Author: Amber Leigh Larrain
Publisher: Indie
Published: March 13, 2026
If everyone close to you died, year after year, on the same day, would you believe you were cursed? Brittany certainly does, and most people don’t believe that – until after one too many deaths – they do. And the nail in the coffin (so to speak) is when her partner dies. Not a spoiler, because come on, you know he’s going to!
Up until this point, the book read like a dark cozy to me (is that a new genre?), and what kept me invested was the setting that takes place in the next town over from me in southern NJ and all the place names I recognized. But then, a podcaster decides to get to produce the story through a series of interviews with Brittany, and that’s when it gets really interesting. Brittany doesn’t know who to trust, if the podcast is opening her up to a social media nightmare, or if the killer is coming for her next.
I read this in one day because I had to get to the conclusion, and the ending was worth the read!
Thank you to the author for an advance reader’s copy, and Amber, I hope to see you at the Collingswood Book Festival this year (IYKYK!)
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