C. J. Cooke is an award-winning poet and novelist published in twenty-three languages. She teaches creative writing at the University of Glasgow, where she also researches the impact of motherhood on women’s writing and creative writing interventions for mental health.
Cooke's newest novel is The Lighthouse Witches.
At CrimeReads she tagged eight thrillers and mysteries that "combine the supernatural with the real in believable ways," including:
Tana French’s The Secret PlaceRead about another entry on the list.
One of my favorite writers, French deploys the supernatural lightly in her fifth installment of Dublin Murder Squad In this clever psychological suspense, two detectives are called to solve a murder in the grounds of an exclusive boarding school, and their prime suspects are a group of smart-mouthed teenage girls. Without giving too much away, the supernatural here is less a narrative thread than it is an intriguing framework through which to unpick the dynamics of friendship, or the ties between a group of bored, dramatic, and privileged teenage girls.
The Secret Place is among Cambria Brockman's five thrillers featuring a small group of friends, Adele Parks's eight crime novels featuring intense female friendship, Kristen Lepionka's ten top female detectives in fiction, the B&N Reads editors' five favorite fun, fearless femmes fatales in fiction, and Kelly Anderson's seven amazing female friendships in fiction.
--Marshal Zeringue
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