Review: The Cloisters by Katy Hays

Book release date: 19 January 2023 Book blurb: Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, hoping to spend her summer working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead, she is assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for its medieval and Renaissance collections. There she is drawn into a small circle of

Review: Locke & Key: The Golden Age by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez

Book release date: 26 April 2022 Book blurb: Take a trip through the past and unlock moments from Keyhouse’s long history that expand the saga of the Locke family in this collection of stories including the crossover with Neil Gaiman’s Sandman Universe! Contains three prequel short stories, “Small World,” “Open the Moon,” and, collected for

Review: The Key in the Lock by Beth Underdown

Book release date: 13 January 2022 Book blurb: I still dream, every night, of Polneath on fire. Smoke unravelling from an upper window, and the terrace bathed in a hectic orange light . . . Now I see that the decision I made at Polneath was the only decision of my life. Everything marred in

Review: The Last House on the Street by Diane Chamberlain

Book release date: 20 January 2022 Book blurb: A young white female student becomes involved in the fight for civil rights in North Carolina, falling in love with one of her fellow activists, a Black man, in a time and place where an interracial relationship must be hidden from family, friends and especially the reemerging

Review: Hyde by Craig Russell

Book release date: 29 April 2021 Book blurb: Edward Hyde has a strange gift – or a curse – he keeps secret from all but his physician. He experiences two realities, one real, the other a dreamworld state brought on by a neurological condition. When murders in Victorian Edinburgh echo the ancient Celtic threefold death

Review: The Lighthouse Witches by CJ Cooke

Book release date: 30 September 2021 Book blurb: Upon the cliffs of a remote Scottish island, Lòn Haven, stands a lighthouse. A lighthouse that has weathered more than storms. Mysterious and terrible events have happened on this island. It started with a witch hunt. Now, centuries later, islanders are vanishing without explanation. Coincidence? Or curse?

Review: Whisper Cottage by Anne Wyn Clark

Book release date: 2 September 2021 Book blurb: How well do you know the woman next door? When Stina and Jack move to an old rural cottage, they’re hoping for a fresh start. Their new home is run-down, but generous Mrs Barley quickly becomes a friend. Until Stina sees a mysterious figure in the widow’s

Review: The Island House by Amanda Brittany

Book release date: 11 August 2021 (ebook); 14 October 2021 (paperback) Book blurb: A DARK FAMILY SECRET When Alice’s father dies after a tragic hit and run, his death stirs up unanswered questions about her childhood. Who was her mother, why did her father never speak of the past, and why can’t she remember anything

Review: Mirrorland by Carole Johnstone

Book release date: 15 April 2021 Book blurb: The most dangerous stories are the ones we tell ourselves… No. 36 Westeryk Road: an imposing flat-stone house on the outskirts of Edinburgh. A place of curving shadows and crumbling grandeur. But it’s what lies under the house that is extraordinary – Mirrorland. A vivid make-believe world

Review: Girl in the Walls by AJ Gnuse

Book release date: 18 March 2021 in ebook; 1 April 2021 in hardback Book blurb: ‘Those who live in the walls must adjust, must twist themselves around in their home,stretching themselves until they’re as thin as air. Not everyone can do what they can.But soon enough, they can’t help themselves. Signs of their presence remain