Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Top ten thrillers with characters you’ll love to hate

Tanya Grant writes twisty thrillers full of secrets, murder, and gossipy group dynamics. When not conducting highly suspicious web searches (for research!), she also writes romances. Her essays have appeared on HelloGiggles.com and Bust.com, and she's spoken about creativity on various podcasts. When she's not writing, you can find the author listening to the coyotes howl outside her Seattle-area home, drinking cinnamon tea, and chasing her two children.

Grant's new novel is Made You Look.

At CrimeReads she tagged "ten thrillers with characters you’ll love to hate," including:
May Cobb, The Hollywood Assistant

When a personal assistant to a famous Hollywood couple gets caught in their secrets and lies, she lands in the middle of a murder investigation. May Cobb is the queen of writing unlikeable women, and in this thriller she delivers plenty to enjoy, from the assistant who continues to make questionable choices to the angsty drama-magnet wife she works for.
Read about another thriller on Grant's list.

--Marshal Zeringue