Category: Psychological
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The Husbands by Chandler Baker – dazzling honesty
Nora is a full-time lawyer and a mom of one with another on the way. Nora is also married, although her husband does what so many do, view his childrearing responsibilities as “helping” Nora out. There’s the occasional hour of reluctant babysitting, but otherwise, husband (Hayden) disappears when the going gets even a little tough…
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Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty Review
Apples Never Fall was my first Liane Moriarty — I know, I seem to enjoy doing things backward — and, man, this is the beginning of a great love! Big Little Lies, Nine Perfect Strangers, The Husband’s Secret, here I come. Moriarty is the #1 most followed author on GoodReads in Australia. Seriously, someone please…
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The Anniversary by Laura Marshall Review
On 15 June 1994, Travis Green shot and killed eleven people, including himself. This shocking event makes the small town of Hartshead instantly and lastingly infamous. Twenty-five years later, the daughter of Travis Green’s last victim — Tragic Cassie Colman (only four years old at the time of the shooting) — returns to Hartshead to…
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Such a Quiet Place by Megan Miranda Review
I must have been living under my to-be-read stack because Such a Quiet Place was my first Megan Miranda thriller. It will not be my last. Hello, exploring the backlist. Fourteen months ago, Harper discovered her neighbors, Brandon and Fiona Truett, killed by carbon monoxide poisoning. No one really liked the Truetts. Still, the investigation…
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Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian Review
What do you get when you mix the genres academic thriller and dark academia with a main character who’s a psychopath and proud of it? A standout debut psychological thriller called Never Saw Me Coming. “Will Bachman drinks too much and hangs out with people who don’t look after him.Will Bachman has made some mistakes.Will…
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The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell Review
Ever since Lisa Jewell’s And Then She Was Gone (2017), I’ve been a hooked reader. The Night She Disappeared is her newest, and with an abandoned mansion (that’s got its own Wikipedia entry), a family drenched in dark secrets, and the stubborn cold case of two missing teens that (two years later) might finally be…
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The Disappearing Act by Catherine Steadman Review
Mia Elliot just got dumped by her long-term, live-in boyfriend via text. What’s worse? Her lazy boyfriend, who’s always been in Mia’s shadow in the acting industry, has suddenly nabbed a coveted role and cozied up to his much-younger costar. Wounded, Mia flies from London to LA for pilot season. Ready to drown her insecurities…
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A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins Review
I have been obsessed with Paula Hawkins since her debut novel Girl on the Train. I may have screamed (I did scream) last month when I got to see her live for a few minutes over Zoom during a trade media presentation. Don’t worry, my mic and camera were switched off. If there is one…
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Falling by T.J. Newman Review
As a former flight attendant, this high-action, high-stakes thriller (by a former bookseller turned flight attendant) about a hijacked plane and a pilot’s kidnapped family and only tough choices was one I had to pick up. And I devoured it. In two sittings. When Captain Bill Hoffman arrives at Los Angeles’ LAX airport (bypassing the…
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Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena Review
Looking for a locked room mystery with a Knives Out vibe? Shari Lapena’s newest, Not Your Happy Family, delivers delicious suspense and an irresistible puzzle-box style mystery. And highlights how not to spend Easter. The Mercer family patriarch is a self-made multimillionaire and also kind of a psychopath. He pits his (now grown) children against…
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For Your Own Good by Samantha Downing Review
If there’s one thing I love curling up with on a Saturday morning, it’s an irresistibly plotted psychological thriller. One that spins a web of lies and secrets and keeps my mind fully engaged with one simple yet vexingly complex question: how do we feel about the baddie, and will they get what’s coming for…
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Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner Review
Slow-burn and character-driven, it’s almost impossible to let go of the pages of this skillfully plotted debut novel by Katherine Faulkner. We simply have to see what this mix of characters do next. No one here is straight-up likable or trustworthy, and the result is a beautiful amalgamation of character flaws that imbue this psychological…
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