The Night Olivia Fell is a twisty, fast-paced thriller that asks how well we really know those closest to us. The blurb compares it to Kimberly McCreight’s Reconstructing Amelia, a book I read and loved back in 2013. For the most part, I agree with the comparison, but The Night Olivia Fell contains a few…
Beth, Sally, and Carol have been friends since their high school days. True, Carol has been distancing herself from the other two for the past few years, but Beth still considers her to be one of her very best friends in part because of the dark secrets the three of them share. Thirty years ago,…
Twisty novels of psychological suspense are among my favorite things to read, so I was thrilled to get my hands on a copy of Alex Michaelides’ début novel The Silent Patient. It’s everything I want in a thriller and then some, and I can’t wait for my fellow booklovers to read it. Alicia and Gabriel…
It’s extremely rare for me to dislike a book enough to give it an F grade, but everything about Don’t Wake Up, the début novel from author Liz Lawler, rubbed me the wrong way. I was intrigued by the premise, but the story itself fell flat. On the outside, Alex Taylor’s life is picture perfect….
I like to think my intuition works pretty well when I’m choosing books for review. I end up enjoying about eighty-five percent of those I select, and I’d say that’s pretty good, all things considered. Unfortunately, Thomas Christopher Greene’s The Perfect Liar turned out to be one of the remaining fifteen percent of books that…
There are dozens of novels of psychological suspense that center around a missing child, but few have managed to surprise and delight me the way Heidi Perks’ Her One Mistake did. It’s a deftly plotted mystery with relatable characters and a surprise ending, making it something I’m very pleased to recommend to fans of the…
This book (and review) contains discussion of sexual assault. Amy Gentry follows up Good as Gone with a tightly paced and morally murky thriller that combines the sweet, ancient pleasure a revenge story brings with the modern pain of the #metoo movement. Dana Diaz is a rising stand-up comic at an important gig – the…
Gothic novels aren’t always my thing, but every once in awhile, I find myself craving a story set in a spooky old house on the English moors. Fortunately, the last time I had such a craving, The Au Pair by Emma Rous was here waiting for me, and it was everything I was hoping for…
Authors Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen have teamed up to create another spellbinding, spine-tingling novel of psychological suspense. An Anonymous Girl is the second book they’ve written together, and I hope there are many more to come. Jess is a twenty-something makeup artist who is looking for a quick and easy way to make some…
Hunting Annabelle is a début psychological thriller which examines the struggles a young Korean American wages against the dark desires of his soul. Sean Suh spends his day at a place called Four Corners, a location he calls “a cheap Disneyland rip-off”. He likes to draw the people wandering through the park, although the one…