Ruth Mancini’s The Day I Lost You is a taut, emotionally charged psychological thriller that explores motherhood, grief, and the thin line between truth and delusion. It’s the kind of novel that keeps you second-guessing every chapter, and just when you think you’ve figured it out, you haven’t.
Then He Was Gone Isabel Booth Crooked Lane Books Feb 2026 Then He Was Gone by Isabel Booth is a thriller that depicts every parent’s worst nightmare. What would they do if a child goes missing? To add to the stress is that it happened in Colorado’s Rocky...
Murder at the Christmas Emporium, a deliciously vicious variation on the classic “locked room” mystery, delivers a trove of holiday gifts, just not the kind one normally would expect.
Jeanne Godfrey’s List of Suspicious Things, first published over the pond in 2024 and coming to U.S. bookstores this December, is a beautiful coming of age tale that captures our limited perception of the world at a certain age. Part mystery, part historical fiction,...
I always have one major issue when I write about one of John Banville’s (or his alter ego, Benjamin Black’s) novels. And that issue? Finding a way not to overquote Banville.
The Lie She Wears Elle Marr Thomas & Mercer November 2025 The Lie She Wears by Elle Marr is a psychological thriller. The plot is full of lies, mystery, and murder starting with the letter Pearl receives from her recently deceased mother to the conclusion of the...
