, Buying a Better World: George Soros and Billionaire Philanthropy, The Ghosts of Europe, winner of the Shaughnessey Cohen Prize for Political Writing, Kasztner’s Train: The True Story of Rezso Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust, winner of the 2007 Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Award and of the Jewish Book Award for Non-Fiction, and the The Storyteller: A Memoir of Secrets, Magic and Lies. She has also written five other novels: The Appraisal, Hidden Agenda, Mortal Sins, and Bookfair Murders, which was made into a feature film.
At CrimeReads Porter tagged nine "thrillers that take advantage of remote island settings to build suspense," including:
J. T. Ellison, Her Dark LiesRead about the other entries on the list.
A beautiful island in the Mediterranean, warm summer breezes, an elegant villa built high on the rocks overlooking the azure ocean, must be the perfect setting for a dream wedding. Or for a murder. The groom’s wealthy family and the wedding guests are not alone. Some ghastly menace inhabits island. Clare and Jack are in love. She is ready to ignore the mysterious death of his first wife and he is ready to accept a rebel-artist into his more traditional life. They have everything to look forward to. Or do they? As a storm moves in and the tension mounts, readers will be propelled to the shocking end.
Her Dark Lies is among Anna Snoekstra's eEight top taut thrillers set over three days or fewer and Amanda Jayatissa's seven best thrillers set at weddings.
--Marshal Zeringue
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