#contemporary thriller

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Black Thorn by Sarah Hilary

Happy publication day Sarah HIlary. The fabulous Black Thorn is out now and I'm sharing my thoughts on the book over on the blog. @sarah_hilary @panmacmillan #books #booktwitter #booktwt #blackthorn

Today I am absolutely delighted to share my thoughts on Black Thorn by Sarah Hilary, and to wish the author a very happy publication day. I love Sarah’s books and have to say a huge thank you to publisher, Macmillan, for the early copy via Netgalley. Here’s what it’s about: Source: NetgalleyRelease Date: 13 July 2023Publisher: Macmillan Continue reading Untitled

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This advertisement is for The Lies We Conjure, the new contemporary supernatural thriller from Sarah Henning.

WHAT’S IT ABOUT

Thirteen witches. Two ordinary sisters. One locked-room murder. This whodunit is giving Knives Out meets The Inheritance Games with magic. 

An eccentric old woman approaches sisters Ruby and Wren with an offer too good to pass up: attend a fancy dinner party posing as her granddaughters for two grand each. Sounds like a great arrangement—what could possibly go wrong? Literally EVERYTHING! 

Shortly after arriving at the mysterious Hegemony Manor, the hostess is dead and a killer lies among the dinner guests. Did we mention the guests are all powerful witches? Ruby and Wren must solve the murder if they hope to make it out of the manor alive.

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The Good Sister

This thriller by Sally Hepworth was fantastic. I really enjoyed this book - zipped right through it! Unreliable narratives in a thriller like this is absolute perfection! I loved Wally and Fern and Rose, they are such interesting characters, each which reflect a different aspect of each other in such interesting ways. With Rose's diary and Fern's direct narrative, a tangled web is slowly revealed and the messy relationship between sisters is brought to light.

Read : Oct 26th - Oct 28th, 2022

Rating : 5 stars

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BE GAY DO CRIME

archergrid.substack.com NEW CHAPTER EVERY WEDNESDAY 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 Butch/femme 💰 Steal from the rich 👾 Hacker main character 🌹 Butch-fatale love interest 🌶️ Spicy love scenes When her former boss is acquitted of the crime she gave up everything to expose, a hypervigilant hacker masterminds a heist to get her revenge. But when a sexy yet reckless ex-yakuza joins the crew, the hacker’s meticulous plan begins to unravel. "Six of Crows" meets "Mr. Robot" in this snappy sapphic heist full of colorful criminals ripping off a megalomaniacal tech CEO in the South American port city of Valparaíso.

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A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husband and herself from the vengeful ghost of her mother-in-law. When Ralph and Abby Lamb move in with Ralph’s mother, Laura, Abby hopes it’s just what she and her mother-in-law need to finally connect. After a traumatic childhood, Abby is desperate for a mother figure, especially now that she and Ralph are trying to become parents themselves. Abby just has so much love to give—to Ralph, to Laura, and to Mrs. Bondy, her favorite resident at the long-term care home where she works. But Laura isn’t interested in bonding with her daughter-in-law. She’s venomous and cruel, especially to Abby, and life with her is hellish. When Laura takes her own life, her ghost haunts Abby and Ralph in very different ways: Ralph is plunged into depression, and Abby is terrorized by a force intent on destroying everything she loves. To make matters worse, Mrs. Bondy’s daughter is threatening to move Mrs. Bondy from the home, leaving Abby totally alone. With everything on the line, Abby comes up with a chilling plan that will allow her to keep Mrs. Bondy, rescue Ralph from his tortured mind, and break Laura's hold on the family for good. All it requires is a little ingenuity, a lot of determination, and a unique recipe for chicken à la king…

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Leilas Mirror, 2024

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50 x 41 cm

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Writeblr (re-)Introduction | words-after-midnight

Hi, I'm Nico (he/him)! I'm a 32-year-old Tio'tia:ke (Montreal)-based writer of crime fiction (mostly thrillers), literary fiction, and horror, as well as the occasional poem.

Current WIPs

🌙 LIFE IN BLACK AND WHITE | Psychological thriller

[GIRL ON THE TRAIN x THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS (Nemerever)] A troubled young man attempts to overcome a dark, growing obsession with his estranged former lover after the twisted relationship that uprooted his life is catastrophically interrupted.

Status: Line edit, preparing to query. Tags: #libaw, #call it midnight (inspo reblogs) WIP intro // Excerpt // Playlist // Moodboard

💀 THE DOTTED LINE | Psychological horror

[A CLOCKWORK ORANGE x SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION] A young inmate nicknamed after an Al Pacino movie navigates the chaotic, dangerous world of a medium security American prison while plotting his escape.

Status: Drafting (slowly and intermittently) Tags: #tdl, #the jungle (inspo reblogs) WIP intro // Playlist // Moodboard (cw: gore)

(More under the cut!)

