This month’s book picks are weirdly related because both feature queer romance and suspenseful corpse disposal and I promise I didn’t plan that at all.
If you’re in Nightmares from Nowhere you’ll be getting The Resurrectionist by A. Rae Dunlap. It’s a dark and twisty gothic debut set in 19th century Scotland (at a time when real-life serial killers Burke and Hare terrorized the streets of Edinburgh) as a young medical student is lured into the illicit underworld of body snatching.
And if you’re in The Fantastic Strangelings you’ll be getting I MIGHT BE IN TROUBLE by Daniel Aleman, a suspenseful dark comedy about a struggling writer who wakes up to find his date from the night before dead—and must then decide how far he’s willing to go to spin the misadventure into his next book.
And if you haven’t joined any of our clubs this is sort of the perfect time to try them out because a membership is a great gift and if you want you can just do three months to try it out and see if it’s fun for you. Just click here for details or send this link to someone if you want to hint at a very easy present. (We also have an amazing romance book club and a great picture book club for kids but I never write about them here because I only pick the books for Nightmares and FS because those are the genres I love most.)
Need more than one book to get you through the month? Here are a few December new releases I really liked:
The Mistletoe Mystery by Nita Prose ~ Remember when we read The Maid? Well this is a sweet new novella with Molly the Maid solving a whole new mystery.
Sister Snake by Amanda Lee Koe – A glittering, bold, darkly funny novel about two sisters—one in New York, one in Singapore—who are bound by an ancient secret.
Rental House by Weike Wang – From the award-winning author of Chemistry, a sharp-witted, insightful novel about a marriage as seen through the lens of two family vacations