Nine recent thrillers in which isolation amps up the tension

Victoria Helen Stone, author of the runaway best seller Jane Doe, writes critically acclaimed novels of dark intrigue and emotional suspense. Aside from The Last One Home, Problem Child, Half Past, and the chart-topping False Step and Evelyn, After, she also published twenty-nine books as USA Today bestselling author Victoria Dahl and won the prestigious American Library Association Reading List award for best genre fiction.

Her new novel is At The Quiet Edge.

At CrimeReads Stone tagged nine recent thrillers that "make use of many kinds of solitude to amp up the tension," including:

Caitlin Starling, The Luminous Dead

The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling combines the distance of a desolate planet with the pressing terror of underground entrapment. Once you’re a few kilometers below the surface of any planet, no one can help you, and Starling adds a deadly combination of a paranormal happenings, an unseen beast waiting to pounce, and a mysterious, off-the-books boss directing the protagonist deeper into unexplored caverns. I wanted to cover my eyes and hide while I was reading this.

Read about another entry on the list.

The Luminous Dead is among A.K. Larkwood's five tense books that blend sci-fi & horror and Jeff Somers's seven scariest science fiction horror novels ever written.

The Page 69 Test: The Luminous Dead.

--Marshal Zeringue