Halloween is quickly approaching! If you're looking for something spooky to read to help you get in the spirit, we've got you covered. Here is a list of 10 perfectly creepy books that you can find in our popular reading section (located at the front of the library).
One of the Girls by Lucy Clarke: It was supposed to be the perfect weekend away.
Six very different women travel to a sun-soaked Greek island for a
bachelorette trip, to celebrate Lexi’s upcoming wedding. From the
glorious ocean views to the quaint tavernas and whitewashed streets, the
vacation seems too good to be true. But dangerous undercurrents run
beneath the sunset swims and midnight cocktails – because each of the
women is hiding a secret. Someone is determined to make sure that Lexi’s
marriage never happens – and that one of them doesn’t leave the island
alive.
Gripping, twisty, and full of sun-soaked suspense, this
timely thriller examines the joys of female friendship…as well as the
deadly consequences when a relationship goes wrong.
Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney: After years of avoiding each other, Daisy
Darker’s entire family is assembling for Nana’s 80th birthday party in
Nana’s crumbling gothic house on a tiny tidal island. Finally back
together one last time, when the tide comes in, they will be cut off
from the rest of the world for eight hours.
The family arrives,
each of them harboring secrets. Then at the stroke of midnight, as a
storm rages, Nana is found dead. And an hour later, the next family
member follows…
Trapped on an island where someone is killing
them one by one, the Darkers must reckon with their present mystery as
well as their past secrets, before the tide comes in and all is
revealed.
With a wicked wink to Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, Daisy Darker’s unforgettable twists will leave readers reeling.
The Outsider by Stephen King: An unspeakable crime. A confounding
investigation. At a time when the King brand has never been stronger, he
has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable
stories.
An eleven-year-old boy’s violated corpse is found in a
town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of
Flint City’s most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League
coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective
Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very
public arrest. Maitland has an alibi, but Anderson and the district
attorney soon add DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and
witnesses. Their case seems ironclad.
As the investigation
expands and horrifying answers begin to emerge, King’s propulsive story
kicks into high gear, generating strong tension and almost unbearable
suspense. Terry Maitland seems like a nice guy, but is he wearing
another face? When the answer comes, it will shock you as only Stephen
King can.
Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica: Shelby Tebow is the first to go missing. Not
long after, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah,
vanish just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen, striking fear
into their once-peaceful community. Are these incidents connected? After
an elusive search that yields more questions than answers, the case
eventually goes cold.
Now, 11 years later, Delilah shockingly
returns. Everyone wants to know what happened to her, but no one is
prepared for what they’ll find....
In this smart and chilling thriller, master of suspense and New York Times
best-selling author Mary Kubica takes domestic secrets to a whole new
level, showing that some people will stop at nothing to keep the truth
buried.
The Long Weekend by Gilly Macmillan: Three couples. Two bodies. One secret.
Dark
Fell Barn is a “perfectly isolated” retreat, or so says its website
when Jayne books a reservation for her friends. A quiet place, far
removed from the rest of the world, is exactly what they need.
The
women arrive for a girls’ night ahead of their husbands. There’s
ex-Army Jayne, hardened and serious, but also damaged. Ruth, the driven
doctor and new mother who is battling demons of her own. Young Emily,
just wed and insecure, the newest addition of this tight-knit band.
Missing this year is Edie, who was the glue holding them together until
her husband died suddenly.
But what they hoped would be a
relaxing break soon turns to horror. Upon arrival at Dark Fell Barn, the
women find a devastating note claiming one of their husbands will be
murdered. There are no phones, no cell service to check on their men.
Friendships fracture as the situation spins wildly out of control.
Betrayal can come in many forms.
This group has kept each other’s secrets for far too long.
The Children on the Hill by Jennifer McMahon: A genre-defying new novel, inspired by Mary Shelley’s masterpiece Frankenstein, which brilliantly explores the eerie mysteries of childhood and the evils perpetrated by the monsters among us.
1978:
at her renowned treatment center in picturesque Vermont, the brilliant
psychiatrist, Dr. Helen Hildreth, is acclaimed for her compassionate
work with the mentally ill. But when she's home with her cherished
grandchildren, Vi and Eric, she’s just Gran—teaching them how to take
care of their pets, preparing them home-cooked meals, providing them
with care and attention and love.
Then one day Gran brings home a
child to stay with the family. Iris—silent, hollow-eyed, skittish, and
feral—does not behave like a normal girl.
