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Megan Goldin

Book Review: Stay Awake by Megan Goldin

By Janet Webb

August 18, 2022

It’s the middle of the night in the city that never sleeps. Liv Reese is exhausted. She wants to collapse in her own bed. She takes a cab from Manhattan, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge, staggers out of the car, and buzzes the intercom of her brownstone. Why isn’t her roommate Amy letting her in? A…

Stay Awake by Megan Goldin: A Visual Guide

By Adam Wagner

August 8, 2022

A murder she doesn’t remember committing. A killer she doesn’t remember meeting. Megan Goldin’s Stay Awake is an electrifying novel that proves memory can be deadly. Liv Reese wakes up in the back of a taxi with no idea where she is or how she got there.  When she’s dropped off at the door of…

Book Review: The Night Swim by Megan Goldin

By Doreen Sheridan

August 6, 2020

In The Night Swim, a new thriller from Megan Goldin, a true crime podcast host covering a controversial trial finds herself drawn deep into a small town’s dark past and a brutal crime that took place there years before. Rachel Krall has taken her hit true crime podcast on the road to semi-anonymously cover a…

COVER REVEAL: The Night Swim by Megan Goldin

By Crime HQ

September 30, 2019

In The Night Swim—a new thriller from Megan Goldin, bestselling author of The Escape Room—a podcast host covering a controversial rape trial in a small town becomes obsessed with a brutal crime that took place there years before.

Book Review: The Escape Room by Megan Goldin

By Janet Webb

August 6, 2019

In Megan Goldin’s The Escape Room, a corporate team-building exercise turns into a lethal game of revenge for four young Wall Street rising stars. Cryptic quotations make me wonder how the quote illuminates the plot. Where is Megan Goldin going with this famous Sun Tzu aphorism: “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy…

Six of the Best Classic Locked-Room Mysteries

By Megan Goldin

July 25, 2019

My thriller, The Escape Room, set in an elevator, is a 21st-century twist to the locked-room mystery genre of crime novels. The locked-room mystery novel developed in the late 19th century and the early 20th century when readers were invited to solve the murder mystery using clues in the story, and they’ve been popular ever…

The Escape Room by Megan Goldin: A Visual Guide

By Adam Wagner

June 28, 2019

In Megan Goldin’s unforgettable debut, The Escape Room, four young Wall Street rising stars discover the price of ambition when an escape room challenge turns into a lethal game of revenge—take a visual tour with GIFnotes! Welcome to the escape room. Your goal is simple. Get out alive. In the lucrative world of finance, Vincent, Jules,…

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