A Place of Secrets: A Northern Gothic Mystery by Shane Peacock
A follow-up to As We Forgive Others, A Place of Secrets does well as a stand-alone while honouring the characters and premise of the book that came before it.
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The Creation of Half-Broken People | The Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu Interview
Showcasing African Gothic at its finest, The Creation of Half-Broken People is the extraordinary tale of a nameless woman plagued by visions.
A Song for Wildcats by Caitlin Galway
Each of the five stories in this collection stretch the boundaries of contemporary literary fiction and in doing so establish Galway’s unique voice and style.
A Pocket Full of Blood by Deanna Foster
A Pocket Full of Blood by Deanna Foster happens just over a year after her first in the series, Fortunes of Madness, when Detective Fox and Officer Vihaan teamed up to investigate the Tarot Killer. In this second book, Vihaan’s brother, Shikar, has escaped Wolfbridge Asylum after being a resident of the top floor for the criminally insane for five years.
The Third Wife of Faraday House by B.R. Myers
The Third Wife of Faraday House is a gripping, suspenseful, and entertaining Gothic mystery set in 1816 on the South Shore of Nova Scotia.
Bird Suit by Sydney Hegele
Bird Suit’s fictional town of Port Peter could be any number of small towns on a lake, overrun with summer tourists buying ice cream and cheap souvenirs on the boardwalk, filling up the local pubs and motels, knocking up the local girls – before disappearing in September. There are, however, two things that make Port Peter special: its perfect peaches and its Birds. “The women of the town tell one another about the Birds in secret… When a Port Peter girl gets pregnant by a tourist boy, a woman in her life gives her all the information she needs to know.”
All Things Seen and Unseen by RJ McDaniel
It has been a few weeks since I finished reading All Things Seen and Unseen and my head is still spinning. This novel was hard to put down and is proving even harder to forget.
Burr by Brooke Lockyer
A ’90s-era Southern Ontario Gothic about holding on to the dead, voiced with plaintive urgency and macabre sensuality.
A Dreadful Splendour by B.R. Myers
A wickedly whimsical and delectable brew of mystery, spine-tingling chills and intoxicating romance that makes for an irresistibly fun and page-turning read.
The White Hare by Jane Johnson
The White Hare is a spellbinding novel about mothers and daughters finding a new home for themselves, the secrets they try to bury, and the local legends that may change their lives.
The Hush Sisters by Gerard Collins
Sissy and Ava Hush are estranged, middle-aged sisters with little in common beyond their upbringing in a peculiar manor in downtown St. John’s. With both parents now dead, the siblings must decide what to do with the old house they’ve inherited.
