September 15, 2024
In 1921 in Milwaukee, Marian Arnold's life withers after her parents' deaths and business failures. When she retreats to the family's summer home, echoes of Marian's butterfly-obsessed late mother trigger a fluttering frenzy of new threats, supernatural sightings, and murder. In the present, Remy Crenshaw assists a biographer researching the Butterfly Butcher, a century-old killer connected to the Arnold manor. As Remy's work takes her beyond cold facts and into the kaleidoscope of the human mind, she is engulfed in the dizzying swarm of perception, truth, and the futility of denying the darkness within herself, the house, and their tragic pasts. Again Wright (Night Falls on Predicament Avenue, 2024) blends inspirational horror with earnest sensitivity to mental health and human vulnerability. Through dual time lines, this tale of romantic suspense features themes of grief, fractured families, and the search for self-worth through relationships. Wright reveals the inner specters shaped by external forces like war, death, and loss, evoking a profound and emotionally introspective read. The novel's exploration of the delicate and brittle aspects of human experience is hauntingly beautiful.
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August 12, 2024
A young research assistant unravels the mystery behind a Milwaukee socialite’s alleged death in this eerie dual-timeline tale from Wright (Night Falls on Predicament Avenue). Remy Crenshaw has just landed a job assisting eccentric author Elton Floyd on his next project—a biography of Marian Arnold, a Prohibition-era socialite rumored to haunt the halls of the manor where she was murdered. When Remy moves into the house and begins scouring it—and the internet—for information, she discovers the Arnolds’ family history includes a bankrupted brewery business and a murder by the so-called “Butterfly Butcher,” who left dead butterflies next to his victims. With the help of her faith and U.S. Marine veteran Tate Arnold, a distant relative of the Arnold clan with secrets of his own, Remy comes to believe that Marian may not have been murdered—and sets out to uncover the truth behind her disappearance. Wright uses the parallel story lines—one in the present, the other in the 1920s—to ratchet up tension as uncanny resonances between Marian’s and Remy’s lives send sinister echoes across time and space. Readers will be eager to take this twisty, suspense-filled ride.