Tuesday, May 3, 2022

Nine recent thrillers in which isolation is the enemy

Victoria Helen Stone, author of the runaway best seller Jane Doe, writes critically acclaimed novels of dark intrigue and emotional suspense. Aside from The Last One Home, Problem Child, Half Past, and the chart-topping False Step and Evelyn, After, she also published twenty-nine books as USA Today bestselling author Victoria Dahl and won the prestigious American Library Association Reading List award for best genre fiction.

Her new novel is At The Quiet Edge.

At CrimeReads Stone tagged nine recent thrillers that "make use of many kinds of solitude to amp up the tension," including:
Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir begins with the terror and dread of a man waking up on a spaceship alone with no memory of his life before. When he discovers two dead astronauts who were supposed to be his teammates, the weight of being completely cut off only increases. This book is the story of him solving the mystery of how he arrived on board, why he’s in space, and just how impossible his mission is. And then he discovers he’s not actually as alone in the darkness of the universe as he thought…
Read about the other entries on the list at CrimeReads.

--Marshal Zeringue