The Prisoner begins with all the fraught tension you’d want in a thriller but quickly unravelled the longer it went on. The Prisoner opens with vicious men snat
Category Archives: Mystery/Suspense
Forget Me Not by Miranda Rijks
Forget Me Not has a slow start but gets progressively more gripping and twisty. Helen has pulled her life together since her husband Paul
The Bequest by Joanna Margaret
The Bequest is an atmospheric dark academia thriller, but it will not appeal to everyone. Isabel Henley just arrived in Scotland to begin her Ph.D. under the…
A Familiar Stranger by A. R. Torre
A Familiar Stranger is a bumpy ride to say the least. Lillian Smith lives a boring life; she repeatedly says so herself. Lillian used to write obituaries for…
The Darkness of Others by Cate Holahan
The Darkness of Others is a slow-burn thriller set in the early days of the pandemic in NYC. It opens with the gruesome death of a famed movie director.
The Guest House by Robin Morgan-Bentley
The Guest House is a compulsively readable thriller but veers into OTT territory for much of the book. Victoria and Jamie are spending a weekend away at a remot
The Last Girl to Die by Helen Fields
The Last Girl to Die is a chilling thriller set in a small town in Scotland. When sixteen-year-old Adriana Clark goes missing, her family hires a P.I…
The Last to Vanish by Megan Miranda
The Last to Vanish is an intriguing slow-burn thriller. Abigail Lovett has lived in Cutter’s Pass for the last ten years. It’s a close-knit community, but Ab…
Reputation by Sarah Vaughan
Reputation by Sarah Vaughan shows that it takes time to build a good reputation, but only a moment to tear it asunder. Emma, a relatively new politician, is…
And There He Kept Her by Joshua Moehling
And There He Kept Her is a dark and disturbing police procedural novel. On a frigid, rainy night, two teens attempt to break into what they believe is an uns…