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Penance

Eliza Clark

Set in the faded English seaside, the horrifying, cold-blooded murder of a teenage girl by her schoolmates, exposes the dark subcultures and online obsessions festering within a decaying coastal community

  • Literary fiction
  • Dark
  • Tense
  • True crime inspired
  • Unreliable narrator
  • Small town
  • Steady
  • Medium read
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Gillian Flynn

Just out of a psychiatric hospital, reporter Camille Preaker is sent back to her Missouri hometown to cover the murders of two young girls. Staying in her childhood home with her cold, controlling mother and the eerie 13-year-old half-sister she barely knows, she increasingly loses herself in the case.

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