When a punk Battle of the Bands ends in four deaths, rock star Lily Lawlor confesses to murder at the police station. The rest of the band has refused to talk to the press for fifteen years, but now, Lily is agreeing to an interview, and the band is following her lead. They tell a story of prophecy, death, apocalypse, love, and the antichrist. True or not, this is their story, and they’re all sticking to it.
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When Nola Strate was a child, she spent a terrifying night with a notorious Pacific Northwest serial killer, the Hiding Man. She doesn’t speak of it now, but she’s installed security cameras at her house, and she hosts her father’s former radio show, Night Watch. When a caller has a live home invasion on the show, and its description sounds very familiar, Nola is convinced the Hiding Man is back and looking for her. When officials don’t take her seriously, she has to unmask the monster herself.
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Michelle and Daniel are leaving for vacation when they learn that Daniel’s twin and president of their homeland has died. So, they U-turn for Kazichia and head to the funeral instead. When they arrive, Michelle learns that Daniel is next in line for the presidency when they pressure him to stay. She wants to leave for home, but a rebel leader known as the Man with a Thousand Faces makes that impossible for them both.
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When aspiring artist and gallery assistant Ingrid meets the enigmatic Rudolph Sullivan, she falls fast for his charm. No one knows how he got to the top of the New York art scene, but he’s thriving, and Ingrid wants to learn his tricks of the trade. She soon realizes that they’re all, in fact, tricks, and he’s in so much debt that he’s turned to double-dealing… and he’ll take down anyone to keep his spot at the top.
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Julia Pritzker recently lost her adoptive parents, and now her husband has been murdered. She thinks she should have seen it all coming in her horoscope, and she starts to spiral until a letter arrives to inform her that she has inherited a Tuscan villa and vineyard from her bio family. When she arrives in Tuscany, though, she finds a paranoid recluse with delusions of grandeur and an inexplicable obsession with astrology. Could this all be connected?
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Brent Walker’s father died two years ago, but it’s been ten years since he’s been home to Concord, Georgia. Now he’s back as assistant general counsel to the Southern Republic Pulp and Paper Company and to care for his mother. Brent doesn’t’ realize that one of the company’s three owners has organized hiring Brent to clear his own conscience of the company’s wrongs… but he’ll implicate his partners in coming clean. Brent has to figure out the company’s secret before the other two partners can neutralize him.
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When exclusive lawyer Jane Smith takes on a celebrity client, she takes her life in her own hands. Among chase scenes and shoot-outs, any day could be her last.
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Malamar Veracruz has worked hard to build a life in El Valle, raising two daughters and trying to forget the unexplained disappearance of her own sister. When another girl goes missing, Mal hunts for answers and she’s plagued by visions of the locally legendary horse-headed woman… she has to follow them through to find out what’s happening to the girls before it’s too late.
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Eighteen years ago, baby Jesse was found on the bank of a river by his mother’s dead body. Now an adult, Jesse follows anonymous messages back to his hometown of Blacknot, North Carolina, but he stirs up trouble with the locals in doing so. The backwater town is more volatile than he could have possible imagined.
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Last year, blood spatter expert Claudia O’Sheil’s testimony put the killer of a father and his fiancé in prison. Now, she understands that she was fed misleading evidence, and her testimony was wrong. She has to choose between protecting her children and her career with continued complicity, or plunge into the corrupt London elite in effort to right the injustice.
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If you love the dark academia subgenre, you’ll love this one. Ali McCain from LA has just been accepted to Oxford to study English literature. He’s a legacy—his father was the British rock star Gel McCain, front man of the Pale Fires—but he never knew him, since Gel walked out on his family when Ali was a toddler. Now, Ali’s trading on his dad’s name to get into the secret society, the Saracens… and he accidentally sets a disaster in motion.
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Mary Kay McBrayer is the author of Madame Queen: The Life and Crimes of Harlem’s Underground Racketeer, Stephanie St. Clairand America’s First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster. You can find her short works on history, true crime, and horror at Oxford American,Narratively, Mental Floss, and FANGORIA, among other publications. She hosts the podcast about women in true crime who are not just victims, The Greatest True Crime Stories Ever Told. Follow Mary Kay McBrayer on Instagram and Twitter, or check out her author site here.
