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What Fire Brings by Rachel Howzell Hall

By Vicki Weisfeld

11 June, 2024

From the first pages of Rachel Howzell Hall’s new psychological thriller, What Fire Brings, Bailey Meadows puts herself in a situation fraught with deception. This young black woman has finagled a writing internship with noted thriller author Jack Beckham, but she isn’t a writer. She’s…

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A classic revisited: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

By Dave Bradley

10 June, 2024

When most people think of Shirley Jackson, they think of horror. The Haunting of Hill House is often cited as the archetypal 20th-century ghost story. Even scaremonger-in-chief Stephen King regards Shirley Jackson as a major influence, devoting 30 pages of his 1982 memoir Danse Macabre…

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A Lesson in Cruelty by Harriet Tyce

By DeathBecomesHer

18 April, 2024

Harriet Tyce is an author that’s new to me, but there had been quite a buzz about this book and it made the CFL list of Most Wanted Books for 2024 so I had high hopes. After bursting into the scene with her best-selling debut…

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The Mind of a Murderer by Michael Wood

By DeathBecomesHer

4 April, 2024

Meet Dr Olivia Winter. She’s a forensic psychologist and the protagonist in The Mind of a Murderer, first in a new series by Michael Wood. Throughout her career, Olivia has travelled the world to meet serial killers, to talk to them and endeavour to get…

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Savage Ridge by Morgan Greene

By Vicki Weisfeld

20 March, 2024

Savage Ridge is a thriller named for the tiny town in the Northwest United States where the action takes place. Ten years before the now of the story, three teenage best friends – Nicholas Pips, Emmy Nailer, and Peter Sachs – committed murder. This isn’t…

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A Man Downstairs by Nicole Lundrigan

By Sharon Richardson

13 March, 2024

A Man Downstairs is the ninth book written by the acclaimed Canadian author Nicole Lundrigan. It’s a taut psychological thriller that brings to mind the expression that you can never go home again. When her father Gil has a massive stroke, Molly Wynters returns to…

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Village in the Dark by Iris Yamashita

By DeathBecomesHer

14 February, 2024

We’re back in the cold wastes of Alaska for Village in the Dark, Iris Yamashita’s follow up to her debut novel City Under One Roof, which got a five-star review on the site early last year. That story was set in the fictional town of…

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The Dancer by Óskar Guðmundsson

By Sharon Richardson

24 January, 2024

Translated by Quentin Bates — The Dancer is Icelandic author Óskar Guðmundsson’s second book translated into English, following The Commandments in 2021. It’s a fast-paced psychological thriller linked to the world of dance. Tony has trained as a dancer since childhood with lessons from his…

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What Fire Brings by Rachel Howzell Hall

A classic revisited: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

A Lesson in Cruelty by Harriet Tyce

The Mind of a Murderer by Michael Wood

Savage Ridge by Morgan Greene

A Man Downstairs by Nicole Lundrigan

Village in the Dark by Iris Yamashita

The Dancer by Óskar Guðmundsson

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