Where the Sun Shines Out: A Novel

Exploring the bonds, of families, and often hidden from view, and breakdowns, twisted, Kevin Catalano's fearless debut reminds us that although the path to redemption is pockmarked, somehow the sun makes it through. As the years pass, the people of Chittenango struggle to cope with the collateral damage of this unspeakable act of violence, reverberations that disrupt the community and echo far beyond.

A raw, unflinching literary debut for fans of Dennis Lehane and Tom Franklin examining the aftershocks of survival, and the price of salvation. One is kept; one is killed. At the center of it all, Dean himself must find a place in a future that never should have been his. In a sweeping narrative spanning decades and told from alternating points of view, Where the Sun Shines Out tells the story of a town and the inevitable trauma we inflict upon each other when we're trying our best.

In the blue-collar town of chittenango, New York, two young boys are abducted from a local festival and taken to a cabin in the woods. With nothing holding it together, Dean's family disintegrates under the twin weights of guilt and grief, and the unspoken acknowledgment that the wrong child survived. When they are next seen, ten-year-old Dean has escaped by swimming across Oneida Lake holding his brother's dead body.

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The Secrets on Chicory Lane: A Novel

Though mentally ill, eddie is scheduled to be executed for the disturbing, brutal murders of his wife and unborn child. From the new york times bestselling author of the continuation James Bond novels comes a new novel of suspense about coming-of-age in the 1960s, and the neighborhood street where first love, a child abduction, and abuse collide.

Sixty-one-year-old shelby truman, Eddie, has received a request to visit her childhood friend, a romance novelist, who is on Death Row. As they grow increasingly close, a tragedy occurs one July fourth, an event that sets in motion a lifelong struggle against an Evil—with a capital "E"—that has corrupted their all-American neighborhood.

With only a few days left for eddie to live, shelby braces herself for a reunion that promises to shed light on the traumatic events that transpired on her street, changing everything Shelby thought she knew about the boy on Chicory Lane. Shelby and eddie used to visit an abandoned fallout shelter in his backyard, and, later, their “secret hiding place" where they could escape Eddie’s abusive father, enjoy innocent playtime, adolescent explorations.

. As shelby travels home to texas for the unnerving reunion, she steps back into memories of her past, recalling her five-decade-long relationship with Eddie in order to understand what led the beautiful but troubled boy who lived across the street to become a murderer.


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The Boy in the Park: A gripping psychological thriller with a shocking twist

The psychological thriller that everyone is going to be talking about - once you’ve read it, it will haunt you for weeks!Dylan goes to the same park every day. He starts to notice a young boy who comes down to the small boating lake and soon realises that all is not right with the child; he seems troubled and unhappy and when bruises start to appear on the boy’s arms, Dylan realises that he has to take action.

As dylan’s obsession with the boy takes hold, intense and powerful journey, he embarks on dark, where nothing is what it seems….


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The Wrong Sister

And when a body is discovered in a local marsh, Tess is entangled in a search for the truth that will prove fascinating, disconcerting, and ultimately terrifying . Tess, who’s felt unloved and unmoored since her mother disappeared years ago, only knows that there’s more than coincidence at play. They’ve never met, but Tess senses an undeniable familiarity about her.

. Sometimes a perfect stranger. From behind the wheel of her car, Wisconsin, Tess Kincaid glimpses a woman walking down a Madison, street. Tess sees the same features every time she looks in the mirror. Intrigued, tess introduces herself and discovers that she and her doppelganger, Mimi, have more than appearance in common.

. Is neither of those things. They even share the same birthday. Hair color, square chin, wide-set blue eyes. Mimi—confident and outgoing where Tess is understated and shy—is convinced they’re twins, separated shortly after birth.


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Mister Tender's Girl: A Novel

His sinister character is pop-culture fiction, created by Alice's own father in a series of popular graphic novels. Over a decade later, Alice has changed her name and is trying to heal. He will come with a smile that seduces, and a dark whisper in her ear. Inspired by a true story, this gripping thriller plunges you into a world of haunting memories and unseen threats, leaving you guessing until the harrowing end.

. Now under option with legendary television for development as a tv series How far are you willing to go for Mister Tender?At fourteen, Alice Hill was viciously attacked by two of her classmates and left to die. The teens claim she was a sacrifice for a man called Mister Tender, but that could never be true: Mister Tender doesn't exist.

They know more about alice than any stranger could: her scars, her fears, and the secrets she keeps locked away. But someone is watching her. She can try to escape her past, but Mister Tender is never far behind.


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The Lost Girls: A Novel

But the long Minnesota winter is just beginning. Her only neighbor is a strange old man who seems to know more about the summer of 1935 than he’s telling. Soon justine’s troubled oldest daughter becomes obsessed with Emily’s disappearance, her mother arrives to steal her inheritance, and the man she left launches a dangerous plan to get her back.

The dark, silent lake is isolated and eerie. In a house haunted by the sorrows of the women who came before her, Justine must overcome their tragic legacy if she hopes to save herself and her children. Her disappearance destroys the family—her father commits suicide, and her mother and two older sisters spend the rest of their lives at the lake house, keeping a decades-long vigil for the lost child.

Sixty years later, the quiet and watchful middle sister, Lucy, lives in the lake house alone. A stunning debut novel that examines the price of loyalty, the burden of regret, the meaning of salvation, and the sacrifices we make for those we love, told in the voices of two unforgettable women linked by a decades-old family mystery at a picturesque lake house.

In 1935, six-year-old emily evans vanishes from her family’s vacation home on a remote Minnesota lake. Before her death, she writes the story of that devastating summer in a notebook that she leaves, to the only person who might care: her grandniece, along with the house, Justine. The house is cold and dilapidated.

