Month: February 2021

The Sign of Death by Callie Hutton My rating: 4 of 5 stars As I was browsing the list of advanced reader copies to request (thank you, Netgalley!), I spied the words “Victorian Book Club Mystery”. What’s not to like about any of that? What I found in The Sign of Death by Callie Hutton…

A House at the Bottom of a Lake by Josh Malerman My rating: 4 of 5 stars A House at the Bottom of a Lake is another atmospheric page-turner by Josh Malerman, writer of the terrifying Bird Box. While the tag line is great – “Just because a house is empty, doesn’t mean nobody’s home.”…

Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans by Dan Baum My rating: 5 of 5 stars 99% of the time I read fiction. I enjoy getting lost in other people’s worlds and words and non-fiction doesn’t usually give me the same sense of “otherness”. This book reads like fiction – the larger than life…

The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier My rating: 5 of 5 stars It’s rare that I give a book 5 stars but this one ticked all the boxes for me, as a splendid example of a gothic ghost story. Molly and Kip, two siblings who have fled Ireland during the Great Famine, have lost their…