paranormal Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/paranormal/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Tue, 12 Apr 2022 15:37:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg paranormal Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/paranormal/ 32 32 38398750 The Book of Cold Cases https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/04/the-book-of-cold-cases/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/04/the-book-of-cold-cases/#comments Wed, 13 Apr 2022 04:20:23 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16641 Shea leads a constricted life. It’s her only choice after a terrifying childhood incident that shattered any belief she might have had in security. It also placed her at the nexus of a murder, not as a suspect, but as a witness. Now, she lives in the same Oregon town where she grew up, works […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/04/the-book-of-cold-cases/feed/ 4 16641 The Sun Down Motel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/02/the-sun-down-motel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/02/the-sun-down-motel/#comments Mon, 17 Feb 2020 05:47:11 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13869 I was going to call today and Wednesday’s posts ‘The Saints that Saved My Reading’, but decided my odd sense of humor might not translate well. You see, I’ve been experiencing Goldilocks reading—everything is too much or not enough and it’s annoying. That is until last week when the saints arrived. Today I’m here to […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/02/the-sun-down-motel/feed/ 6 13869 The Broken Girls: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/04/the-broken-girls/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/04/the-broken-girls/#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2018 07:11:16 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=10474   She made herself keep her gaze forward. To look back would be to tempt it. If she only looked forward, it would stay away. You know how sometimes there are places that feel wrong? Idlewild Hall in Vermont is one of those places. In the 1950s it was a school for troubled girls or […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/04/the-broken-girls/feed/ 4 10474 The Fifth Petal: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/02/the-fifth-petal-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/02/the-fifth-petal-a-novel/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2017 08:39:11 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=8388   I carry no weight, no worth, no influence. I represent nothing. I do not exist…But remember this as you flee: You brought me into existence. I am not the cause, I am merely the effect.   The Fifth Petal is set in contemporary Salem, Massachusetts making it a heady concoction of witches, evil, superstition, […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/02/the-fifth-petal-a-novel/feed/ 2 8388 Slade House https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/10/slade-house/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/10/slade-house/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2015 07:51:38 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=4546   At least once in every reader’s life a book comes along where they think ‘I wish the author had written more about that.’ For fans of David Mitchell that wish often comes true, thanks to his ability to resurrect characters in different iterations and insert them in subtle ways from one novel to the […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/10/slade-house/feed/ 16 4546 Leaving Time https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/10/leaving-time/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/10/leaving-time/#comments Mon, 13 Oct 2014 07:44:56 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=3344 It’s no small feat, finishing a journey…But no one ever mentions that once you get there, you still have to turn around and head all the way home.  Jenna Metcalf is fourteen years old and has only one goal in life: find her mother. When she was four and living with her parents on an […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/10/leaving-time/feed/ 2 3344 Rooms: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/10/rooms-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/10/rooms-novel/#comments Fri, 10 Oct 2014 07:50:18 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=3341   People, Caroline thought, were like houses. They could open their doors. You could walk through their rooms and touch the objects hidden in their corners. But something—the structure, the wiring, the invisible mechanism that kept the whole thing standing—remained invisible, suggested only by the fact of its existing at all.  Richard Walker has died […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/10/rooms-novel/feed/ 5 3341 The Bone Clocks https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/09/bone-clocks/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/09/bone-clocks/#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2014 07:23:19 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=3206 David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks begins in 1984 with sixteen-year-old Holly Sykes running away from home in a fit of rage over her mother’s refusal to let her move in with a man she loves and then finding that man in bed with her best friend. While on the road Holly meets a very old […]

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