The Villa is an absorbing and suspenseful gothic novel set in Italy. Emily, the author of a long-running book series, feels like her life is in a rut. Not only
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Blackwater Falls by Ausma Zehanat Khan
Blackwater Falls introduces Detective Inaya Rahman in the first book of a new crime series. Inaya Rahman is part of the Community Response Unit of the
The Prisoner by B. A. Paris
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
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…
Malice House by Megan Shepherd
Malice House is a well-written dark mystery where things go bump in the night. After leaving her marriage, with nowhere else to go, Haven Marbury moves into
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.
Stay Awake by Megan Goldin
Stay Awake by Megan Goldin indeed had me reading past my bedtime. Liv Reese wakes confused and disoriented in the back of a cab en route to her shared brownston
A Botanist’s Guide to Parties and Poisons by Kate Khavari
A Botanist’s Guide to Parties and Poisons is a slowly-paced historical mystery. Set in 1923 at the University College of London, where Saffron Everleigh is…
An Honest Lie by Tarryn Fisher
An Honest Lie is a tense and addictive psychological thriller. A year ago, Rainy moved to Tiger Mountain with her boyfriend Grant. She spends her time…
An Unthinkable Thing by Nicole Lundrigan
An Unthinkable Thing fully held my rapt attention from start to finish. In 1958, after someone brutally murders his aunt, eleven-year-old Tommie moves in wi..,