Need suggestions for dark secret small town kind of books
I’m looking for something along the lines of small town with a dark secret and main character may have something to do with it or was once a victim. I like horror and mystery possibly with a mystical twist.
“Spells for Forgetting” by Adrienne Young is exactly this.
YakSlothLemon on
The Bright Lands by John Fram had this as a plot, and what a reveal! Strange, but I really liked it.
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*Sharp Objects* by Gillian Flynn is a somewhat creepy mystery about a series of child murders in a small town; the narrator grew up in the town but moved away as soon as she turned 18, and her reasons for hating the place trickle out as the story unfolds.
*The Book of Cold Cases* by Simone St James is about a wealthy woman who was acquitted of murder but the whole town still thinks she did it; it’s somewhere between a murder mystery and a ghost story.
*My Heart is a Chainsaw* by Stephen Graham Jones is a horror novel about a young woman who is obsessed with horror movies and convinces herself that there is a serial killer in her small town, and if she acts like the hero in a slasher movie, she’ll catch the killer. It has a slow build that feels like a murder mystery but turns into proper horror once it ramps up.
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“Spells for Forgetting” by Adrienne Young is exactly this.
The Bright Lands by John Fram had this as a plot, and what a reveal! Strange, but I really liked it.
*Sharp Objects* by Gillian Flynn is a somewhat creepy mystery about a series of child murders in a small town; the narrator grew up in the town but moved away as soon as she turned 18, and her reasons for hating the place trickle out as the story unfolds.
*The Book of Cold Cases* by Simone St James is about a wealthy woman who was acquitted of murder but the whole town still thinks she did it; it’s somewhere between a murder mystery and a ghost story.
*My Heart is a Chainsaw* by Stephen Graham Jones is a horror novel about a young woman who is obsessed with horror movies and convinces herself that there is a serial killer in her small town, and if she acts like the hero in a slasher movie, she’ll catch the killer. It has a slow build that feels like a murder mystery but turns into proper horror once it ramps up.