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Domestic Thriller

Book Review: Santa Monica by Cassidy Lucas

By Doreen Sheridan

October 16, 2020

With all the twisty verve of Liane Moriarty, crossed with the more acerbic political observations of Tom Perotta, comes the debut novel of Cassidy Lucas, the pen name of writing duo Julia Fierro and Caeli Wolfson Widger. Both real-life residents of their titular town, they bring sharp eyes and large hearts to this tale of…

When I Was You by Amber Garza: New Excerpt

By Crime HQ

August 14, 2020

CHAPTER ONE It was a Monday morning in early October when I first heard about you. I was getting out of the shower when my phone rang. After throwing on a robe and cinching it, I ran into my bedroom, snatching my cell off the nightstand. Unknown number. Normally, I let those go. But I’d…

On Loving Domestic Thrillers

By Jeffrey B. Burton

July 9, 2020

Sure, I love me my Mitch Rapp and John Rain and Lucas Davenport and Jack Reacher and Charlie Parker and Bobby Lee Swagger, and I’ll continue reading each and every one of their books until I’m hauled out feet first. However, I’ve also found myself developing a deep and growing fondness for Domestic Thrillers. My…

A Woman Alone by Nina Laurin: New Excerpt

By Nina Laurin

June 26, 2020

A house with the darkest of secrets. . . A woman who is the only one who knows. Read on for a new excerpt of Nina Laurin’s latest psychological thriller, A Woman Alone—available now from Grand Central Publishing.

Book Review: The New Husband by D. J. Palmer

By Doreen Sheridan

April 20, 2020

It’s been eighteen months since her lying, cheating husband disappeared, and Nina Garrity is ready to move on. Emotionally, that is. Physically, she’s loath to leave the town she’s raised her now-teenaged children in. So when her new boyfriend, Simon Fitch, suggests they move in together so they can share the cost of living in…

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