Pretty Sinister Books

Single mom Jo St. John is hiding from her past. Her real name is Darlene Heckart. Back in Missouri something happened when she was a teenage...

THE STORY:   Liz & Bob Macklin purchase an old home in Marshall, Massachusetts and begin an extensive rehab project transforming the glo...

THE STORY:   Malcolm Drake has returned from his WW2 Navy service a damaged man. He keeps dwelling on a young sailor whose death he feels he...

Reporters always seem to be the best crime fiction writers. Collin Brooks is one of better journalists turned detective novelists that I...

At the start of The Girl Who Passed for Normal (1973) I was prepared for yet another spin on the Jane Eyre plot motif done up as a suspense...

THE STORY :  Anti-social Roy Unithorne has personal issues with the entire world. He dislikes his pleasant amiable, utterly harmless wife, A...

Jake Haddon and wife Elizabeth move into his uncle's home, a surprise inheritance. The house is located on a wooded estate but the fores...

Readers of this blog know the term domestic suspense as a subgenre that encompasses crime novels usually set in sinister suburbs populated w...

THE STORY:   Dorothy marries divorced Edward, a non-fiction writer.  All is well until Edward's children are sent to live with him. Caro...

A little digging is a dangerous thing, to paraphrase Alexander Pope.  His original quote about a little learning continues: "Drink deep...