Games for Dead Girls, Jen Williams
Games for Dead Girls, Jen Williams
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Games for Dead Girls

Author: Jen Williams

Narrator: Mhairi Morrison

Unabridged: 12 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/18/2023

Synopsis

For Charlie and her niece Katie, it’s supposed to be a quiet holiday in the peaceful, out-of-the-way seaside town of Hithechurch, England. Charlie is researching a book on the folklore of the area, and the gloomy sea and dangerous caves seem to offer up plenty of material, while Katie is just there to run wild and get some fresh air. But Charlie’s research reveals a deeper, darker secret, one that uncovers her own carefully hidden past. Young women are going missing again: a teenage girl snatched from the beach in broad daylight, and before that, other girls through the decades have vanished from the area, their families left with no answers and no bodies to bury. Charlie’s creation was a thing of felt, straw, fury, and a rusty pair of scissors in the dark. It couldn’t be her monster. Could it? Set on discovering the truth about the girls’ disappearances, she’s about to encounter a force of pure, obsessive malevolence that threatens to destroy anything in its path. Exploring the fine line where supernatural ends and real human monstrosity begins, Games for Dead Girls is a haunting, dark novel from award-winning author Jen Williams.

About Jen Williams

Jen Williams lives in London with her partner and their small ridiculous cat. Having been a fan of grisly fairy tales from a young age, these days she writes dark unsettling thrillers with strong female leads, as well as character-driven fantasy novels with plenty of adventure and magic. She has twice won the British Fantasy Award for her Winnowing Flame trilogy, and when she's not writing books she works as a bookseller and a freelance copywriter.

About Mhairi Morrison

Mhairi Morrison is a trained actress and voiceover artist who received her bachelor's degree in theater from The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and her master's degree from Jacques Lecoq. The creator of the award-winning web series Feathers and Toast, she works extensively in voiceover and is the recipient of an Earphones Award.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nilufer on April 28, 2024

Hmm… creepy creature folkloric stories, missing girls, a small town with dark secrets are the best themes I never get tired to dive into without thinking! But there are some executional issues about this book. There are 3 different timelines with three interesting storylines but those stories’ progr......more

Goodreads review by LIsa Noell "Rocking the chutzpah!" on June 02, 2023

My thanks to Crooked Lane books, Jen Williams and Netgalley. There was just something about this damn story! I'll confess that I was hooked from the very beginning. As I read along, I kept finding inconsistencies...I loved that!😜 Also, I discovered a bit of graffiti in a cave wall that said "Bango S......more

Goodreads review by Melissa (Semi-hiatus for Work) on April 15, 2023

Overall a very creepy, atmospheric read. So, so, so slow though. Better editing would have made this one a lot better. This book is told in three timelines. The first is when Charlie was eleven years old and her family comes to the seaside town of Hithechurch, England for a holiday in a caravan. The......more

Goodreads review by Luvtoread (Trying to catch up) on May 05, 2023

Legends, folklore, missing girls, mysteries and murder taking place at a seaside town in Hithechurch, England what more could one ask for! The story takes place with the character of Charlie ( Charlotte/Sarah) taking her eleven year old niece with her on a vacation to the the seaside town that her fa......more

Goodreads review by Jen on November 11, 2022

I loved this book- it was so creepy and well-written. The story centers on Charlie and goes back and forth from when she was a pre-teen to current time as an adult. In the prior timeline, Charlie meets a friend named Emily and they conspire to conjure up a ghost based on local folklore to rid Emily......more

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