Detective Constable Angus MacVicar has just landed his dream job – transferred out of uniform and assigned to Oldcastle‘s biggest ongoing murder investigation: Operation Telegram, hunting the 'Fortnight Killer'.

Every two weeks another couple is targeted. One victim is left at the scene, their corpse used as a twisted message board. The second body is never seen again.

A group of students encounter a supernatural terror while on a road trip through Appalachia in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the “unforgettable and scary” (Harlan Coben) Chasing the Boogeyman.

This was probably the best book in the series. There were a lot of twists and turns and a really surprising ending. #SeriesLove2024 @TheSpineView @Andrew65

I lost the love of my life and my best friend on Tuesday evening. He was very ill and at home on hospice care. He passed very peacefully. I can truly say that becoming his wife was one of the best things I ever did. I have a giant hole in my heart. 💔😢 Because of this, my reading status may drop precipitously for a while. I‘m sure I‘ll be back to usual eventually.

After a terrible construction site accident severs Edgar Freemantle‘s right arm, scrambles his mind, and implodes his marriage, he faces the ordeal of rehabilitation, all alone and full of rage. Renting a house on Duma Key—a stunningly beautiful and eerily undeveloped splinter off the Florida coast—Edgar slowly emerges from his prison of pain to bond with Elizabeth Eastlake, a sick, elderly woman whose roots are tangled deep in this place.

This book is sooo slow. I‘ll probably finish it some other time but life‘s too short and there are too many other books to read.

A domestic suspense debut about a young couple and their apparently friendly neighbors—a twisty, rollercoaster ride of lies, betrayal, and the secrets between husbands and wives. . .

Another great book in the Will Trent series. Will and Sara are on their honeymoon at a vacation lodge in North Georgia. On the first night, they hear a blood curdling scream for help. They discover the manager of the lodge who‘s been stabbed multiple times. She gives Will a message for her son before she passes. This is another book where I figured out who the killer was very early in the book. #SeriesLove2024 @TheSpineView @Andrew65

For GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton, McAlpine Lodge seems like the ideal getaway to celebrate their honeymoon. Set on a gorgeous, off-the-grid mountaintop property, it‘s the perfect place to unplug and reconnect. Until a bone-chilling scream cuts through the night.

A murderer in their midst

Fifteen years ago, Sara Linton‘s life changed forever when a celebratory night out ended in a violent attack that tore her world apart. Since then, Sara has remade her life. A successful doctor, engaged to a man she loves, she has finally managed to leave the past behind her. Until one evening, everything changes. Sara battles to save a young woman who‘s been brutally attacked. But it becomes clear that the assault is uncannily linked to Sara‘s.

I‘m only bailing for now because I have COVID and I‘m too exhausted to read a physical book. I‘ll come back to it later.

Investigating the killing of a prisoner during a riot inside a state penitentiary, GBI Agent Will Trent is told by an inmate who claims that he is innocent of a brutal attack of which he has always been the prime suspect. The man insists that he was framed by a corrupt law enforcement team led by Jeffrey Tolliver and that the real culprit is still out there—a serial killer who has systematically been preying on women across the state for years.

Awe and exhilaration—along with heartbreak and mordant wit—abound in Lolita, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsession for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America.

Most of all, it is a meditation on love—love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.

Medical examiner Sara Linton and her partner Will Trent, an investigator with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, rush to the scene—and into the heart of a deadly conspiracy that threatens to destroy thousands of innocent lives. When the assailants abduct Sara, Will goes undercover to save her and prevent a massacre—putting his own life on the line for the woman and the country he loves.

With the discovery of a murder at an abandoned construction site, Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is brought in on a case that becomes much more dangerous when the dead man is identified as an ex-cop. Studying the body, Sara Linton—the GBI‘s newest medical examiner and Will‘s lover—realizes that the extensive blood loss didn't belong to the corpse. Sure enough, bloody footprints leading away from the scene…

Will Trent is a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent, working undercover in Macon, Georgia, posing as Bill Black, a scary ex-con who trails an air of violence wherever he goes. The cover has worked and he has caught the eye of a wiry little drug dealer who thinks he might be a useful ally. But there‘s a problem. Cut off from the support of the woman he loves, Sara Linton, Will finds his demons catching up with him.

Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the GBI Newly in love, he is beginning to put a difficult past behind him. Then a local college student goes missing, and Will is inexplicably kept off the case by his supervisor and mentor, deputy director Amanda Wagner. Will cannot fathom why—until the two of them literally collide in an abandoned orphanage. Decades before, when his father was imprisoned for murder, this was Will‘s home

There‘s no police training stronger than a cop‘s instinct. Faith Mitchell‘s mother isn‘t answering her phone. Her front door is open. There‘s a bloodstain above the knob. Her infant daughter is hidden in a shed behind the house. All the GBI taught Faith goes out the window when she charges into her mother‘s house, gun drawn. She sees a man dead in the laundry room. She sees a hostage situation in the bedroom. What she doesn‘t see is her mother.

When Special Agent Will Trent arrives in Grant County, he finds a police department determined to protect its own and far too many unanswered questions about a prisoner‘s death. He doesn‘t understand why Officer Lena Adams is hiding secrets from him. He doesn‘t understand her role in the death of Grant County‘s popular police chief. He doesn‘t understand why that man‘s widow, Dr. Sara Linton, needs him more than ever to help her crack this case.

Though this is the second book in the Will Trent series, this is the first book in which he is, basically, the main character. Because of his past, Will‘s social skills leave a lot to be desired. He doesn‘t talk much but he‘s an observer, which makes him a great investigator. This is one of the best series I‘ve ever read.

With Undone, Karin Slaughter weaves together the moving, powerful human stories of three unforgettable characters from her New York Times bestselling novels Faithless and Fractured, who collide for the first time in an electrifying race against the clock—and a duel with unspeakable human evil.

I‘m going to cheat a little. I read this series last year but I want to start from the beginning because there‘s a new book coming out on 8/20. Also, I just love Will Trent. 😊

This is a good book with a great storyline. My only complaint would be that I figured out who the murderer was halfway through the book.

Nothing ever happens in sleepy little Fairhill, Vermont. But this morning that will change. And one innocent question could be deadly. What have you done?

For the past five years, Ryan Richardson has relived that terrible night. The car door ripping open, a crushing blow to the head, hands yanking him from the vehicle and his girlfriend Ali‘s scream as she‘s taken. While abroad, Ryan gets a call from his father: Ali's car has been found submerged in a lake in his hometown. Inside are two dead men & a cryptic note with five words on the envelope in Ali‘s handwriting: If something happens to me…

Ethan Frost is a visionary, a genius, every woman‘s deepest, darkest fantasy—even mine. And, somehow, I am his. He stole into my life like a dream. Turned my reality upside down and made my every desire come true—especially those I never knew I had. He demanded everything I had to give and gave me everything of himself in return. But dreams don‘t last forever, and ours is no exception.

Keira finally finds out who the people are who are trying to kill her and what exactly they‘re up to. #SeriesLove2024 @TheSpineView @Andrew65

Keira must decide if she should use her ability to contact ghosts to help the man who once tried to kill her.

I don‘t usually believe in coincidence. I paused this book on the evening of 7/10, approximately 1 hour before we lost our home to fire. I just turned the book back on to finish the last 40 minutes of the book, and…Keira‘s cottage was on fire. WTAF?! #SeriesLove2024 @TheSpineView @Andrew65

Unfortunately, on Monday night, our car in the garage caught on fire and spread throughout the rest of the house rendering it uninhabitable. My husband and I, along with our fur baby, got out okay. Now we‘re living in a hotel for the foreseeable future. We have so much to do, it‘s overwhelming. Please keep us in your thoughts. Thank you!

Keira, hired as Blighty Graveyard's new groundskeeper, lives surrounded by the dead. They watch her through the fog. They wordlessly cry out. They've been desperately waiting for help moving on―and only Keira can hear them. But not every restless spirit wants to be saved.

Sometimes the dead hate the living too much to find peace.

Great read! It‘s not an edge of your seat story; it‘s a slow burn with a shocking ending.

“In the latest jaw-dropping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager, a man must contend with the long-ago disappearance of his childhood best friend—and the dark secrets lurking just beyond the safe confines of his picture-perfect neighborhood.”

I love Lucy Foley‘s books. She seems to always bring together a group of people who may, or may not, know each other. These people start to disappear one by one, and are usually found dead somewhere. This book is basically the same with a twist. Francesca, the owner of the Manor, holds a secret that one of the guests knows about and plans to bring Francesca to task (in so many words). A good read.

