She named her top 10 psychological thrillers for the Guardian.
One title from her list:
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The Straw Men by Michael MarshallRead about the book that topped Barclay's list.
Michael Marshall had me at "we're not dead": Ex-CIA agent Ward Hopkins comes home from his parents' funeral to discover these words scrawled on a note in his father's handwriting. Two other seemingly unconnected events open the book and suck you into an intriguing, action-packed ride, structured on a disturbing and original premise. Marshall is master of creating the unsettling feeling of "something is very wrong" and cranking it up to "everything is very wrong".
--Marshal Zeringue