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  Trapped - Figuratively or...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  In this volume we explore that difficult situation where lack of choice is your only choice.  We feel trapped either by the body or by the mind.  
   
  Our classic authors put their characters in positions that we can all relate too, and then devise fiendish and uncomfortable ways to deepen the malaise or perhaps offer some sort of escape, however temporary. 
   
  1 - Trapped Literally & Figuratively - An Introduction 
  2 - The Pit and The Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe 
  3 - In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka 
  4 - In a Far Country by Jack London 
  5 - La Grande Breteche by Honore de Balzac 
  6 - The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe 
  7 - The Iron Shroud by William Mudford 
  8 - Parker Adderson, Philosopher by Ambrose Bierce 
  9 - The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe 
  10 - One Summer Night by Ambrose Bierce 
  11 - The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones by Stephen Leacock 
  12 - The End of a Show by Barry Pain 
  13 - The Fall of the House of Usher - Part 1 by Edgar Allan Poe 
  14 - The Fall of the House of Usher - Part 2 by Edgar Allan Poe 
  15 - The Story of An Hour by Kate Chopin 
  16 - The Legacy by Virginia Woolf 
  17 - Life of Ma Parker by Katherine Mansfield 
  18 - Transients in Arcadia by O Henry 
  19 - Hands by Sherwood Anderson 
  20 - The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 
  21 - The Canary by Katherine Mansfield 
  22 - The Storm by Kate Chopin

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  The Secrets of Cedar Farm

  Carissa Ann Lynch

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  The brand new thriller from USA Today bestselling author, Carissa Ann Lynch. Perfect for fans of John Hart, Jane Harper and Shirley Jackson.  
  ‘Incredibly powerful, riveting and emotionally charged, this thriller will stay with you long after the last page is turned’ 
  Ellie Midwood 
  Behind every family is a story. 
  But some stories are darker than others.  
    
  Norah Campbell was an addict. The loss of her fiancé drove her to despair; she lost custody of her daughter, Gemma, and control of her life.  
    
  Now Norah is in recovery and she wants Gemma back. But to do so she must move in with her eccentric aunt and uncle, and they refuse to give up control without a fight. When strange occurrences keep happening at the farm and Norah makes a gruesome discovery, she soon realises she’s living with a monster.  
    
  As her mental health spirals out of control and she is tempted to relapse, she begins to wonder if she is also a monster. 
    
  This is a novel about addiction and recovery, and the strength of a mother who must fight in order to save herself and her child.Readers love Carissa Ann Lynch’s writing: 
  ‘Thrilling and tense . . . keeps you guessing until the end’ 
  ‘Creepy, thrilling and murderous’ 
  ‘Completely shocked’ 
  ‘A tautly written page-turner’ 
  ‘Absolutely brilliant’ 
  In the rural town, where secrets are as tightly woven as the community itself, Norah must confront the psychological crime that has taken root. The literary fiction of Carissa Ann Lynch takes us on a top thrillers journey, where the line between monster and victim blurs. 
  For fans of Claire Mcgowan (Blood Tide), Jane E. James (Looking For Lucy), Sue Watson (His First Wife), Kate Gray (The Honeymoon), and Nikki Smith (The Guests). 
  HarperCollins 2022

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  Witching Hour Dead - A Westwick...

  Colleen Cross

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  Merlot, Magic, and Murder... 
  The annual Westwick Corners Wine Festival is a time for the popping of corks and, Cen hopes, time for Tyler to pop the question and propose. But when a festival goer turns up dead, it’s clear that merlot, magic and murder don’t mix! 
  Witching Hour Dead is book 5 in the Westwick Witches Paranormal Cozy Mystery series. All books can be read standalone but you'll love the books more if you start with book 1, Witch You Well.

