The Wycherly Woman
10 best books like The Wycherly Woman (Ross Macdonald): Year of the Monkey, Beast In View, Haunted Ground, The Night of the Hunter, Flicker, The High Window, A Shortened History of England, Playback, Three Can Keep a Secret, On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears
| Author | Patti Smith |
| ISBN | 0525657681 |
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.
Following a run of New Year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti...
| Author | Margaret Millar |
| ISBN | 0786706678 |
A psychological thriller by a mistress of suspense at the top of her form and 1956 winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award. What starts with a crank call from an old school chum sets the lonely, aloof, financially comfortable Miss Helen Clarvoe on a path as predictable only as madness. Lured from her rooms in...
| Author | Erin Hart |
| ISBN | 0743235053 |
A dazzling debut -- already an international publishing sensation -- combining forensics, history, archaeology, and suspense.
Introducing Erin Hart, who brings the beauty, poignancy, mystery, and romance of the Irish countryside to her richly nuanced first novel.
When farmers...
| Author | Davis Grubb |
| ISBN | 1596542292 |
Inspired by serial killer Harry Powers, "The Bluebeard of Quiet Dell," who was hung in 1932 for his murders of two widows and three children. This best-selling novel, first published in 1953 to wide acclaim by author Grubb, (who like Powers lived in Clarksburg, West Virginia), served as the basis for...
From the golden age of art movies and underground cinema to X-rated porn, splatter films, and midnight movies, this breathtaking thriller is a tour de force of cinematic fact and fantasy, full of metaphysical mysteries that will haunt the dreams of every moviegoer. Jonathan Gates could not have anticipated...
| Author | Raymond Chandler |
| ISBN | 0394758269 |
A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin worth a small fortune—the elements don't quite add up until Marlowe discovers evidence of murder, rape, blackmail, and the worst kind of human exploitation.
"Raymond Chandler is a star of...
A Shortened History of England
| Author | George Macaulay Trevelyan |
| ISBN | 0140233237 |
Why English majors should read history:
For many centuries after Britain became an island the untamed forest was king. Its moist and mossy floor was hidden from heaven's eye by a close-drawn curtain woven of innumerable tree-tops, which shivered in the breezes of summer dawn and broke into...
| Author | Raymond Chandler |
| ISBN | 0394757661 |
Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7), Raymond Chandler
Playback is a novel by Raymond Chandler, featuring the private detective Philip Marlowe. It was first published in Britain in July 1958; the US edition followed in October that year. Chandler died the following year; Playback is his last completed...
Librarian's note: There is an Advance Reader Copy for this edition of this book here.
Archer Mayor's New York Times bestselling Joe Gunther series returns with a complex case involving two corpses, one escaped mental patient, and a long-held secret that binds them together
"Three...
On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears
Hailed as "a feast" (Washington Post) and "a modern-day bestiary" (The New Yorker), Stephen Asma's On Monsters is a wide-ranging cultural and conceptual history of monsters--how they have evolved over time, what functions they have served for us, and what shapes they are likely to take in the future....
| Author | John Farris |
| ISBN | 0812517768 |
John Farris' "The Uninvited" is a fantastic book. It is a psychological suspense which gradually introduces the reader to the characters and the setting but then explodes with horror and suspense within the last few chapters of the book.
Unlike many books that I read where the ending doesn't live...
| Author | Kate E. Dyer-Seeley |
| ISBN | 1496705114 |
On an expedition into Oregon's Lava River Cave, outdoor journalist Meg Reed stumbles across a body buried way more than six feet under . . .
A debate is raging over the use of public lands, and to cover the story for Northwest Extreme magazine, Meg joins a congressman and several others on a subterranean...
Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
| Author | Lewis Dartnell |
| ISBN | 1541617908 |
A New York Times-bestselling author explains how the physical world shaped the history of our species
When we talk about human history, we often focus on great leaders, population forces, and decisive wars. But how has the earth itself determined our destiny? Our planet wobbles, driving changes...
A History of the British Isles
| Author | Jeremy Black |
| ISBN | 1403900434 |
From the earliest pre-history to the present day, Jeremy Black's vigorous and fascinating narrative explores the rich historical influence of the British Isles and the varied stages through which they have passed to achieve their present identity. Giving proper weight to all four, often fractious,...
The Story of Britain: From the Romans to the Present: A Narrative History
A sparkling anecdotal account with the pace of an epic, about the men and women who created turning points in history. Rebecca Fraser's dramatic portrayal of the scientists, statesmen, explorers, soldiers, traders, and artists who forged Britain's national institutions is the perfect introduction...
The Encyclopedia of Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories
| Author | Michael Newton |
| ISBN | 0816055416 |
I wasn't overly impressed by this book... I started to do a humorous review, you know the ,Black Helicopters are watching, the UFOs are leaving the Hollow Earth to watch me, etc. But...and this is a slightly ironic criticism, the book actually has some bias. The historical parts of the book (mentions...
4.5/5 STARS!
Bernard Taylor-I LOVE the guy! SWEETHEART, SWEETHEART is still my favorite from him, (and one of my favorite quiet horror tales of all time), but THE REAPING is another fine example of horror at its best!
An artist and father is invited out to a country manor to paint a portrait....
| Author | John Coyne |
| ISBN | 0446343218 |
"Originally released in 1987, The Hunting Season is a horror novel by blog favorite John Coyne which focuses on what I believe to be one of the more fertile horror sub-genres - inbred backwoods maniacs (see Deliverance, The Hills Have Eyes, Jack Ketchum's Offseason, its sequels, and more). It centers...
