On a heavy foggy night, eleven people board a private plane headed back to New York. On the plane are a pilot, a co-pilot, and a flight attendant. The plane is chartered by David Bateman, a multimillionaire media mogul and his wife Maggie, a former preschool teacher. Along for the ride are their children … Continue reading
Single mother Louise finds herself in a very uncomfortable situation in Sarah Pinborough’s novel Behind Her Eyes. She meets and kisses a man named David at a bar only to find out that he is a newly hired psychiatrist at the medical practice where she works as a secretary. She is able to stay at … Continue reading
A. J. Finn’s debut novel, The Woman in the Window, might first come off as The Girl on the Train and Rear Window with some agoraphobia thrown in to make it a little more unique. Anna Fox, the book’s narrator, is, like Rachel in The Girl on the Train, a boozer and an unreliable narrator. … Continue reading
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has nothing on Lars Kepler’s The Sandman. This has to be the darkest book I have ever read. The first few pages are a mixture of Silence of the Lambs and In Cold Blood. And it never stops! Chapter One begins with a young man stumbling around a railroad … Continue reading
In Ruth Ware’s novel In a Dark, Dark Wood Leonora, the novel’s narrator, is surprised when she receives an invite to her school friend Clare’s weekend long hen party. (Bachelorette parties are known as hen parties in England, which is where the book is set.) Leonora has lost touch with most of her friends from … Continue reading
Towards the beginning of Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, Tom Ripley is looking at checks he has collected fraudulently. He has been calling people and telling them they owe back taxes. However, instead of cashing the checks, he simply collects them, as if he is performing the whole ruse for his own amusement or … Continue reading
Yes, Then She was Gone is another Paula Hawkins, A. J. Finn, Liane Moriarty, and Gillian Flynn novel with the clueless wife/mother/girlfriend. But at least this one is trying. Her persistence is commendable but also a bit annoying. You want to scream “Just ask!!!” But, of course, that would make for a much shorter book. … Continue reading