The scariest school on earth
Is about to experience real fear…

Most schools are about being the best. This school? It‘s about being the worst. Calder Academy is where the rogue paranormals go. The ones who break the rules or lose control. And when that happens for vamps, werewolves, witches, and dark fae? It gets pretty freaking scary.

Everyone‘s got a secret. Everyone‘s got an agenda. But not everyone will survive…The Midnight Feast

During a police investigation, Evie sees one of the men who were arrested and thinks she recognizes him from her past. She and Cyrus drive to Scotland to see if Evie can remember what happened to her and who was involved. Excellent book where we finally find out what exactly happened to Evie and who ruined her childhood. #SeriesLove2024 @TheSpineView @Andrew65

“Cyrus Haven and Evie Cormac return in Robotham‘s latest psychological thriller, which finally unlocks the secrets of Evie‘s past and reaffirms why Stephen King has proclaimed this author “an absolute master.”

Mr. Loury and I differ in our politics, but agree in several other ways. This is a brutally honest memoir where the author bares all: the good and the bad. He speaks of his accomplishments and his downfalls without whitewashing anything. It‘s a very intellectually engaging read. I highly recommend it.

A shockingly frank memoir from a prize-winning economist, reflecting on his remarkable personal odyssey and his changing positions on identity, race, and belief.

This is the first in a series called “Gravekeeper” and it‘s a pretty good book. Instead of someone trying to fix a haunted house with an evil ghost residing there, this is a series about a woman who can see and communicate with the dead in order to help them pass on completely. I think it just might have a love interest as well. I‘m over my limit on Scribd so I can‘t continue until 7/10 😢. #SeriesLove2024 @Andrew65 @TheSpineView

Homeless, hunted, and desperate to escape a bitter storm, Keira takes refuge in an abandoned groundskeeper's cottage. Her new home is tucked away at the edge of a cemetery, surrounded on all sides by gravestones: some recent, some hundreds of years old, all suffering from neglect.

And in the darkness, she can hear the unquiet dead whispering.

It‘s hard to believe ghost stories can be romantic, but this one and the previous one were. When I started the first book, I thought Joseph was going to be an obstinate, mean man. That couldn‘t be farther from the truth. The problem was he was hiding the evil that resided in his house. If you like ghost stories, this book and the first book are definitely worth reading. #SeriesLove2024 @Andrew65 @TheSpineView

Sophie and Joseph Argenton have survived the house of ghosts… for now. But their escape from Northwood is short-lived. The sinister shadow that haunted their ancestral home survived, and has attached itself to Joseph's young cousin. Desperate, they travel to meet her father at Kensington, a long-abandoned mansion overlooking a dead town. There's a chance that here they will find a way to kill the creature without harming the girl.

This is the first in a series by Darcy Coates about haunted and doomed houses. Joseph Argenton marries Sophie for an ulterior motives, but the longer they‘re together, they begin to fall in love. Joseph‘s house, however, is less welcoming. Sophie becomes very frightened and wants to leave. Unfortunately, the house won‘t let them. I loved this book and I hope I can find all in the series. #SeriesLove2024 @TheSpineView @Andrew65

Sophie's world is shattered when disaster bankrupts her family. She's still reeling when she's offered an unexpected solution: Mr. Argenton, a wealthy stranger, has asked for her hand in marriage. Marrying Mr. Argenton will save her family, but it condemns Sophie to a life in Northwood, a vast and unnaturally dark mansion situated hours from civilization.

Still, she has no choice but accept the offer and hope the darkness won't swallow her whole.

This is just an okay book. It wasn‘t very long so it was tolerable. At least this haunted house was in a decent neighborhood 😂. The ghost in this story reeeeelly didn‘t like a particular gender 😱.

Josephine began to suspect something was wrong with the crumbling gothic monstrosity next door when its family fled in the middle of the night, the children screaming, the mother crying. They never came back. But now someone new has moved next door, and Marwick House is slowly waking up. Torn between staying away and warning the new tenant, Josephine only knows that if she isn't careful, she may be its next victim...

The ghost in this story was seriously cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs in life and in death. When are people going to learn not to buy haunted old houses and try to fix them up? They‘re always miles from any town and have no cell reception. I guess that‘s why they make such good stories.