Psychological Thriller

A dying serial killer agrees to be interviewed for a streaming docuseries and says, on camera, that he murdered four women in the summer of 2001. Not five. Four. In a small Washington town, two women who have not spoken in twenty-five years understand immediately what that means.

A woman reads the right-hand half of a name badge and spends ten minutes certain the hospital has sent a man to assault her. The badge says occupational therapist. Freida McFadden's early novel is written from inside a brain that cannot perceive its own left side, and the thing it cannot perceive is the thing that was done to it.

A famous novelist orders his wife's dinner without asking. The first wife tells him never to do that again. The second wife thanks him for being thoughtful. Constantine builds an entire novel out of the gap between those two women, and the gap is where the danger lives.

A spoiler-free review of You'll Be Sorry by Lisa Gardner, a standalone thriller about a family of six who vanished from a New Hampshire mountain town, and the dog that starts digging thirty years later.

The Matryoshka Murders by Kay Williams is a political thriller set in 1991 Leningrad where an American filmmaker's camera catches something worth killing for. Murder, mystery, and a love story that crosses an ocean.