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> Tag: psychological suspense

Good lord almighty, this book was depressing. #CBRBINGO – Adapt

Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith

October 11, 2022 by narfna 2 Comments

I was really looking forward to this one, but was unfortunately thwarted in my enjoyment by my own delicate little flower feelings. As it turns out, this is one of those books I like thinking about, writing about, and talking about more than I do the actual experience of reading of it. It put me in a terrible mood, and made me very unhappy. Wait, I take back the delicate flower thing. I’m more like a sponge, soaking up the atmosphere around me. And the […]

Filed Under: Suspense Tagged With: cbr14bingo, narfna, Patricia Highsmith, psychological suspense, Strangers on a Train, Suspense

narfna's CBR14 Review No:162 · Genres: Suspense · Tags: cbr14bingo, narfna, Patricia Highsmith, psychological suspense, Strangers on a Train, Suspense ·
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I’m still not sure I’m ok after this one…

The Winters by Lisa Gabriele

September 13, 2021 by chelz.hawk Leave a Comment

    “Once I made up my mind to leave, a calm came over me. The fight was over. In fact, it felt less like leaving then like Asherley was pushing me out, rejecting me like a body rejecting an unfamiliar organ.” A modern twist on the classic “Rebecca” tale, our young heroine works for a charter company in the Caribbean and until she pays of the debt she owes her employer for her father’s funeral expenses, that is all she’s ever going to do. […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance, Suspense Tagged With: cbr13bingo, classic retelling, Creepy, Lisa Gabriele, plot twist, psychological suspense

chelz.hawk's CBR13 Review No:31 · Genres: Fiction, Romance, Suspense · Tags: cbr13bingo, classic retelling, Creepy, Lisa Gabriele, plot twist, psychological suspense ·
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“Cal feels like he ought to stand on a street corner handing out warnings, little pieces of paper that just say: Anyone can do anything.”

The Searcher by Tana French

December 17, 2020 by narfna 6 Comments

This was slower paced and less twisty-turny than her other books but I loved that about it. I liked her last book, The Witch Elm, but I loved this one. This is also a character study as well as a mystery/crime novel (that isn’t part of her Dublin Murder series), but here the protagonist is a former cop from Chicago who retired and decided to try and find peace in the Irish countryside. He bought a beaten down farmhouse and has spent a lot of […]

Filed Under: Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: crime fiction, irish fiction, literary, mystery, narfna, psychological suspense, Tana French, The Searcher

narfna's CBR12 Review No:181 · Genres: Mystery, Suspense · Tags: crime fiction, irish fiction, literary, mystery, narfna, psychological suspense, Tana French, The Searcher ·
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This was . . . weird.

Little Face (Spilling CID, #1) by Sophie Hannah

August 26, 2020 by narfna Leave a Comment

Well, this was an experience. Disappointing, kind of bonkers, somehow still readable, lots of plot holes. It felt good to clean it off my TBR, and I’ll probably continue the series just because I’m curious about the bizarre relationship between the two detectives, but boy was it not what I was expecting. The premise of this book is a good one, one that I don’t think it really delivers on: a woman leaves her house for the first time since her two week old baby […]

Filed Under: Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: British, little face, mystery, narfna, psychological suspense, Sophie Hannah, spilling cid

narfna's CBR12 Review No:103 · Genres: Mystery, Suspense · Tags: British, little face, mystery, narfna, psychological suspense, Sophie Hannah, spilling cid ·
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“If I had to get there without friends, I could do it. Had been doing it. I’d never met anyone who brought me somewhere I wanted to stay, looked at me and saw someone I wanted to be for good; anyone who was worth giving up the more I wanted down the line.”

The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #5) by Tana French

July 30, 2020 by narfna 3 Comments

This is still my least favorite Dublin Murder book, but I found a little something more in it this time. I was actually kind of dreading revisiting this one, because the prospect of getting inside all those teenage girls’ heads just felt like way too much to handle at the moment. I used to be a teenaged girl, and I do not miss it. French is such a good writer, so evocative, that I just knew it was going to bring me right back to […]

Filed Under: Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: crime, dublin murder squad, mystery, narfna, psychological suspense, Tana French, The Secret Place

narfna's CBR12 Review No:84 · Genres: Mystery, Suspense · Tags: crime, dublin murder squad, mystery, narfna, psychological suspense, Tana French, The Secret Place ·
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A twisty psychological thriller. #CBRBingo – No Money!

His & Hers by Alice Feeney

July 9, 2020 by narfna Leave a Comment

NB: I received a free ARC of HIS & HERS by Alice Feeney from Macmillan in an exchange for an honest review. I’m somewhat at a loss as to what to say about this book. I was given an ARC by the publisher back in February, but it never arrived because I’d moved, and the USPS doesn’t forward packages, apparently. So they kindly sent me an e-book ARC instead, and that was a disaster. I know me and I should have said no, because it’s […]

Filed Under: Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: Alice Feeney, cbr12bingo, his & hers, mystery, narfna, psychological suspense, Suspense, thriller

narfna's CBR12 Review No:69 · Genres: Mystery, Suspense · Tags: Alice Feeney, cbr12bingo, his & hers, mystery, narfna, psychological suspense, Suspense, thriller ·
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