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  • Book Review,  Crime Fiction,  Thriller

    Book Review: Granite Harbor | Peter Nichols

    / April 26, 2024

    A dark crime thriller set in the cold, seaside town of Granite Harbor, Maine. Peter Nichols’ new novel is not for the faint of heart, but fans of crime fiction and small towns…

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  • Don't Look for Me by Wendy Walker is a gripping, emotional psychological thriller about a mother and daughter
    Book Review,  Psychological Thriller,  Suspense

    Book Review: Don’t Look for Me | Wendy Walker

    / April 18, 2024

    I was reflecting after finishing Don’t Look for Me that I want to find a way to describe Wendy Walker’s books stylistically. While she writes psychological thrillers, the resolutions to her stories tend…

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  • A Likeable Woman is a character-driven psychological thriller by May Cobb featuring a woman in a blue bathing suit on the cover, relaxing in a pool
    Book Review,  Psychological Thriller,  Suspense

    Book Review: A Likeable Woman | May Cobb

    / April 10, 2024

    I’m a big fan of May Cobb—she writes the best soapy, gossip-filled, summer reads with a bit of steam and a whole lot of bad behavior. That’s what I expected when I opened…

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  • Book Review,  Fiction,  Historical Fiction,  Literary Fiction

    Book Review: Mercury | Amy Jo Burns

    / March 29, 2024

    Amy Jo Burns’s Mercury is a compelling and emotional story about the conflicting loyalties in a small Pennsylvania town. Set in a blue collar town where secrets don’t stay buried forever, this novel…

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  • Book Review,  Psychological Thriller,  Suspense

    Book Review: No One Will Miss Her | Kat Rosenfield

    / March 23, 2024

    It is hard to find psychological thrillers that don’t fall somewhere into a common trope (not that there is anything wrong with those—tropes are popular for a reason!), but Kat Rosenfield has done…

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  • Murder Road is a supernatural mystery by Simone St James showing a dark road with a car driving towards the viewer with bright headlights
    Book Review,  Mystery,  Psychological Thriller,  Suspense

    Book Review: Murder Road | Simone St. James

    / March 22, 2024

    Simone St. James has a way of writing what I would describe as intellectual gripping supernatural psychological thrillers. But since that is a confusing mouthful, let’s just say that while all of her…

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  • The Hunting Wives by May Cobb is a blue book with lipstick and a bullet on the cover. This book is a dark, dramatic fiction thriller that is being adapted for television.
    Book Review,  Mystery,  Psychological Thriller,  Suspense

    Book Review: The Hunting Wives | May Cobb | Sneak Peak of TV Series

    / March 21, 2024

    Wickedly juicy fun! Grab an ice cold beverage and your sunglasses, because we are heading to a small town in Texas with big secrets… If you like books about rich people behaving badly,…

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  • The Cold Way Home is a book about a private investigator who works a case in west virginia about a psychiatric institute, a dead body, and a missing teenager
    Book Review,  Mystery

    Mystery Book Review: The Cold Way Home | Julia Keller | Bell Elkins #8

    / March 9, 2024

    In the next powerful mystery from Julia Keller, former West Virginia prosecuting attorney Bell Elkins investigates the murder of a teenager while continuing to rebuild her life. Bell Elkins and Jake Oakes make…

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  • A Step Past Darkness is a psychological thriller by Vera Kurian set around a cult in a small town
    Book Review,  Psychological Thriller,  Speculative Fiction

    Psychological Thriller Review: A Step Past Darkness | Vera Kurian

    / February 28, 2024

    Vera Kurian proves she can write about much more than psychopaths in her newest thriller, A Step Past Darkness. This book was a totally different feel than Kurian’s first book, but no less…

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  • Book Review,  Fiction,  Suspense

    Book Review: Twenty-Seven Minutes | Ashley Tate

    / February 5, 2024

    Ashely Tate’s debut novel, Twenty-Seven Minutes is a dark, suspenseful portrayal of the long-term impact the death of a young woman has on those closest to the incident a decade later. About the…

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Hi! I'm Mackenzie, the Ph.D. student behind the book reviews and blog. Reading books has always been my favorite pastime and I love sharing my thoughts about them with the world. Now I should probably get back to writing that dissertation...

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