Some of my favourites have been:
– ‘And Then There Were None’ by Agatha Christie
– ‘The Shuddering’ by Ania Ahlborn
– ‘The Long Walk’ by Stephen King
– ‘Behind Her Eyes’ by Sarah Pinborough
– ‘The Plot’ by Jean Hanff Korelitz
I need books where the author isn’t afraid to follow through with a possibly controversial, messed up ending. Lots of the recent endings have been like ‘Despite what they went through, they found that their lives were better after the fucked up experience, & they lived happily ever after’ 🫠 Thank you for any suggestions.
by GrimmDescendant
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Try Alice Feeney. Everyone is terrible and almost no one is happy at the end of her books. I love them.
Megan Goldin’s books, too, especially The Escape Room and The Night Swim.
The Jane Hawke series by Dean Koonttz
You might like Tana French, specifically *In the Woods*
Are You Sleeping by Kathleen Barber (has a different title now to match a tv show or something)
The French Girl
The Roanoke Girls
The Good Daughter (heed the trigger warnings)
The Butterfly Garden
Into the Darkest Corner
The Woods by Harlan Coben
Plum Island
The Marsh King’s Daughter
Beat the Reaper
Don’t Let Go
Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood
The Night Olivia Fell
Dark Places
The Last House Guest
Never Look Back
The Familiar Dark
Hairpin Bridge
What’s Done In Darkness
A Killer in the Family (it was book 5 and I didn’t read the others but I was still ok)
Riley Sager! Or Lisa Jewell!
I liked When Lust has conceived by Raimund Auerbach a lot. Lots of twists, great characters, and the ending is indeed surprising! Lots of suspense, but also lots of sex.