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Podcast Book Club Discussion of MURDER ROAD

Hello, Tartlets and Darksiders! A new book club podcast episode is up on Dark Side of the Word. Join me and Kait as we discuss the supernatural/true crime novel Murder Road by Simone St James. Honeymooners April and Eddie take a wrong turn onto the infamous Atticus Line in Coldlake Falls. When they drive past a girl on the side of the road, they stop to offer help, not realizing that the girl’s seriously injured. They speed to the...

Podcast Book Club Discussion of SCHRADER’S CHORD

Hello, Tartlets and Darksiders! A new book club podcast episode is up on Dark Side of the Word. Join me and Kait as we discuss the horror novel Schrader’s Chord by Scott Leeds. Charlie’s dad isn't the type of man to commit suicide. But there’s a text from Charlie’s sisters that has him boarding a plane to deal with the aftermath back home in Seattle. Charlie had a falling out with his father years earlier. Since then, they...

Podcast Book Club discussion of THE HOUSE OF LAST RESORT

Hello, Tartlets and Darksiders! A new book club podcast episode is up on Dark Side of the Word. Join me and Kait as we discuss the horror novel The House of Last Resort by Christopher Golden. Happily married couple Tommy and Kate take the adventure of a lifetime: they buy a fixer-upper villa for one Euro in the rural Italian countryside. What they don’t know about their new dream home is that it used to be the “the house of last...

LONE WOMEN: Book Club Podcast on Dark Side of the Word

Hello, Tartlets and Darksiders! A new book club podcast episode is up on Dark Side of the Word. Join me and Kait as we discuss the supernatural/historical fiction novel Lone Women by Victor LaValle. After burning down her childhood home with her parents’ dead bodies inside, Adelaide flees California. Her sights are set on Montana, a place where she can homestead and become just like the women she read about in the railroad booklets....

Happy Holidays 2023

Hello, Tartlets! I can’t think of a better day to start writing my holiday message. I’m sitting in my festively decorated kitchen, watching the first snow of the season fall softly outside the window. Christmas music floats over from my Mormon Tabernacle Choir Holiday Pandora station, and there’s butter softening on the counter for the orange vanilla sugar cookies I’ll bake later. If this scene doesn’t give you all the holiday feels,...

ROUGE: Book Club Podcast on Dark Side of the Word

Hello, Tartlets and Darksiders! A new book club podcast episode is up on Dark Side of the Word. Join me and Kait as we discuss the novel Rouge by Mona Awad. Belle isn't coping well after returning home for her mother’s funeral. First, there’s the fact that her mother died falling off an ocean cliff. Then, there are all the mysterious debts she left behind. The fact that her mother sold her beloved dress shop. The shirtless window cleaner....

HIDE: Book Club Podcast on Dark Side of the Word

Hello, Tartlets and Darksiders! A new book club podcast episode is up on Dark Side of the Word. Join me and Kait as we discuss the horror/thriller novel Hide by Kiersten White. Fourteen people arrive at an abandoned amusement park for a life-changing opportunity. All they have to do is play an elaborate game of hide-and-seek, and the last person standing will win $50K. But, if they're all hiding, who's the seeker? Why is there blood on the...

JUST LIKE HOME: Book Club Podcast on Dark Side of the Word

Hello, Tartlets and Darksiders! A new book club podcast episode is up on Dark Side of the Word. Join me and Kait as we discuss the supernatural suspense novel Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey. Vera didn’t have any intentions of coming back home. But, her mom is dying and she has to get the house ready to sell -- not that anyone's going to buy the house of an infamous serial killer. As Vera begins to pack up the house, disturbing childhood...

STRANGE SALLY DIAMOND: Book Club Podcast on Dark Side of the Word

Hello, Tartlets and Darksiders! A new book club podcast episode is up on Dark Side of the Word. Join me and Kait as we discuss the psychological thriller novel Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent. After throwing her father’s corpse into the family trash incinerator, Sally Diamond doesn’t understand why her neighbors are treating her weirdly. But, it's fine; she's used to be on her own, and she has memories of her dad to keep her...

MY MURDER: Podcast Episode 6 on Dark Side of the Word

Hello, Tartlets and Darksiders! A new podcast episode is up on Dark Side of the Word. Join me and Kait as we discuss the psychological thriller novel My Murder by Katie Williams. After being brutally murdered, wife and new mother Lou is brought back to life via cloning, along with several other victims of her serial killer. She gets to return to her happy marriage. Her daughter. Her old job. All the parts of her life she was told she...