Book Review
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A family moves cities to start again, and a girl alone in a bedroom becomes the cost of it. Jami Worthington’s The Valley is less interested in its killer than in the twenty-five years that follow — and that, mostly, is to its credit.
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A rom-com writer wakes to find herself inside her own book, and falls for the very hero she invented. Every trope you expect is here, filed and stamped, yet the self-aware conceit turns each cliché into a knowing smile. My rating: 3.5/5.
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There are thrillers that frighten you with what waits in the dark, and then there are thrillers that frighten you with what smiles at you in the light. Soft Erasure by A.D. Levenson belongs firmly to the second kind and it unsettled me in a way I did not quite expect when I turned the…
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There is something delicious about a murder mystery that opens on a beach at the wrong end of a Greek summer, and Spirits and Whine by Lisa Troy knows exactly what to do with that setting. Sun-bleached, salt-sharp, close enough that everyone knows everyone’s business. The island town becomes a character in its own right,…
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A dark psychological thriller of copycat serial killers and a grieving widow auditing the secret life her husband left behind. My review of Book 1 in Natalie Michaels’ Copycat Killer series.
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Some thrillers begin with a scream. What I Did begins with something far more unsettling – a woman standing in an airport, luggage in hand, trying very hard to look like she isn’t running away.