thriller review

  • 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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  • Too Old for This, Samantha Downing

    Once upon a time, Lottie Jones was the nightmare under the bed. Now she’s just trying to win bingo without throwing her back out and keep her past buried deeper than her victims. Retirement was going so well — a fake name, a quiet town, and the most dangerous thing in her life being weak…

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