Mystery & Thriller

There’s a specific kind of dread that has nothing to do with ghosts or masked men, and Ashley Audrain builds her whole novel inside it. Here’s my honest, spoiler-free take on the Push audiobook. The Push follows Blythe, a mother…

There is a particular kind of dread that only good crime fiction can bottle, and Lucy Foley bottles it again here: the feeling of standing in a beautiful room and slowly understanding that every person in it is lying to…

Nicola Barber does something in the first ten minutes of I Let You Go that made me stop wiping down the kitchen counter and just stand there. A few spoiler-free thoughts on the I Let You Go audiobook, then. She…

How well do you actually know the couple you waved at over the fence this morning? What follows is my honest read on the Couple Next Door audiobook. Shari Lapena spends nine hours poking at that exact itch, and by…

I was halfway through folding a mountain of laundry when Caroline Lee did the thing that made me set the socks down and just stand there. Below is how the Big Little Lies audiobook actually plays out loud. It’s the…

Some books get recommended to you so many times that you start avoiding them out of pure spite. Let me walk you through the Wife Between Us audiobook. That was me and The Wife Between Us for the better part…

There is a particular kind of book that ruins your commute, your laundry-folding, your before-bed wind-down, because you cannot bring yourself to press pause. Consider this your spoiler-free guide to the Behind Closed Doors audiobook. B.A. Paris built one of…

Here’s what listening to The Chain does that reading it can’t: January LaVoy won’t let you look away. Let me walk you through the Chain audiobook. On the page you can skim the ugly part, skate past the moment a…

What would you actually do if your husband handed a duffel bag of cash to a near-stranger, scrawled two words on a note — Protect her — and then vanished before you’d finished your morning coffee? A few spoiler-free thoughts…

Snow piles against the door of a converted chapel deep in the Scottish Highlands, the last road out already erased under white, while inside a couple who barely speak anymore settle in for a weekend that will not go the…