Spooky Thrillers from Paper Leaves
It’s finally Spooky Season at Paper Leaves! Here are a few captivatingly dark thrillers we recommend to kickstart the season.
The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
Every small town like Fell, New York has a place like the Sun Down Motel, where customers come passing through town on their way somewhere better. Others are locals, hiding their secrets in the Sin Down Motel. Viv Delaney, the night clerk at the motel, is trying to pay for her move to New York but she continues working at the Sun Down Motel, she can’t help but feel like something isn’t right. And now she’s determined to uncover all the hidden secrets. Thirty-five years later, a young girl is ensnared by the same rundown motel, just like her aunt all those years ago, and she too desperately wants to uncover the motel’s chilling secrets.
Those Empty Eyes by Charlie Donlea
It’s been 10 years since Alexandra Auinlan’s family was massacred in their quiet suburban home. It’s been 10 years since Alexandra was nicknamed Empty Eyes after being accused as the killer. Alexandra now known as Alex Arrmstrong, hasn’t stopped searching for answers about what happened that night even as the true crime fanatics and reporters try to locate her. As a legal investigator, Alex works tirelessly to provide justice. When Mathew Claymore, whos a suspect in the investigation of his girlfriend’s disappearance, comes into the picture, Alex finds herself investigating Laura McAllister’s disappearance, a student journalist investigating the rape and cover-ups on her college campus. Upon digging into the university‘s faculty, fraternity members, and powerful parents who will do anything to keep their children safe, the most shocking revelation is the connection between Laura's disappearance and Alex’s family’s murder. But if Alex learned anything it's that no one is quite who they seem to be.
A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
When Chloe Davis is twelve years old, six teenage girls go missing in her small town in Louisiana but by the end of summer Chloe’s father has been thrown in prison and charged with kidnapping and being a serial killer. Now twenty years later, Chloe is a psychologist in a private practice in Baton Rouge working with troubled teens. But then a local teenage girl goes missing, then another, and suddenly Chloe is thrown back into the terrifying summer she so desperately tried to forget. Is she being paranoid, seeing parallels that aren’t really there, or for the second time is Chloe going to unmask a killer?
The Broken Girls by Simone St. James
Vermont 1950. Idlewild Hall–the place for girls no one wants: troublemakers, illegitimates, and those too smart for their own good. There are rumors across the small town that the boarding school is haunted. Four roommates at Idlewild Hall bond over their shared fears for the boarding school until one of them mysteriously goes missing.
Vermont 2014. Journalist Fiona Sheridan cannot stop revisiting the event surrounding her sister's death. Nearly twenty years ago, her body was found near the old ruins of Idlewild Hall. And despite her sister's boyfriend being found guilty, Fiona can’t help but feel something isn’t right about the case. When Fiona discovers that Idlewild Hall is being restored by an anonymous benefactor, she can’t help herself from writing a story. But during renovations, a shocking link is found connecting her sister's death to secrets that were supposed to stay buried.
Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney
Think you know the person you married? Think again…
Things have been going wrong for Mr. and Mrs. Wright for a long time. Their marriage is failing but when Adam and Amelia win a weekend away to Scotland it might just be the thing to fix their marriage.
Adam Wright, a workaholic and screenwriter, has face blindness, he can’t recognize his family, friends, or even his wife. And every anniversary Amerlia writes him a letter that she never lets him read–until now. They both know this trip will make or break their marriage, and they both know they didn’t win this trip randomly. One of them is lying and someone doesn’t want them to live happily ever after.
Ten years of marriage, ten years of secrets, and one unforgettable anniversary.
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead
Six friends. One college reunion. One unsolved murder.
Ten years after graduation, Jessica Miller has planned her return to the elite Duquette University down to the envious whispers that follow in her wake. Everyone is going to see the girl she wants them to see– confident, beautiful, and successful– not the girl she was when she left, back when Heather’s murder destroyed everything, including the bond between the six friends. 10 years ago everything fell apart.
But not everyone left Duquette ten years later and not everyone can let Heather’s murder go unsolved. Someone is determined to catch the killer and make the guilty pay. So when six friends are reunited they will be forced to confront what really happened that night- and the years worth of secrets each of them would do anything to keep hidden.
For more spooky-themed books, check out our Thriller and Mystery section at Paper Leaves for more dark twisted books this season!
Written by Carlie Renee
