Neil Weber is down on his luck. He's a college professor with his eyes on tenure, only to discover that his academic research is in jeopardy after new information comes to light. Plus, his ex-wife Phaedra works in the same department and he has to see her nearly every day. Oh, and her new husband… Continue reading The Department by Jacqueline Faber
Poe Webb hosts a true crime podcast where her guests anonymously confess to crimes committed. She and her boyfriend/producer, Kip, have a system in place to protect their show and their mental well-being. One day, Poe prepares for her next recording when an eerily familiar face appears on her screen. She’s pretty sure she hasn’t met her next guest, Ian Hindley, prior to this session. But then his confession takes her by surprise – he claims to have murdered Poe’s mother nearly two decades ago. But Poe is sure that Ian isn’t her mother’s killer. She would recognize him anywhere – she witnessed what had happened, after all. More importantly, she spent years tracking him down. And when she did, she killed him. So who is Ian, and what does he want with Poe? Tell Me What You Did by Carter Wilson is a psychological suspense novel that has Poe questioning what she knows about her mother and that fateful night. And if she doesn’t figure out Ian’s motives soon, she risks her loved ones meeting the same fate.
Briar Rose Thorne is grieving her late mother Aurora, back in her childhood home on Chicago’s South Side. In the days since her mother’s passing, she’s been having strange, vivid dreams about a girl in white asking for someone to take her home. She also hears phantom music throughout the house, along with other strange occurrences. She dismisses these moments as bouts of grief. But memories of her mother indicate the disturbances might be spirits or ghosts trying to communicate with Briar. There’s also a serial killer taking lives of young women. Once Briar begins researching the murders, she starts to connect the dots to her own family history. Vanishing Daughters by Cynthia Pelayo is a gothic fiction novel in which Briar must put a stop to the ongoing tragedies, or else she might become the next victim. Read more
