FOR LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS:
The Empath of the Overlooked: On Ivy Pochoda’s These Women
Insidious Pockets of Pain: On The Wolf Wants In by Laura McHugh
Ghost or Glitch: On Ruth Ware’s Contemporary Retelling of The Turn of the Screw
Situationally Criminal: On Beijing Payback by Daniel Nieh
Trapped Under Ice – The Current by Tim Johnston
The Luck of the Irish – The Witch Elm by Tana French
Sugar and Spice and Steel – Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott
Love, Cruelty, Passion, and Lies – Our Kind of Cruelty by Araminta Hall
A Love Affair with a Body Count – Sunburn by Laura Lippman
A Sorority of Suffering – Into the Water by Paula Hawkins
Hope and Inexperience and Yearning – Good as Gone by Amy Gentry
FOR THE BROOKLYN RAIL:
Freezing Cold Crazytown, Warms Reader – Aurorarama by Jean-Christophe Valtat