Dracula’s Child – J.S. Barnes

MY RATING☆☆☆☆ SYNOPSIS     Dracula returns… It has been some years since Jonathan and Mina Harker survived their ordeal in Transylvania and, vanquishing Count Dracula, returned to England to try and live ordinary lives. But shadows linger long in this...

The Ghost Tree – Christina Henry

MY RATING☆☆☆☆ SYNOPSIS     When the bodies of two girls are found torn apart in her hometown, Lauren is surprised, but she also expects that the police won’t find the killer. After all, the year before her father’s body was found with his heart...

Betty – Tiffany McDaniel

MY RATING☆☆☆☆☆ SYNOPSIS     “A girl comes of age against the knife.” So begins the story of Betty Carpenter. Born in a bathtub in 1954 to a Cherokee father and white mother, Betty is the sixth of eight siblings. The world they inhabit is one of...

Malorie – Josh Malerman

MY RATING☆☆☆☆ SYNOPSIS     In the old world there were many rules. In the new world there is only one: don’t open your eyes. In the seventeen years since the ‘creatures’ appeared, many people have broken that rule. Many have looked. Many...

Survivor Song – Paul Tremblay

MY RATING☆☆☆☆☆ SYNOPSIS     In a matter of weeks, Massachusetts has been overrun by an insidious rabies-like virus that is spread by saliva. But unlike rabies, the disease has a terrifyingly short incubation period of an hour or less. Those infected quickly...

Eden – Tim Lebbon

MY RATING☆☆☆☆ SYNOPSIS     In a time of global warming and spiralling damage to the environment, the Virgin Zones were established to help combat the change. Abandoned by humanity and given back to nature, these vast areas in a dozen remote locations across...

The Hungry Ones – Chris Sorensen

MY RATING ☆☆☆☆ SYNOPSIS     At the outskirts of Maple City sits the Crossroads Motel, a throwback to the days when the motor lodge was king. Two years ago, the motel was the site of an act so brutal that its buildings were left to rot. Jessie Voss, however,...

The Nightmare Room – Chris Sorensen

MY RATING☆☆☆☆☆ SYNOPSIS     A boy in a basement, a man in a booth and a darkness that threatens to swallow them both… New York audiobook narrator Peter Larson and his wife Hannah head to his hometown of Maple City to help Peter’s ailing father...

The Dark Game – Jonathan Janz

MY RATING☆☆☆☆ SYNOPSIS     Ten writers are selected for a summer-long writing retreat with the most celebrated and reclusive author in the world. Their host is the legendary Roderick Wells. Handsome, enigmatic, and fiendishly talented, Wells promises to...

On the Shortness of Life – Seneca

MY RATING☆☆☆☆☆ SYNOPSIS     The Stoic writings of the philosopher Seneca offer powerful insights into the art of living, the importance of reason and morality, and continue to provide profound guidance to many through their eloquence, lucidity and timeless...