Eighteen-year-old Thomas Bellweather is in a pickle. He’s the new kid in town, his mother has been found […]
Category Archive: Thriller / Crime
February 5, 2012, the body of twenty-five-year-old journalist, Alice Salmon, is pulled from the river near her old […]
The day before the house on Princess Street was due to be demolished, Mandy Crystal stood by the […]
A good ghost story is hard to find, and a truly chilling contemporary ghost story near impossible. Ironically, […]
Over the last few weeks Lectito has been on a crime spree, seeking out the latest sinister, suspenseful […]
Margot McGovern reviews Meg Carter’s domestic thriller, The Lies We Tell (Canelo, Aug. 2015). In the summer of 1989 there […]
Margot McGovern reviews Julia Heaberlin’s psychological thriller, Black-Eyed Susans. Tessie grew up in a fairytale, both grim and Grimm: […]
Margot McGovern reviews Ruth Ware’s smart and chilling debut thriller, In a Dark, Dark Wood (Harvill Secker, 2015). A good […]
Margot McGovern asks why readers can’t get enough of Patricia Highsmith’s sinister style of crime. Highsmith is the queen of suspense […]
Margot McGovern reviews The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins. I wasn’t going to review Paula Hawkins‘ The Girl on […]