Thrillers, mystery, suspense, and horror books I've enjoyed reading.

Darcy Coates

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Tennessee

"Originally self-published in 2016 by Black Owl Books."

The Haunting of Ashburn House

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Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Massachusetts

"The acclaimed author of Gods of Jade and Shadow returns with a darkly enchanting reimagining of Gothic fantasy, in which a spirited young woman discovers the haunting secrets of a beautiful old mansion in 1950s Mexico"--

Mexican Gothic

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T. Kingfisher

There are a couple of pages with very minor water wrinkles. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

From T. Kingfisher, the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones, comes What Moves the Dead, a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's classic "The Fall of the House of Usher."

*A very special hardcover edition, featuring foil stamp on the casing and custom endpapers illustrated by the author.*

When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania.

What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves.

Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all.

What Moves the Dead

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Agustina Bazterrica

Sarah Moses

Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore. His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing. Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.

Tender Is the Flesh

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Sarah J. Maas

Pennsylvania

Feyre, Rhysand, and their friends are still busy rebuilding the Night Court and the vastly altered world beyond, recovering from the war that changed everything. But Winter Solstice is finally approaching, and with it, the joy of a hard-earned reprieve. Yet even the festive atmosphere can’t keep the shadows of the past from looming. As Feyre navigates her first Winter Solstice as High Lady, her concern for those dearest to her deepens. They have more wounds than she anticipated—scars that will have a far-reaching impact on the future of their court. Bridging the events of A Court of Wings and Ruin with the later books in the series, A Court of Frost and Starlight explores the far-reaching effects of a devastating war and the fierce love between friends.

A Court of Frost and Starlight

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Jodi Picoult

Written with grace, wisdom, and sensitivity, this novel is about a teen who was conceived as a bone marrow match for her sister Kate, and what happens when she begins to question who she really is.

My Sister's Keeper

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I read it... I loved it. 😍

Hannah Nicole Maehrer

Ohio

ASSISTANT WANTED...Notorious, high-ranking villain seeks loyal, unperturbable assistant for general office duties, admin work, and supporting staff for mayhem, terror, and Dark Things In General. Discretion necessary under pain of death. Excellent benefits.Evie Sage has been working for the Villain for exactly five months. She thought that being the assistant for Rennedawn's lord of darkness might make her a little more, yunno, evil. Instead, she's getting used to suspended severed heads, the screams of fear, and the odd squish of an errant eyeball beneath her heel.Of course, no job is perfect, especially when you have a teeeeny crush on your terrifying, temperamental, and undeniably hot boss. Don't find evil so attractive, Evie.Only something is rotten is growing in the kingdom of Rennedawn. Someone wants to take the Villain - and his entire nefarious empire - out. Now Evie is determined to figure out exactly who is sabotaging her boss, and ensure he makes them pay.After all, a good job is hard to find.And the monsters that we should fear aren?t the ones that live in the light - but the ones who hide in the shadows.

Assistant to the Villain

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Rachel Lynn Solomon

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Iowa

Seattle public radio producer can't imagine working anywhere else. But lately it's been a constant clash between her and her newest colleague, Dominic Yeung, who's fresh off a master's and convinced he knows everything. When the struggling station needs a new concept, Shay proposes a show that her boss green-lights with excitement, The Ex Talk, where two exes will deliver relationship advice. Their boss decides Shay and Dominic are the perfect co-hosts - all they have to do is pretend to be exes. But as the show gets bigger, Shay and Dominic start to catch feelings for each other.

The Ex Talk

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Ali Hazelwood

California

Rival physicists collide in a vortex of academic feuds and fake dating shenanigans in this delightfully STEMinist romcom from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis and Love on the Brain.
 
The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she's an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. By other day, Elsie makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend, tapping into her expertly honed people-pleasing skills to embody whichever version of herself the client needs.
 
Honestly, it's a pretty sweet gig--until her carefully constructed Elsie-verse comes crashing down. Because Jack Smith, the annoyingly attractive and arrogant older brother of her favorite client, turns out to be the cold-hearted experimental physicist who ruined her mentor's career and undermined the reputation of theorists everywhere. And he's the same Jack Smith who rules over the physics department at MIT, standing right between Elsie and her dream job.
 
Elsie is prepared for an all-out war of scholarly sabotage but...those long, penetrating looks? Not having to be anything other than her true self when she's with him? Will falling into an experimentalist's orbit finally tempt her to put her most guarded theories on love into practice?

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