Staff Picks : Jeltje

We are launching a new feature on this blog in which every week or so a different staff member will feature a few books or movies that they have enjoyed recently.  The selections may not all be brand new, but we hope it will help you find something you like.  

Jeltje's September Picks

The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix

I am not a fan of slasher movies, but if you like the slasher movies from the 80’s and 90’s (Halloween through Scream) you would appreciate the references to those kinds of movies. There is a support group for “Final Girls,” or the girls who survived bloody and gruesome attacks like in those movies mentioned and they are now in their late thirties to forties, but someone seems to be trying to kill them off. Throughout the book, you will follow one of the Final Girls and her attempts to figure out who is trying to kill them and stay alive at the same time.

 

The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

The story is in the point of view of a woman who is agoraphobic and watches her neighbors to pass her time, but she witnesses a murder through the window of one of her neighbor’s houses. As you read the book, you will wonder if she really did see someone killed and also, why is she so afraid to leave the house over the last several months? This book was interesting enough for it to be made into a movie as well.

 

The French Girl by Lexie Elliot 

In the point of view of Kate, she remembers when 10 years ago, she and a group of friends went to France for a vacation and met a young French girl who disappears. Now, the body of the French girl has been found and there are questions as well as tensions within their friend group with new information coming up that also upsets her personal and professional life.