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Final Girls by Riley Sager

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As the survivor of a massacre, Quincy earned herself a spot in the elusive Final Girls club. Sam, Lisa, and Quincy are the only members of the club – all sole survivors, all Final Girls of horrific massacres. A club, nobody wants a membership to and with people Quincy would prefer …

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Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell

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Laurel Mack has spent the last 10 years mourning her missing daughter, Ellie certain she is still alive. It has been incredibly difficult for her to move forward but life continues onwards and one afternoon when she bumps into a charming man named Floyd, Laurel decides it is time to …

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The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

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The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James is a mystery novel with a splash of paranormal. In 1982, Viv Delaney begins working at the Sun Down Motel and weeks later she’s missing, presumed dead. In 2017, Carly Kirk arrives in Fell, New York determined to discover what happened to …

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Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

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Home Before Dark by Riley Sager is a horror-filled novel revolving around Maggie Holt and Baneberry Hall, a home Maggie has yet to return to since the fateful night ghosts sent them running. It is impossible for Maggie to forget that night or the horrors that filled Baneberry Hall; how …

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A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

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A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman is a novel guaranteed to warm your heart. Ove, a curmudgeon one may say, has based his life on strong principles, specific ideologies, and has an exact way of looking at things. The neighbours call Ove bitter but Ove does not believe that …

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Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

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Plain Bad Heroines is Emily M. Danforth’s debut into adult novels. It heavily involves the horror fiction, coming-of-age, and LGBT genre’s and is over 600 pages long. Bouncing between 1902 and 2012, Plain Bad Heroines follows the history and intertwined lives of the women involved with The Brookhants School for …

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Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo | Alex Stern #1

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Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo is the first instalment in the Alex Stern series – a series dedicated to magic, fantasy, and a whole lot of murder. In the hospital, the morning after that fateful night, Alex is deemed the only survivor of a multiple homicide. That would be enough for …

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The Girl From Widow Hills by Megan Miranda

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Written by Megan Miranda, The Girl From Widow Hills is an unforgettable thriller. Arden Maynor is a survivor but she wishes she wasn’t. Her survival, an incident which changed her life and the stigma that followed of being a miracle haunts her. It haunts her until the day she changes …