Monday, July 13, 2020

Five novels of insomnia, sleepwalking, & fear of slumber

Megan Miranda is the New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls, The Perfect Stranger, and The Last House Guest, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick. She has also written several books for young adults, including Come Find Me, Fragments of the Lost, and The Safest Lies. She grew up in New Jersey, graduated from MIT, and lives in North Carolina with her husband and two children.

Her new adult suspense novel is The Girl from Widow Hills.

At CrimeReads, Miranda tagged five "suspenseful novels that feature sleep issues at the heart of the story, heightening the very real fear for the characters—either for themselves, or for those around them," including:
I Heard that Song Before by Mary Higgins Clark

Kay knows a lot about her husband’s past before their marriage. She knows he was suspected at one time in the disappearance of a young woman, decades earlier. And she knows his first wife drowned in their pool. But what she doesn’t learn until after their marriage is that her husband is a sleepwalker. After witnessing him sleepwalking to the scene of his first wife’s death, she’s no longer sure if she truly knows everything about him. And when the body of a missing woman is found on their property, she sets out to uncover what really happened in the past—and if she knows the person sleeping beside her as well as she believes she does.
Read about the other entries on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue