Archive for October 26, 2025

Welcome to My 31 Days Of Thrills And Chills 2025! I’m so excited to be doing this again!  I’ll be sharing reviews and lots of extra spooky stuff every day leading up to Halloween. I hope you’ll join me!

 

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I’m sharing all kinds of books, movies, and other spooky stuff for every day in October. Gots to get those scares on for the 31st!

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B&B 

by Amy Cross

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Genre: Horror

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MY REVIEW

Que to the opening of The Twilight Zone. This one gave me the willies.

Bobbie’s done something unforgivable. Now on the run, in the middle of cold winter’s night, she seeks refuge at an old B & B. But this isn’t your normal bed and breakfast. The woman who checks her in barely speaks a word and her face is covered in gauze and the other guests are odd and won’t let her sleep.

She’s stuck between a rock and a hard place. Stay at the Inn with it’s creepy guests and mysterious goings on, or face the killer stalking the snowy streets outside. He likes to kill when the pristine snow covers everything in shining white. The blood looks so red then.

From the beginning, you are pulled into this mystery, and when the weird stuff starts happening, you won’t want to stop until you get answers.

This was creepy on so many levels. A pleasant surprise for this horror fan.

4 STARS

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Synopsis

There’s blood in the snow and a killer behind the next door. But for Bobbie, there’s also nowhere left to run…

When she takes a room at the rundown Castle Crown B&B, all Bobbie wants is to get some sleep and make a tough decision about her future. Unfortunately, the B&B’s other guests won’t give her any peace, and Bobbie soon realizes that she’s stumbled into a world with its own rules. Who is the mysterious bandaged woman? Why is there a dead man in the bathtub? And is something deadly lurking in the basement?

Before she can leave, however, Bobbie learns that the city of Canterbury is being terrorized by a mysterious figure. Every time snow comes, the Snowman claims another victim, leaving their blood sinking into the ice. If Bobbie leaves the B&B and ventures out into the empty streets, she risks becoming his next target. But if she stays, her soul might be claimed by an evil force that will do far more than simply end her life…

B&B is a horror story about a girl with a secret, and a building with a past.

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Death on Dickens Island: A Books on the Beach Mystery
by Allison Brook


Death on Dickens Island: A Books on the Beach Mystery
Cozy Mystery
1st in Series
Setting – On Dickens Island, a fictional island in the Long Island Sound between Long Island and CT.
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Crooked Lane Books
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 21, 2025
Hardcover
Print length ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8892420488
Paperback
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8892422536
Digital
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8892420495
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0DTNMGQTK
Audiobook ASIN: B0DT4WXPWL

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A divorced sleuth in her thirties must bring peace back to her small town after a murder tears neighbors and family members apart in this series debut from Agatha Award nominee Allison Brook, perfect for fans of Cynthia Riggs and Eva Gates.

Delia Dickens has come home to Dickens Island, a small island in the Long Island Sound, after a twelve-year stint in Manhattan. She’s looking forward to helping her father revitalize the general store that the family owns as well as curating a small book nook. Most importantly, she wants to reunite with her fifteen-year-old son. But Dickens Island isn’t the peaceful town Delia remembers–and she might be in more danger here than she ever was in the big city.

Delia’s Aunt Reenie and Uncle Brad, both prominent community leaders, are at odds over the sale of a farm and its future use. This has created friction, not only in their marriage, but amongst the citizens of the town. When a young woman, new to the town council and friendly with Brad, is found murdered, everything escalates and reaches a new boiling point.

With Reenie and Brad both suspects in the case and at each other’s throats, the townspeople start to take sides. When the ghost of her grandmother visits her, Delia learns how past events have impacted the present, and it is up to her to expose the farm’s sordid secrets in order to catch a murderer and restore peace to her beloved island.

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About Allison Brook

A former Spanish teacher, Marilyn Levinson writes mysteries, novels of suspense, and books for kids. Her books have received many accolades. As Allison Brook she writes the Haunted Library series. Death Overdue, the first in the series, was an Agatha nominee for Best Contemporary Novel in 2018. Other mysteries include the Golden Age of Mystery Book Club series, the Twin Lakes series, and Giving Up the Ghost. Her suspense, Come Home to Death, was released in April 2024, and her suspense, Dangerous Relations, will be republished in 2025. Death on Dickens Island is the first book in her Books on the Beach series.

Marilyn’s juvenile novel, Rufus and Magic Run Amok, was an International Reading Association-Children’s Book Council Children’s Choice and has recently come out in a new edition. Rufus and the Witch’s Drudge, the second book in the series, has been released, and the third, Rufus and the Dark Side of Magic, will be out later this year. And Don’t Bring Jeremy was a nominee for six state awards. Her YA horror, The Devil’s Pawn, came out in a new edition in January 2024.

Marilyn lives on Long Island, where many of her books take place. She loves traveling, reading, doing crossword puzzles and Sudoku, chatting on FaceTime with her grandkids, and playing with her kittens, Romeo and Juliet.

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Purchase Links: Amazon    B&N      Bookshop.org     PenguinRandomHouse

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TOUR PARTICIPANTS

October 21 – Ruff Drafts – AUTHOR GUEST POST

October 21 – Books1987 – SPOTLIGHT

October 21 – Sapphyria’s Book Reviews – REVIEW

October 22 – Jody’s Bookish Haven – SPOTLIGHT

October 22 – Baroness Book Trove – CHARACTER INTERVIEW

October 22 – Maureen’s Musings – SPOTLIGHT  

October 23 – Boys’ Mom Reads! – REVIEW

October 23 – Wine Cellar Library – SPOTLIGHT

October 23 – Read Your Writes Book Reviews – CHARACTER INTERVIEW

October 24 – View from the Birdhouse – REVIEW

October 24 – Books, Ramblings, and Tea – SPOTLIGHT

October 24 – Island Confidential – SPOTLIGHT

October 25 – Christy’s Cozy Corners – REVIEW

October 25 – Sarandipity’s – CHARACTER INTERVIEW

October 25 – Reading Is My SuperPower – AUTHOR INTERVIEW

October 26 – FUONLYKNEW – SPOTLIGHT

October 26 – Christa Reads and Writes – SPOTLIGHT

October 27 – Sarah Can’t Stop Reading Books – REVIEW

October 27 – Salty Inspirations – SPOTLIGHT

October 28 – Cozy Up With Kathy – REVIEW, CHARACTER GUEST POST

October 28 – Melina’s Book Blog – REVIEW

October 28 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – REVIEW

 

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