Anna Snoekstra is the author of Only Daughter, Little Secrets, and The Spite Game. Her novels have been published in over twenty countries and sixteen languages. She has written for many publications including The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, CrimeReads and is a profile writer for The Saturday Paper. In 2023 she released her first audio drama This Isn’t Happening.
Snoekstra's new novel is The Ones We Love.
At CrimeReads the author tagged seven top novels built on the weight of a shared secret, including:
The Likeness, by Tana FrenchRead about the other entries on the list.
This Irish detective novel is pure bliss! Detective Cassie Maddox goes undercover in a crumbling mansion in a tiny town where a group of young academicslive together. She is pretending to be a student with whom she shares a distinct likeness, who was found dead near the house. This book is almost an invert of my previous recommendations. While those novels show us the dynamics of the group and slowly reveal the crime they are hiding, The Likeness describes the basics of the crime up front then slowly reveals the group dynamics behind it. The reader isn’t sure who of these housemates are responsible and in what way. We see their guilt and the weight of their secret from the outside as Cassie infiltrates the group and uncovers the twisty truth.
The Likeness is among Louise Hegarty’s eight Irish novels about the rise & fall of Big Houses, Emily Bain Murphy's seven mystery novels with the best twists, Emily Beyda's seven top doubles in the twisted world of mystery fiction, Sophie Stein's eight books about small-town woman detectives, Alison Wisdom's sven great thrillers featuring communal living, Christopher Louis Romaguera's nine books about mistaken identity, and Simon Lelic's top ten false identities in fiction.
--Marshal Zeringue
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