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NetGalley: Sundown Girls by L.S. Stratton

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Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Published: 1/27/2026 Pages: 310 Genre: Mystery/Thriller/Paranormal Review: NetGalley ARC and publisher Amazon When sixteen-year-old Naomi Stoakes and her family head to a secluded cabin in the Shenandoah Valley for summer vacation they don’t know the small, mountainous town of Sparksburg, Virginia has a dark and twisted past. But when they arrive, Naomi can’t shake the feeling that something about Sparksburg just isn’t right. When she learns Sparksburg had once been a Sundown Town—a town where Blacks weren’t allowed after sunset lest they be murdered—well Naomi’s unease starts to make sense. As Naomi digs more into Sparksburg’s violent origins, she finds herself haunted by the ghost of a girl, appearing nightly outside her window. Then she learns of two girls who’ve recently gone missing and suspects the past may still be present in Sparksburg and beneath the quaint façade of this tourist town is a palpable danger. When Naomi decides to track the disap...
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Kindle Unlimited: Camp Lanier by Sylvester Barzey

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Publisher: Self Published: 10/19/2025 Pages: 204 Genre: Teen Review: Kindle Unlimited Amazon At Camp Lanier, the horror is no ghost story. Taylor Johnson didn’t mean to hurt anyone. When she’s caught shoplifting with her wealthy white friends, she’s the one who takes the fall. Her only way out? Agreeing to work in a community service program that takes at-risk youth and employs them at Camp Lanier for the summer. Taylor’s heard the rumors about Camp Lanier. Everyone has. Urban legends say that an all Black town was forced out to create the lake, and it has been cursed ever since. Taylor’s too old to believe in ghost stories. But if the ghosts aren’t real, why is she the only one who can hear someone crying at night? Why are kids disappearing? And the whispers of a serial killer named the Atlanta Ripper stalking the woods… that can't be real, can it? None of it makes sense. Kids have been “running away” from Camp Lanier for the last 52 years, and Taylor wants to find out why – even...
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Library book: Keep your Friends Close by Cynthia Murphy

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Publisher: Delacorte Press Published: 9/2/2025 Pages: 365 Genre: Mystery Thriller/ YA Review: library book Amazon Chloe Roberts is on top of the world. After a stellar first year at the prestigious Morton Academy, she’s a shoo-in for Head Girl and a coveted position in the school’s secret society, Jewel and Bone. But her dreams are shattered when her best friend, Nikhita Patel, unfairly snatches the top spot—and steals Chloe's boyfriend at the same time. Heartbroken and humiliated, Chloe discovers a shocking truth: Jewel and Bone isn’t as secret as she thought. The rest of the school despises the Jewels, and there’s even a “Book of Crime and Punishment” cataloging their misdeeds. Things take a very dark turn when the names in the book start to correlate with murders of Jewel and Bone members on campus. Suddenly, anyone could be a suspect. And now, Chloe must navigate a web of lies and deceit to get to the bottom of this twisted game before she’s next on the kill list.
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Kindle Unlimited: The 31st Trick-or-Treater Ben Farthing

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Publisher: Farthing Agency Published: 9/24/2025 Pages: 332 Genre: Halloween, Teen, Paranormal Review: Kindle Unlimited Amazon Thirty-one nights. Thirty-one chapters. One final nightmare. Last Halloween, thirty trick-or-treaters vanished into the night. This October, they’re coming back—one by one, each day of the month. But every child carries the same chilling warning: something is returning on the 31st. Bob has never stopped searching for his daughter. Now, as the shadows of Halloween grow longer, he must face the darkness that stole her—before it takes everything again. The 31st Trick-or-Treater is a Halloween advent novel: thirty-one nights, thirty-one chapters, and one final nightmare waiting on Halloween.
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Library book: Eddie Flynn #5 Fifty Fifty Steve Cavanagh

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Publisher: Atria Books Published: 6/3/2025 Pages: 384 Genre: Thriller/Mystery Review: Amazon Two sisters on trial for murder. They accuse each other. Who do you believe? “911 what’s your emergency?” “My dad’s dead. My sister Sofia killed him. She’s still in the house. Please send help.” “My dad’s dead. My sister Alexandra killed him. She’s still in the house. Please send help.” One of them is a liar and a killer. But which one?
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Kindle Unlimited: Nobody Knows You're Here by Bryn Greenwood

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Publisher: Podium Publishing Published: 9/16/2025 Pages: 337 Genre: Thriller/Mystery  Review: Kindle Unlimited Amazon Beatrice is about to lose everything when a kind stranger offers her a cup of coffee and a job. It seems like a promise of a better life . . . until she wakes up under lock and key in an isolated mansion in the woods. On orders from a shadowy criminal organization, armed jailers make the rules for their captives, enforcing them with unflinching violence. Beatrice has always been a “nice girl,” but that won’t save her now. Nobody helped her when she lost her job, her car, and her home, and nobody’s coming to give back her freedom. The only person she can rely on is herself. And now, several child hostages are relying on her too. When the situation gets more dire—deadly even—Beatrice has to become the hero she and her fellow prisoners need. To escape she’ll have to outsmart her captors and do terrible things that would horrify her former self. If she succeeds, there’...
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Library book: Into the Blizzard (Part of a series) by Michael J. Tougias

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Publisher: Square Fish Published: 11/4/2025 Pages: 272 Genre: Nonfiction/History Review: library book Amazon In the midst of the Blizzard of 1978, the tanker Global Hope floundered on the shoals in Salem Sound off the Massachusetts coast. When the Coast Guard heard the Mayday calls, they immediately dispatched a patrol rescue boat. But within an hour, the Coast Guard rescue boat was in as much trouble as the tanker—both paralyzed in unrelenting seas. Enter Captain Frank Quirk who was compelled to act. Gathering his crew of four, Quirk plunged his forty-nine-foot steel boat, the Can Do, into the blizzard. Perfect for fans of the I Survived series ready for a longer form account, this middle-grade adaptation of an adult nonfiction book chronicles the harrowing journey between Captain Quirk and the Coast Guard as they struggled in the holds of a radical storm. It's an epic tale of heroism and bravery at sea.
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