Laura Benedict
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Eleven celebrated short stories-from the darkly criminal to the twisted depths of the supernatural-by the writer whose work USA Today Bestselling writer Alison Gaylin called "Absorbing, addictive, and chilling."
A Paler Shade of Death-Tragedy has destroyed Becca's marriage and driven her to live among strangers. Her unraveling sanity exposes the truth of her past and deadly state of mind. (Edgar Short Story Award nomination)
Witches, All – A has-been...
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Summer secrets . . . kidnapping and murder. Erin Walsh arrives home to tiny New Belford, Kentucky from college only to clash with her young stepmother, Shelby Rae. When Shelby Rae is kidnapped and a dear friend of the family is murdered, Erin discovers that both victims had secrets connected to the violent death of her mother seven years earlier. In a small town the pool of suspects is limited, but it also means the danger to Erin's own life is deathly...
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320 pages ; 24 cm.
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"The Fall of 1957 in southern Virginia was a seemingly idyllic, even prosperous time. A young housewife, Charlotte Bliss, lives with her husband, Hasbrouck Preston "Press" Bliss and their two young children, Eva Grace and Michael, in the gorgeous Bliss family home. On the surface, theirs seems a calm, picturesque life, but soon tragedy befalls them -- a series of shocking deaths, with apparently simple explanations. But nothing is simple if Bliss...
5) Bliss House
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446 pages ; 24 cm
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Amidst the lush farmland and orchards in Old Gate, Virginia, stands the magnificent Bliss House. Built in 1878 as a country retreat, Bliss House is impressive, historic, and inexplicably mysterious. Decades of strange occurrences, disappearances and deaths have plagued the house, yet it remains vibrant. And very much alive. Rainey Bliss Adams desperately needed a new start when she and her daughter Ariel relocated from St. Louis to Old Gate and settled...
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345 pages ; 25 cm
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A woman arrives home to discover a stranger living in her house, claiming he has legally leased her property before revealing he knows a secret from her past involving the death of her sister.
Kimber Hanson arrives home to find the locks have been changed, and a stranger living in her house. He claim to be leasing the property -- and has paperwork to prove it. Then he reveals that he has a connection to Kimber's distant past, and dark secrets she'd...
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Issue Nº17: Winter 2022 features A curated collection of short fiction including stories by Edgar and ITW Thriller Award nominee Laura Benedict, Margaret Randall, Lee Matthew Goldberg, Bob Chikos, Caroline Taylor, Mark Jonathan Harris, Scott Cumming, and Dana King. Interviews and Reviews by Joe R. Lansdale, J. B. Stevens, and Jeffrey A. Lockwood. Art and Photography by Wiesje Peels, Trijntje Keijser, and Dimitar Karanikolov. This issue also features...