In this high-wire Gothic thriller, we meet London psychotherapist Mariana Andros, who rushes to her niece’s side at Cambridge University following a beloved classmate’s murder.
Fresh off a stint in a psychiatric hospital, troubled reporter Camille Preaker returns to her Missouri hometown to investigate a rash of violent crimes against teenage girls.
In Highsmith’s tense debut novel, two men meet on a train journey. Guy, our hero, confides that he’s on the way to divorce the wife that he loathes; meanwhile, dangerous psychopath Bruno shares that he wishes his father were dead, and proposes a plan for “the perfect murder.”
In this deliciously dark novel, set in Lagos, Nigeria, we meet two sisters: Ayoola, a charming serial killer, and Korede, the resentful sister who enables her. Each time Ayoola kills her latest beau, Korede arrives with bleach and rubber gloves to clean up the crime scene.
Set in a Philadelphia neighborhood ravaged by poverty and addiction, Long Bright River is the story of two estranged sisters: Mickey, who walks these hardscrabble blocks on her police beat, and Kacey, who lives in the neighborhood while struggling with her addiction.
In a modern day Los Angeles rocked by protests following the police shooting of a Black teenager, two families confront the decades-old crime that binds them.
Set in 1954, the book centers on Teddy Daniels, a U.S. Marshal investigating crimes and conspiracies on Shutter Island, home to the Ashcliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane.
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