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Tag: Psychological thriller

October 8, 2020

Final Cut by S. J.Watson

 ‘They tried to hide the truth. But the camera never lies…’ Review by Basil Ransome-Davies So runs the publisher’s tagline on the front cover…

September 22, 2020

Playing Nice by JP Delaney

Reviewed by Harriet Back in 2017 I reviewed JP Delaney’s brilliant psychological thriller The Girl Before on Shiny (here). All I know about the…

September 15, 2020

The Lies you Told by Harriet Tyce

Reviewed by Elaine Simpson-Long Last year I read Blood Orange, which was Harriet Tyce’s debut novel.  One of the reasons I read it was…

August 13, 2020

Tell Me How it Ends by V.B. Grey

Reviewed by Gill Davies London in 1963, despite some remaining scars of wartime, is busy re-inventing itself with skyscrapers rising over bomb sites, American…

February 25, 2020

Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton

Review by Annabel Anyone who works in a school these days will be familiar with ‘lockdown’ procedures, with code reds being the ones you…

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August 8, 2019

The Perfect Wife by J P Delaney

Review by Annabel I recently read J P Delaney’s first psychological thriller, The Girl Before, (which Harriet reviewed here) in advance of a crime panel event…

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July 11, 2019

A Stranger in my Grave by Margaret Millar

Reviewed by Harriet Margaret Millar, born in Canada in 1915, lived for most of her life in California with her husband Ken, who wrote…

The Long Shadow by Celia Fremlin
November 22, 2018

The Long Shadow by Celia Fremlin

Reviewed by Harriet How Ivor would have loved being dead! It was a shame he was missing it all. First published in 1975, this…

November 6, 2018

Vanish in an Instant by Margaret Millar

Reviewed by Harriet Why had I never heard of Margaret Millar until I spotted this reprint by Pushkin Vertigo? Because, I suppose, she was…

The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
January 25, 2018

The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

Reviewed by Basil Ransome Davies This novel borrows its title from Fritz Lang’s canonical film noir (which is also a teasing, ironic comedy of the repressed…

The Other Woman by Laura Wilson
October 19, 2017

The Other Woman by Laura Wilson

Reviewed by Harriet A couple of years ago on Shiny I reviewed Laura Wilson’s The Wrong Girl. That was a tense psychological thriller centring…

The Hours Before Dawn Celia Fremlin
July 25, 2017

The Hours Before Dawn by Celia Fremlin

Review by Harriet Soon after midnight she would wake; and again at half past two; and again at four. As the months went by,…

July 4, 2017

Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy

Reviewed by Harriet It’s every parent’s nightmare – one minute your child is there, next minute they’re gone. My own three-year-old daughter once wandered…

May 25, 2017

The Night Visitor by Lucy Atkins

Reviewed by Judith Wilson   The Night Visitor is Lucy Atkins’ third novel, and as I’d devoured the first two, I was keen to…

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February 9, 2017

Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty

Reviewed by Victoria Apple Tree Yard, (now a series from the BBC), may be billed as a thriller, but like all of Louise Doughty’s…

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February 7, 2017

The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney

Reviewed by Harriet Who is JP Delaney? All that is known at the time of writing this review is that the pseudonym conceals the…

December 2, 2015

Dark Corners by Ruth Rendell

Reviewed by Harriet I can empathise with people who are driven by dreadful impulses. I think to be driven to want to kill must…

October 21, 2015

Friday on my Mind by Nicci French

Reviewed by Harriet The crime-writing couple known as Nicci French have had an amazingly productive and successful career. Having published no less than 11…

October 8, 2015

A Game for all the Family by Sophie Hannah

Reviewed by Harriet My name is Justine Merrison and I do Nothing. With a capital N. Not a single thing. When I tell people…

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April 23, 2015

The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson

Reviewed by Harriet “Okay,” she said, and thought a moment. “Truthfully, I don’t think murder is necessarily as bad as people make it out…

April 2, 2015

The Exit by Helen Fitzgerald

Reviewed by Harriet He offered to show me around, but I said I was in a hurry. I didn’t want to see old people…

Those Who Walk Away
January 29, 2015

Those Who Walk Away by Patricia Highsmith

Reviewed by Harriet. ‘The No.1 greatest crime writer’, proclaims The Times on the covers of Virago’s new reprints of some of Patricia Highsmith’s lesser…

October 16, 2014

Help for the Haunted by John Searles

Reviewed by Victoria Best. Lying in bed, 14-year-old Sylvie Mason hears a telephone call summoning her parents out into the middle of a snowy…

July 22, 2014

The Headmaster’s Wife by Thomas Christopher Greene

Reviewed by Victoria Best I do love a book with a really good jaw-dropping twist, and goodness me does The Headmaster’s Wife have one of those….

April 25, 2014

The Telling Error by Sophie Hannah

Reviewed by Harriet Devine Well, Sophie Hannah has done it again. Did anyone ever have such a fiendishly fertile and convoluted imagination? This is…

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