Leah Rowan is an author living in Brooklyn and the Catskills.
Marion is her new thriller.
Megan Collins, author of Cross My Heart, called Marion a "pitch-perfect thriller that feels like the primal scream every woman has been holding back her entire life."
At CrimeReads Rowan tagged "six scintillating stories where the parent-child relationship is a little (or a lot) off." One title on the list:
Zoje Stage, Baby TeethRead about another thriller on the list.
Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage has quickly become a classic of the parent-child relationship gone wrong trope, right alongside mainstays such as The Bad Seed. It tracks Suzette and herseven-year-old daughter Hanna, who’s been kicked out of almost every school she’s gone to, and has taken to torturing Suzette during their daily homeschooling, while always playing the perfect child when Daddy’s home.
A powerful exploration not only of mother-child dynamics but of the lengths men will go to not believe women, it’s a horror-thriller must-read that promises to keep you up long past bedtime.
Baby Teeth is among Sarah Pekkanen's five titles exploring twisted mother/daughter relationships, Leah Konen's seven thrillers that explore the darker side of motherhood, Rebecca Kelley's nine books featuring female villains who lean into their wickedness, Amber Garza's five titles featuring (possibly) murderous children, Christina Dalcher's seven crime books that challenge notions of inherent female goodness, May Cobb's five psychological thrillers featuring single-minded villains & anti-heroes, Jae-Yeon Yoo's top ten books about the promise & perils of alternative schooling, Pamela Crane's five top novels featuring parenting gone wild, Damien Angelica Walters's five titles about the horror of girlhood, and Sally Hepworth's eight messed up fictional families.
--Marshal Zeringue
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