Books like The Haunting of Maddy Clare
12 books with a reading profile close to The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. James. Escapist; an easy read.
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The Drowning Kind
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Jaxie Brandywine returns to her family estate in Vermont after her sister, Lexie, drowns in the property’s spring-fed pool.
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The Lighthouse Witches
by C.J. Cooke
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
In 1998, single mother Liv arrives on the remote Scottish island of Lòn Mòr with her three daughters to commission a mural inside a decommissioned lighthouse.
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Penpal
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
An unnamed narrator reconstructs his childhood through a series of interconnected stories, beginning with a school project where he mailed a letter tied to a balloon.
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The Ice Twins
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
A year after the accidental death of their daughter Lydia, Sarah and Angus Moorcroft move to a secluded Scottish island to rebuild their lives with Lydia’s identical twin, Kirstie.
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The September House
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Margaret refuses to leave her Victorian estate, even though every September the walls bleed and the resident ghosts become aggressive.
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The Night Sister
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
The narrative follows Piper and Margot, two sisters who return to their family’s decaying Vermont motel, the Tower, after their childhood friend Amy commits a gruesome triple murder-suicide.
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A Dowry of Blood
by S.T. Gibson
Also escapist · romance, horror
In this epistolary reimagining of the Dracula mythos, Constanta is rescued from the brink of death by a charismatic, ancient stranger.
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The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
by Holly Black
Also escapist · romance, horror
Tana lives in a world where a Cold Infection turns humans into vampires, forcing the government to quarantine the infected in walled cities known as Coldtowns.
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The Silent Companions
Also escapist · horror, entertainment
Newly widowed and pregnant, Elsie Bainbridge moves to the decaying country estate of the Bridge, the ancestral home of her late husband.
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10
I Kissed Shara Wheeler
Also escapist · romance, entertainment
Chloe Green is a high school senior determined to displace her rival, Shara Wheeler, as valedictorian at their conservative Alabama Christian academy.
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Nantucket Nights
Also escapist · romance, entertainment
Three women friends on Nantucket, Antonia, Kay and Val, have a ritual: once a year, on the night of a full moon in summer, they get together and speak the truth.
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Ghosted
by Rosie Walsh
Also escapist · romance, entertainment
In Rosie Walsh's "Ghosted," Sarah meets the charming Eddie and they spend a perfect week together, only for him to vanish without a trace, leaving her heartbroken and confused.
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