James S. Murray is a writer, executive producer, and actor, best known as "Murr" on the hit television show
Impractical Jokers on truTV. He is also one of the stars of the TV show
The Misery Index on TBS along with his comedy troupe, The Tenderloins.
His new novel, with Darren Wearmouth, is
Don't Move.
At CrimeReads, Murray tagged "
five books dedicated to women fighting their way out." One title on the list:
Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
Maggie Holt never really had a chance at freedom. Thanks to a tell-all book published by her father, Maggie’s childhood was sold as a freakshow. 
Chronicling the time she and her family lived in Baneberry Hall, a seemingly haunted estate filled with unusual paranormal activity, the book marked Maggie’s life with a twinge of notoriety she’s never been able to shake. That is, until years later, when as an adult, Maggie inherits the allegedly haunted property and prepares the estate for sale to rid her life of it forever. But before she knows it, the ghosts of the house and the living ghosts of her town come back to haunt her. Pulling from classics like The Amityville Horror and Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House, Home Before Dark leaves its mark as a downright terrifying novel in a sea of overrated haunting stories. Alongside Maggie, it’s up to the reader to decipher the mysteries of Baneberry Hall and more importantly, to live to tell the tale.
Read about
another entry on the list.
Home Before Dark is among
Karen Dionne's eight top thrillers that turn home into a place of mortal danger.
The Page 69 Test: Home Before Dark.
--Marshal Zeringue
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