practiced law for twenty years before leaving the practice to write full time. An avid runner, skier and tennis player, she’s the author of numerous bestsellers including Hidden, Fractured, The Good Liar and I’ll Never Tell. Her works have been translated into multiple languages and Please Join Us and I’ll Never Tell have all been optioned for development into television series.
[My Book, The Movie: You Can't Catch Me; The Page 69 Test: You Can't Catch Me; The Page 69 Test: Hidden; My Book, The Movie: Hidden; The Page 69 Test: Spin ; My Book, The Movie: Spin]
McKenzie's new novel is Have You Seen Her.
At CrimeReads she tagged five thrillers where the setting becomes a pivotal character, including:
The Overnight Guest by Heather GudenkaufRead about another entry on the list.
Setting: An isolated farmhouse in a snowstorm
Sounds like a great place to write a book, right? That’s what author Wylie Lark thinks—that is until she discovers a small child outside in the raging storm. Oh,and did I mention that two people were murdered in the house twenty years ago? Is the house haunted or is that just Wylie’s imagination, fueled by the storm that’s battering the house and cutting them off from civilization?
For anyone who grew up where winter storms can rage, you know how isolating they can make you feel. When you can’t see the hand in front of your face or hear anything through the howling wind… It might seem cozy by that fire, but anything could be happening outside and you wouldn’t know it until it was too late.
Gudenkauf knits her story into the storm and the storm into the story perfectly so you can feel the bite of the cold and the slap of the storm.
The Overnight Guest is among Lisa Unger's best (or worst!) books to read in a secluded cabin in the woods and Deborah E. Kennedy's seven top mysteries set in the Midwestern winter.
The Page 69 Test: The Overnight Guest.
--Marshal Zeringue
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