This dark, disturbing story of a wife’s sudden disappearance is a contender for thriller of the yearOliver and Barbara, the toxic married couple from The Wars of the Roses, have nothing on Nick and Amy Dunne, the co-narrators of Gillian Flynn’s dazzlin…
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn – review
by Alison Flood on in Books, Culture, Fiction, Reviews, The Observer
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by Chris Algernon on in Reviews, Thriller Reviews, TR Regan
Lizzy Gardner is seventeen years old when she escapes from the clutches of a madman. Four years later, just as her life seems to be getting back on track, Lizzie receives a blast from the past and it becomes clear that the would-be abductor is back in …
Pick of the week: A class-war thriller from Putin’s Russia
by Salon.com > Thrillers on in All Salon, Arts, Editor's Picks, Movies, Our Picks, Our Picks: Movies, Russia
Pick of the week: A middle-aged wife and mom contemplates the unthinkable in the masterful, mysterious “Elena”
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by Chris Algernon on in Nick Russell, Reviews, Thriller Reviews
Following the death of his brother-in-law, Arizona Sheriff Jim Weber finds himself drawn into a sorded world of lies, sex and violence. The town of Big Lake is filled with memorable characters, some of whom have very dark pasts that they would prefer t…
Review: Loose Ends – A Mary O’Reilly Paranormal Mystery by Terri Reid (3.5 stars)
by Chris Algernon on in Reviews, Terri Reid, Thriller Reviews
Mary O’Reilly is a freelance paranormal investigator from Illinois who has a rather unusual skill. Following an incident in which she almost died, she has the ability to communicate with the dead. This helps her as she tries to get to the bottom …
Review: Great and Terrible – The Complete Series by Chris Stewart (4 stars)
by Chris Algernon on in Chris Stewart, Reviews, Thriller Reviews
A self-consciously epic tale of good versus evil, Chris Stewart’s Great and Terrible – The Complete Series offers a timely warning of the dangers of economic, cultural and political catastrophe. Some readers might be a little deterred by th…
Thrillers – review roundup
by John O'Connell on in Books, Culture, Fiction, Reviews, The Guardian
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, The Girl in Berlin by Elizabeth Wilson, The Killing by David Hewson and The Family Corleone by Ed FalcoGone Girl by Gillian Flynn (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £12.99)Just as Nick and Amy Dunne are about to celebrate their fifth …
Review: The Lion, The Lamb, The Hunted: A Psychological Thriller by Andrew E. Kaufman (4.5 stars)
by Chris Algernon on in Andrew E. Kaufman, Reviews, Thriller Reviews
While going through his dead mother’s belongings, Patrick Bannister discovers shocking evidence that suggests she was responsible for the death of another of her children many years ago. Even worse, an innocent man might have gone to the electric…
Review: Blood Stained (A Lucy Guardino FBI Thriller) by C.J. Lyons (4 stars)
by Chris Algernon on in C.J. Lyons, Reviews, Thriller Reviews
Supervisory Special Agent Lucy Guardino was a rising star in the FBI until an unfortunate shooting incident that left her sidelined. Still struggling to balance her career and her family life, Guardino finds her curiosity piqued by a mysterious letter …
The Marlowe Papers: playing poetically with the playwright’s murder
by Robert McCrum on in Blogposts, Books, Christopher Marlowe, Culture, Fiction, guardian.co.uk, Poetry, William Shakespeare
Literary dialogue comes in many forms – webs of allusion, reference and literary homage. And Ros Barber’s new novel The Marlowe Papers takes this conversation to another levelOne of the secret pleasures of reading is watching books and writers talk t…
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