On her way to Utah to see her dying mother, college student Darby Thorne gets caught in a fierce blizzard in the mountains of Colorado. With the roads impassable, she’s forced to wait out the storm at a remote highway rest stop. Inside are some vending machines, a coffee maker, and four complete strangers.
Desperate to find a signal to call home, Darby goes back out into the storm . . . and makes a horrifying discovery. In the back of the van parked next to her car, a little girl is locked in an animal crate.
Who is the child? Why has she been taken? And how can Darby save her?
This plot sounds so intense and thrilling. I think this is the thriller that I’m most excited to read. I saw this book in a recommendation post and I knew I had to give it a try. The idea of having to be stuck in a place with four strangers, one of whom is a psychopath sounds so scary. I watch too much Criminal Minds to not be unsettled by a premise like that.
The discovery of a dead body in the woods on Thanksgiving Weekend brings Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his colleagues from the Surete du Quebec to a small village in the Eastern Townships. Gamache cannot understand why anyone would want to deliberately kill well-loved artist Jane Neal, especially any of the residents of Three Pines – a place so free from crime it doesn’t even have its own police force.
But Gamache knows that evil is lurking somewhere behind the white picket fences and that, if he watches closely enough, Three Pines will start to give up its dark secrets…
I have no idea what this book is about. I actually ended up thrifting one of Louise Penny’s books and realized that I had picked up the sixteenth book in an ongoing series. First of all, it’s been a while since I’ve heard of a series that long and for it to still be going. I bet I sound like a thriller newbie after making that statement but it’s true! I wanted to do this series justice so I went ahead and picked up the first one, “Still Life”. When I was doing research for this book, I realized that Rick Riordan is a huge fan of this series and that many of the books in this series have really high reviews. I remember most vividly that Uncle Rick said that the first book in this series is surprisingly cozy which again is something I’m finding I love.
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves.
When a local developer is found dead with a mysterious photograph left next to the body, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case. As the bodies begin to pile up, can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer, before it’s too late?
I think that this is the book that’s most reminiscent of “The Maid” for me. All I know about this book is that we get to follow a group of 70+ year old people trying to solve a crime. I know there’s going to be murder and other obviously horrible things discussed in this mystery book but it just seems so wholesome! I love the idea of a group of friends working together to crack unsolved cases and somehow getting roped into a real, live case.
When her beloved nanny, Hannah, left without a trace in the summer of 1988, seven-year-old Jocelyn Holt was devastated. Haunted by the loss, Jo grew up bitter and distant, and eventually left her parents and Lake Hall, their faded aristocratic home, behind.
Thirty years later, Jo returns to the house and is forced to confront her troubled relationship with her mother. But when human remains are accidentally uncovered in a lake on the estate, Jo begins to question everything she thought she knew.
I don’t know why I’m willing to read all the other kinds of thrillers and mystery novels but this one. This book feels like the quintessential thriller novel. It’s got a Nanny, murder, a main character who’s revisiting their troubled past, and the perfect domestic setting for some drama. Apparently I’m more inclined towards thrillers and mysteries that are more cozy such as “The Thursday Murder Club” or extremely intense like “No Exit” but not for the in between thriller like this one. This is the one book that I have to get to on this list because I’ve set a mental goal in my head that if I can read and like a book like this, then I truly can deep dive into the thriller genre without worrying about whether it’s for me or not.