thriller review

  • It’s Not Her: Mary Kubica

    Second time starting this one… and I actually had to fact-check because I genuinely couldn’t remember if I’d ever read Mary Kubica before. Turns out I have. Twice. And yet here I am, once again falling victim to BookTok recommendations. Every single time. (Need to delete that app immediately. For legal reasons, I won’t.) There’s…

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  • Mad Mabel: Sally Hepworth

    Mad Mabel follows an 81-year-old woman with a suspicious past… and a very unfortunate pattern of people around her dying. When a nosy little girl befriends her and starts digging into old secrets, it slowly becomes clear that “Mad Mabel” might not just be a cruel nickname after all. I loved the approach to this…

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  • The Perfect Marriage: Jeneva Rose

    Okay… so I picked this up thinking it would be one of those dramatic “perfect marriage gone wrong” stories… and somehow it turned into a full-on obsession spiral. Like… tell me why I was sitting there actually thinking: would I defend him? And the answer? Absolutely not. Jail. Immediately. I don’t care how much I…

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  • The Ending Writes Itself: Evelyn Clarke

    Six writers. One island. Seventy-two hours. And a dead man still pulling the strings. This book throws you straight into a locked-room pressure cooker where ambition rots into desperation and egos sharpen into weapons. And the twist? No detectives. Just writers—people who literally build murder for a living. When careers are on the line, morality…

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  • It’s Not What You Think, Claire Mackintosh

    You think you know the people you love. You think you know who to trust. You think you know how a story ends. Cute. Wrong. Nadeeka is convinced Jamie is cheating. She knows the signs—she’s lived this nightmare before. So she does what any self-respecting, emotionally spiraling woman would do: she goes to confront him.…

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