Danger often sits close to home - where we least expect it. A wife has vanished, a typewriter seems to type itself after dark, a stranger knows a wife’s secret, and a retired profiler’s latest case hits close to home. Lock the door, draw the curtains and check the cellar.
Lisa Gardner, Right Behind You - Gardner’s patient, affecting thriller finds retired profiler Pierce Quincy and his wife Rainie on the brink of adopting a teenager when a case hits home. Warm and quietly unsettling.
Harlan Coben, The Stranger - A stranger’s whispered secret about his wife unravels Adam Price’s comfortable suburban life. Coben’s sharpest kind of nightmare, built from ordinary things and driven by logic, not coincidence.
Linwood Barclay, A Noise Downstairs - A professor shaken by a brush with a killer hears a vintage typewriter clatter in the night. Brisk, slyly dark, with a late twist that rewrites everything.
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl - A husband, a vanished wife and two narrators who cannot both be trusted. Flynn dissects a marriage with cold relish.
