October 2019 Recommended Reads!

I’ve been seriously loving the thriller/horror genre this month: It’s just so perfect for fall! So, snuggle in with your most favourite blankie, a cup of hot chocolate or tea, and let’s check out which books i read and loved this month!

October Recommended Reads Kristy Nicolle


In The Woods by Tana French- Recommended bvy Kristy Nicolle

In The Woods

Murder Squad Book 1

Synopsis

The bestselling debut, with over a million copies sold, that launched Tana French, author of The Witch Elm and “the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years” (The Washington Post).

“Required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting.” —The New York Times

Soon to be a Starz series

As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers, and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours.

Twenty years later, the found boy, Rob Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin Murder Squad and keeps his past a secret. But when a twelve-year-old girl is found murdered in the same woods, he and Detective Cassie Maddox—his partner and closest friend—find themselves investigating a case chillingly similar to the previous unsolved mystery. Now, with only snippets of long-buried memories to guide him, Ryan has the chance to uncover both the mystery of the case before him and that of his own shadowy past.

Richly atmospheric and stunning in its complexity, In the Woods is utterly convincing and surprising to the end.


The Likeness by Tana French- Recommended by Kristy Nicolle

The Likeness

Murder Squad Book 2

Synopsis

In the “compellingˮ (The Boston Globe) and “pitch perfectˮ (Entertainment Weekly) follow-up to Tana French’s runaway bestseller In the Woods, Cassie Maddox has transferred out of the Dublin Murder Squad—until an urgent telephone call brings her back to an eerie crime scene.

The victim looks exactly like Cassie and carries ID identifying herself as Alexandra Madison, an alias Cassie once used as an undercover cop. Suddenly, Cassie is back undercover, to find out not only who killed this young woman, but, more importantly, who she was.

The Likeness is a supremely suspenseful story exploring the nature of identity and belonging.


The Institute by Stephen King- Recommended by Kristy Nicolle

The Institute

Synopsis

In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, “like the roach motel,” Kalisha says. “You check in, but you don’t check out.”

In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don’t, punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute.

As psychically terrifying as Firestarter, and with the spectacular kid power of It, The Institute is Stephen King’s gut-wrenchingly dramatic story of good vs. evil in a world where the good guys don’t always win.


Into the darkness by Sibel Hodge- Recommended by Kristy Nicolle

Into The Darkness

Synopsis

The Missing…

In a hidden basement, eighteen-year-old Toni is held captive and no one can hear her screams. She’s been abducted after investigating unspeakable things in the darkest corners of the Internet.

The Vigilante…

Fearing the worst, Toni’s mother turns to ex-SAS operative Mitchell to help find her missing daughter. And when Mitchell discovers Toni’s fate rests in the hands of pure evil, he races against the clock to find Toni and bring her out alive. But even that might not be enough to save her.

The Detective…

DS Warren Carter is looking forward to a new job and a simpler life. But when he’s called in to investigate the brutal murder of a seemingly normal couple, he becomes entangled in lives that are anything but simple. And as he digs deeper, he uncovers a crime more twisted than he could ever have imagined.

Into the Darkness is the chilling new thriller from the bestselling author of Duplicity and Beneath the Surface.


Prey Little Sister Recommended by Kristy Nicolle

Prey Little Sister.

Synopsis

Orphaned child, Savannah, felt detached and uncertain in a high school full of fake people. She knew something was missing from her life, but had no interest in a family that wasn’t really hers… or families. She had been bounced along from group home to foster care and back too many times. She preferred solitude, and the few items in her backpack she could actually claim as her own. When she discovered the file of information about her serial-killer brother from Crystal Lake in her foster mother’s office, she realized what she had been missing. It was time to embrace her birthright… uphold a legacy. It was a terrifying change, but it sent a thrill down her spine. The difficulty was figuring out the first step. Kids don’t say “I want to slit people's throats when I grow up!” Yet here she was, trying to create a family tradition of murder. Sure, the short temper and teen angst was there, but how does one become a killer? Just wake up and pick someone to kill? What outfit do you put on for a day like that? What store sells killing tools? This wasn’t the kind of thing that came with a mentoring program. Unfortunately for her school counselor, he was just the guidance she needed.

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