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“What the stories never said: at the end of the day, if a man wants to kill you, he kills you. It’s not on you to convince him not to.”

The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon

January 27, 2024 by narfna 6 Comments

This was a great literary suspense debut, with one pretty big flaw that it feels like the author just really misjudged, but she is clearly a talented lady and I will definitely be reading her next book. Firstly, I just want to complain a little that I can’t even manage to finish a novel in my own language let alone write and finish and PUBLISH a beautiful book in my SECOND*, and then have it be this good. So that’s just me being jealous and […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Suspense Tagged With: Clémence Michallon, full cast audio, literary suspense, Literary Thriller, narfna, Suspense, The Quiet Tenant, thrillers

narfna's CBR16 Review No:10 · Genres: Audiobooks, Suspense · Tags: Clémence Michallon, full cast audio, literary suspense, Literary Thriller, narfna, Suspense, The Quiet Tenant, thrillers ·
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Girls in this book are all named things like Dylan, Zadie and Tempest

February 1, 2014 by Willynillyone Leave a Comment

Amelia didn’t jump. This is the text message Kate receives after her daughter Amelia allegedly jumps off the school roof. This prompts Kate to look further into Amelia’s death beyond agonizing about what more she could have done as a single parent working a bazillion hours a week as a lawyer. Amelia was a fifteen-year-old star student accused of plagiarizing an English paper, which the police attribute as the motive for suicide. As Kate investigates more, suicide becomes more and more unlikely. The story is […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: #CBR6, Fiction, Kimberly McCreight, Literary Thriller, Reconstructing Amelia

Willynillyone's CBR6 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: #CBR6, Fiction, Kimberly McCreight, Literary Thriller, Reconstructing Amelia ·
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