Tag: family
+ brothers, child abuse, family, fiction, murder, murder mystery, mystery, review, serial killer, thriller
The Other Daughter by Heidi Field The Peasedale Woods Killers #4
Two brothers. Two daughters. One deadly legacy. Every family has secrets. Some are worth killing for. Shiv has spent years trying to leave Peasedale behind. With Mason Tucker finally free from prison and her son, Pip, growing into a happy young boy, the future feels brighter than it has in a long time. Then Hunter Piper appears. For decades, the Piper name has been synonymous with … Read More The Other Daughter by Heidi Field The Peasedale Woods Killers #4
+ 1960s, 1990s, childhood, family, family drama, fiction, grief, India, literature, review, siblings, twins
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfins is stranded on the highway amid a Marxist workers’ demonstration. Inside the car sit two-egg twins Rahel and Esthappen, and so begins their tale. . . . Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, they fashion a childhood for themselves in the … Read More The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
+ 1920s, 1980s, art, family, family drama, fiction, Historical fiction, India, romance
The Emerald Sketchbook by Helen Sellarajah
Delhi, 1920. After five years in England, seventeen-year-old Patricia Harris returns to British India to assume a future shaped by societal expectations, and her plans to pursue her art, and marry the respectable Frederick Ward of the Indian Civil Service. Instead, she finds herself caught between two very different men, and a man with scars and secrets of his own. She is confronted by … Read More The Emerald Sketchbook by Helen Sellarajah
+ family, fiction, ghosts, gothic, gothic horror, Gothic mystery, haunting, revenge, review, secrets, supernatural, Victorian Britain
The Shroud by Ava Monegan The Making of Madame Theda #1
A fraudulent medium. A house full of secrets. And a killer who can’t let either of them leave. Madame Theda is a fraud. She wears mourning clothes without having lost anyone. She owns a past that isn’t hers. And she claims to speak to the dead, but can’t. When she is hired to investigate a haunting at the isolated Blackheath House on the English … Read More The Shroud by Ava Monegan The Making of Madame Theda #1
+ family, family drama, fiction, gothic, gothic horror, Gothic mystery, grief, lies, mental illness, review, secrets, siblings, sisters
The Hollow Garden by Natalie Grace Lewis
Seventeen years ago, Kyra Masters fled the Hollow Garden and never looked back. Haunted by fragmented memories of her friend Eleanor’s death and the events that followed, she has spent years trying to build a life far from the estate that shattered her family and left her questioning her own mind. Following her aunt’s death, Kyra unexpectedly inherits the Hollow Garden. A sprawling Victorian … Read More The Hollow Garden by Natalie Grace Lewis
+ 1960s, diary, family, fiction, grief, Historical fiction, Italy, loss, love, mystery, review, secrets
The Secret Diary of Rome by M.A. McLaughlin
A hidden diary. A story that’s waited a hundred years to be told . . . 1960, New York. Emilia Rinaldi restores broken books for a living. She knows how to bring lost stories back to life. The one story she cannot repair is her own. Then an unexpected gift from her late mother arrives — an antique music box containing a faded photograph … Read More The Secret Diary of Rome by M.A. McLaughlin
The Adventures of Dottie Daydream by Chrissy Combes
Dottie Field is an ordinary five‑year‑old girl who lives happily with her mum and dad in the little village of Swan Dopley on the Marsh. But Dottie’s imagination is anything but ordinary, and when she drifts into a daydream – which happens rather a lot – it leaves the grown‑ups in her life quite flustered, from ballet teachers to swimming instructors, from coach drivers … Read More The Adventures of Dottie Daydream by Chrissy Combes
+ child abuse, childhood, crime fiction, Detective novel, family, fiction, lies, murder, murder mystery, mystery, obsession, police drama, review, secrets, thriller
You’ll Be Sorry by Lisa Gardner
The Dixon family house was once a crown jewel of the White Mountains. Perched on a cliff with breathtaking views, it promised summer adventures, winter skiing, and family gatherings around a roaring log fire. Until late one August night, when both parents and their four children vanished, leaving behind a trail of bloody footprints, and a mystery that has endured for generations. Thirty years … Read More You’ll Be Sorry by Lisa Gardner
+ audio book, childhood, family, fiction, folklore, ghosts, gothic, gothic horror, mythology, review, superstition, witches
The Ghost Woods by CJ Cooke
In the midst of the woods stands a house called Lichen Hall. This place is shrouded in folklore—old stories of ghosts, of witches, of a child who was not quite a child. Now the woods are creeping closer, and something has been unleashed. Pearl Gorham arrives in 1965, one of a string of young women sent to Lichen Hall to give birth. And she … Read More The Ghost Woods by CJ Cooke
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away a summer together on a tiny island in the gulf of Finland. Gradually, the two learn to adjust to each other’s fears, whims and yearnings for independence, and a fierce yet understated love emerges—one that encompasses not only the summer inhabitants but the island itself, with its mossy rocks, windswept firs and unpredictable seas. Full … Read More The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
The Beasts of the Black Loch by Gay Marris
In 50,000 acres of remote Scottish mountains and moor sits Dorcha Hall: a former hunting lodge nestling amongst ancient forests, on the shores of the enigmatic ‘Black Loch’. At night, lights glow from within, smoke curls from its chimneys, and in the forgiving murk of the gloaming, it looks magical. In daylight, its mouldering plasterwork and failing plumbing present a less romantic reality. #TheBeastsoftheBlackLoch … Read More The Beasts of the Black Loch by Gay Marris
Save Her by Abigail Osborne
Would you sacrifice your marriage to save your best friend? Bound by the traumas of their childhood, Flora and Sophie were inseparable long before they married brothers and joined the rich and powerful Cavendish family. But behind the polished façade of the family estate lurks Cecelia. The cold and controlling matriarch is determined to remind both women they will never be good enough for … Read More Save Her by Abigail Osborne
