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  The Last Sixty Minutes - A...

  Susan Glaspell

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  Susan Keating Glaspell was born on July 1st, 1876 in Davenport, Iowa.  
   
  Glaspell, a precocious child, was an active student at Davenport High School.  By 18 she was earning a salary at the local newspaper as a journalist, and by 20 she was the author of a weekly 'Society' column.  
   
  At 21 she enrolled for Philosophy at Drake University, in Des Moines, where she excelled in debate competitions, and represented them at the state tournament.  
   
  After graduation, Glaspell again worked as a reporter, still a rare position for a woman, and assigned to cover the state legislature and murder cases. 
   
  At 24, after covering the conviction of a woman accused of murdering her abusive husband, Glaspell abruptly resigned and returned to Davenport, and a career writing fiction.  Her stories were published by periodicals, including Harper's and Munsey's.  
   
  In 1909, moving to Chicago she wrote her debut novel, ‘The Glory of the Conquered’. It was a best-seller. So too her 2nd and 3rd and to glowing reviews. 
   
  With her husband Glaspell founded the Provincetown Playhouse for plays that reflected contemporary issues. Her first play, ‘Trifles’ (1916), was based on the murder trial she covered as a young reporter and later adapted as the short story ‘A Jury of Her Peers’.  She wrote 12 plays over 7 years for the company. By 1918 Glaspell was considered one of America's most significant new playwrights. Despite its success theatre work did not make financial sense and she continued to submit short stories in order to support her and her husband during their years with the theater.  
   
  In 1931 her play, ‘Alison's House’, received the Pulitzer Prize.  She continued to write and now with themes increasingly based on her surroundings, on family life, and on theistic questions. 
   
  Susan Keating Glaspell died of viral pneumonia in Provincetown, Massachusetts on 28th July 1948.

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  Dragon's Breath - A DCI Evan...

  Rhys Dylan

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  A man's death in the Black Mountains leads DCI Warlow into a tangled web of murder and a dangerous criminal network. As the body count rises, the team faces a ruthless killer driven by greed, where every step uncovers more danger. The dragon’s breath taints everything it touches. And no one is safe.

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  American Afterlife

  Pedro Hoffmeister

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  The Pacific Northwest lies in ruins in the aftermath of the 9.2 Cascadia earthquake. There is a tsunami at the coast, annihilated infrastructure in all the towns and cities, and failed dams in the Oregon river valley where fifteen-year-old Cielo lives with her mother, a fearful evangelical who’s become caught up in a fearsome cult called The Collection of Redeemed Souls. Cielo and her mother, Mexican citizens without U.S. papers, have always had their status teeter on the edge—and now it’s about to plunge into the abyss. When the earthquake hits, Cielo’s mother hasn’t been home in days, but Cielo suspects that she’s holed up with the cult and might even be dead. When the National Guard arrives to evacuate survivors, she stays behind in the flooded city to find her body. Members of The Collection of Redeemed Souls have also chosen to stay, and their disciples are capturing anyone still left behind and converting them to the cult by force. Entering a deadly game of cat-and-mouse, Cielo tries to evade the cult at every turn as she desperately searches for her mother’s remains. With gunfights and mass killings engulfing the city, Cielo is one step away from her own demise, but the bonds of blood drive her on toward a confrontation with pure evil—and a final chance for her mother’s redemption.

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  The Maid's Diary - A Novel

  Loreth Anne White

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  A cunning, twisty, and unsettling novel of psychological suspense with a startling conclusion by Loreth Anne White, the Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestselling author of The Patient’s Secret. 
  Kit Darling is a maid with a snooping problem. She’s the “invisible girl,” compelled to poke into her wealthy clients’ closely guarded lives. It’s a harmless hobby until Kit sees something she can’t unsee in the home of her brand-new clients: a secret so dark it could destroy the privileged couple expecting their first child. This makes Kit dangerous to the couple. In turn, it makes the couple—who might kill to keep their secret—dangerous to Kit. 
  When homicide cop Mallory Van Alst is called to a scene at a luxury waterfront home known as the Glass House, she’s confronted with evidence of a violent attack so bloody it’s improbable the victim is alive. But there’s no body. The homeowners are gone. And their maid is missing. The only witness is the elderly woman next door, who woke to screams in the night. The neighbor was also the last person to see Kit Darling alive. 
  As Mal begins to uncover the secret that has sent the lives of everyone involved on a devious and inescapable collision course, she realizes that nothing is quite as it seems. And no one escapes their past.

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  Summary: None of This Is True -...

  Brooks Bryant

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  Disclaimer: This is NOT the official book. It is a summary & it does not accompany the official. 
  Alix Summer, a popular podcaster, is celebrating her forty-fifth birthday when she encounters Josie Fair, a woman sharing her birthday. Their paths cross again outside Alix's children's school, where Josie proposes herself as a subject for Alix's podcast series, citing impending significant changes in her life. 
  As Alix delves deeper into Josie's intricate life for her podcast, she finds herself irresistibly drawn into a web of dark secrets. Josie seamlessly infiltrates Alix's life and even her home, becoming an omnipresent figure in Alix’s world. Yet before Alix can fully grasp the depth of Josie’s enigma, Josie vanishes, leaving behind a horrifying legacy and turning Alix from a podcaster into the central figure of a true crime story unraveling on her own podcast. A chilling threat now hangs over Alix and her family, and the line between the observer and the observed, the hunter and the hunted, is obliterated. 
  Lisa Jewell builds a suspenseful narrative asking the critical question: Who is Josie Fair, and what has she orchestrated? The novel takes readers on a spine-chilling journey, weaving a tale of deception, secrets, and dangers that lurk in unexpected corners. The story vividly portrays the perils of the digital age where lives can be manipulated and turned into a terrifying narrative for public consumption. 
  "None of this is True" stands as a cautionary tale, masterfully exploring the unpredictability of people and the extent one might go to exploit others' lives for storytelling, creating a maze where truth is elusive, and danger is just a breath away. It is a gripping narrative that holds the readers on the edge, probing the eerie spaces where the real and the virtual worlds collide.

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  The Adventure of the Lion's Mane...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  "The Adventure of the Lion's Mane" (1926), one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. It is notable for being narrated by Holmes himself, instead of by Dr. Watson (who does not appear in the story).
  Holmes is enjoying his retirement in Sussex when one day at the beach, he meets his friend Harold Stackhurst, the headmaster of a nearby preparatory school called The Gables. No sooner have they met than Stackhurst's science teacher, Fitzroy McPherson, staggers up to them, clearly in agony and wearing only an overcoat and trousers. He collapses, manages to say something about a "lion's mane", and then succumbs. He is observed to have red welts all over his back, possibly administered by a flexible weapon of some kind, for the marks curve over his shoulder and round his ribs.

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