Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Seven dark thrillers about relationships gone wrong

Leah Konen is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she studied journalism and English literature. She's the author of several young adult novels, including Love and Other Train Wrecks and The Romantics. She lives in Brooklyn and Saugerties, NY, with her husband, their daughter, Eleanor, and their dog, Farley.

All the Broken People is her first thriller.

At Electric Lit, Konen tagged seven "books that center women’s complicated relationships with each other," including:
Force of Nature by Jane Harper

A corporate retreat in remote bushland goes awry when one of five women turns up missing on a days-long hike. Detective Aaron Falk is on the case, as the missing woman is a whistleblower set to help him take down her corrupt company. As this slow-burn mystery unfolds, we get a look into the complicated friendships, secrets, and duplicities that keep tensions simmering among this quintet of women.
Read about the other entries on the list.

Force of Nature is among Chandler Baker's seven top workplace thrillers.

--Marshal Zeringue