Margins
2024
First Published
3.13
Average Rating
281
Number of Pages

For readers of Megan Miranda, Megan Abbot, Taylor Adams, and Catriona Ward, a twisty psychological thriller about sisters, family, and the friend we would do anything for Sometime between the late night and early morning hours, in a dank, uncomfortable interrogation room, sits a young woman with a chilling story. Her pregnant sister, Sarah, is missing. Her cousin Jeremy is in an adjoining room. She is cold, terrified, and confused about what happened earlier last night. But the police, instead of trying to help her get her sister back, keep asking about her ex-flatmate, Gemma. Gemma, who came into their lives offering a six-month cash deposit up front, disrupted their routines with her manipulative behavior, her secrets, and her bizarre habits—like salt sprinkled outside her door, the chanting and whispering coming from her room at night, the candles, her irregualr comings and going as if in search of someone—only to disappear quietly several months ago, leaving them to deal with the fallout. Did something sinister happen to Gemma? What does it have to do with Sarah’s disappearance? Are they part of some trickster’s elaborate game, or is something else going on? And what really happened by the river last night? From the author of They Did Bad Things, Gemma is a devious new mystery and slowly escalating psychological thriller with a touch of horror.

Avg Rating
3.13
Number of Ratings
38
5 STARS
11%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
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2 STARS
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1 STARS
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Author

Lauren A. Forry
Lauren A. Forry
Author · 7 books
Lauren A. Forry was brought up in the woods of Bucks County, Pennsylvania where her FBI agent father and book-loving mother raised her on a diet of The X-Files and RL Stine. After earning her BA in Cinema Studies from New York University, she spent some time in film production before moving to London where she earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Kingston University. There she was awarded the Faber and Faber Creative Writing MA Prize for her first horror novel, The Compulsion. Her short stories have since been published by Brick Moon Fiction, Lamplight Magazine, and in multiple sci-fi and horror anthologies. She currently resides in the woods but can, on occasion, be found in the quieter parts of London.
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