Ages 18+
Nora wakes up in a hospital bed and is confused as to how she ended up there, and why she is so badly bruised. Then it starts coming back to her: she was invited to her friend Clare’s hen party (what the British call a bachelorette party). The thing is, she hasn’t seen Clare in ten years, and wonders why she was even invited. The book gets even more suspenseful when Nora finds out that Clare’s fiance is murdered and she’s a suspect. This book was hard to put down!
Category: Thriller
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Ages 18+
From the author of the Wayward Pines trilogy comes the eerie tale of Professor Jason Dessen. He has an adoring wife, Daniela, and a fifteen-old-son, Charlie who he loves very much. His life was perfect…until he wakes up naked and tied to a gurney, surrounded by people in lab coats. He quickly learns he was abducted but remembers little else. Jason fears he will never see his family again. Fans of Gone Girl will eat this one up!
Thanks to Penguin Random House for a review copy of this book.
Justice for Jessica by Alretha Thomas
Ages 18+
Justice for Jessica is the classic case of whodunit. Jessica James is dead and Detective Rachel Storme is sure as hell going to find out who murdered her. The list of suspects is quite extensive. Was it Jessica’s husband? Her own sister? Several people listed “murders for hire” have also made the list. Read Justice for Jessica to find out who really did kill her, and why.
Thanks to Netgalley.com for a review copy of this book.
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Grades 3-6
This creepy novel follows a girl named Coraline, not Caroline, as she finds a secret door in the home to which her family has just moved. She meets her “other mother” and has to fend for herself until she tries to make her way back to her real parents.
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