She is the author of nine YA books. Her contemporary coming-of-age novel Girl on the Run was a CCBC Best Book for Teens pick in 2016. Her 2020 novel, Rogue Princess, was chosen by the School Library Journal as one of the Top Ten Best Audiobooks. When not putting her characters in precarious situations, Myers works as a registered nurse. A member of the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, she lives in Halifax with her family--and there is still a stack of books on her bedside table.
At CrimeReads Myers tagged ten suspense novels with a "delicate balance between genuine chills and playful delight" that influenced her own new novel, A Dreadful Splendour. One title on the list:
Jar of Hearts by Jennifer HillierRead about another entry on the list.
Jar of Hearts is a dark psychological thriller with a compulsive pace. Along with the cunning twists, Hillier also manages to create dilemmas that challenge the protagonist to make choices that force them to do something that either conflicts with their ethics or results in a physical or demoralising loss. The protagonist, Georgina, has kept a devastating truth buried for fifteen years, but when a serial killer emerges in her neighborhood, she puts her life at risk to find them before they uncover her deadly secret.
Jar of Hearts is among Alice Blanchard's ten chilling thrillers to get you through the winter storms.
--Marshal Zeringue
Posts
