What is the best psychological thriller you’ve read this year?

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Looking for a book for my sister for Christmas.

Thank you 😊

Hobbesmanc, oooh, just read a review of that and it sounds ACE. I see she's written others too –do you know them/would you recommend?

Mother loves me (can't remember author) fantastic edge of your seat stuff. 'the liars chair' is also fantastic. I'm a big pyscho thriller reader and hard to please. 'blood orange', by Harriet tube is also fantastic

Tyce not tube

Shamelessly place marking to look at later.

@WitchesSpelleas

It was almost good but missed the mark IMO.

Yes - that was exactly what I thought. I didn't feel quite engaged enough with the characters to really get into it. Worth a read but not a favourite.

I enjoyed The Other Passenger by Louise Candlish - probably my favourite this year.

I enjoyed the Other Passanger. The Disappearance of Emily marr by Louise Candlish is very good too. As is Our House. I do like a Louise Candlish thriller.

For those who've read The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley, I read an early excerpt and it had a character called Samira (Muslim name) married to a Giles (Christian name) but have a child called Priya (Hindu name).

I spoke to someone who was a book editor who was convinced it was an error, that they lumped two Asian names together without realising one was Hindu and one Muslim. He said the copy editor would need to sort it out before release.

Did the book give any explanation for this? Or was it changed?

I don’t think it was changed, from that I remember of that tedious book, those were the names of the characters.

@Ginfordinner

Follow You Home. Just brilliant

Ooh is this good? £1 in kindle store at the moment.

The Silent Patient or The Kind Worth Killing

I also really enjoyed precious you - it was surprisingly well written for this genre and had some really sharp observations about the ageing process. The twist was OK as well

This is my jam. Really loved Magpie Lane by Lucy Atkins and House of Corrections by Nicci French. Did not enjoy The Hunting Party or The Silent Patient. Found the characters tedious and unconvincing.

I thought the Guest List was much better than the Hunting Party.

Shhh by Jocelyn Dexter. Fantastic

@Savourysenorita YY to Blood Orange. Absolutely brilliant.

@SmidgenofaPigeon thanks for confirming!

I'd recommend The Silent Patient- a real page turner.

The Silent Patient and Blood Orange were definitely favourites this year.

I spoke to someone who was a book editor who was convinced it was an error, that they lumped two Asian names together without realising one was Hindu and one Muslim. He said the copy editor would need to sort it out before release.

I'm a copy-editor and, while I'd spot something like that, all I'd do would be to flag it to the author/in-house as a possible issue. It seems quite feasible to me that someone with a traditionally Muslim name might still want to give a child a traditionally Hindu one.

It is quite rare, IMO. Ruth Rendell also used to have characters called Ahmed Singh and Parvati Khan and so forth. Odd.

Bookmarking ;)

I really enjoy blood orange too, real page turner.

I enjoyed Blood Orange up to a point.

I thought the end was pretty convenient.

@IntermittentParps

I spoke to someone who was a book editor who was convinced it was an error, that they lumped two Asian names together without realising one was Hindu and one Muslim. He said the copy editor would need to sort it out before release.

I'm a copy-editor and, while I'd spot something like that, all I'd do would be to flag it to the author/in-house as a possible issue. It seems quite feasible to me that someone with a traditionally Muslim name might still want to give a child a traditionally Hindu one.

The copy editor on one of my books queried the unusual spelling of a name. But it was deliberate (it was a nod to one of my friends) so it stayed.

I really didn't get on with 'Mother Loves Me'. Supposed to be set in 1976 but the characters were going to car boot sales and using phrases such as 'chill out'. It was as if the author thought all that was needed to invoke the 70s was a bit of tasteless wallpaper and some orange clothes.

Also, the bunging in of lengthy quotes from classic children's books was irritating. I noticed in the acknowledgments the author had said her DD celebrated when she hit 80,000 words - yes, the padding to hit the word count was very obvious!

Poorly written and a predictable, tired plot in my opinion.

Thank you very much @TheCountessofFitzdotterel and @bearlyactive for recommending The Closer You Get!

Found The Hunting Party a bit meh as well, and very rushed towards the end.

Ive just read The Lost Man and really enjoyed it, and have the final Strike one to read but trying to save it for Christmas.

There's a new Tana French out I've enjoyed.