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gothic fiction

Book Review: Little Eve by Catriona Ward

By Doreen Sheridan

October 21, 2022

I finished this darkly Gothic thriller in only two spellbound sittings—a small miracle given how my days are packed with myriad interruptions. The narrative was so absorbing, I managed to fend off almost all other demands on my time until I could finish that last, atmospheric page. Little Eve is the somewhat derisive nickname given…

Q&A with Alice Feeney, author of Daisy Darker

By Crime HQ

August 29, 2022

CE: We’re thrilled to have you visit the site! First, can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Alice: I’m a writer and journalist and I live in Devon with my family. I spent 15 years working for the BBC before becoming an author. My debut novel Sometimes I Lie was an international bestseller…

Book Review: Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney

By Jenny Maloney

August 25, 2022

Just in time to kick-off spooky season, Alice Feeney has delivered a classic closed-room whodunit. The place is Seaglass, the family home of Daisy Darker. Situated on the Cornish coast, surrounded by black sand, Seaglass is cut off from the mainland during high tide. Inside are eighty clocks tick-tocking away, an eccentric Nana, and a…

Book Review: Reluctant Immortals by Gwendolyn Kiste

By Doreen Sheridan

August 24, 2022

Lucy and Bee have been on the run for so long, and hope perhaps in vain that 1967 Los Angeles will finally provide the respite they’ve been looking for. Hidden away in the crumbling stone home they purchased with almost the last of their money, they spend their days in hiding and their nights at…

Book Review: Kismet by Amina Akhtar

By Doreen Sheridan

August 3, 2022

Ronnie Khan is starting to have second thoughts about her newfound independence. While she’s one hundred percent glad to be out from under the thumb of her abusive aunt back in Queens, New York, she’s beginning to doubt whether picking up stakes and moving to the wellness hotspot of Sedona, Arizona was really the best…

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