Still, Violet is
thrilled to have a new playmate. She and Eric invite Iris to join their
Monster Club, where they catalogue all kinds of monsters and dream up
ways to defeat them. Before long, Iris begins to come out of her shell.
She and Vi and Eric do everything together: ride their bicycles, go to
the drive-in, meet at their clubhouse in secret to hunt monsters.
Because, as Vi explains, monsters are everywhere.
2019: Lizzy Shelley, the host of the popular podcast Monsters Among Us,
is traveling to Vermont, where a young girl has been abducted, and a
monster sighting has the town in an uproar. She’s determined to hunt it
down, because Lizzy knows better than anyone that monsters are real—and
one of them is her very own sister.
The Children on the Hill takes us on a breathless journey to face the primal fears that lurk within us all.
Survive the Night by Riley Sager: Charlie Jordan is being driven across the country by a serial killer. Maybe.
Behind
the wheel is Josh Baxter, a stranger Charlie met by the college ride
share board, who also has a good reason for leaving university in the
middle of term. On the road they share their stories, carefully avoiding
the subject dominating the news - the Campus Killer, who's tied up and
stabbed three students in the span of a year, has just struck again.
Travelling
the lengthy journey between university and their final destination,
Charlie begins to notice discrepancies in Josh's story.
As she
begins to plan her escape from the man she is becoming certain is the
killer, she starts to suspect that Josh knows exactly what she's
thinking.
Meaning that she could very well end up as his next victim.
Nine Lives by Peter Swanson: Nine strangers receive a list with their names
on it in the mail. Nothing else, just a list of names on a single sheet
of paper. None of the nine people know or have ever met the others on
the list. They dismiss it as junk mail, a fluke - until very, very bad
things begin happening to people on the list. First, a well-liked old
man is drowned on a beach in the small town of Kennewick, Maine. Then, a
father is shot in the back while running through his quiet neighborhood
in suburban Massachusetts. A frightening pattern is emerging, but what
do these nine people have in common? Their professions range from
oncology nurse to aspiring actor.
FBI agent Jessica Winslow, who
is on the list herself, is determined to find out. Could there be some
dark secret that binds them all together? Or is this the work of a
murderous madman? As the mysterious sender stalks these nine strangers,
they find themselves constantly looking over their shoulders, wondering
who will be crossed off next....
A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham: When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls
went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end of the summer,
Chloe’s father had been arrested as a serial killer and promptly put in
prison. Chloe and the rest of her family were left to grapple with the
truth and try to move forward while dealing with the aftermath.
Now
20 years later, Chloe is a psychologist in private practice in Baton
Rouge and getting ready for her wedding. She finally has a fragile grasp
on the happiness she’s worked so hard to get. Sometimes, though, she
feels as out of control of her own life as the troubled teens who are
her patients. And then a local teenage girl goes missing, and then
another, and that terrifying summer comes crashing back. Is she
paranoid, and seeing parallels that aren't really there, or for the
second time in her life, is she about to unmask a killer?
In a
debut novel that has already been optioned for a limited series by
actress Emma Stone and sold to a dozen countries around the world, Stacy
Willingham has created an unforgettable character in a spellbinding
thriller that will appeal equally to fans of Gillian Flynn and Karin
Slaughter.
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead: A college reunion turns dark and deadly in this
chilling and propulsive suspense novel about six friends, one unsolved
murder, and the dark secrets they’ve been hiding from each other—and
themselves—for a decade.
Ten years after graduation, Jessica
Miller has planned her triumphant return to southern, elite Duquette
University, down to the envious whispers that are sure to follow in her
wake. Everyone is going to see the girl she wants them to see—confident,
beautiful, indifferent—not the girl she was when she left campus, back
when Heather’s murder fractured everything, including the tight bond
linking the six friends she’d been closest to since freshman year. Ten
years ago, everything fell apart, including the dreams she worked for
her whole life—and her relationship with the one person she wasn’t
supposed to love.
But not everyone is ready to move on. Not
everyone left Duquette ten years ago, and not everyone can let Heather’s
murder go unsolved. Someone is determined to trap the real killer, to
make the guilty pay. When the six friends are reunited, they will be
forced to confront what happened that night—and the years’ worth of
secrets each of them would do anything to keep hidden.
All book descriptions and images from Goodreads.com.
