Carissa Ann Lynch

Whisper Island

‘Sharp writing... great plot’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ NetGalley Reviewer ‘[I] couldn’t put it down. A twisty read [and] I had no clue’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ NetGalley Reviewer The locked-room thriller that will keep you up all night. Perfect for fans of Ruth Ware and Lucy Foley.

The Bachelorette Party

'Sharp writing... great plot' NetGalley Reviewer '[I] couldn't put it down. A twisty read [and] I had no clue' NetGalley Reviewer The locked-room thriller that will keep you up all night. Perfect for fans of Ruth Ware and Lucy Foley. New Orleans: live music, endless drinks, brightly-coloured attractions, the perfect place for a party... The bride-to-be The best friend The cousin The mother-in-law The sister The groom's friend The bachelorette begins on a Friday night; all six women are excited for a chance to escape their everyday lives. But then friendly rivalries turn vicious, and a game of truth or dare turns deadly. By the end of the weekend one of them will be dead... Discover why readers are captivated by The Bachelorette Party: 'I was absolutely invested from page 1 and couldn't put it down' 'If I could give this book more than 5 stars I would. Thrilling, suspenseful and a page-turner' 'Awesome' 'Wow ... literally blown my mind' 'A twisty thriller that you will not guess' 'I was completely hooked' 'From the first page to the last I was gripped' 'Great writing and the characters really were fantastic' 'So juicy... the suspense is amped up right from the first page and doesn't end' 'An easy, fast-paced book' 'I read this book in one sitting... I was hooked' 'A fast, entertaining read with a smart twist at the end' 'Suspense, intrigue and many twists and turns' 'The cast of characters were complicated and unlikeable in the best ways'

“Reminiscent of Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects" Christina Kaye, award-winning author of Presumed Dead

My Sister is Missing: The most creepy and gripping thriller of 2019

What if your stalker could become your saviour... The USA Today Bestseller

Like, Follow, Kill

A gripping new page-turning thriller from the USA Today bestseller!

She Lied She Died

Lily’s gone. Someone took her. Unless she was she never there...

Without a Trace

Getting on the cheerleading squad is hard enough without a psycho on the loose... For Harrow High freshman Dakota Densford, life should be easy. All she has to worry about is talking to cute boys and remembering her locker combination. But when cheerleading tryouts draw near, she learns the cards are stacked against her-spots on the varsity team are limited. Dakota faces her competition head-on, but when her life is threatened, that takes the competition to a whole new level. High school is never easy, and freshman year is off to a rough start... Between Dakota's uniform being ripped up and masked vandals trashing another girl's house, everyone is suspect. To complicate matters further, Dakota has a thing for Andy McGraw, but she finds him locking lips with another girl. The harassment continues, and when Dakota finds suspicious flyers inside her best friend's locker, she doesn't know what to think. The principal's unfeeling, overachiever daughter, Brittani Barlow, will do anything to secure her place on the team. But Dakota's neighbor, on the other hand, definitely fits the profile of a sociopath. Cheerleading has become a game of life and death.

Cheerleading Can Be Murder

The brand new locked-room thriller for fans of Ruth Ware and Freida McFadden. You are cordially invited to the Beechwood Castle for a night you’ll never forget…

Six people find a thick cream envelope on their doorstep. Inside is an invitation to spend 24 hours in a crumbling manor house and be in with the chance to win a portion of one million dollars. The Beechwood Castle was the site of one of the most horrific murders in modern history.

The smell of blood, decay and death still hangs heavy in the air.

Six people walk into the house. One of them is an imposter, all of them are traitors, which of them will survive the night?

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The Traitors

After last year's tragedy, life at Horror High should go back to normal... Winter Addams has always loved to cheer and she's ready to finally focus on the squad and their upcoming competition. But when a suspicious note is found on the body of a dead cheerleader, everyone immediately fears the worst. Is the real killer still out there? Ready. Set. Stay alive... Winter and the squad head out to a national competition, determined to reestablish themselves and clean up the school's reputation. But danger follows Horror High everywhere, and another cheerleader ends up in the hospital. With half a squad, and a killer on the loose, Winter and her friends fear it may be time to give up cheer for good. Quitting won't save them now... The sociopath behind the murders has it out for the squad, and all their lives are at stake. Not everyone will survive the final season of... Killer Moves.

Killer Moves

Day one of sophomore year, and Horror High is already living up to its name... Amanda Loxx isn't your stereotypical cheerleader. Her life has never been perfect. Her father is dead, and her mother is a drug addict. Now she is forced to live with her kooky grandma Mimi, who happens to be a former Las Vegas showgirl. Sophomore year is supposed to bring normal back to her life. We've got murder, yes we do! We've got murder, how about you? A string of pranks including a haunting chant sets everyone on alert. The girl who taunted the cheerleaders last year is locked away in juvenile hall. Amanda and her friends think it's just a prank...a copycat looking for attention or a freshman hoping to scare off the competition. When a cheerleader is found dead and another one attacked, everyone is certain history is set to repeat itself... If Amanda and her friends hope to survive another year at the infamous Horror High, they've got to figure out who is behind these new attacks. Is it the freakishly talented new freshman hoping to carve her way to a varsity spot, or the person sending Amanda threatening letters? Whoever it is, she's... Cutting Up the Competition

Cutting Up the Competition

Flocksdale Files #1-3

Bradon Nave

D a Roach

13 has always been unlucky. But now it's turned deadly... Darkness has fallen. Real and unseen, evil is out there. Waiting. Watching. Biding its time. It might be your neighbor, your best friend-or something much, much worse. It might be the shadow itself. It will hunt you down when you least expect it. It will talk to you in the quiet hours of the morning and follow your footsteps when you're alone. It's chosen you...and it always gets what it wants. 13 dark tales await you. Ready to bring your worst childhood nightmares to life, to push you to the brink, and make you question your every decision... The circus. Your beloved carnival rides. That mom and pop motel you pass every day on your way to work. They'll never look innocent again. Because they're not. No one and nothing can be trusted. Not even yourself. Are you ready to take the ultimate dare? To spin the devil's wheel? Be careful... 13 will get you every time.

