The Girl with a Clock for a Heart by Peter Swanson is hailed as “an addictive, nonstop thriller—an ever-tightening coil of suspense that grips you right up to its electrifying end” but I beg to differ. Swanson may have created an impressive new femme fatale in Liana Decter but I feel that the main character George Foss is way too ...

Touted by master of horror Stephen King as “the first great thriller of 2017,” Final Girls, the debut novel by Riley Sager, is a dark and unsettling psychological thriller with an intriguing premise. I find it so engrossing that I finished the 339-page book in just a day. Ten years ago, Quincy Carpenter, then a college student, became the sole survivor of ...

I have been looking for thrillers by Japanese authors after getting hooked by Keigi Higashino’s books so when I saw Penance by Kanae Minato, I decided to add this novel to my book collection. Kanae Minato is known as the “Queen of Iyamisu” which is literally an “eww” mystery. This is a subgenre of mystery fiction, which deals with the ...

I became a great fan of Keigo Higashino after reading Devotion of Suspect X more than five years ago. Since then, I have read Malice, Salvation of a Saint, Journey Under the Midnight Sun and A Midsummer’s Equation. I have been looking forward to read Naoko, his first book to be translated into English, for years. I kept a lookout ...

Having read Fiona Barton’s 2016 debut The Widow which I find rather over-rated, I started reading her second book The Child with some trepidation, expecting to be disappointed again.  The Child has received great reviews like its predecessor. Like The Widow, The Child is told from the perspectives of a few characters: journalist Kate Waters, a grieving mother named Angela, ...

In the tradition of The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl comes a psychological thriller that has won great reviews and accolades. Bestselling author Lee Child hailed it “dazzling, startling, and above all cunning—a pitch-perfect novel of psychological suspense.” Riveting, enthralling, addictive, intriguing, ingenious, genuinely eerie, and compulsive are some of the accolades that have been heaped on the ...

Swedish journalist and author David Lagercrantz was chosen by Stieg Larsson’s estate to extend the Millennium series with a fourth novel “The Girl in the Spider’s Web” which went on to receive terrific reviews and sold millions of copies. Lagercrantz is back with his second contribution to Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series with the latest title “The Girl Who Takes an ...

A local schoolgirl Katie Browne has been missing for weeks when Margot Lewis, a full time teacher and agony aunt of the ‘Dear Amy’ advice column in the local paper the Cambridge Examiner, receives a letter: Dear Amy, I’ve been kidnapped by a strange man. I don’t know where I am. Please help me, Bethan Avery In her role as ...

The truth is, we all tell lies. A few lies never hurt anyone right? Wrong! Paul Morris has a plan. It starts with hiding or exaggerating a few things here and there. Paul is actually broke and has just been evicted from his rented flat and now resides with his mother. Twenty years ago, he wrote a novel which received ...

If you are looking for a disturbing and spine-tingling thriller, The Caller by Chris Carter fits the bill. But be warned. If you have a weak stomach, this book is not for you. Filled with grisly details of each murder, you will be left feeling shaken by the gore. After a tough week, Tanya Kaitlin is looking forward to a ...