"You're a firestarter, honey. Just one great big Zippo lighter." The story begins with a man and his 7-year-old daughter running from persons yet unknown. Through flashbacks, we get to know who they are running from and why the unknown persons keep chasing after them. Andy McGee recalled…
"…when there was no sense of right and wrong when it came to dealing with white folks. There was only survival." The story begins with briefly revealing Levi's family background, including his relationship with his mother's current partner and his father, who has been not around for quite…
On 7th November 1843, Harriet Monckton was found murdered in the privy behind the chapel she had regularly attended in Bromley, Kent (based on a true story). The first part introduces the background of several main characters who knew Harriet and possibly her secret as well. The story was told…
The foreword reveals that the narrator Barbara is staying with Sheba while Sheba is waiting for her trial. Sheba is being charged with indecent assault on a minor after being discovered having a sexual affair with one of her students. The boy was fifteen years old when the relationship began.…
Rachel has a serious drinking problem after the failure of getting pregnant, which leads to divorce. She lives with her old friend while her ex-husband Tom is currently living with Anna and their baby at Rachel's former house. Rachel tries not to look at the house every time she takes…
There was a small spark of interest at the beginning of the story. As I went through the chapters, I'm looking for something different than the previous chapter that but it's a disappointment. This story keeps telling or rambling about these three women's lives with their husbands and children. There…
Johnny Smith had a fall when he was skating at a rink when he was ten years old at that time. The fall seems forgettable, although it seems he has a hunch since then. On that night when he was on his way back home from Sarah's place in a…
The story is narrated by Death during World War II, and it is the story of a young German girl named Liesel. It begins with the death of her brother and her first act of book thievery. A book is hidden in the snow called 'The Gravedigger's Handbook' which is…
Emma plans the group trip to an isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands on New Year Eve. A group of her friends from Oxford will meet to welcome in the New Year together. They arrive on the 30th of December. Emma and Mark, Miranda and Julien, Nick and Bo, Samira…
Lockwood family just moved into their new home at 25 The Avenue. The beginning of the story never reveals the reason why they moved to a suburb which has already had several murders that occurred in the past but hinted that it was Olivia's fault. Garrick is happy that they…