Alexa Donne is the Edgar Award–nominated author of Pretty Dead Queens and The Ivies. By day she lives in Los Angeles and works in television marketing. The rest of the time she contemplates creative motives for murder and takes too many pictures of her cats.
Donne's latest young adult thriller, The Bitter End, is Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None with a Gossip Girl flair.
At CrimeReads Donne tagged six other novels inspired by Christie's classic. One title on the list:
Shiver by Allie ReynoldsRead about another title on the list.
Not every book that scratches this sub-genre itch sits slasher adjacent! People aren’t picked off at intervals in Shiver, but the book’smulti-timeline format creates its own unique escalation of tension, so by the time the body falls, you are chomping at the bit. Shiver volleys between a reunion between old snowboarding friends at a ski resort in the off-season and the last time the friends were all together, ten years ago before one of their own mysteriously disappeared. So often isolation trope mysteries hinge on sins of the past, something I love and drew on myself, and Shiver is no exception, executing the idea very well! It’s a feat where the past timeline is as intriguing, if not more so, than the present one.
Shiver is among Isabelle McConville's nine books with deadly invitations, C.J. Tudor's five notable winter thrillers, and B.P. Walter's five top winter mysteries.
--Marshal Zeringue
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