The First Mistake by Sandie Jones is an addictively readable new domestic suspense about a wife, her husband, and the woman who is supposedly her best friend. I was blown away by Sandie Jones’ first book, The Other Woman. I’m a jaded reader that likes to think I’ve seen every twist there is, but I…
The Last Woman in the Forest by Diane Les Becquets is thriller about a woman whose greatest threat could be the man she loves. Disclaimer: this review was written by a dog lover. This mystery got off to a bit of a slow start for me. It seemed a bit choppy, but once the plot was…
In Lucy Foley’s The Hunting Party, a group of old Oxford friends celebrates their annual reunion at a lodge in the remote Scottish Highlands. With an impending blizzard on the way, the nostalgia ends abruptly when one of them is murdered. Anyone that’s read Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None is familiar with the locked room…
In Sophie Hannah’s new psychological thriller, The Next to Die, a serial killer dubbed by police as “Billy Dead Mates” targets pairs of best friends, killing them one at a time. New York Times bestselling author Sophie Hannah may be known best stateside for her novels featuring Agatha Christie’s iconic detective, Hercule Poirot (the most recent…
Once A Liar is A.F. Brady’s thriller about a high-powered sociopath who meets his reckoning when he’s accused of the brutal murder of his mistress. High-powered Manhattan Defense Attorney Peter Caine is as unlikable as he is compelling. I wasn’t sure I’d like the author’s choice for the main character until I realized that she’d surrounded…
Our Little Secret by Darren O’Sullivan opens on a train platform where Chris plans to take his own life until Sarah inadvertently stops him. Sarah obsesses over the secrets that she learns Chris is hiding, but Chris tries to protect Sarah because some secrets are meant to stay buried… How far would you go to…
From award-winning author Simon Lelic, The Liar’s Room is a spine-tingling thriller that takes place over the course of a therapy session, in which neither patient nor therapist are who they claim to be. Two liars. One room. No way out. Susanna Fenton is a woman with a dark secret, one she’s been carrying around for nearly…
An Anonymous Girl is the next novel of psychological suspense and obsession from Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, the blockbuster bestselling authors of The Wife Between Us. Last January, a new collaboration between longtime editor Greer Hendricks and novelist Sarah Pekkanen took the literary world by storm with the publication of The Wife Between Us, resulting…
As Long As We Both Shall Live is JoAnn Chaney’s wicked novel of a marriage gone very wrong. A marriage with lots of secrets… “My wife! I think she’s dead!” Matt frantically tells park rangers that he and his wife, Marie, were hiking when she fell off a cliff into the raging river below. They start…
The Other Woman by Sandie Jones is a debut novel and the most twisty, addictive, and unputdownable thriller you’ll read this year. Take a visual tour of The Other Woman with GIFnotes! Sandie Jones’s The Other Woman is a shape-shifting novel that, much like its characters, never truly is what it seems. It starts as a lighthearted and…
