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Dirty Little Secrets by Jo Spain
Jo Spain’s previous thriller The Confession involved a man walking into a house and beating another man to death with a golf club in front of his wife. The death in Dirty Little Secrets is rather less spectacular; the deceased is found a full three months after she died, and it’s unclear whether foul play is involved. Her […]
The Binding by Bridget Collins
There’s a lot of swooning, falling down, suffering heart palpitations and witnessing visions in this fantastical piece of Gothic fiction. And there’s only so much of that I can take before it becomes deeply irritating. Binding is a process whereby a person’s distressing memories are removed from their mind by a binder and transformed into […]
The Last by Hanna Jameson
Twenty one people remain alive in a Swiss Hotel after multiple cities, including Washington, are destroyed by nuclear bombs. They have no means of communication with the outside world and no way of knowing if they are the only survivors. Then they discover the body of a girl and the post apocalyptic survivalist story also […]
Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce
Alison is a bit of mess – she’s pretty much a functioning alcoholic and a guilt ridden wife and mother, embroiled in a messy affair with a colleague. The only aspect of her life she has under control is her work as criminal barrister, and she’s about to get her first murder to defend. The […]
The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley
There are good trashy reads and bad trashy reads; this one is a classic example of just how good a trashy read can be. Nine friends gather in a remote Scottish hunting lodge for their annual New Years’ Eve get-together. The majority of the group are friends from university, trying a little too hard to […]
The Flower Girls by Alice Clark-Platts
This English thriller tap into our horror of and fascination with children who kill. At six years old, Rosie was young enough to escape criminal responsibility after she and her sister killed a toddler nineteen years ago. Laurel, her sister, was ten years old at the time and received a murder conviction. Abandoned by her […]
The Book of Essie by Meghan Maclean Weir
Essie’s Evangelical Christian family is the subject of a reality television show that draws an audience of millions. Essie is also seventeen and pregnant. You just known Essie is smart and capable and compassionate enough to blow her family’s cold, carefully orchestrated world apart and man, you just want so badly for her to do it. […]