“They have traveled for most of the day using what little daylight the season offers leaving Ferrara Dawn and riding out to what he had told her was a hunting lodge, far in the northwest of the province. But this is no hunting lodge is what Lucrezia had wanted to say when they reach their destination, a […]
In Ruth Ware’s twisty thriller In a Dark, Dark Wood, homebody mystery novelist Nora Shaw receives a fateful invitation: Clare, a high school friend she hasn’t seen in a decade, is having a bachelorette weekend at an isolated cabin in the woods. Two days after she arrives at the cabin, Nora awakens in a hospital room, with a policeman […]
Lauren Owen’s The Quick, about aristocratic monsters stalking London’s streets during Victorian England, is pitch-perfect and unputdownable. Like the best horror novels, it uses its subject to address real-world issues—in this case, class—but doesn’t allow its metaphorical weight to hold it down. This is a book to choose over sleeping; to savor in the small […]
