REVIEW Rebecca Birrell, an art historian and curator, brings all of her skills to her captivating debut novel, and it shows on every page. Transpiring over the late 1920s and early 1930s, Venus, Vanishing, tells the story of Hannah Sherman,…
REVIEW Missing Molly by Natalie Barelli is a gripping psychological thriller that hooks you from the first chapter and won’t let go. Rachel Holloway seems to have built a quiet, ordinary life, but when the local newspaper where she works…
REVIEW Teddy Wayne follows his breakout sensation, The Winner, with another seductively twisty page-turner about the explosive impact of a beautiful Norwegian au pair on a celebrated novelist and his wife. Steven Hammer was once a literary star. Now, his career is…
REVIEW I went into the audiobook of Look What the Cat Dragged In expecting cozy cat-sitter horror and got demonic possession with whiskers. Jason Rekulak, the New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Pictures, does it again. An illustrated horror…
REVIEW Kawai Strong Washburn returns in The Names of the New World with an extraordinary, cinematic saga of resilience in a world coming apart faster than we planned for. In the not-so-distant future, an unprecedented superstorm, an ultra derecho, strikes Minneapolis with…
REVIEW Celeste has fought hard to go from ridiculed outsider to pillar of her ultra-polished Mormon mom group in Utah. Her life looks flawless from the outside, but with her husband suddenly laid off and her credit cards maxed out,…
REVIEW Babs and Nora have spent a decade building a friendship out of morning walks, shared secrets, and raising their kids side by side in their tight-knit Bay Area enclave. Babs, who is Black, has even become a sounding board…
REVIEW Amber Winslow thought she was done with dead bodies. Six months after trading journalism and PI work for barista life and co-hosting a true crime podcast with the octogenarians at Seven Ponds Retirement Community in Arizona, her version of…
REVIEW Karin Slaughter’s Triptych is the gritty, gripping firecracker that launched the Will Trent series, and you can feel her breaking thrilling new ground after Grant County. From Atlanta’s wealthiest suburbs to its stark inner-city housing projects, a killer has…
REVIEW “Don’t give in to doubt. You need to push through it to see what’s around the corner.” Natalie Barelli is back with another deliciously claustrophobic domestic thriller, and The Housewife is exactly the kind of popcorn read you inhale…
REVIEW Aggie Blum Thompson’s The Neighbors Are Watching is a deliciously suspenseful suburban thriller that proves that even the most picturesque communities can hide a wealth of secrets. From the very beginning, an undercurrent of tension runs beneath everyday interactions,…
