2025 Rhody Reader Box by Ink Fish Books
2025 Rhody Reader Box by Ink Fish Books
Featuring The Housewarming by local author Kristin Offiler
The Rhody Reader Box from Ink Fish Books, is a celebration of all things Rhode Island and it’s back for 2025, featuring local author Kristin Offiler’s psychological thriller novel The Housewarming, along with locally made products by Juniper Hill Apothecary, Jaffal Chocolates, and Beaded Bookmarks by Irene. Pre-order your Ink Fish Books custom designed 2025 Rhody Reader Box today. Makes a great gift for the reader in your life! Boxes will be available for in-store pickup or shipping in the US beginning in early November.
Your purchase of the Rhody Reader Box supports the Rhode Island Center for the Book. Their mission is to support and enhance providing books and learning opportunities for schools, libraries, and other amazing organizations throughout Rhode Island.
The Rhody Reader Box includes the following:
1 signed copy of The Housewarming.
1 custom hand-poured, small-batch soy wax candle made exclusively to compliment The Housewarming, in the scents of citrus, sandalwood, amber and cedar (we’re calling it The Housewarming)—made with love in Bristol, Rhode Island, by Juniper Hill Apothecary.
A comforting yet minimally processed chocolate bar from local bean-to-bar chocolate company, Jaffal Chocolates, which transforms carefully sourced cacao beans into delightful chocolate bars that are vegan, gluten-free, and made in Warren, Rhode Island from only three simple ingredients—cacao, sugar, and cacao butter.
1 custom made beaded bookmark created exclusively for one of the The Housewarming characters, Zoe a jeweler. No two bookmarks are alike and all feature a heart shaped sunglass charm.
Your purchase of the Rhody Reader Box supports the Rhode Island Center For The Book located in Newport, Rhode Island.
About the Author
Kristin Offiler holds an MFA from Lesley University. Her short fiction has appeared in the Raleigh Review, Waccamaw Journal, The Bookends Review, and The Bookends Review Best of 2020 print anthology. When she's not writing, she can be found reading on the porch of her 130-year-old house or exploring charming corners of New England. She lives in Rhode Island with her husband, son, and dog. For more information, visit www.kristinoffiler.com.
About the Book
The Housewarming
In a haunting novel of psychological suspense, a summer getaway gone wrong rips apart a group of lifelong friends, thrusting their story into the true crime spotlight--and potentially their secrets, too.
For five friends vacationing on Block Island, it was a summer to remember. How could they forget it when only four made it back to the mainland?
Now, half a decade after Zoe Gilbert's unsolved disappearance, Callie Sutter invites estranged friends Meg, Tess, and Lindsey--the last to see Zoe on that fateful trip--to reunite on the anniversary of the mystery that tore them apart. Back on Block Island, Callie reasons, they can come together again, memorialize Zoe, allay old resentments and recriminations, and put the past to rest. But it won't be so easy. Patricia Adele, a true crime podcaster who once made a name for herself by casting suspicion on Zoe's surviving friends all those years ago, is most eager for the reunion. She's resurfaced with a book proposal claiming to expose them all as cold-blooded liars and conspirators in a crime once and for all.
Driven by self-preservation, the women must reckon with their long-held secrets and shared history if they're to find out what really happened to Zoe on that hot August day. But will the truth set them free or condemn them all? No one is prepared to find out.
Praise
"Suspenseful from start to finish, The Housewarming is a propulsive thriller about friendship, the unforgiving gaze of true crime obsessives, and how shockingly wrong we can be about other people--even those closest to us." --Tracy Sierra, author of the Fallon Book Club pick Nightwatching
"Kristin Offiler's slick and sizzling debut is that rare treat of a thriller: one replete with both unforeseen twists and complex, multilayered characters, characters who will just as soon break your heart as they will shock and scandalize you. Read this one with a signature Block Island-inspired cocktail at the ready and be prepared to not put it down until the final, gut-wrenching, saltwater-scented page." --Christa Carmen, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Daughters of Block Island