The Midnight Feast, the newest thriller from Lucy Foley, takes place at the opening weekend of a luxe resort. Francesca…
In Darby Kane's newest novel, What the Wife Knew -- just like in her previous novel Pretty Little Wife -- Kane gives…
Jesse Q Sutanto is back with more secrets, more murder, and more delicious Indonesian food in The New Girl. Teenage…
The Hike, by Lucy Clarke, opens with the dramatically terrible news that one of the four women on this hiking…
I heard this one had Gone Girl vibes, and it sort of did, but I thought it was much closer…
The Woman in the Library, by Sulari Gentill, is a thriller around a novelist, working on a thriller that might…
In the Hawaiian mystery novel Off The Grid, by Robert McCaw, an abandoned rural area in the shadow of a volcano…
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 Find Her (The Lacey James Series Book 1), by Chris Patchell, Lacey James is a hardworking local cop in…
In You're Invited, by Amanda Jayatissa, Amaya feels strange about receiving her invitation to her ex-bestie Kaavi’s wedding. First, the…
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…
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…
When it's done right, I love a thriller with a blend of polished Insta-perfection and offline dysfunction. I'm thinking specifically…
I love twisty thrillers, don't you? But I don't always buy the obsessive-love motivation. Like, does our character not know…
The Wedding Night, by Harriet Walker, was not at all what I was expecting, but held some lovely scenes about…
The beginning of Blake Crouch's Dark Matter shows family night in Jason Desson's Chicago home. Then, the story travels in time,…
The beginning of The Chef's Secret starts a bit slowly, or maybe I was just disappointed that it wasn't set in ancient…