I wasn’t crazy about Karen Hamilton’s début novel, The Perfect Girlfriend. The main character was repugnant, and the plot twists felt overly dramatic, but there was something oddly compelling about Hamilton’s writing, something that made me decide to give her second book a try. This turned out to be a great decision, because The Last…
Robyn Harding’s fourth novel, The Swap, is a thoroughly delightful if slightly disturbing combination of some of my very favorite thriller tropes. It’s a revenge story centered around a toxic female friendship, and in her usual style, Harding has managed to create a book I hated to look away from for even a moment. There…
In the latest thriller from Megan Miranda, The Girl from Widow Hills, the central character is a young woman who went through a traumatic event as a child and then, in an attempt to escape the continuing media circus years later, changed her name and left her home town in order to reinvent herself and…
I’ve been wanting to read Last One to Lie, the second novel by author J.M. Winchester, since I first read the blurb at the end of 2019. It looked like an intriguing story, but I was especially interested because Ms. Winchester also writes romance novels under the name Jennifer Snow. Since romance and thrillers are…
Little Secrets is the latest novel of domestic suspense from author Jennifer Hillier, and I was blown away by its twistiness. On the surface, it’s another in a very long line of thrillers centered around a missing child, but once you start reading, it doesn’t take long to realize that Hillier has done something fresh…
Heather Gudenkauf has done it again! With This Is How I Lied, she reminds readers why she’s one of the most popular writers of domestic thrillers around. Her latest novel is full of all the twists and turns a mystery lover could want without sacrificing plausibility. Twenty-five years earlier, the body of fifteen-year-old Eve Knox…
Mysteries can be tricky, especially if you read a lot of them. You’ll come across a book with a super appealing blurb, only to start reading something that feels overly familiar and trite. Certain tropes are overused, and it takes a really good author to be able to revitalise them. Fortunately, that’s what Sharon Bolton…
I have a good friend who loves the work of author Emily Bleeker, and she’s been encouraging me to pick up one of her books for quite some time now. When I read the synopsis for Ms. Bleeker’s latest novel What It Seems, I knew it was the perfect book for me. I read it…
(There is a great deal of controversy over this book. To learn more about that, read this.) I picked up Kate Elizabeth Russell’s My Dark Vanessa expecting a thriller about a woman’s attempts to come to terms with the inappropriate relationship she had with her high school English teacher when she was fifteen and he…
Charlotte Duckworth’s Unfollow Me was originally published in the UK in the summer of 2019. It’s a book I heard lots of positive things about, so I was pleased to learn it would be coming out in the US this spring. Violet Young is the kind of woman all suburban moms long to be. Her…