🔵 SUPERNOVA | Dystopian/Speculative

[FRANKENSTEIN x BREAKING BAD] What if you held the key to the Earth’s salvation… and its potential destruction? An eccentric chemistry professor's PhD students decide to investigate her rumored discovery of a highly dangerous theoretical compound, and inadvertently ignite the spark to an unstoppable chain reaction of passion and pride, power and corruption, and unintended consequences they never could have anticipated.

Status: Pre-production (outline/zero draft) Tags: #sn, #hexa (inspo reblogs) WIP intro

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I am open to critique/constructive criticism on any snippets/excerpts I post, for any WIP, unless otherwise specified.

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I'm okay with minors following me, but please be mindful of the fact that my work is written primarily for an adult audience and you will be blocked if you interact with any post tagged #minors DNI.

You should not follow me if you're uncomfortable with fiction that addresses dark (ie. potentially triggering) topics. This being said, I always provide content warnings as needed.

[wimbledon2008]

okay i know youre probably really busy so please dont feel obligated in any way to respond but ive seen a couple of your book recs and i was wondering if you could compile them in one post/add any other recs you have? also please give petrie a hug on my behalf ❤️

the only thing i'm busy with is consuming the entire western canon of m/m romance so it'd be my honor to provide you with some recs! of my 23/24 reads, here are my favorites, in no particular order:

whistling in the dark, invitation to the dance, and downtime by tamara allen

seven summer nights by harper fox

magician by k.l. noone

the will darling adventures by k.j. charles (read k.j. charles's entire oeuvre tbh)

we could be so good and two rogues make a right by cat sebastian

something wild and wonderful by anita kelly

the place between and cattle stop by kit oliver

box 1663 by alex sorel

the murder between us and the grave between us by tal bauer

salt magic, skin magic by lee welch

the uses of illicit art by wendy palmer

heated rivalry and the long game by rachel reid (would also recommend role model as the events of the book overlap with tlg)

the spear cuts through water by simon jimenez

death and the devil series by l.j. hayward

farview by kim fielding

happy reading! ❤️

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I'm looking for ARC readers for my upcoming book, Mental Warfare. This collection dives deep into the complexities of mental health, exploring themes like anxiety, PTSD, depression, and the search for light amidst the darkness. If you enjoy genres like Poetry, Mental Health, Self-Help, Inspirational, Emotional, and Psychological Thriller/Fiction, this book is for you!

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Edna

ai art 2024 after a prompt from ZZI

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This advertisement is for The Lies We Conjure, the new contemporary supernatural thriller from Sarah Henning.

WHAT’S IT ABOUT

Knives Out but make it witchy. A magical whodunit following two ordinary sisters who find themselves trapped in a mansion with thirteen witches after a dinner party turns deadly.

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Obsession: Petra Collins' 24 Hour Psycho

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If you're looking for some indie novels to get you into the Halloween mood, let me recommend the works of my friend Ren Montgomery. She's self-published over on Amazon, and I want to get the word out for her three books.

Horror

Haunt is a period piece set in the late 1970s. It tells the story of the Stewarts, a dysfunctional family who are looking for a fresh start in a brand new housing development, but the trauma they bring with them feeds into something sinister within the house itself. Pete is an abusive alcoholic, Mae is a lapsing fundamentalist at her wits' end, and their three young girls Kelly, Robin, and Lori are just trying to get through the new school year without slitting each others' throats.

Ren explores what it means to have faith when your views don't line up with what your Church dictates, and when those in power don't have your best interest at heart. Haunt is about the ties that bind a struggling family together, for better, or more often for worse, and the pain they face while trying to break the cycle of abuse. The presence which darkens the doorstep of the Stewarts' new haunt heightens their worst impulses and brings each and every one of them to their personal breaking point.

Haunt is both terrifying and gripping, and the 70s setting permeates every aspect of the plot; it doesn't feel like a modern story with a nostalgic 1970s coat of paint over it, it feels like something straight out of the dingy, smoke-filled, no-seatbelts-or-airbags era, an oft forgotten aspect of the decade that so many authors struggle to capture on page.

Contemporary fantasy

Monsters Are We is a story about burning bridges, both accidentally and on purpose. With some relationships, when the passion is gone, you can cut your losses and go your separate ways, but Penelope Draven doesn't have that option. Her old life with Leo the soul-sucking cheater needs to come to an end so her new life can begin.

She's danced this dance before, but this time around is going to be much more difficult for two very important reasons. First, she finally has something that makes her hesitate before throwing it all away, something she wants desperately to take with her when she goes; her teenage daughter, Clementine. Second, Leo knows what she is, what she's done, and what she's capable of, and he's not going to let either of them go so easily.

Ren explores the relationship between a mother and daughter from two very different generations, but who are more like one another than either realize. Monsters Are We is about figuring out who you are and choosing who you want to be. It's about being allowed to make irreparable mistakes so you can learn from them. The Draven girls find themselves on a road trip to hell and back which puts their lives and the lives of their closest friends into Leo's crosshairs. When they find themselves down on their luck, Penelope knows how to make her own, but it comes with a price.

