People say the house is cursed. It preys on the weakest, and young women are its favorite victims. In Louth, they're called the Dead Girls. First off, can I gush about how lovely the cover is? Horror and thriller novels have been killing it lately (pun intended). Don’t Tell a Soul by Kirsten Miller is a modern love letter to Gothic literature, filled with a haunted manor, a mysterious mural, and a string of dead girls. The main character is even named Bram, after all, which seems like an obvious nod to Bram Stoker. Set in the sleepy town of Louth, it’s a beautifully atmospheric mystery filled with twists and turns. However, some of the plot twists were revealed in unclimactic info dumps, and I feel if you poked at the story’s explanations too hard, the story would fall apart at the seams. Overall, Don’t Tell a Soul starts of really strong, but two-thirds of the way through some of the character decisions are baffling and seem to be done sheerly for cheap scares, which unfor...