Jennifer Hillier - Creep, An Awesome Psychological Thriller Novel

Jennifer Hillier has written an amazing debut novel, Creep, with an exciting plot, and believable, flesh-and-blood characters.



Dr. Sheila Tao is a professor of psychology, she is in her mid-thirties and loves sex. When one of her students approaches her, she cannot resist him. Ethan Wolfe is attractive, talented, and good between the sheets. However, Sheila is already engaged to a fair (for me, boring) gentleman, and she does not want to risk her career, thus she turns Ethan down. He does not take it well: He threatens and blackmails her with a sex tape that could indeed ruin her career. And the worst is yet to come: Someone murders young girls in the area, and Sheila has a terrible suspicion...

Linwood Barclay - Lone Wolf, A Zack Walker Crime Thriller Novel

Linwood Barclay, former journalist and present best-seller author, is mostly known for his Zack Walker novels. is the third book of the Zack Walker series.



Journalist Zack Walker learns that a mutilated corpse was found at his father's lakeside camp. The police believes that a bear attacked the victim, but Zack suspects that a political extremist hate group is a more likely alternative. It seems that he is right: another dead body turns up, and things quickly turn worse...

Justin Evans - The White Devil, A Novel: A Scary Gothic Story

Justin Evans is a best-selling American thriller author who lives in New York City - and for a year he was a student of Harrow School, which is the setting of his novel, The White Devil.



Andrew, the protagoist of The White Devil, is a disturbed seventeen years old boy; his father sends him to Harrow School, a prestigious boarding school in Great Britain. Soon one of his friends die from a severe illness - and others believe that he has to do something with it. Worst of all, a pale boy appears in his dormitory room: an unearthly visitor.
One of Andrew's schoolmates, Piers, writes a play about Byron who was also a student of Harrow. Andrew himself is to play Byron, and he notices that there are several similarities between the two of them. The mysteries of Byron's life seem to affect his present time...
This is, like the school's name suggest, a harrowing story, atmospheric and eerie, with an insight of the lives of élite school students. Highly recommended to fans of supernatural thrillers and Gothic literature.

Stephen Leather - The Basement, An Awesome Serial Killer Mystery Novel

Stephen Leather's plotting of his mystery thriller novel, The Basement, is familiar from several stories: A serial killer is on the loose, he abducts, torments, and murders young girls. However, this subject is an evergreen for mystery/dark fiction fans.



Stephen Leather does have a distinctive way to tell his story: He creates a gloomy atmosphere and palpable tension that would make J. A. Konrath jealous.
The setting of The Basement is New York City; Detectives Turner and Marcinko are about to find the sadistic murderer before he kills a kidnapped young woman whom he tortures in a basement. The story is told from the perspectives of the detectives' main suspect (an unsuccessful, distressed screenwriter) and the murderer. Perhaps the two of them are the very same person, but, as the story progresses, the detectives have their doubts about it...

P. D. James - Death Comes to Pemberley, An Awesome Sequel of Pride and Prejudice

P. D. James, an awesome contemporary crime author, has written a riveting sequel of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was a brilliant idea: Death Comes to Pemberley turned out fine.



Elizabeth and Darcy could not be any happier: they are still fond of one another, they live in their cosy home, Pemberley (Pemberley rhymes with Manderley...), in the circle of loving friends and family members. However, one day a not so welcomed relative appears: Lydia, Elizabeth's younger sister. She stumbles out of her carriage, screaming that someone has just shot her husband, Wickham (an ill-famed gentleman) somewhere in Pemberley's forests...

The atmosphere of Death Comes to Pemberley is great - both the warm and friendly start, and the air of mystery somewhat later. The familiar characters are also fine. My favourite one is, of course, Lydia, with all the real, believable, likable human frailties of her egocentric persona.

John Harwood - The Ghost Writer, A Supernatural Thriller Novel

John Harwood, an Australian poet, made an impression with his first novel, The Ghost Writer.



Gerald Freeman, a little boy from Australia, finds a secret diary hidden in his mother's drawer; the diary belonged to an early ancestor of his, a lady named Viola Hatherley who lived in the 1890's and wrote Gothic stories. Gerald's mother happens to notice him as he lays his hands on the book, and beats him up as she never did before - she goes frantic with fear and worry. Gerald's mother, Phyllis, who has grown up in England, looks haggard and thin anyway, as if she was always afraid of something or someone.
Gerald finds a penfriend in England, Alice Jessel, a girl at his age. They write letters to one another throughout the years.
Years later the grown-up Gerald goes to England and meets Alice. He finds that Viola's peculiar stories has to do something with his present life...

The idea itself is not a very unique one - a secret diary of a long deceased person and a ghost story which concerns present -, but The Ghost Writer is a special book: Great characters, fine composition, and an ending that shocks the reader always do the trick. Highly recommended for psychological thriller fans who enjoy a well-wriiten, interesting read.

Robert Devereaux: Santa Steps Out, A Magnificent Horror Tale for Adults

Robert Devereaux, writer of Dead Weigh is one of the most talented contemporary horror authors. According to him, his most memorable work is Santa Steps Out.



Santa Steps Out is the first book of The Santa Chronicles.
Santa lives in the North Pole with his elderly and rather boring wife and with his elfin helpers. In each year, at Christmas Eve, he leaves his cosy, warm home to give presents to the children of the world. However, in 1969, he happens to meet the Tooth Fairy, a young, passionate, and dangerous creature who is obviously offering; soon she becomes obsessed with Santa. On the other hand, good old Saint Nick, a cheerful man who loves the pleasures of life (such as good food and hot sex), notices that there is a hidden, darker side of his personality...

Santa Steps Out was written with passion; Robert Devereaux has the gift to create warm, intimate atmosphere and shocking turns at the same time. The book is full of outrageous sex and fearful, sadistic passion. One does not have to wait much for a tragedy to strike...

I love the way Santa is depicted - and I fell for the most awesome female character, the Tooth Fairy, a wild woman who is impossible to break in. And I loved the two adorable little cats in Santa's home.