Category Archives: Mystery & Thriller

The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson

The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson

Delayed in London, Ted Severson meets a woman at the airport bar. Over cocktails they tell each other rather more than they should, and a dark plan is hatched – but are either of them being serious, could they actually go through with it and, if they did, what would be their chances of getting away with it?

Back in Boston, Ted’s wife Miranda is busy site managing the construction of their dream home, a beautiful house out on the Maine coastline. But what secrets is she carrying and to what lengths might she go to protect the vision she has of her deserved future?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Child abuse
  • Cheating
  • Murder
  • Stabbing
  • Car accident

Locke and Key, Volume Six by Joe Hill

Locke & Key, Vol. 6: Alpha & Omega by Joe Hill and illustrated by Gabriel Roríguez

The shadows have never been darker and the end has never been closer. Turn the key and open the last door; it’s time to say goodbye. Omega and Alpha, the final two storylines of the New York Times bestselling series, are collected together to offer a thunderous and compelling conclusion to Locke & Key. An event not to be missed!

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Racism
  • Misogyny
  • Suicide
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Home invasion

Locke and Key, Volume Five by Joe Hill

Locke & Key, Vol. 5: Clockworks by Joe Hill and illustrated by Gabriel Roríguez

The sprawling tale of the Locke family and their mastery of the whispering iron thunders to new heights as the true history of the family is revealed to Tyler and Kinsey. Zack Wells assumes a new form, Tyler and Kinsey travel through time, and surprises beyond imagination will be revealed.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Ableism
  • Racism & racial slurs
  • Sexism
  • Homomisia
  • Sexual assault

Locke and Key, Volume Four by Joe Hill

Locke & Key, Vol. 4: Keys to the Kingdom by Joe Hill and illustrated by Gabriel Roríguez

Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez’s Locke & Key unwinds into its fourth volume in Keys to the Kingdom. With more keys making themselves known, and the depths of the Locke family’s mystery ever-expanding, Dodge’s desperation to end his shadowy quest drives the inhabitants of Keyhouse ever closer to a revealing conclusion.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Ableism
  • Animal abuse

Locke and Key, Volume Three by Joe Hill

Locke & Key, Vol. 3: Crown of Shadows by Joe Hill and illustrated by Gabriel Roríguez

The dead plot against the living, the darkness closes in on Keyhouse, and a woman is shattered beyond repair, in the third storyline of the Eisner-nominated series, Locke & Key! Dodge continues his relentless quest to find the key to the black door, and raises an army of shadows to wipe out anyone who might get in his way. Surrounded and outnumbered, the Locke children find themselves fighting a desperate battle, all alone, in a world where the night itself has become their enemy.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Racism
  • Classism
  • Sexism
  • Homomisia
  • Ableism
  • Sexual assault

Locke and Key, Volume Two by Joe Hill

Locke & Key, Vol. 2: Head Games by Joe Hill and illustrated by Gabriel Roríguez

Following a shocking death that dredges up memories of their father’s murder, Kinsey and Tyler Locke are thrown into choppy emotional waters, and turn to their new friend, Zack Wells, for support, little suspecting Zack’s dark secret.

Meanwhile, six-year-old Bode Locke tries to puzzle out the secret of the head key, and Uncle Duncan is jarred into the past by a disturbingly familiar face.

Open your mind – the head games are just getting started.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Racism & racial slurs
  • Homomisia
  • Rape
  • Child abuse
  • Murder

Locke and Key, Volume One by Joe Hill

Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft by Joe Hill and illustrated by Gabriel Roríguez

Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them. Home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all…

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Racism
  • Homomisia
  • Ableism
  • Sexual assault

The Perfect Girlfriend by Karen Hamilton

The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer

The Perfect Girlfriend by Karen Hamilton

Juliette loves Nate. She will follow him anywhere. She’s even become a flight attendant for his airline so she can keep a closer eye on him. They are meant to be.

The fact that Nate broke up with her six months ago means nothing. Because Juliette has a plan to win him back. She is the perfect girlfriend. And she’ll make sure no one stops her from getting exactly what she wants.

True love hurts, but Juliette knows it’s worth all the pain…

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Slut-shaming
  • Dubious consent
  • Toxic relationship
  • Emotional abuse
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Drug use
  • Murder
  • Stabbing
  • Stalking
  • Kidnapping
  • Blackmail

Ghost Story by Jim Butcher

Ghost Story by Jim Butcher

When we last left the mighty wizard detective Harry Dresden, he wasn’t doing well. In fact, he had been murdered by an unknown assassin.

But being dead doesn’t stop him when his friends are in danger. Except now he has no body, and no magic to help him. And there are also several dark spirits roaming the Chicago shadows who owe Harry some payback of their own.

To save his friends—and his own soul—Harry will have to pull off the ultimate trick without any magic… 

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Child abuse
  • Loss of autonomy (mind control)

A Choice Cocktail of Death by Christine Zane Thomas

A Choice Cocktail of Death by Christine Zane Thomas

When food blogger and restaurant reviewer, Allie Treadwell, is invited to the grand opening of Lanai’s newest attraction, a murder mystery dinner party, she expects a night of fun, good food, and mystery. What she didn’t expect is an actual murder.

What seems an open and shut case is anything but as Allie uncovers clues that lead to a conspiracy. With an innocent man framed, Allie can’t just sit by and watch. She uses the only power she has to help set the story straight, her words. But the real killer is out to silence the loudmouth foodie for good.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Fatmisia & body shaming
  • Anxiety & panic attacks
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a parent mentioned
  • Murder
  • Gun violence
  • Fire