raising questions about justice, motherhood, career, class, and the thorny mechanics of redemption. She previously penned eight works of Southern fiction, all of which have a murder mystery or thriller lurking inside the family drama. Her critically acclaimed work has been translated into more than a dozen languages, and Jackson is also an award-winning audiobook narrator. She lives in Decatur, Georgia, with her family.
Her new novel is With My Little Eye.
[The Page 69 Test: The Girl Who Stopped Swimming; My Book, The Movie: The Girl Who Stopped Swimming; The Page 69 Test: Backseat Saints; The Page 69 Test: A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty; The Page 69 Test: The Opposite of Everyone; My Book, The Movie: The Opposite of Everyone]
At CrimeReads Jackson tagged five "favorite mystery and suspense titles [that] unfold in the worlds of dance, broadcast news, high fashion, magic, and music." One title on the list:
Acts of Violet by Margarita MontimoreRead about another entry on the list.
Is Violet Volk a famous magician—or an infamous one? She lives big and leaves messes behind, most of which have to be cleaned up by her sister Sasha. This genre-bending story leans hard into mystery when Violet’s final trick seems to be to literally disappear. Sasha’s narration is interspersed by news stories and transcripts from a Violet-obsessed podcast, giving the book a true crime feel. The twists start early and keep coming, and I gobbled this one down in a matter of hours.
The Page 69 Test: Acts of Violet.
--Marshal Zeringue
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