Book Awards Crime & Thriller of the Year and adapted for TV as a limited series starring Martin Compston and Tuppence Middleton. She is the winner of a Ned Kelly Award for International Crime Fiction in Australia and is a three-time nominee for the prestigious Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award in the UK.
Candlish's new novel is A Neighbor's Guide to Murder.
At CrimeReads the author tagged five favorite mysteries set in grand, intricate residences. One title on the list:
Dennis Lehane, Shutter IslandRead about another entry on the list.
While there is an iconic house in Shutter Island—the stone lodge on the lake, scene of the historic Laeddis family tragedy—it’s the hospital building on the island that is most strongly associated with Lehane’s masterpiece. Ashecliffe Hospital is home to the criminally insane, a nicely Gothic trope and yet, we are told, a handsome and “benign” structure that resembles nothing so much as a boarding school.
Be not deceived, however: the tension between how things look and how things are is precisely what propels Shutter Island to the very top of the thriller tree.
Shutter Island is among Bonnie Kistler's five novels using hurricanes to heighten the drama, Alex Michaelides's five best island thrillers, and Michelle Adams's five top thrillers in which memory is unreliable, at best.
--Marshal Zeringue
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