In Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, the Batiste family is lurching through life. Ever since the children’s mother died from complications in … More
Tag: 2000s
Highway of Tears, by Jessica McDiarmid
Since the 1970s, thousands of Indigenous teenaged girls and women along Highway 16 in British Columbia have gone missing and … More
The Dead Girls Club, by Damien Angelica Walters
Heather Cole has used the time since her best friend died at age 12 to distance herself as much as … More
The Sacrament, by Olaf Olafsson
Trigger warning for references to child abuse. Sister Johanna Marie is one of the most reluctant investigators I’ve ever read … More
Magpie Murders, by Anthony Horowitz
Anthony Horowitz’s Magpie Murders delivers two mysteries for the price of one. There is a traditional whodunnit set in southern … More
A Head Full of Ghosts, by Paul Tremblay
How do we help people who seem beyond help? Psychiatry takes time and medication is inconsistent. When one’s child is … More
Things that Fall from the Sky, by Selja Ahava
In real life, mental illnesses are caused by brain chemistry, genetic predisposition, life experiences—things that can be rationally understood, for … More
Magic for Liars, by Sarah Gailey
From the world of classic detective fiction, Sarah Gailey’s fantastic Magic for Liars is the latest in imaginative, clever mystery … More
The Patriots, by Sana Krasikov
It’s funny that we talk about settling down in a place as putting down roots. Roots go deep and, once … More
After Kilimanjaro, by Gayle Woodson
The plan was for both Sarah and her fiancé, David, to go to a rural hospital in Tanzania. She would … More
