Published by Calmann-Levy, 2022, 512 pages. A young woman is fished out of the Seine, very nearly dead. She has no identification on her person, so the police do a DNA test to see if they can find out who she is. The results are startling: according to the test, the mysterious woman is the …
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The Travelling Bag and Other Ghostly Stories: Susan Hill
Published by Profile Books, 2016, 288 pages. An act of charity that goes horribly wrong, a travelling bag that when opened leads to a man’s death, a ghostly boy that only his friend can see, a mysterious co-worker with a strange smell, and a misguided attempt to raise the dead. These are the five stories …
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The Dry: Jane Harper
Published by Flatiron Books and Abacus, 2017, 416 pages. Kiewarra, a town in the Australian Outback. The land is bone dry: the rains have failed again, and farmers are struggling to survive, as is everyone else. Many of the shops are boarded up. Karen Hadler and her six-year-old son Billy are found shot in their …
Oh William!: Elizabeth Strout
Published by Penguin Random House, 2021, 288 pages. “Because I’m a novelist, I have to write this almost like a novel, but it is true—as true as I can make it. And I want to say—oh, it is difficult to know what to say! But when I report something about William it is because he …
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