Saturday, September 07, 2024

Eight top thrillers in which the characters actually get to have fun

Rachel Koller Croft is an author and screenwriter in Los Angeles, where she has scripted projects for Blumhouse, Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Comedy Central, among others. She lives by the beach with her husband, Charles, and their rescue pitbull, Juniper. Stone Cold Fox is her first novel.

Croft's new novel is We Love the Nightlife.

At CrimeReads she tagged eight favorite thrillers "that let their characters actually have some fun amidst the drama, backstabbing, murder and all that other good stuff we readers and writers love about this genre." One title on the list:
Kismet by Amina Akhtar

Anything wellness related almost always has me chortling out loud, because so much of it is so ridiculous, and Amina Akhtar lets it rip with her take on Sedona woo-woo culture. MC Ronnie really leans into the finer things of the “clean girl aesthetic” and finds herself taking to the lifestyle with aplomb—before the dead bodies start showing up. Also, I need to shout out the very entertaining ravens in this world who also go on a spree of their very own!
Read about another entry on the list.

Kismet is among Jamie Lee Sogn's eight top mysteries & thrillers set in the wellness industry, Molly Odintz's twelve wacky, weird, and wildly entertaining mysteries & thrillers and Meredith Hambrock's five recent crime novels featuring messy female characters.

--Marshal Zeringue