For justine, the lake house offers freedom and stability—a way to escape her manipulative boyfriend and give her daughters the home she never had.


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The Glass Forest: A Novel

Swanson is a name to be considered among the likes of Gillian Flynn, Chris Pavone, and Laura Lippman” Library Journal, starred review. As angie learns more about the complicated glass family, staying in Henry and Silja’s eerie and ultra-modern house on the edge of the woods, she begins to question the very fabric of her own marriage.

From the new york times bestselling author of The Bookseller comes a gripping literary suspense novel set in the 1960s about a deeply troubled family and three women who will reveal its dark truths. In the autumn of 1960, angie Glass is living an idyllic life in her Wisconsin hometown. A triumph. Through silja’s flashbacks, angie’s discovery of astonishing truths, a story of love, and Ruby’s strategic dissection of her parents’ state of affairs, secrets, and ultimate betrayal is revealed.

But one phone call changes her life forever. At twenty-one, she’s married to charming, handsome Paul, and has just given birth to a baby boy. When paul’s niece, ruby, is missing, and that her mother, has committed suicide, Angie and Paul drop everything and fly to the small upstate town of Stonekill, reports that her father, Silja, Henry, New York to be by Ruby’s side.

Angie thinks they’re coming to the rescue of Paul’s grief-stricken young niece, but Ruby is a composed and enigmatic seventeen-year-old who resists Angie’s attempts to nurture her.


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The Other Side Of The Wall: A Gripping Psychological Thriller

Sylvia finds him friendly and helpful, yet she becomes increasingly uneasy about him. Then sylvia's little daughter wakes one night, screaming that there's a man in her room. Besides, the fact that a local child has gone missing must be preying on her mind. But the pond is empty, and no-one is answering the door.

Wondering if night feeds and sleep deprivation are getting to her, she hurriedly retreats. Then, a week later, she hears the sound of a man crying through her bedroom wall. The man living next door, Sam, has recently moved in. When sylvia looks out her bedroom window at night and sees a child face down in the pond next door, she races into her neighbour's garden.

This is followed by a series of bizarre disturbances in the house. Sylvia's husband insists it's all in her mind, but she is certain it's not - there's something very wrong on the other side of the wall. His wife and children are away for the summer and he joins them at weekends.


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The Three-Day Affair

Now, nine years after graduation, Will is a failed musician still reeling from the death of a bandmate. He shoves her into will's car and shouts a single word: "Drive!" Shaken and confused, Will obeys. Suddenly these three men find themselves completely out of their element, holding a frightened young girl hostage without the slightest idea of what to do next.

Moments after entering the store, a manic Jeffrey emerges, dragging a young woman with him. And life and death. The three-day affair marks the emergence of an electrifying new voice in crime fiction. For these three friends, three days will decide their fate--between freedom and prison, innocence and guilt.

. Their friendships have bent without breaking for years, until one shocking event changes everything. One night on a drive, they make a routine stop at a convenience store. They're already guilty of kidnapping and robbery; it's only a matter of time before they find out what else they might be guilty of. A gripping debut novel about three longtime friends who make one mistake, forcing a chain of decisions that will haunt them forever.

Will, jeffrey, and Nolan have been friends since their undergrad days at Princeton.


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The Girlfriend

His girlfriend. And she wants it. When tragedy strikes, a decision is made and a lie is told. A son. A lie so terrible it changes their lives forever… the girlfriend is a taut and wickedly twisted debut psychological thriller—a novel of subtle sabotage, jealousy and fear, which pivots on an unforgivable lie, retaliation, and examines the mother–son–daughter-in-law relationship in a chilling new light.

Cherry is young, beautiful and smart but hasn’t led Laura’s golden life. And the lie they’ll wish had never been told. Laura has it all. A mother. A successful career, handsome, a long marriage to a rich husband, and a twenty-three year-old son, Daniel, who is kind, and talented. Then daniel meets Cherry.

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Hydra Six Stories Series

Definitely one to watch' mari hannah ‘Dark, mysterious and definitely not without elements of horror, I was more than a little unsettled while I read it. A deluded murderess. Now incarcerated at a medium-security mental-health institution, Arla will speak to no one but Scott King, an investigative journalist, whose Six Stories podcasts have become an internet sensation.

A genre-bending book, with some hauntingly threatening prose … I could not put it down. A read-in-one-sitting experience that will surely inspire many authors to explore new methods of narration' Bleach House Library ‘Origina. He's going to be huge!' Michael J. As he unpicks the stories, and the mysterious black-eyed kids, online trolls, startling thriller that shines light in places you may never, whose presence seems to extend far beyond the delusions of a murderess… Dark, chilling and gripping, he finds himself thrust into a world of deadly forbidden ‘games', Hydra is both a classic murder mystery and an up-to-the-minute, ever want to see again.

King finds himself immersed in an increasingly complex case, interviewing five key witnesses and Arla herself, as he questions whether Arla's responsibility for the massacre was as diminished as her legal team made out. Take a note of this guy's name. Six Stories. In this spooky and eerie debut matt wesolowski introduces a very interesting contemporary concept of narrative structure which keeps the readers on their toes' Crime Review ‘With a unique structure, this is the very epitome of a must-read' Heat ‘Wonderfully horrifying ‘This is one of the best novels I've read this year, an ingenious plot and so much suspense you can't put it down, perhaps in memory' Nudge Books … the suspense crackles' James Oswald ‘Wonderfully atmospheric.

Highly recommended!' bibliophile Book Club ‘A stunning piece of writing – chock full of atmosphere, human insight and beautiful writing.


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