Psychological thriller

Drawn to You is the story of the one that got away and one woman's twisted machinations to try and get it back. Ruby Deardon never got over her college crush, Sean Chaplin. They could have had something beautiful, Ruby tells herself, if only they had had anything at all. The timing was never right, the dominoes never fell the way she needed them to, so she lost her chance at her fairy tale happy ending.

Well, after nearly a decade of pining from a distance she decides to take matters into her own hands and insert herself back into Sean's life so they can finally have the life she's always wanted. He wants it too, she's sure of it, he just doesn't know it yet.

But just as she's about to zero in on Sean, she learns that Jeremy is zeroing in on her. She's was his one that got away, and while most women would be wary of his level of obsession, Ruby sees him as nothing but an obstacle standing between her and the future she's set her mind on. Jeremy is an unexpected dog in Ruby's game of cat and mouse, but cats have claws, and he has no idea what she's willing to do to make sure the mouse gets got.

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Athena Liu is a literary darling and June Hayward is literally nobody. White lies When Athena dies in a freak accident, June steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name Juniper Song. Dark humour But as evidence threatens June’s stolen success, she will discover exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves. Deadly consequences… What happens next is entirely everyone else’s fault. With its totally immersive first-person voice, Yellowface grapples with questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation, as well as the terrifying alienation of social media. R.F. Kuang’s novel is timely, razor-sharp, and eminently readable.

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YA contemporary books with aroace girls

Other People's Butterflies - aroace MC

The Rhythm of my Soul - 2/3 MCs aroace, one is a girl

Summer Bird Blue - questioning aroace MC

Immoral Code - 1/5 MCs aroace

Loveless - aroace MC

At The End of Everything - 1/3 MCs aroace-coded

Dear Wendy - 2 aroace MCs

Those Who Ripple - 1/4 MCs an aroace-questioning girl

Stuck In Her Head - 1/2 MCs an aroace girl

Switchback - 1/2 MCs an aroace girl

Before I Let Go - ace MC (& assume intended to be aro too)

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Chapter 19

Reality is setting in for Mahala

“Vollrath, what is really going on here? With you? With us? With all of you?” Mahala’s voice seemed small and frail. She was terrified suddenly of him, of them, of everything. Nothing seemed to be making any sense, and she so desperately wanted it to. While she had slightly lied that she didn’t trust or forgive Baldur or Elmar, the only one she trusted implicitly was Vollrath. She couldn’t even have explained why she did, but she knew without a doubt that he would never hurt her.

He sighed heavily, not even really knowing where to start without making her fear worse. Vollrath wanted to reassure her, to make her feel safe with him, but nothing he was going to say would do that. “My darling little witch, there is something wrong in the Coven. We don’t know what it is, but Baldur, Elmar, and I need to make a plan forward after what happened today to you from one of our own. Balor is the last person I would have expected to walk in here and be an ally, but he is. He is my brother and while we do not always get along, I do trust him to keep you safe. I would not let you go otherwise.” He gently kissed her forehead. “The prophecy, the one you’ve heard at least twice now, he knows it as well as I do but there are parts of it that we’re forgetting. So, what it means right now? I can’t say, I’m not hiding that from you.” He gently held her face in his hands as he spoke, his eyes never straying from hers. It was as if he was trying to memorize her in case this was the last time he saw her, a thing he did not truly want to imagine. “What started last night between you and me, we felt it from when we first touched. I’ve never had that with anyone. Already you are so special to me, and it scares me that someone could hurt you because of me. I don’t understand it all either, but we’re all going to figure it out together. Tonight though, tonight I need you to trust me, and trust Balor. Please.”

“Why would someone want to hurt me?” She was keeping her questions simple. It was her hope that she’d at least understand the answers then. Most of what Vollrath had just said was putting things she’d already heard in order to make sense of them.

“You are very, very, powerful, Mahala. They might want to keep me, or the Coven, from having access to your power. Then there is the fact that it is now known that you are special to me. There are many that know of the prophecy of our family, it would not take much for those that do, to figure out exactly who you are from that. I wish I could say that it protects you, but it makes you a target just as much as it offers protection.” Vollrath closed his eyes and brought his forehead to hers. An ache was starting in his chest, one he didn’t like. It was the reason he never let people close, it hurt. The thought of pushing her away already had that ache getting worse. He wouldn’t ever be able to do it, and he knew it.

“Who is going to protect you?” Vollrath’s eyes snapped open to meet hers again and she saw the worry in his. The beautiful hazel she was coming to adore shifting almost every second to a slightly different color with his warring emotions and thoughts. She had to wonder if he knew how open he was to someone who knew how to read them.

“I’m pretty good at protecting myself, Mahala. I also have Bal and El here with me. You’ve got my brother. Not an equal split, but I need both of them here with me, or I’d send Baldur with you. That and the humor in the two of them tripping over one another’s name.” Now one corner of his mouth ticked up in amusement. “Trust me, if they keep getting along, it may be the most amusing thing about this situation.” He tipped his head to kiss the end of her nose, then pulled her in tight against him and kissed the top of her head. The last thing he wanted to do was let her go and send her off with Balor; but the longer he waited, the later it would be when he made it back to the two of them.

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