Welcome to My 31 Days Of Thrills And Chills 2026! I’m so excited to do it 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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The Secret Keepers
Black Water Tales #1
By JeanNicole Rivers
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Genre: Mystery / Suspense / Thriller / Paranormal
MY REVIEW
I’ll admit, the eerie cover was why I took a closer look at the book. It says beware.
The phone call Regina had been hoping for and dreading at the same time finally came. They’d found the body of her best friend, Lola, who’d been missing for eight years. She packs her bags and returns to Black Water to say her goodbyes but something isn’t adding up. Especially the location of her body so she decides to do some investigating of her own. What follows is a tangled web of warnings and false leads. Danger increases the further she digs.
I mentioned the eerie book cover. Well, the town was strange, for sure. And the people who resided there were guarding the skeletons in their closets. Regina felt she might be going crazy while trying to sort things out and as she continued seeking answers I could actually feel my own confusion growing.
About the ending. Huh, didn’t go where I thought it would…. in a good way. I have the second book in the Black Waters Tales series and hope it’s just as satisfying as this one.
4 STARS
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Synopsis
It’s midnight when Regina Dean she receives a harrowing phone call. On the other end of the line a scratchy voice whispers, “They found her, Regina…they found her.” Over the phone Regina learns that the corpse of her best friend, Lola Rusher, has been found and she must return to her, Godforsaken, hometown of Black Water for the funeral of the beloved girl who disappeared when they were both only sixteen years old. Regina returns to Black Water and is reunited with a cast of old friends. Soon Regina realizes that the details revealed with the discovery of Lola’s corpse do not make sense, especially the fact that Lola’s body was dug up on the land of their childhood piano teacher. Determined to lay Lola to rest, Regina launches her own investigation, but someone in Black Water warns Regina to STOP DIGGING. She is thrown into a race to solve the mystery before she loses her mind or meets Lola’s fate. Though Regina’s hometown is a fun house of disturbing characters and distorted images, the truth about what happened to Lola Rusher will be revealed along with a most unexpected and perverse secret that threatens to expose everyone in Black Water. Everyone knows something, but no one knows everything…
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