Neil Nyren

Fiction

The Woods Hide Many Secrets in Alice Openshaw’s “On the Killer’s Trail”

“Ten years ago, fresh out of college, she expected to be a veterinarian with a life partner and her own home by now. Instead, here she was, pushing thirty-two, alone in a small town in northern Maine, and she didn’t even have her own dog.” Things haven’t worked out the…

Neil NyrenOctober 30, 2026

Fiction

Ancient Rome Like You’ve Never Seen It in This Relentless Quest for Justice

History isn’t always the one written down. Rome’s premier historian, Livy, knows that very well. His emperor, Augustus, wants to know everything about where he’s been and what he’s seen, but Livy knows there are secrets that are meant to be kept, especially when it comes to the missing women…

Neil NyrenOctober 27, 2026

Fiction Thrillers

Nigerian Author’s Debut Is a Gothic Tale in a Wholly New Setting

“One child doesn’t make it out of this story alive. Perhaps it’s the wrong one. I think everyone else might have wondered the same thing at some point.” A destitute young woman with a deeply troubled past. A brooding, enigmatic stranger who offers to marry her. A large house on…

Neil NyrenSeptember 25, 2026

Fiction Thrillers

The Scandal and Lies Are Just the Beginning of This New Historical Mystery Series

Desperate men are the most dangerous men of all. Oxford University, November 1950. In Kate Westbury’s The Oxford Guide to Scandal and Lies, two students clash over a library carrel, an experience unpleasant enough that neither is likely to want to repeat the encounter. Especially when the encounter is over…

Neil NyrenAugust 28, 2026

Fiction Thrillers

How Do You Hide From the Worst Thing You’ve Ever Done?

Her memories of that night are never the same. They are both little girls, Unnur and her friend Freyja, alone on a black-sand Icelandic beach, the waves clutching at them. In one memory, Freyja ignores her pleas and walks into the sea. In another, Unnur yanks Freyja’s head underwater until…

Neil NyrenJuly 31, 2026

Fiction

Your Father’s a Serial Killer. Now What Do You Do?

In V. A. Vazquez’s The Death Row Club, Nicola Fischer is a lower school art teacher, broke, jobless, and besieged by the press now that her father has been unmasked as the Ellicott Creek Ripper, and she herself has been accused of unwittingly luring girls into his car.

Neil NyrenJune 26, 2026

Fiction Thrillers

Leah Rowan’s Brilliant Twist on an Iconic Classic

Her name is Marion. Actually, it isn’t, but never mind. You know the type: young, blonde, and pretty enough. The first girl to die in the slasher films. But not this time.

Neil NyrenMay 29, 2026

Fiction Listicles Popular Thrillers

Spies and Other Gods

Spy fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. They can be grim, sardonic, playful, weary, intricate, or a sheer adrenaline rush. They can represent worldviews as different as those of Ian Fleming, John Le Carre, Daniel Silva, Mick Herron, or I.S. Berry, the CIA veteran whose debut novel, The Peacock…

Neil NyrenMay 5, 2026

Fiction Thrillers

Jane Harper’s “Last One Out” Features a Ghost Town and Its Secrets

In this powerful memoir, Lyn Barrett recounts her journey through Dissociative Identity Disorder, revealing how a family crisis unearthed her long-buried childhood trauma. Crazy: Reclaiming Life from the Shadow of Traumatic Memory is a story of resilience and transformation — the reclaiming of a life once fragmented by trauma.

Neil NyrenApril 24, 2026

Fiction Thrillers

No One Is Quite Who They Seem in Emma Garman’s “The Kindness of Strangers”

In this powerful memoir, Lyn Barrett recounts her journey through Dissociative Identity Disorder, revealing how a family crisis unearthed her long-buried childhood trauma. Crazy: Reclaiming Life from the Shadow of Traumatic Memory is a story of resilience and transformation — the reclaiming of a life once fragmented by trauma.

Neil NyrenApril 24, 2026

Fiction Thrillers

A Stalker Who’s Desperate to Show She Is Not a Boring Asian Female

“This is just a mistake. I’m going to get all of this sorted out in no time. They just need to know that they made a mistake.” In Canwen Xu’s Boring Asian Female, Elizabeth Zhang has it all planned out. She’s maintained a 3.9 GPA at Columbia and picked all…

Neil NyrenMarch 27, 2026

Thrillers

A Thriller with Heart and Humor

What doesn’t kill you makes you…a survivor. Joy Moore and Benny Abbott have been best friends for a very long time, although the relationship has had its ups and downs. Right now, it’s definitely up, though there are other worries. A Podcast Built on Chemistry and Chaos In Tiffany Crum’s…

Neil NyrenFebruary 27, 2026

Thrillers

Her To-Do List Involves a Dead Body. What About Yours?

Domestic Bliss, with a Body “The truth is, it’s surprisingly difficult to kill someone with a vegetable knife. But as I was preparing carrot sticks at the time, it’s all I had.” That’s Lalla Rook talking. In M.K. Oliver’s A Sociopath’s Guide to a Successful Marriage (and doesn’t that tell…

Neil NyrenJanuary 30, 2026

Thrillers

Punk, Profane, and Unstoppable: Sister Holiday Returns in “Divine Ruin”

In 2023, Margot Douaihy introduced crime fiction to an unforgettable new heroine in the form of a tatted-up, punk rock, cigarette-smoking, lesbian nun named Sister Holiday. Having spectacularly blown up her life in Brooklyn — her family, her girlfriend, her band — she’d fled to the only place that would…

Neil NyrenJanuary 13, 2026

Thrillers

In the Endless Arctic Night, a Murder

“Accidents, murders, suicides, illnesses. Dying of old age was rare in Cape Dorset.” Cape Dorset is a remote Arctic community, inhabited mainly by the Inuit and a few people who aren’t. Sergeant Elderick Cole is one of the latter. In Malcolm Kempt’s A Gift Before Dying, he’s part of the…

Neil NyrenDecember 26, 2025

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The Woods Hold Secrets — As Do the People Who Live There

“Middle children always knew how to remain unseen. They knew how to slip below the notice of others … Middle children were tricksters.” In Julie Doar’s The Gallagher Place, Marlowe Fisher, 36, is the middle child between two brothers, Nate and Henry, the three of them raised in a big…

Neil NyrenNovember 28, 2025

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Jane Harper’s “Last One Out” Features a Ghost Town and Its Secrets

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The Woods Hold Secrets — As Do the People Who Live There

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