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Antioch
2020
First Published
3.25
Average Rating
188
Number of Pages

Antioch used to be a quiet small town where nothing bad ever happened. Now six women have been savagely murdered. The media dubs the killer 'Vlad the Impaler' due to the gruesome crime scenes of his victims. Clues are drying up fast and the hunt for the monster responsible is hitting a dead end. After picking up a late-night transmission on her short-wave radio, a local bookseller named Bess becomes convinced a seventh victim has already been abducted. Bess is used to spending her nights alone reading about Amelia Earhart conspiracy theories, and now a new mystery has fallen in her lap: one she might actually be able to solve. Assuming she doesn’t also wind up abducted. Antioch, a cross between Session 9 and Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, is an eerie mind-bending debut horror novel guaranteed to leave you drowning in paranoia.

Avg Rating
3.25
Number of Ratings
402
5 STARS
14%
4 STARS
29%
3 STARS
32%
2 STARS
19%
1 STARS
6%
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Author

Jessica Leonard
Jessica Leonard
Author · 3 books
Jessica Leonard is the writer of stories about people and the things they do. She lives in western Kentucky with her husband, son, and two dogs. Her work has appeared in Counterexample Poetics and Menacing Hedge, as well as in the Solarcide anthologies Nova Parade and Solarcidal Tendencies. Antioch is her first Novel
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