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…
In All The Beautiful Lies, by Peter Swanson, bookseller and general mystery lover Bill Ackerman recommends The Secret History as…
Riley Sager's new thriller, Lock Every Door. is dedicated to Ira Levin, and as I read this twisty, dark novel…
In The Wife Upstairs, by Rachel Hawkins, Jane, a former foster kid, is a dog-walker for several families in the…
In the beginning of The Throne of Caesar, it's just before the Ides of March, 44 BCE. Gordianus the Finder…
The Two Mrs. Carlyles by Suzanne Rindell is a twisty historical thriller, with a deeply unreliable narrator. From childhood, Violet…
Ruth Ware's newest novel, The Turn Of The Key, blends the creepily invasive smarthome of The Girl Before with the highland…
In The Girl Before by JP Delaney, the narration jumps between Emma and Jane, two tenants in One Folgate Street. I…
When The Deceivers opens, young Brynn is skipping classes at her failing high school, and spending her days scamming rich kids…
An Anonymous Girl, by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, is an absorbing psychological thriller that begins with an ethics "study" and…
A couple of years ago, I got the four-book Pretty Little Liars collections as a library ebook. I started reading it…
The Dark Season Saga: The Final Harvest by Yehya H. Safwat tells a wide-ranging, epic story of the struggle for…
It was not gritty, and it was not heartbreaking, but if you are waiting anxiously for the next Call The…