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Darcy Coates

Författare till The Haunting of Ashburn House

65 verk 4,396 medlemmar 207 recensioner 1 favoritmärkta

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Inkluderar namnen: Darcy Coates, Darcie Coates

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Verk av Darcy Coates

The Haunting of Ashburn House (2016) 439 exemplar
Craven Manor (2019) 331 exemplar
Hunted (2018) 241 exemplar
The Carrow Haunt (2018) 237 exemplar
The Haunting of Blackwood House (2015) 209 exemplar
From Below (2022) — Författare — 204 exemplar
The Haunting of Gillespie House (2015) 192 exemplar
The Whispering Dead (2021) 192 exemplar
Gallows Hill (2022) 187 exemplar
Voices in the Snow (2019) 161 exemplar
Dead of Winter (2023) 159 exemplar
The Haunting of Leigh Harker (2021) 155 exemplar
House of Shadows (2016) 147 exemplar
The House Next Door (2017) 147 exemplar
The Haunting of Rookward House (2017) 118 exemplar
The Folcroft Ghosts (2017) 115 exemplar
Parasite (2016) 106 exemplar
The Ravenous Dead (2022) 92 exemplar
Where He Can't Find You (2023) 84 exemplar
House of Secrets (2016) 84 exemplar
Secrets in the Dark (2020) 76 exemplar
Dead Lake: Collection (2020) 76 exemplar
The Twisted Dead (2023) 75 exemplar
Small Horrors (2022) 74 exemplar
Quarter to Midnight (2022) 66 exemplar
Silence in the Shadows (2020) 66 exemplar
Dead Lake (2015) 65 exemplar
Whisper in the Mist (2020) 63 exemplar
Ghost Camera (2014) 56 exemplar
Once Returned (2013) 14 exemplar
Crypt: a horror short story (2015) 10 exemplar
Sub Basement (2014) 9 exemplar
Bellamy 7 exemplar
Kořist (2021) 3 exemplar
Duch domu Ashburnů (2019) 2 exemplar
Hitchhiker 2 exemplar
From Below 1 exemplar
Dead Lake 1 exemplar
Pod hladinou (2023) 1 exemplar
Crypt 1 exemplar
Hlasy v bouři (2021) 1 exemplar
Ghost Camera 1 exemplar

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Vedertaget namn
Coates, Darcy
Födelsedag
alive
Kön
female
Nationalitet
Australia
Land (för karta)
Australia
Bostadsorter
Australia

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Started and never finished it
 
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nitrolpost | 10 andra recensioner | Mar 19, 2024 |
i feel like this would've done so much better as a fun little horror movie on the syfy channel that you happen upon while flipping channels and give it a shot and end up having a good time. but as a book it was just soooo much longer than necessary. also re: vanna's backstory reveal/the explanation of what was found in her journal...i see what was trying to be done, i appreciate the tragedy of it all, but it just fell flat for me. it didn't really hold interest as a reader and wasn't something i was DYING to find out the truth about because of how little it's brought up throughout the dives.… (mer)
 
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bisexuality | 7 andra recensioner | Mar 3, 2024 |
Margot was sent away from her parents and her home when she was a young girl, and really doesn’t remember anything about her old house. When both her parents die suddenly at the same time, she inherits not only the old house (on Gallows Hill), but the very successful wine business her ancestors have run for generations (she learns this when she returns). But the house (and things inside it) is pretty creepy and a bit of a maze; there is something very wrong here. But the staff of the business (many who live on the property) appear to love it there.

Like the other books I’ve read by this author, I thought this was very good. Very creepy. Enough that I decided early on to (mostly) not read it at night! As a horror book, I feel like that’s what it should do – scare me enough to want to only read it during the day! It did its job.
… (mer)
 
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LibraryCin | 13 andra recensioner | Feb 28, 2024 |
We Gotta Get Out of This Place
Review of the Black Owl Books Kindle eBook edition (July 11, 2023), released simultaneously with the Poisoned Pen Press paperback.

It’s a strange feeling to know you might be walking beside someone who’s taken a life. Technically, the statistics on that are ugly on a regular day: the average person is likely to cross paths with three to ten murderers in their lifetime, including not-insignificant odds of having one inside their broad social group.*


The first thing to say here is that due to a somewhat clumsy opening, I guessed the end twist to this book almost immediately. And I think anyone who has a reasonably thorough knowledge of the classic Agatha Christie books will do the same. Saying anything more would be a spoiler, if it isn't already.

Even with that foreknowledge Dead of Winter was still an entertaining read, especially for its depth of winter, isolated cabin in the mountains, strangers trapped together, mad killer on the loose scenarios. Lead character Christa is suffering from an unknown guilty trauma from the past when she goes on a winter lodge retreat with her fiancé. Nine other characters are with them on the excursion bus taking them to a private lodge in the Rocky Mountains. A winter storm causes a breakdown and before you know it, characters start to die. At first perhaps by accident, but then it becomes obvious that they are all being targeted.

This crosses over from mystery into horror due to the grotesque murder methods employed, so it is not a cozy in the Agatha Christie sense by any means. Many of the characters make completely reckless and unrealistic decisions along the way, those being necessary to move the plot along, so you do have to suspend belief quite a bit to enjoy the ride. With the American setting, I was surprised to discover that the author was Australian when I added the book to my year's summary statistics.

On the Berengaria Ease of Solving Scale® I would rate this as a 0 out of 10, i.e. "an immediate solve", as explained above. Probably those not familiar with classic Agatha Christie would find it to be on the high end of the scale though.

Footnote
* This seemed like such a bizarre statistic that I just had to google whether it had any basis in fact. While not exactly reliable, Buzzfeed does provide a mathematical calculation which suggests that even 16 murderers encountered in a lifetime might be possible.

Soundtrack
It has no tie-in to the plot, but I kept thinking of We Gotta Get Out of This Place (1965) by The Animals, while reading this book 😱🥶.
… (mer)
 
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alanteder | 10 andra recensioner | Feb 16, 2024 |

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Verk
65
Medlemmar
4,396
Popularitet
#5,704
Betyg
3.8
Recensioner
207
ISBN
95
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