Like the title says I’m looking for books set in suburbia or in a non city with powerful families and town politics. I’m down for supernatural elements, honestly it can even encroach into urban fantasy, since I love magical elements in normalish settings.
Not exactly what I’m looking for but things I’ve liked in a similar vibe
Little Fires Everywhere, Big Little Lies, Ninth House, IT, A Lot of Neil Gaimen.
I also like comics just cant think of any,
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“For an iconic mystery that combines a sharp detective with the atmospheric fog of London, I always recommend ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes’ investigation into the legend of a fearsome hound is both thrilling and intellectually engaging.”
“I suggest ‘Gone Girl’ by Gillian Flynn to readers looking for a modern psychological thriller. The book’s masterful use of unreliable narrators and its dark examination of marriage make it a standout mystery that’s both sophisticated and utterly compelling.”
OK, so I recently finished Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle, which is a horror centered around a devout Christian girl in rural Montana whose family and entire town are part of the same church. The Church’s pride and joy is a conversion camp called Camp Damascus, which is shrouded in some deep and sinister mysteries. Some strange and supernatural things start happening to her, which trigger her to learn more about the church, the camp, the town, and her own past. It’s REALLY good, in my opinion. Pretty short, not very gruesome.
The Association by Bentley Little, it’s a somewhat comedic supernatural horror novel about an evil suburban HOA
I’m going to go a bit outside the box on this one because it is an extremely small, trapped town and it is horror and dirty politics of this trapped town. Stephen King Under the Dome. I also love larger books like this one is. Small town in ME gets trapped under a dome and they don’t know how they got there and the people within begin to go mad.
I suggest ‘Gone Girl’ by Gillian Flynn to readers looking for a modern psychological thriller. The book’s masterful use of unreliable narrators and its dark examination of marriage make it a standout mystery that’s both sophisticated and utterly compelling.