Mystery
The Hunter
Tana French’s latest work, The Hunter, yet again solidifies her reign as the queen of literary mysteries. Set in the west of Ireland, it’s the story of a (somewhat) stranger…
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Listen for the Lie
Five years ago, in the gleefully gossipy small town of Plumpton, Texas, Lucy Chase wandered out of the woods, covered in blood, unable to recall who killed her best friend…
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The Woman on the Ledge
The Woman on the Ledge is a story where, for the first half of the book, you know the narrator is lying–she tells you so–but you don’t know why. It’s…
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The Maid
In Nita Prose’s The Maid, we are given a first-person narrator in Molly—the Maid herself. Molly, a presumably neurodivergent young woman, finds her sole joy in working as a housemaid…
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First Lie Wins
In the realm of storytelling, every now and then, a book emerges wielding a narrator so specific and wildly entertaining that all one wants to do is shut out the…
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The Family Remains
Early one morning on the shore of the Thames, DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene of a gruesome discovery. When Owusu sends the evidence for examination, he learns…
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The Last To Vanish
In the latest from Megan Miranda, The Last to Vanish, seven people have vanished in the small North Carolina mountain town of Cutter’s Pass over the past twenty odd years….
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Long Bright River
In a Philadelphia neighborhood rocked by the opioid crisis, two once-inseparable sisters find themselves at odds. One, Kacey, lives on the streets in the vise of addiction. The other, Mickey,…
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The Trespasser
In early summer of 2007, I picked up a mystery at the Regulator Bookshop. The cover was mildly menacing, black letters embellished with sharp pointed green branches spelled out Tana French In the Woods. From the…
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