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SIX CLASSMATES. ONE TERRIFYING NIGHT. A MURDER TWENTY YEARS IN THE MAKING…
There’s something sinister under the surface of the idyllic, suburban town of Wesley Falls, and it’s not just the abandoned coal mine that lies beneath it. The summer of 1995 kicks off with a party in the mine…
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Vera Kurian's sophomore novel, A Step Past Darkness, proves that the success of her debut was no fluke. Dynamically different, more of a tome than most thrillers are, and yet still a book that you compels you to keep going, just finish that one more chapter over and over again until you've completed the entire book. The dual timeline with a group of kids in the 90s and the counterpart adults coming back together in current day provided plenty of Millenial nostalgia, but not just the rose-tinted version. Her ability to describe the emotion of a scene sets Kurian apart…
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