For fans of Susan Elia MacNeal’s Maggie Hope mysteries and Amy Stewart’s Kopp Sisters novels…oh wait, that is me! Greer Macallister introduces us to Kate Warne, a little known but actual person from the 1800s. Kate is recently widowed, without children, and suddenly in need of a job to support herself. She fancies herself quite clever with detective work, and
» Read moreThe Roanoke Girls. Here is a novel about a big mid-western family with a whole ‘lotta crazy. I have admittedly found it hard to stop reading psychological thrillers-I don’t enjoy violence or sex in them but the building tension and a surprise at the “ah-hah” moment has been very satisfying lately! Lane Roanoke is living day-to-day in Los Angeles when
» Read moreAmidst my psychological thriller phase, I revisited the work of Flannery O’Connor, with the help of a brief course taught by a retired English teacher. Each week we read three stories, listened to a lecture, and discussed our various takes on her work, most notably using the themes of faith, violence and retribution, justice; we also considered the external factors
» Read moreThis Falmouth Book Barista is on a psychological thriller tear! How I leapt from historical fiction at every turn to this darker, suspenseful kind of story is still a mystery… Behind Her Eyes is about Louise, a single mother of a 6-year-old boy who, out for the first time in a long while, meets a handsome stranger in a bar.
» Read moreThe Clairvoyants by Karen Brown was this past weekend’s read. Brown teaches creative writing and literature at the University of South Florida, and this is her second novel. The Clairvoyants is the story of Martha, a young woman who can see the dead, and her sister Del who has been in a psychiatric facility for the past three years. The novel
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