Behind Lena Fein’s accomplishments was a child raised in madness, under the shadow of a violent and controlling mother, in a house where cleanliness was worshiped, porcelain dolls were treasured, and Lena’s own spirit was forced into hiding.
Some books arrive dressed as manuals, carrying the sturdy promise of advice. Others come as dispatches from the interior, written by someone who has survived the territory and returned with a map. Dr. Katie Rose Pryal’s Your Kid Belongs Here is both.
What happens when an investigative journalist shifts from documenting true crime to crafting psychological suspense? Welcome to the multi-layered world of Caitlin Rother’s Katrina and Goode series.
In Fons Burger’s new book, The Only Possible Solution, the question before him is not whether the world is broken. It is whether we can still imagine it whole.
It’s been six years since I interviewed August Norman, and since it’s his birthday, I want to revisit our conversation about his addicting Caitlin Bergman novel, Sins of the Mother.
There is something almost Victorian about the origin story of M.J. Dyer’s We Are Monsters. It begins not with a candlelit manor or a governess on the moors, but in a hospital room, where the author, recovering from brain inflammation, began seeing three identical sisters.
Lee Goldberg has spent much of his career turning murder into an oddly companionable profession. He’s the sort of writer who speaks about craft as if it were both a calling and a chronic illness.
In C.B. Wilson’s fiction, a diamond is never merely a diamond. It is a compressed biography and a great mystery. Cheryl’s newest novel, “Water Diamond,” the second installment in the Gem Hunter series, is built on precisely that premise.
The best suspense does not rely on shadows or sudden violence, but on the slow, suffocating realization that the systems meant to protect you may instead conspire against you. It is this more insidious terror that animates Liz Lazarus’s latest novel, Dawn Before Darkness.
Anonymous Jane, the collaboration between Australian novelist Luke Preston and Spanish film director Alice Waddington, appears to belong to that highly kinetic family of thriller that does not so much begin as detonate.
Hear the Conversation | Get the Book In Hawai‘i Rage, Tori Eldridge does not merely set a mystery against the backdrop of Hawai‘i. She lets the land breathe, brood, and remember. The result is a novel that feels less like a whodunit and more like a slow excavation, where each layer of soil...
There is a special category of dread reserved for the traveler suspended 30,000 feet above the Atlantic. One is committed to the mercy of engines, weather, mathematics, and faith. For the novelist Martha Conway, this was more than metaphor.
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