Book Review: The Undertaker’s Daughter by Debra Webb

The Undertaker’s Daughter by Debra Webb is a novella setting up the Undertaker’s Daughter series, and introduces Rowan DuPont, a forensic psychologist working with Nashville police to catch a killer who’s shaping up to be of the serial variety. Even creepier, each victim thus far is almost the spitting image of Rowan. Could she be […]

Book Review: The Whisper Man by Alex North

‘If you leave a door half open, you’ll hear the whisper spoken.       If you play outside alone soon you won ‘t be going home.  If your Windows left unlatched, you’ll hear him tapping at the glass.       If your lonely, sad, and blue, the whisper man will come for you.”   The Whisper Man by Alex […]

Book Review: The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup

The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup is a chilling serial killer thriller set in Copenhagen. Thulin and her new partner, Hess, are assigned what is initially believed to be the isolated murder of a single mom. More murders occur, each with a chestnut man left behind. Every time the police think they have answers, another […]

Fireside Chat with a Grammar Nazi Serial Killer by Ryan Suvaal

‘Seventeen gruesome murders were reported across the United States, within a span of six months. Ohio, Minnesota, Arkansas and several other states were hit. There was one clear connection among victims, they were all book authors. While media was decorating the murders with sensationalist stories, and law enforcement was playing catch-up, the homicidal maniac remained […]

Book Review: Go Home, Afton by Brent Jones

***Trigger Warning: sexual assault, moments of physical violence graphicness (few and far, but there) Go Home, Afton by Brent Jones is a tense suspense novel told from the point of view of Afton, an introverted young woman working as a children’s librarian at the local Wakefield library. But Afton harbours a dark secret. Deep down, […]

Book Review: Pretty Dead Girls by Monica Murphy

Murder has come to the peaceful prestigious coastal Cape Bonita, shattering the town’s illusion of safety. Gretchen Nelson is found murdered early one morning, in the parking lot of the local Catholic church, her throat cut. No clues as to her killer can be found. It’s not long before another girl succumbs to the killer. […]