Leah Konen is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she studied journalism and English literature. She is the author of the new thriller, The Perfect Escape. Her debut thriller, All the Broken People was a Rolling Stone, Marie Claire, She Reads, and Charlotte Observer best summer book pick.
At CrimeReads, Konen tagged "seven getaway thrillers that will have you clamoring for your next flight home," including:
Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean KwokRead about the other entries on the list.
Sylvie flies to the Netherlands for one last visit with her dying grandmother—before vanishing seemingly into thin air—leaving her sister and parents struggling to put the pieces together and understand what happened to her on her trip. Jean Kwok dazzles in this multi-generational story of a Chinese immigrant family that explores secrets, identity and the bonds of sisterhood.
Searching for Sylvie Lee is among Andrea Bartz's seven top thrillers about vacations gone wrong, Jennifer Baker's twelve mysteries featuring BIPOC protagonists and Katherine St. John's eleven novels of vacations gone horribly wrong.
The Page 69 Test: Searching for Sylvie Lee.
--Marshal Zeringue
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