An Anthology of Horror and Dark Fiction

First there's Penelope, the materialistic snob-the perfectionist. Then there's Violet, the soft-spoken librarian who tends to be a little naive at best. And Lexi, the explosive wild-child with addictive tendencies. Now, what do these three women have in common? Two words. Michael. Sinclair. All three women have their sights-and hearts-set on Michael. They each share some kind of connection with him, which is why not one of them is willing to back down. And when you have three women vying for the attention of one man...it means war. Violet, Penelope, and Lexi are about to go full-throttle in a battle to the end. The prize? Winning the man of their dreams.

This Is Not about Love

After losing her husband in combat, Sophia Alexander is struggling to make a life for herself and three children. When she moves to the beautiful, historic Star Manor in Grayson's Ridge, she thinks that she has found her dream home. But the residents of the town are quick to share with her the details of the grisly deaths that occurred there, and the mysterious disappearance of a young boy. Supposedly, Star Manor is cursed...but Sophia is a levelheaded woman, who doesn't believe in such nonsense. That is, until she starts hearing and seeing strange things in the house and woods surrounding the property. Now it is up to her, and her alone, to discover the secrets that lie within the walls of Star Manor.

Grayson's Ridge

Nothing interesting happens in the podunk town of Lamison Point-until a freak show rolls through... When a traveling carnival stops in the sleepy countryside, sixteen-year-old Josie Crowley is psyched to go with her new friend, Freya. But what started out as a fun-filled night of games, candied apples, and ferris wheel rides quickly spirals into a gut-wrenching encounter with one of the carnival attractions. Once the excitement is over, Lamison is missing one of its residents... When Freya is nowhere to be found, Josie suspects the carnival has something to do with her disappearance. Her goal to track down the elusive show leads to an alarming revelation-there is no record of it ever existing. And as she digs deeper, Josie is led to a mysterious town with a tainted past-Flocksdale. Buried in Flocksdale's sick, twisted history is where Josie may find the truth... Creepy clowns, disfigured freaks, and a terrifying haunted house are the least of Josie's problems...now she has to deal with a group of real-life monsters, otherwise known as the evil Garrett family and new, rising generation of hell-bound freaks. If Josie is pulled into their world, she may become another member of a carnival of dead girls, where she goes in, and never comes out...

Carnival of Dead Girls

Seventeen-year-old Marianna Bertagnoli is miserable... Not only did her father abandon her five years ago, now she's being uprooted and forced to move with her mother and new stepdad to a creepy Victorian house they inherited in the even creepier town of Flocksdale. Flocksdale has an evil, ugly past-and history has a way of repeating itself... Marianna notices some strange qualities about her new home, and soon realizes she's living in none other than the infamous House of Horrors. That's right, the very house where the demented Garrett family ran a drug ring, leading to the kidnappings and murders of forty young girls. The dark energy of the town begins to rise again... Within a week of moving in, Marianna's mother disappears, one of her small group of new friends is found murdered, and she's attacked by a man wearing a hideous clown mask. As she searches for answers, Marianna wonders if the malevolence still lingers, somehow alive...and how her stepdad came to own the House of Horrors. Unsure who to trust, Marianna turns to Wendi Wise, a survivor of the Garretts' crimes... Caught up in twisted family ties and surrounded by deceit, Marianna is targeted by a new generation of evil. Doubly imprisoned-in her own body and in the real house of the lost girls-Marianna needs Wendi's help to unravel the bizarre history of Flocksdale. But will Marianna survive long enough to bring the evil to light? Or will she be trapped in the house of the lost girls forever?

House of the Lost Girls

Veronica didn't believe in ghosts-until her son became one... Veronica von Derbach is a young mother with a promising career in psychology. She considers herself a sane person, with no interest in paranormal hocus-pocus, until a fateful camping trip tears her life apart. While boating in the midst of a turbulent storm, her only child, Sullivan, disappears from the bow of the boat. Though they never find his body, he can only be presumed dead. Veronica can't bring herself to move on... Searching for peace, Veronica finds herself drawn to the darker, less respected career of parapsychology, the study of apparitional beings. But she finds no answers there, only bitterness. She takes great pleasure in traveling the United States, debunking paranormal mysteries and discrediting ghostly claims. She doesn't believe in ghosts. She doesn't believe in anything except the emptiness that has claimed her since the disappearance of Sullivan. But then she receives a mysterious fax-a grainy, ghostly image of her long-lost son. To find the truth, she must delve into the unknown... Veronica now faces the greatest challenge of her career. She must succeed in her search for Sullivan and find out the dreadful truth about what happened to him that day at the lake, before other children suffer the same fate.

Searching for Sullivan

The brand new thriller from USA Today bestselling author, Carissa Ann Lynch. Perfect for fans of John Hart, Jane Harper and Shirley Jackson. ‘Incredibly powerful, riveting and emotionally charged, this thriller will stay with you long after the last page is turned’ Ellie Midwood

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