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When the Stars Go Dark

When the Stars Go Dark is author Paula McLain’s first foray into writing a thriller. She’s known for her historical fiction titles, most notably The Paris Wife, which is about Hemingway and his wife Hadley. Pretty much all of her other novels have covers that are adorned in bright colors, pastels, and happy, fashionable women. …

The Wife Upstairs

In The Wife Upstairs, Rachael Hawkins reimagines the classic gothic novel Jane Eyre as a Southern Gothic thriller set in Alabama. It’s in some ways successful, less so in others. On the plus side, The Wife Upstairs borrows from Jane Eyre, but modernizes and twists the story in interesting ways. A lot of the base …

One by One

One by One brings a group of people together and then has them slowly start to die off. They’re all with a company that makes a music app which allows users to listen to the music that other people are listening to. And they’re in the middle of an increasingly contentious debate about whether to …

All the Devils Are Here

All the Devils are Here by Louise Penny is the sixteenth (16th!) book in Penny’s Chief Inspector Gamache series of books. This latest one came out a couple weeks ago. I’ve never read anything by Louise Penny, so I’ve been wanting to read at least one of her books. This one is the most recent …

50 Best Detective Books of All Time

Detective novels are such a great genre of books, filled with with quirky private investigators, dark back alleys, sultry heiresses, and shocking villains. I fell in love with Agatha Christie novels early on when I was young for reasons I don’t entirely understand, but I’ve loved detective novels ever since. Most of the authors on …