Visit and revisit illustrations that shift before your eyes as you gain contextual understanding of the interlocked stories in this book. This mystery-horror novel is unlike anything I’ve ever read before. Truly chilling! -Lucy, Secret Garden Books, Seattle, WA On Seattle Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday, April 25th, 2026, Secret Garden Books is hosting a …
Every Wednesday, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association publishes the regional bestseller list. On Thursdays, we celebrate Thursday Themes to shine a spotlight on some of the books from the list and give our brains a different way of thinking about books. This week, we noticed a question theme. Two books have “Questions” in their titles, …
Griffith, the author of bestselling fantasy novel Hild, gives us a compulsive psychological thriller and an important contribution to disability literature in her new novel. In the course of a week, Mara’s wife leaves her and she is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. To keep herself from spiraling, Mara launches herself to the front lines of …
Originally written in Korean, this psychological thriller captures the reader’s attention from the moment Yu-Jin wakes up soaked in blood with no clear memory of what happened the night before. A 26-year-old with chronic health issues, Yu-Jin is as unreliable of a narrator as they come. He admits to the reader that he doesn’t take …
Riveting and difficult to put down narrative from the point of view of a cult survivor. I’m not sure if this spoke to me so powerfully because I was a child in Texas when the Branch Davidian massacre took place, or if it’s just really great writing, but if you are looking for a page-turner …
It isn’t paranoia if it’s really happening. . . There have been numerous psychological thrillers written of late, and I would list this title among the best. A child psychologist suffering from agoraphobia, living alone and spying on her neighbors–this sounds promising. She believes she saw a crime committed in a house across the park, …
