Xepherus Reads

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,    Happy New Year!  Horror novels with a paranormal spin have always been a favorite genre of mine. When reading a haunting ghost story I love to settle down and curl up with a hot coffee and fuzzy blanket, letting the book's spookiness wash over me. But when a ghost story is also a crime thriller, I love the book even more.     The Broken Girls is written by Simone St. James. It is published by Berkley Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. In it, we are introduced to Fiona Sheridan, a journalist for Lively Vermont magazine. She follows in the footsteps of her father, famous journalist Malcolm Sheridan. Fiona has seen her father decline over the years since her sister, Deb, was found murdered on the grounds of Idlewild Hall. The years have not been kind to the Sheridans, seeing Malcolm retreat even further into himself when Fiona's mother passed awa...