The classic horror novel Salem's Lot, by Stephen King, was written in the 1970s, but is still popular and still a…
After the perfectly good YA Well, That Was Unexpected, and the perfectly good cozy mystery Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice For…
The Woman in the Library, by Sulari Gentill, is a thriller around a novelist, working on a thriller that might…
The premise of Tana French's The Likeness is almost too unbelievable: A murder victim is found who looks exactly like…
The upcoming novel, The Villa, by Rachel Hawkins, is a dual-timeline story, with both stories involving frenemies creating art in…
I was supposed to read The It Girl, by Ruth Ware as part of the Tandem Collective international readalong, but I…
My latest readalong with Tandem Global was Karin Slaughter's new suspense novel, Girl Forgotten. It's the sequel to Pieces of…
I really enjoyed Peter Swanson's mystery thriller All The Beautiful Lies, and one of my favorite parts was when bookseller Bill…
I read constantly all year, of course, but here are some of my favorite reads from summer 2022. Most of…
In The Love of My Life, by Rosie Walsh, Leo begins working on his wife Emma's bio (he's an obituary…
In The Quarter Storm, by Veronica G Henry, Reina Dumond is a Haitian vodou priestess with water powers. She mostly…
In The Lake of Dead Languages, by Carol Goodman, Jane Hudson has returned to her old boarding school as a…
Things We Do In The Dark, by Jennifer Hillier, is a twisty story where almost everyone's got a dark secret…
The Family Upstairs, by Lisa Jewell, ends with a solid resolution and then a dramatic cliffhanger at the very last…
I read Watch Out For Her, by Samantha M. Bailey, as part of a Tandem Collective readalong. This is a…
In Last Tang Standing, by Lauren Ho, Andrea's in her thirties, and she's just split up with her long-term boyfriend.…
Asgard Park: The Summer of 1991, by Ronald Simonar, is a mythic mystery thriller. The opening of this novel is…
The Lies I Tell, by Julie Clark, is a social manipulation thriller. This is exactly the kind of suspense novel…
Last Seen Wearing was written in the fifties, and set at a women's college in Massachusetts, a fictionalized Smith or…
The Paris Apartment, by Lucy Foley, was one of my most anticipated reads this year. I tried to get it…
We Have Always Been Here, by Lena Nguyen, is a thoughtful scifi mystery about a colonization ship on a planet…
The Suspect, by Fiona Barton, tells the story of two missing British girls on a Thailand gap-year adventure. When teenage…
This has been a pretty great season for page turners, hasn't it? It's almost hard to choose my favorites, but…
In the pandemic lockdown, I've been reading even more than usual. Mostly suspense and international fiction, plus some books recommended…
In The Family Upstairs, Libby has always known she was adopted, but on her twenty-fifth birthday, she discovers she's inherited…