookReview: Tall Bones by Anna Bailey @DoubledayUK #TallBones #damppebbles
#BookReview: Girl A by Abigail Dean @HarperFiction @HarperCollinsUK @1stMondayCrime #GirlA #FirstMondayCrime #damppebbles
"'Girl A,’ she said. ‘The girl who escaped. If anyone was going to make it, it was going to be you.’ Lex Gracie doesn’t want to think about her family. She doesn’t want to think about growing up in her parents’ House of Horrors. And she doesn’t want to think about her identity as Girl … Continue reading #BookReview: Girl A by Abigail Dean @HarperFiction @HarperCollinsUK @1stMondayCrime #GirlA #FirstMondayCrime #damppebbles
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