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Paulette Kennedy

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Historical Fiction, Horror

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Originally from the Missouri Ozarks, Paulette Kennedy now lives with her family in a quiet suburb of Los Angeles.

When she's not writing or reading, she enjoys tending to her garden, knitting, and finding unique vintage treasures at thrift stores and flea markets.

As a history lover, she can get lost for days in her research—learning everything she can about the places in her stories and the experiences her characters might have had in the past.

This dedication to research infuses her world-building with realistic detail and creates a cinematic, immersive experience for the reader.

Paulette’s next novel is The Devil and Mrs. Davenport, a domestic gothic set in the 1950s about a homemaker who develops psychic abilities after a viral illness. ...more

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Average rating: 4.08 · 41,972 ratings · 4,050 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Witch of Tin Mountain 4.05 avg rating — 16,413 ratings — published 2023 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Devil and Mrs. Davenport 4.18 avg rating — 13,072 ratings — published 2024 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Parting the Veil 3.96 avg rating — 6,600 ratings — published 2021 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Artist of Blackberry Grange 4.10 avg rating — 5,861 ratings — published 2025 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Two Deaths of Lillian Carmichael 3.78 avg rating — 23 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Where Monsters Hide: Tales of the Uncanny by Moorhead Friends Writing Group, Scott Dyston (editor), Chris Stenson 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Light of Autumn 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Paulette Kennedy rated a book it was amazing Godfestation by Jendia Gammon (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
An atmospheric, dreamlike exploration of grief, woven with threads of folkloric surrealism. Gammon's Appalachia is at once magical and terrifying--a place where the veil between worlds is thin, where the earthy loam of old-growth forests meets the sh ...more
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Paulette Kennedy rated a book it was amazing The French Effect by Patricia Sands (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
THE FRENCH EFFECT is impeccably written and bubbling with joie de vivre--the kind of feel-good story that will appeal to anyone who loves inspiring novels about women reclaiming their joy, sensuality, and self-identity during midlife. Nora, a widowed ...more
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Paulette Kennedy rated a book it was amazing The Fourth Daughter by Lyn Liao Butler (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Keep the tissues nearby while you read this touching, evocative story about a woman's search for the long lost daughter who was stolen from her 60 years before. Written in dual timeline/POV format, from the perspective of Ah-Ma, a woman forced into a ...more
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Paulette Kennedy rated a book it was amazing The Women of Arlington Hall by Jane Healey (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The Women of Arlington Hall tells the story of one of the most obscure facets of Cold War history: the female codebreakers who helped to decode KGB documents and expose Russian undercover agents after WW2. Healey is adept at telling historically accur ...more
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Paulette Kennedy rated a book it was amazing The Black Carnival by Harlequin Grim (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The Black Carnival is a visceral, fearless journey into darkness, where morally gray misfits are enthroned as heroes and given full reign over the shadows. Grim seduces and disarms readers with his lyrical prose, only to subvert their expectations at ...more
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Paulette Kennedy rated a book it was amazing The Colony of Lost Souls by Kelsey James (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A captivating work of fiction that explores the dangers of obsessive charisma and the allure of the unknown, wrapped in an intoxicating gothic mystery set on the rugged California coast. If you like books about seductive metaphysical cults, this is th ...more
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Mimi Matthews is the queen of Victorian romance, and she introduces readers to a new series (The Crinoline Academy) with Rules for Ruin. This was such a delightful read, with wonderful, detailed worldbuilding and scintillating romantic chemistry. The ...more
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Paulette Kennedy rated a book it was amazing Where Dark Things Rise by Andrew K. Clark (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A terror-spiked thrill ride of a novel that leaves room for tender moments of raw beauty and bittersweet nostalgia. Andrew K. Clark examines the nature of good and evil, and how closely they intertwine as a young woman with hidden powers confronts th ...more
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“It was surreal, how everything continued, how everything kept on after a person died. Shouldn’t time stop for grief, even for a moment, so one might catch their breath before things started moving again?”
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“Loretta hated it when people commented on her fluctuating figure—as if her body had value only when it was diminishing.”
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“There’s all kinds of love, and one ain’t any better than the other. And I also understand that bein’ a woman ain’t the easiest thing, and sometimes a woman’s got to find her peace and happiness wherever she can.”
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What shall we read in October, 2024? Books published after 1990.

Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer

13 votes 22.8%

Where the Line Bleeds, by Jesmyn Ward

11 votes 19.3%

The Witch of Tin Mountain, by Paulette Kennedy

10 votes 17.5%

Sleepovers: Stories, by Ashleigh Bryant Phillips

10 votes 17.5%

Plum Orchard, by June Hall McCash

10 votes 17.5%

Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany

3 votes 5.3%

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