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Bright Young Women

Jessica Knoll

"In his other hand he held what looked like a child’s wooden baseball bat, the end wrapped in a dark fabric that seemed to arch and writhe. Blood, my brain would not yet permit me to acknowledge."


The Hike

Lucy Clarke

"Liz felt a prickling sensation at the back of her neck and had the feeling she was being watched."


Past Crimes: Excerpt and Cover Reveal

Jason Pinter

"‘Life is priceless,’ Cassie said, with practiced sympathy. ‘But your NTPs all have a dollar value.'"


Indian Burial Ground: Excerpt and Cover Reveal

Nick Medina

"He was out on Grand Nacre Drive. The driver said he came out of nowhere."


Good Half Gone: Excerpt and Cover Reveal!

Tarryn Fisher

“You were born six minutes apart. Not six years, you know…you don’t have to go along with whatever she wants.”


My Men

Victoria Kielland (Translated by Damion Searles)

"There are things I can’t ever admit, she whispered, things that are too big, too much..."


The Killer’s Wife

Susan Furlong

"Six years in Montana Woman’s Prison (MWP), four years served, and now for two years she’ll be on parole. And I’m to be her parole officer."


Murder at the Royal Ruby

Nita Prose

"I hated her too. I wanted her dead. And I know I’m not the only one."


Dead Detectives Society

Monstrous Magazine

"She still looked as if she might hurl herself against the already-flyspecked window, so I eased myself back toward it and opened the glass, just in case."


Angel of Indian Lake: Excerpt and Cover Reveal

Stephen Graham Jones

"The Savage History of Proofrock, Idaho opens looking through the two eyeholes of a mask, and of course there’s some heavy, menacing breathing."



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