Dear Ms. Piazza: I came across this book shortly after reading Yesteryear and could not resist taking the plunge with what felt like the suspense version of that novel (FWIW, Everyone is Lying to You came out last year). This ended up being a pretty successful read. The novel opens ... more >
I read Winstead’s first three books, published in quick succession in 2021, 2022 and 2023. I liked the second a bit less than the first and the third much less than the previous two, so I took a break. It seems like she’s still publishing at a quick pace – ... more >
For fans of Carl Hiaasen and Elmore a fast-paced thriller about a young woman who reluctantly teams up with her deadbeat dad to find her missing mom, by the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Sh*t My Dad Says When Lila Dixon gets a call that her mother ... more >
Marketed as a “literary thriller” The God of the Woods features shifting timelines and multiple perspectives to tell the story of the disappearances of the two children of the affluent Van Laar family: eight-year old Bear in 1961, and his 13-year-old sister Barbara in 1975. The story opens in August ... more >
Yearbook superlatives turn deadly in this darkly funny young adult thriller. The rumor mill has never been kind to Meadowvale High seniors and best friends Rick and Martina, labeling them outcasts (sure), stoners (no comment), and pranksters (okay, this one’s fair). But for the most part, they have successfully flown ... more >
Simone St. James returns with her scariest, most shocking novel yet in this pulse-pounding story about siblings who return to the house they fled 18 years before, called back by the ghost of their long-missing brother and his haunting request: Come home. Strange things happen in Fell, New York. A ... more >