Category: Psychological

  • Scorpion by Christian Cantrell Review

    Scorpion by Christian Cantrell Review

    This sci-fi thriller is a veritable (and truly magnificent) puzzle box of plot stings and twists, and I cannot recommend this book enough. Ask me to name an underrated author? Christian Cantrell. If you love Blake Crouch — you’re going to love Cantrell. His newest thriller Scorpion hooks from page one, snapping tension into place…

  • The Perfect Lie by Jo Spain Review

    The Perfect Lie by Jo Spain Review

    Thriller lovers, listen up because with The Perfect Lie Jo Spain has created irresistible suspense that, with its Then and Now structure and (potentially?) unreliable narrator, sings of such icons as Girl on the Train and Gone Girl. The binge factor is 10/10. This is one read you can safely add to your cart because…

  • Watch Her Fall by Erin Kelly Review

    Watch Her Fall by Erin Kelly Review

    Get ready for a night at the ballet — and if you’re thinking pink tulle and tutus, think again. This edgy thriller is all Black Swan. Ava’s life at the London Russian Ballet Company has had one goal: to earn her father’s approval. Her dad is the owner and creative director of the LRBC, the…

  • Tall Bones by Anna Bailey Review

    Tall Bones by Anna Bailey Review

    A toxic sludge of characters who would (mostly) be better off without each other. Told from multiple viewpoints and switching between past and present, Tall Bones follows 17-year-old Emma Alvarez’s quest to discover what happened to best friend Abigail. Abigail disappeared one night from the Tall Bones, a secluded hangout where teens get drunk and…

  • The Push by Ashley Audrain Review

    The Push by Ashley Audrain Review

    There’s something deeply disturbing that unfolds between the pages of this tightly plotted psychological thriller. At its core, The Push is a story about mothers who aren’t believed — from those who voice the wish not to be mothers in the first place to those who discover something disconcerting emerging in their offspring, and everything…