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Tell Me What You Did (Click to enter the giveaway!)
By Carter Wilson (January 28th, 2025)
THRILLER, MYSTERY, SUSPENSE
She gets people to confess their crimes for a living. He knows she’s hiding a terrible secret. It’s time for the truth to come out…
Poe Webb, host of a popular true crime podcast, invites people to anonymously confess crimes they’ve committed to her audience. She can’t guarantee the police won’t come after her “guests,” but her show grants simultaneous anonymity and instant fame—a potent combination that’s proven difficult to resist. After an episode recording, Poe usually erases both criminal and crime from her mind.
But when a strange and oddly familiar man appears on her show, Poe is forced to take a second look. Not only because he claims to be her mother’s murderer from years ago, but because Poe knows something no one else does. Her mother’s murderer is dead.
Poe killed him.
From the USA Today bestselling author of The Dead Girl in 2A and The New Neighbor comes a chilling new thriller that forces the question: are murderers always the bad guys?
2025 ARC (Approved) Titles
Mayra: A Novel, Nicky Gonzales
Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread, Leila Taylor READ
Tell Them You Lied, Laura Leffler READING
The Staircase in the Woods, Chuck Wendig
The Summer I Ate The Rich, Maika Moulite
A Grim Reaper’s Guide to Catching a Killer (S.C.Y.T.H.E. Mystery, #1), Maxie Dara READ
Lastest ARC Review
5.00 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Thank you to Net Galley and Repeater Books for the copy of this title.
A quick read indeed is Sick Houses, which is more of an essay than a novel per se. I love the comparison and contrast that the author makes when she speaks about a house vs. home. Some of this is spot on. However, I don’t have an affinity for haunted houses other than in a book.
The author also keeps referring to the Amityville house (and movie) due to its significance in the haunted house genre. However, I will say that I don’t know why this kept repeating itself in different chapters, but I should note that there have been so many conflicting stories about the Lutzs that it’s hard to believe what’s true or not. It hasn’t stopped me from watching (and enjoying) that movie.
The book breaks down houses into a few categories, and the Amityville house is at the forefront of the chapter on American houses. It also talks about “The Conjuring House,” the house featured in “A Haunting in Connecticut,” “The House on Haunted Hill,” and the house that was featured in “Rose Red.”
This book also touches on the importance that we as people place on owning a home and what it means. “It’s one of the biggest events that signify financial stability, personal security, and a cohesive family unit. I wholeheartedly agree that people are taught early on to desire homeownership.
It’s more than a place to decorate. It’s where you experience most of your life, and it’s where memories are created (good and bad). There is also emphasis that houses hold memories, but I think the individual has the memory about the house.
What I found most interesting was the discussion about high rises in our society and what they signify. Renting was seen as a bad thing until the modern monstrosities came about in the 60s, with every amenity one would need. <i>City living at its best.</i> It’s also mentioned that materials used to build the houses would also have a role to play.
This book connects horror to some of the most infamous houses and structures around the world and hones in on our insecurities about a home and what we love and fear most, as well as how horror takes that notion and capitalizes on it. It’s art imitating life.
I loved this title, and some photos accompanying the various homes are extremely interesting and eerie. – Kudos
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My Draft 2025 Good Reads Challenge
So far, this list has 19 titles. Last year, I read 39 38 books, just two books shy of my 40-book goal. Listed below is my first initial list, which always changes throughout the year, and I’ll keep this updated on this platform and my Notions page.
- Don’t Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2) by Stephen Graham Jones
Murder Road, Simone St. James READ 🎧The Cursed Among Us, John Durgin READ 🎧- Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies, Hadley Freedman
- The Mary Shelley Club, Goldy Moldavsky READING 🎧
- Midnight Showing (Malice Compendium #2), Megan Shepherd
- Black Girls Must Die Exhausted, Jayne Allen
- Their Vicious Games, Joelle Wellington
- Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, Grady Hendrix
- All Night Horror Show (Friday Night Frights Book 6), Eric Mosher
- 80s Ghosts, V.S.Lawrence
- Bury Your Gays, Chuck Tingle
- Such Lovely Skin, Tatiana Schlote-Bonne
- The House at the End of Lacelean Street, Catherine McCarthy
- The Summer I Ate the Rich, Maika Moulite (ARC)
- So Thirsty, Rachel Harrison
- Heads Will Roll, John Winning
- A Cut Below: A Celebration of B Horror Movies, 1950s-1980s, Scott Drebit
- The Midwitch Cuckoos, John Wyndham
- Needy Little Things, Channelle Desamours
- The Devil and Mrs. Davenport, Paulette Kennedy