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  Circus of Murder

  Christopher Allen

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  Circus of Murder 
  "Circus of Murder" follows Detective Sarah Chen's investigation into the brutal murder of Lucien Moreau, artistic director of Mystique International Circus, found strangled with aerial silk in his locked trailer. 
  Lucien emerges as a predatory figure who systematically abused his position for eight years, sexually harassing performers, destroying careers, and using blackmail to maintain control. His reign of terror created multiple suspects with compelling motives for murder. 
  Detective Chen investigates four primary suspects: Isabella Santos, Lucien's abused girlfriend trapped in a controlling relationship; Viktor Petrov, a Russian strongman whose career Lucien destroyed through false steroid accusations; Aria Dubois, Lucien's ex-wife being separated from her daughter through manipulated custody battles; and Elena Volkov, a young performer being blackmailed about her fugitive past in Russia. 
  The investigation reveals the murder was carefully planned, involving sedatives and professional staging. Hidden surveillance equipment and a murder kit point to someone with military training rather than a crime of passion by the obvious suspects. 
  The breakthrough comes when fingerprints lead to Dr. Marcus Webb, the overlooked medical consultant and former military intelligence operative. Webb confesses to the elaborate assassination, revealing he spent six months planning Lucien's death after discovering the director's network of exploitation and abuse that drove a young performer to attempt suicide. 
  Webb receives a life sentence for his vigilante justice, while the circus community begins healing under new leadership. The survivors transform their trauma into positive change, establishing abuse prevention policies and rebuilding their artistic family on safe foundation.

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  After She Wrote Him

  Sulari Gentill

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  The captivating psychological thriller Dean Koontz calls "pure delight, a swift yet psychologically complex read" by Sulari Gentill, author of #1 LibraryReads pick The Woman in the Library 
   
   
   
  It's an author's job to create a new world in the pages of a book. But when lines start to blur and reality begins to fade, getting lost in a story can be dangerous—especially if you can't find your way back . . . 
   
   
   
  Madeleine d'Leon doesn't know where Edward came from. He is simply a character in her next book. But as she writes, he becomes all she can think about. His charm, his dark hair, his pen scratching out his latest literary novel . . . 
   
   
   
  Edward McGinnity can't get Madeleine out of his mind—softly smiling, infectiously enthusiastic, and perfectly damaged. She will be the ideal heroine for his next book. 
   
   
   
  But who is the author and who is the creation? And as the lines start to blur, who is affected when a killer finally takes flesh? 
   
   
   
  After She Wrote Him is a piece of meta-fiction with a wildly inventive twist on the murder mystery that takes listeners on a journey filled with passion, obsession, and the emptiness left behind when the real world starts to fall away.

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  Sherlock Holmes: The Engineer's...

  Sir Aarthur Conan Doyl

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  In the summer of 1889, a young Londoner and consultant hydraulic engineer, Victor Hatherley, recounts the strange events that occurred to him the night before, initially to Dr. Watson and later to Sherlock Holmes. 
  Hatherley was visited by a man who identified himself as Colonel Lysander Stark and offered a confidential 50 guinea (£52.50, equivalent to £6,173 in 2021[1]) commission to examine a hydraulic press at a country house in Eyford, Berkshire that Stark claimed was used to compress fuller's earth into bricks. Despite his misgivings and theorising that Stark was lying about the machine's true purpose, Hatherley felt compelled to accept the offer, as his business was newly established and he had little work. 
  Upon arriving at an appointed train station, Hatherley was picked up by a carriage with frosted glass windows and traveled what he believed was a considerable distance to the house. Distracted by his desire to be paid, Hatherley ignored a woman's warnings to escape before he examined the press and made recommendations on how to fix it. Upon further investigation however, he discovered the floor was covered in a "crust of metallic deposit." Realising his theory was right, he confronted Stark, who then tried to kill him with the press. After the woman helped Hatherley escape, a murderous Stark pursued him with a cleaver, forcing Hatherley to jump from a second-storey window, losing his thumb to Stark in the process. Surviving the fall and landing within some rose bushes, Hatherley passed out and later awoke by a hedge near the train station.

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