Frances Carden

About Frances

Frances is the author of the horror novella The Mine. She has also been published in Abundant Grace; Magical: An Anthology of Fantasy, Fairy Tales, and other Magical Fiction for Adults; Answers I’ll Accept: True Accounts of Online Dating; 20 Something Magazine; and Wisteria Magazine. She wrote for Epinions.com for eight years. Frances is currently working on a dark fantasy/horror novel called Plague Town.

Frances has a Masters in Fiction Writing from Johns Hopkins  and works as a technical writer during the day, where she attempts to make software exciting.

Frances’ Reviews

Dead in the Mud

Dead in the Mud

Murder and Matrimony Author: Connie Feddersen Amanda Hazard is having a very bad day, and it is Commissioner Brown’s fault. If ...
Night She Disappeared, The

Night She Disappeared, The

Dead and Gone or Alive and Hidden? Author: Lisa Jewell It’s 2017. A troubled girl leaves her infant daughter with her ...
Snowbound

Snowbound

Soccer Dads, Clever Kids, and Logical Loops Author: Blake Crouch When planning for a thirty+ hour plane flight with limited baggage ...
From a Buick 8

From a Buick 8

A Car, A Mystery, A Dark Legacy Author: Stephen King An odd man brings an old car into a gas station, ...
Wicked King, The

Wicked King, The

A Year and a Day Author: Holly Black A year and a day. It seems like such a long time, but ...
Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

Secrets in the Blood Author: Lisa Unger I’m going to be honest. I bought this book for its amazing title. Something ...
Caramel Pecan Roll Murder

Caramel Pecan Roll Murder

Fishing, Philandering, and Hannah's 28th Mystery Author: Joanne Fluke Hannah’s busy baking life is blooming as a fancy fishing competition ...
Midnight Library, The

Midnight Library, The

Second Chances And Supernatural Libraries Author: Matt Haig Nora Seed is ready to die. There is nothing left but to ...
Black Mouth

Black Mouth

Confronting the Childhood Boogeyman Author: Ronald Malfi Jamie Warren’s life is filled with wreckage: the effects of his long alcoholism, his ...
Daisy Darker

Daisy Darker

One By One They Die Author: Alice Feeney In an isolated ocean mansion cut off from land by high tide, 80 ...
Blood of an Englishman, The

Blood of an Englishman, The

Of Murders and Beaus Author: M.C. Beaton A night of amateur dramatics with Mrs. Bloxby leads Agatha straight into her next ...
Benjamin’s Parasite

Benjamin’s Parasite

The Enemy Inside You Author: Jeff Strand Benjamin has a problem. At first it started with candy bars. Several hundred a ...
Dune

Dune

Fear is the Mind Killer, and Dune is the Mind Number Author: Frank Herbert Dune has long been on my list ...
Bedbugs

Bedbugs

Infestation & Madness Author: Ben H. Winters Boy meets girl. Boy and girl have adorable daughter. Girl quits job to be ...
Wednesday's Child

Wednesday’s Child

Community Secrets and Unlikable Characters Authors: Deborah and Joel Shlian Leigh Novak has left the stress of a city emergency room ...
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

The Fungus Among Us Author: Merlin Sheldrake Can we just agree that fungi are amazing? They are beautiful and deadly, otherworldly ...
Triple Chocolate Cheesecake Murder

Triple Chocolate Cheesecake Murder

I Loved It. It's Dumb. Sorry Not Sorry. Author: Joanne Fluke Hannah is back, layering on the glucose in this frenzied ...
Upgrade

Upgrade

Science, Sincerity, and the Super Humans Author: Blake Crouch Logan Ramsay’s mom was a brilliant scientist, but she caused worldwide starvation ...
Cruel Prince, The

Cruel Prince, The

The Way of Faerie Author: Holly Black Most fairy tales – most real, unvarnished fairy tales – begin with blood ...
Cold Snap

Cold Snap

Vikings, Victory, and Vices Author: Codi Schneider Before I recount this tale, an introduction. You may call me Bijou. Though Brynhild ...