A Lesson in Vengeance is a slow-burning, Sapphic dark academia story from Victoria Lee In Victoria Lee’s A Lesson in Vengeance, eighteen-year-old Felicity Morrow has …
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Book review: The Cast Aways of Harewood Hall
Karen Herbert’s sophomore novel, The Cast Aways of Harewood Hall, is a delightful, almost sitcom-style mystery about the residents, staff, and animals of the titular …
Book review: The Stellar Snow Job by Marie Howalt
Marie Howalt’s The Stellar Snow Job is the first novella in the Colibri Investigations series. It follows Richard Hart, an ex-military private investigator, and his …
Book review: The Brink by Holden Sheppard
Adolescents reach the terrifying edge of everything they’ve ever known in Holden Sheppard’s The Brink Holden Sheppard’s sophomore novel The Brink is a tension-filled, hormone-fuelled, …
Book review: Stone Town by Margaret Hickey
Big city problems and small town politics collide in Hickey’s second rural crime novel Stone Town is an Australian rural crime novel set in rural …
Book 2eview: If We Were Villains by ML Rio
A slow-burning, Shakespeare-drenched, dark academia mystery. ML Rio’s If We Were Villains was first published in 2017 but has recently surged in popularity thanks to …
Book review: Everyone in my Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
Book Review: Benjamin Stevenson’s third novel, Everyone in my Family Has Killed Someone, lives up the whodunit hype Benjamin Stevenson’s third novel, Everyone in my …
Book review: The Shadow House by Anna Downes
A slow-burning thriller about a mother’s worst nightmare. The Shadow House, Anna Downes’ second novel, is a thriller set in a fictional ecovillage on the …
The Housemate by Sarah Bailey
The Housemate by Sarah Bailey is a story of murder, investigative journalism, and a decades-old mystery. Oli Groves is a junior crime journalist covering the …
Book review: House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland
A dark, twisted modern fairytale of sisters, secrets and strangeness. Krystal Sutherland’s House of Hollow is a brilliantly-executed modern dark fairytale told from the point …