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Wild Dark Shore

“Here is the nature of life, we must love things with our whole selves knowing they will die.” Author: Charlotte McConaghy Shearwater, a tiny island near Antarctica, has a brutal shoreline. This is a place only fit for seals and penguins, a place slowly being reclaimed by the choppy ocean, a place that is gradually being drowned. It’s a space haunted by bad memories, bitter weather, and one doomed family who are trying desperately to move the world’s largest seed bank before it is swallowed by the uncaring tide. This family – the Salts – consists of a grieving father and [...]

2025-10-12T10:16:39-07:00October 12th, 2025|Tags: , , , , |

Clue of the Tapping Heels, The

Tap Dancing and Cat Burglars Author: Carolyn Keene In The Clue of the Tapping Heels, Nancy is back, hot on the trail of a twisting mystery. This time, she’s embroiled with a retired actress, Miss Carter, who is haunted at night by a strange tapping sound throughout her house. While it may sound ghostly, Miss Carter thinks the intruder is very human, because her purebred Persian kittens keep going missing. Can Nancy stop the cat burglar, and perhaps bring the sweet old woman a happily-ever-after with her long-forgotten beau at the same time? It’s Nancy, so of course she can. Not [...]

2025-10-09T13:10:23-07:00October 9th, 2025|Tags: , , , , , |

Ghost Virus

Cute Clothes and Cannibal Curses Author: Graham Masterton A happy woman, on the verge of being married to her dream man, lies down and pours acid onto her own face until she dies. A teacher throws children out of the window to be impaled on the railings below. A woman guts and eats her husband, leaving his carved body in their bed. A young girl eats the family dog, then her parents. What is the connection in this sudden onslaught of sensationalistic violence in the formerly normal suburb of Tooting? DC Jerry Pardo and DS Jamila Patel are on the case, [...]

2025-10-08T10:17:37-07:00October 8th, 2025|Tags: , , , , , |
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