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Like her debut novel, this follow-up by Dahl provided an interesting glimpse into stringers as part of the journalism ecosystem. The main character’s profession and professional tactics ended up being much more interesting to me than the family narrative in this second book, but Dahl’s writing remained as strong as ever and this was a

The second in the Last Policeman trilogy, this book was hard to differentiate from the first and last in the series… in a good way. Each book works so wonderfully well as part of the series and brings new characters and challenges to the overall narrative. Winters is wildly creative in coming up with the

The final book in Winters’ trilogy did not disappoint. As with Megan Abbott, I have little to say beyond this: I love this author’s work and it has yet to let me down in even the smallest ways. I literally cried at the end of this book, awed by the beauty of the resolution that

What can I say, Megan Abbott can do no wrong. As with her other novels I’ve read this summer, I sped through this one and enjoyed the darkness of teen girlhood and the twists that came page after page. With this title, I’ve now read all of her newer thriller books, and am curious to

This was my first foray into Blake Crouch’s fiction and I reveled in the delightful crossover between the science fiction and thriller genres. The story progressed at a quick clip, keeping the action up throughout without ever sacrificing character development. Crouch used enough “real science” to make the story somewhat believable, but mostly it was

Another novela included in the superb Women Crime Writers anthology, Beast in View is a psychological thriller that stands alongside some of the best I’ve read. Millar’s descriptions are vivid and colorful; her characters dripping with personality and history. Where the other novela I wrote about from this anthology felt like a black and white

After Sarah Weinman came to the 2016 Virginia Festival of the Book, I picked up her Women Crime Writers anthology to read some of the short novels included from the 1940s and 1950s. Then I put it down. I picked it up again later, only to put it down again. Finally, I read Mischief, the

Sometimes I miss living in New York and I long for the days when I commuted by subway and was just a train away from Sunset Park or Coney Island or any other far-flung part of the city. Invisible City both satisfies my nostalgia for that city and digs deeper under the surface to look

I finished this less than ten minutes ago and all I want to do is run to the library or bookshop and pick up the next book in this trilogy. I missed these when they first came out, but Winters’ new release, Underground Airlines, put him on my radar and I decided to give this

(August 13) I’ve been a fan of Dashiell Hammett for almost two decades at this point in my life. Like Raymond Chandler, he piqued my interest in detective fiction at an early age, which eventually led me to develop a love of noir films and even to become more open to other genre fiction like