Marisa Walz is a psychological suspense author who writes books about people behaving badly. She lives outside Chicago with her husband and two young children.
Good Intentions is her debut novel.
At CrimeReads the author tagged "six novels featuring gloriously unwell female protagonists—women I would absolutely invite to brunch, after I hid the knives." One title on the list:
R. F. Kuang, YellowfaceRead about the other entries on the list at CrimeReads.
Struggling author June Hayward steals the unpublished manuscript of her literary rival—the brilliant, beloved, deceased Athena Liu—andpublishes it as her own. When the stolen book becomes a sensation, June’s guilt escalates into paranoia and terrible, desperate decisions as the internet, the industry, and her own unraveling psyche close in.
Razor-sharp and savagely funny, the novel exposes ambition, envy, and the monstrous lengths one woman goes to claim the success she believes the world owes her.
Yellowface is among Disha Bose's five novels that explore and center female friendship, Taylor Hutton's five top novels with tantalizing anti-heroes, Elizabeth Staple's eight books about youthful mistakes that come back to haunt you, Lauren Kuhl's eight top novels about toxic relationships, Elly Griffiths's top ten books about books, Toby Lloyd's seven books that show storytelling has consequences, Sophie Wan's seven top titles with women behaving badly, Leah Konen's six top friends-to-frenemies thrillers, and Garnett Cohen's seven novels about characters driven by their cravings.
--Marshal Zeringue
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