Book Reviews & Recommendations
Lucinda Berry, bestselling author of The Perfect Child and The Secrets of Us, returns with another dark psychological thriller, Under Her Care. Set in a small Alabama town simmering with secrets and suspicion, this story digs deep into the disturbing intersection of […]
Timothy Egan’s A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them is a masterful work of historical nonfiction that reads like a political thriller. But unlike fiction, this story is terrifyingly […]
Few memoirs manage to be both devastating and laugh-out-loud funny, but Not My Type: One Woman vs. a President by E. Jean Carroll pulls off that extraordinary feat. Known for her sharp humor and fearless candor, Carroll delivers a remarkable behind-the-scenes look […]
Chuck Hogan’s The Carpool Detectives: A True Story of Four Moms, Two Bodies, and One Mysterious Cold Case delivers one of the most captivating true crime narratives in recent years. It blends the suspense of an unsolved mystery with the warmth and […]
Patrick Radden Keefe’s Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty is one of the most devastating and important works of investigative nonfiction in recent memory. Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Best History & Biography, this book exposes […]
Shipwreck, mutiny, and the uneasy truth about empire and human nature Quick Take David Grann’s The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder is a propulsive work of narrative nonfiction that reads like a sea adventure and lands like a courtroom […]
Michael Finkel’s The Art Thief reads like a heist thriller that happens to be true. It follows Stéphane Breitwieser, a soft spoken Frenchman who relieved European museums, churches, and small galleries of hundreds of Renaissance and medieval treasures between 1995 and 2001. […]
The Millennium series once defined a generation of readers. Stieg Larsson’s original trilogy was bold, politically charged, and unforgettably raw, anchored by the enigmatic Lisbeth Salander and the moral journalist Mikael Blomkvist. But with Lokattens Klor (The Lynx’s Claws), the eighth installment […]
Ruth Ware, the queen of modern psychological thrillers, steps into new territory with Zero Days, a pulse-racing blend of action, technology, and suspense. Known for atmospheric mysteries like The Woman in Cabin 10 and The Death of Mrs. Westaway, Ware takes a […]
Tana French has long been celebrated for her masterful blend of atmosphere, psychology, and moral complexity, and The Hunter is no exception. Returning readers to the small, vividly drawn Irish village of Ardnakelty, French crafts a story that simmers with slow-burning tension, […]