Mystery Thriller

A spoiler-free review of My Killer Family Reunion by Dinesh Thiru: a big Indian American family that jokes about murdering its grandmother, a surprise change to her will, and a sixteen-year-old who starts to suspect one of them means it.

A spoiler-free review of Fallow by Sarah Anderson: a woman with no dental insurance signs a ten-year contract to carry seven babies for the executives of a company that would rather nobody took maternity leave.

A spoiler-free review of I Am the Monster Under the Bed by Emily Zinnikas: seven teenagers went into the woods outside Rapture, Maine, six came home in boxes, and the one who walked out has spent fifteen years being the answer the town already liked.

A spoiler-free review of Bodies of Magic by Freya Marske: five days of final examinations at a magical healing academy, a dead classmate nobody is able to talk about, and a workforce that never recovered from a plague.

A spoiler-free review of Hollow Bones by Jodi Picoult: a woman lost on 9/11, twenty-five years of a borrowed name, and the illness nobody would name in 2001.