A lot of the ‘thrillers’ I’ve been reading are slower paced domestic dramas. They’re books like Liane Moriarty and Sally Hepworth. They’re okay but it’s not exactly thrilling to me to read about a mother raising her children and I wish they wouldn’t be marketed as mysteries.
I want something with a bit more bite and less focused on family secrets of the past. I am also not a fan of the big reveal being “omg the >!seemingly perfect white upper middle class MC’s seemingly perfect husband is secretly a scumbag/spy/rapist/murderer and is out to kill her!”!< or “the neighbours from hell that (BIG TWIST) appear perfect but turn out to be evil/appear suspicious but turn out to be angelic” plot. I read The Drowning Woman, Those People Next Door and The Girl on Kellers Way and hated two out of the 3.
The book I mentioned in the title is about a woman trying to escape >!her abusive husband!<. It’s revealed pretty early on, the narrator is clear he’s a scumbag and most of the book is about >!him stalking /trying to find her. She has moved to escape him but he is closing in.!< There is a clear villain and a clear victim and the plot doesn’t rely on shocking facts doled out to the reader in small bits, interspersed with parenting scenes.
I’m sorry to harp on the parenting little kids thing but there’s a LOT of this in The Mother-in-Law and it’s boring the pants off me. Enough already lol.
Sorry if this has been asked multiple times. I love police procedurals but am very new to the thriller genre.
by saturday_sun4