psychological thriller

Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight by Riku Onda

By Vicki Weisfeld

29 July, 2022

Translated by Alison Watts — If you enjoyed Riku Onda’s previous mystery translated into English, The Aosawa Murders, you’ll find many of the same attributes in her new psychological thriller, Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight. It offers that same dreamy feeling and a quality of…

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Beneath Cruel Waters by Jon Bassoff

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

1 July, 2022

Thompsonville, Colorado. 1984. A woman walks into a man’s house, fires three shots – one to the stomach, two to the chest – killing him in cold-blood. After he takes his last breath she pulls out an old Polaroid camera, takes a picture and walks…

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The Mirror Man by Lars Kepler

By Paul Burke

17 June, 2022

Translated by Alice Menzies — The key to a really good serial killer thriller is a dark foreboding atmosphere and this novel has it in abundance. When you read The Mirror Man you feel the temperature plummet. The bestselling Swedish writing duo Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril…

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Tell Us No Secrets by Siena Sterling

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

14 June, 2022

Take four teenage girls with diverse personalities and backgrounds. Put them together in a New England boarding school and add some peer pressure to the mix. The end result? One dead teenager and three survivors with a secret to keep for the rest of their…

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First Born by Will Dean

By Paul Burke

23 May, 2022

When you read First Born by Will Dean, you will discover that it is a book of two halves – literally. This twisty murder mystery doesn’t so much take unexpected turns as flip a complete 180. Without giving away any spoilers, just when you think…

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Outside by Ragnar Jonasson

By crimefictionlover

28 April, 2022

Translated by Victoria Cribb — Here on Crime Fiction Lover we’ve been following the career of this Icelandic author since he first appeared in English translation with Snowblind in 2015. That was the first in Ragnar Jonasson’s Ari Thor series, about a small town cop…

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After Everything You Did by Stephanie Sowden

By DeathBecomesHer

19 April, 2022

Crime fiction land is awash with whodunnits, but whydunnits are a little thinner on the ground. Time to swell those sparse ranks with this gripping and original debut novel by Manchester author Stephanie Sowden. The setting couldn’t be much further away from Sowden’s home city…

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Dead Wind by Tessa Wegert

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

6 April, 2022

In the third novel in Tessa Wegert’s Shana Merchant series, our protagonist and her colleague, Tim Wellington, are called out to Wolfe Island, Ontario, where the body of a middle-aged woman has been found at the base of a wind turbine at a wind farm…

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Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight by Riku Onda

Beneath Cruel Waters by Jon Bassoff

The Mirror Man by Lars Kepler

Tell Us No Secrets by Siena Sterling

First Born by Will Dean

Outside by Ragnar Jonasson

After Everything You Did by Stephanie Sowden

Dead Wind by Tessa Wegert

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