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Gothic Romance / Historical Mystery

A Candle in the West Wing

Ailsa Crowe

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Reinvention Fiction

The last school run began with a lunchbox Maggie Byrne could not bring herself to throw away. It sat on the passenger seat of her car at twenty past eight on a wet Tuesday morning, pink plastic gone cloudy at the corners, one hinge cracked, the faded sticker of a cartoon fox half-peeled from the lid. There was nothing inside it except a folded kitchen towel and the stale ghost of apple slices, but Maggie had washed it twice the night before, dried it with the good tea towel, and set it by the kettle as though Aoife might come downstairs half asleep and ask where her blue jumper was.

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Gothic Romance

Blackthorn Mercy

Ailsa Crowe

The solicitor had said Blackthorn House would be difficult to miss. Mara Quinn thought that was the sort of thing men said when they had never arrived anywhere in a hire car during hard rain with a cracked phone screen, a dying battery, and the sick certainty that the past had been sitting upright all these years, waiting for her to come back and look it in the face.

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Gothic Romance

Blackthorn Vows

Ailsa Crowe

The Summons The letter arrived at 6:17 on a Thursday evening, when Dr Eve Harkin was standing barefoot on her kitchen tile with a mug of cold tea in one hand and a police transcript in the other. She noticed the envelope before she noticed the knock. Cream paper. Heavy. Her name written in black ink by a hand that had either been trained in convent cruelty or old money.

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Mystery

Boys of the Relief Map

Aileen Muir

The Hill That Wasn’t There Finn O’Daly knew the town had been lying about being flat for years. Nobody else seemed bothered by this. Adults looked at the roads and saw roads. They looked at the shopping precinct and saw shops, the estate behind Saint Jude’s and saw houses, the narrow strip behind the leisure centre and saw somewhere a council van ought to be parked.

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Psychological Horror

Come Home, Mara Vale

Lachlan Ashen

Independent investigator Mara Vale is publicly discredited at a national integrity hearing when impossible ash, a sealed childhood institution called Ash House, and the voice of her missing brother force her back toward the family secrets and official records she has spent her career exposing.

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Contemporary Women's Fiction

Council Estate Saints

Laura Carpenter

The first time the fire door failed, nobody called it failure. They called it sticky. They called it one of those things. They called it the sort of problem you reported twice, maybe three times if you had the patience for the online portal and a password that had not expired while you were trying to remember whether you had used a capital letter or the name of the dead dog.

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Science Fiction

Glitch Hearts

Cian Rutherford

The rain started before the ferry lights came on. By half six the windows of Doyle’s Spar were silvered with Atlantic mist, the whole street outside blurred into wet halos and brake lights and people running with hoods over their heads like the weather had personally offended them. Clonmara always looked half haunted in weather like this. Not dangerous. Just old.

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Civic Cozy Mystery

Minutes of a Marriage That Did Not Sit

Orla Ashdown

Councillor and part-time actress Imogen Vale discovers the official minutes say she cast the deciding vote to demolish St Brigid's Court—the estate where her sister lives—even though the same record marks her absent and she was performing miles away. A mysterious notation points to an obsolete spousal-proxy rule and drags her estranged husband, county archivist Daniel, into a civic mystery about forged procedure, altered records and who has the power to make a false decision become official truth.

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Gothic Romance

The Ghost at Ravensmere

Ailsa Crowe

Some legacies should stay buried. Some loves refuse to. The Ghost at Ravensmere opens the gates to a moonlit coastal estate where inheritance, desire and dangerous truths refuse to remain politely in the past. Ailsa Crowe blends gothic atmosphere, haunted family history and romance into a story where the house remembers more than its living occupants are prepared to admit.

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Gothic Fantasy

When the Monks Stopped Singing

Maeve D. Gealach

The bell in the crypt rang once, though no living hand had touched it in seventeen winters. Brother Malachy heard it through the kitchen floor while he was cutting black bread for the poor boxes, the knife paused halfway through the heel, crumbs clinging to the edge like little flakes of burnt peat. Above him, the monastery slept in its old arrangement: dormitory shutters breathing in the gale, chapel candles guttering in their red glasses, rain running in cold lines down the saints.

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