raising questions about justice, motherhood, career, class, and the thorny mechanics of redemption. She previously penned eight works of Southern fiction, all of which have a murder mystery or thriller lurking inside the family drama. Her critically acclaimed work has been translated into more than a dozen languages, and Jackson is also an award-winning audiobook narrator. She lives in Decatur, Georgia, with her family.
Her new novel is With My Little Eye.
[The Page 69 Test: The Girl Who Stopped Swimming; My Book, The Movie: The Girl Who Stopped Swimming; The Page 69 Test: Backseat Saints; The Page 69 Test: A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty; The Page 69 Test: The Opposite of Everyone; My Book, The Movie: The Opposite of Everyone]
At CrimeReads Jackson tagged five "favorite mystery and suspense titles [that] unfold in the worlds of dance, broadcast news, high fashion, magic, and music." One title on the list:
Maddalena and the Dark by Julia FineRead about the other entries on the list.
Get this novel on your radar! While it is likely to be marketed as historical fiction, there is such palpable malice, such a growing sense of dread, that I kept finding myself holding my breath as I read. Set in lush, wild Venice at the beginning of the 18th century, it’s a violent and suspenseful tale of a young, ambitious violinist who meets the titular Maddelena at a prominent music school that is also a convent. Maddalena has been stored there to protect her “value” as a prospective bride, and as she plots a heist to steal back her life and gain control over her own future, their fates entwine. Envy and ambition and obsession drive the novel to a bloody conclusion that haunts me still.
--Marshal Zeringue
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