5/28/2023 0 Comments The stranger rm holland![]() ![]() Authors often kill them to create tension. A teacher is lecturing about the utility of animal characters in suspense fiction, and she tells her students: ![]() I only made it a few pages in, however, before I came upon a passage which made me put the book down. That leaves Elly Griffiths’ The Stranger Diaries, which I checked out of the library back in January immediately after the nominations were announced it had been described as a “brilliant twist on Gothic suspense,” which sounded right up my alley. Fake Like Me by Barbara Bourland is one I know nothing about, and I’ve heard good things about Smoke and Ashes by Abir Mukherjee. I’m a big fan of Peter Heller’s spellbinding 2017 novel Celine, and I have a copy of his nominated book The River on my TBR pile. Of the 2020 field, the only one I’d already read was Michael Robotham’s Good Girl, Bad Girl, which I really enjoyed. Every year, I try to read the Edgar nominees for Best Novel. ![]()
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