![]() ![]() –Dwyer Murphy, CrimeReads Editor-in-Chief Reyes has an unerring grip on this suspenseful story, full of barely suppressed adrenaline and shocking twists. This begins a journey back to her Berkshires hometown and into a mess of old secrets and family mysteries. In this deeply unsettling and atmospheric debut, a woman in Boston watches a YouTube clip of a young woman’s sudden collapse and death, an event that eerily mirrors incident from her own youth – right down to the man standing at the edge of the frame. –Olivia Rutigliano, CrimeReads Associate Editor And all this, by the way, takes place three years after Ernie reported his own brother Michael to the police for murder after Michael requested help disposing of a dead body that turned out not to be dead. Could the mysterious events be the work of a serial killer called the Black Tongue? Perhaps. In the novel, our narrator-hero Ernie Cunningham (teacher, crime novel fan, and how-to author) finds himself embroiled in a complicated plot when a family reunion at a ski resort turns into a whodunnit. I am so excited for Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, Benjamin Stevenson’s smash-hit whimsical murder mystery about coming to terms with who you are (and who you are not). Please consider donating to the strike fund. Literary Hub stands in solidarity with the union. The HarperCollins Union has been on strike since November 10, 2022. – MOīenjamin Stevenson, Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone Not since Yuri Slezkine’s The House of the Government (look it up) has so much drama happened in one apartment complex. – MOĮveryone loves a good contained-space thriller, and City Under One Roof has one of the best locked-room set-ups I’ve ever come across: a town in Alaska where every resident lives in the same giant apartment complex, there’s only one tunnel in and out of town, and as the events of the novel take place, that tunnel is closed due to an avalanche, and there’s a potential killer on the loose. The Twyford Code is told entirely in transcribed voice memos recovered from a mysterious smartphone, detailing the narrator’s quest for meaning from an intricately annotated children’s book. Janice Hallett writes charming puzzle mysteries with intriguing formats-or at least, that seems to be the pattern, as this her second novel, like her first, allows a motivated reader to piece together a solution from the primary-source-style documents provided in the novel. Rumfitt uses body horror and the tropes of the haunted house skillfully to explore the trans experience in an England full of terfs, and Tell Me I’m Worthless contains a strong anti-fascist message for a nation beset by growing prejudices. One is trapped in the house forever, and the other two barely escape, the house’s dark powers having revealed both their vulnerabilities and hatreds to each other. ![]() In this intense haunted house story, three girls spend a night in a property cursed by the hatred and violence of those who first occupied its grounds. So instead of watching that colonialist POS known as Shantaram, read this book instead. The story is told through three main points of view: Ajay, the servant whose loyalty will prove his undoing, Sunny, the uber-rich addict who wilts under his father’s expectations, and Neda, a journalist who finds herself inextricably entangled with the subject of her own assignment. Like Renoir’s Rules of the Game, this is a perfectly crafted portrait of the moral degradation of the wealthy, as parties and profits grow to replace right and wrong in the minds of the characters. And everyone in town appears to have secrets… –MOĭamn, this book is good. ![]() After all, the three siblings were not well liked, and the professional success of one, a doctor, may have made them all targets of racist violence. Jo Wright moves back to town, and she’s determined to clear her new paramour of any suspicion. In De’Shawn Charles Winslow’s second novel, also set in the deeply divided and very segregated town of West Mills, North Carolina, three siblings are found shot to death soon after Ms. ![]()
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