The Sanatorium
A detective on leave joins her brother's engagement trip at a remote Alpine hotel, and a storm traps everyone inside with a killer.
2,346-word summary · 10 min read
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The Mother-in-Law
Sally Hepworth's 2019 family thriller follows Lucy as she clashes with her polished mother-in-law Diana, until Diana's sudden death forces Lucy to rethink…
2,471-word summary · 11 min read
The Miserable Mill
Sent to work at the Lucky Smells Lumbermill, the Baudelaires face harsh labor, strange hypnotism, and a familiar villain in a new disguise.
2,662-word summary · 12 min read
The Likeness
A detective poses as her murdered double and moves in with four graduate students to find the killer.
2,751-word summary · 12 min read
The Last Time I Lied
Fifteen years after her cabin mates vanished at Camp Nightingale, painter Emma Davis returns as an art teacher and digs into lies about that night.
2,633-word summary · 12 min read
The Huntress
A Soviet night pilot, a Boston photographer doubting her stepmother Annelise, and a Nazi hunter chase Die Jagerin from wartime Europe to 1950 Boston in a long…
2,666-word summary · 12 min read
The Glass Hotel
A hotel bartender marries a wealthy investor, his fund collapses in 2008, and Mandel traces the money, the guilt, and the ghosts left behind.
2,785-word summary · 12 min read
The Death of Mrs. Westaway
Broke tarot reader Hal claims a Cornish inheritance and finds attic locks and lies.
3,313-word summary · 15 min read
The Angel's Game
In 1920s Barcelona, a young writer accepts a strange publisher's offer to write an impossible book and finds his life turning into a ghost story.
2,699-word summary · 12 min read
The Alienist
In 1896 New York, alienist Laszlo Kreizler, reporter John Moore and Sara Howard hunt a killer of boy prostitutes while police commissioner Roosevelt backs…
3,099-word summary · 14 min read
The ABC Murders
Poirot and Hastings chase a killer who leaves an ABC railway guide near victims in Andover, Bexhill, and Churston. A salesman looks guilty, but publicity hides…
3,302-word summary · 15 min read
Tell No One
Harlan Coben's Tell No One fully retold: Beck, his wife's murder eight years back, a tell no one email, and a run from police. A 2001 Delacorte standalone with…
3,579-word summary · 16 min read
Shadows of Self
Wax and Wayne hunt a rogue kandra through Elendel as labor riots rise and old grief returns.
2,643-word summary · 12 min read
Ordinary Grace
In 1961 Minnesota, thirteen-year-old Frank Drum faces a summer of deaths that tests his minister family and forces him to weigh truth, guilt, and mercy.
2,948-word summary · 13 min read
Lethal White
When troubled Billy reports a buried child, Strike and Robin untangle blackmail around minister Chiswell in a long London case that strains their partnership.
3,063-word summary · 14 min read
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
A woman drives out to meet her boyfriend's parents while planning to leave him, and the night turns quietly wrong.
2,754-word summary · 12 min read
I Am Watching You
A florist watches two schoolgirls chat with ex cons on a train and stays silent. A year later one girl is still missing and someone starts watching her.
2,939-word summary · 13 min read
I Am Pilgrim
A retired spy turned crime writer is pulled back when a grisly New York murder points toward a hidden bioterror plot, and the hunt runs from forensics to the…
3,023-word summary · 13 min read
House of Leaves
Danielewski's 2000 debut about a house larger inside than outside, told through film analysis, footnotes, and a troubled annotator. Strange, demanding, and…
2,693-word summary · 12 min read
His & Hers
Alice Feeney's His & Hers retold in full: newsreader Anna, detective Jack, a murdered woman, His and Hers chapters, and a twisty end that splits readers.
3,207-word summary · 14 min read
Grave Peril
Chicago ghosts turn murderous as Harry Dresden faces a vengeful sorcerer and Bianca's vampire trap.
3,484-word summary · 15 min read
Five Survive
Six teens on spring break get a flat tire, a red dot sight, and one ultimatum in an RV.
2,867-word summary · 13 min read
Firekeeper's Daughter
Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine stays on Sugar Island past graduation and helps the FBI look into overdose deaths tied to a drug ring in her Ojibwe community.
3,035-word summary · 13 min read
Dead in the Family
Sookie shelters fairy kin and a telepathic boy while pack murder and Eric's vampire kin close in.
2,412-word summary · 11 min read