What Boys Learn by Andromeda Romano-Lax

Andromeda Romano-Lax delivers this psychological suspense which diggs into the murky, often-unspoken realities of how boys are shaped by society and what they’re allowed to get away with. What Boys Learn is not just a mystery, it’s a sharp, unsettling look at motherhood, guilt, and the terrifying question mother ask. "What if your own child is capable of something monstrous?"

Book Review: Love, Mom

Poisoned Pen Press (September 2, 2025) Many books promoted as having more twists than an Auntie Anne's pretzel trade plausibility for shock value. The coincidences are far too convenient or unlikely, the culprit comes from nowhere, the narrator inexplicably has no...

BOOK REVIEW: IT WAS HER HOUSE FIRST

It Was Her House First by Cherie Priest Poisoned Pen Press July 22, 2025 Cherie Priest's It Was Her House First has all the bones for a great ghost story. An old house with a dark past meets a grieving sister who simply wants to renovate the place. The fate of the...

Kill Your Darlings by Peter Swanson

Peter Swanson is a shifty guy. Readers familiar with any of his previous eleven novels (and one novella), know that Swanson spins his already twisted, tangled characters like clothes in a demented dryer. The deceitful men and women who inhabit his realm of betrayal and sexual intrigue, inflict all manner of pain on both themselves and each other.