Monday, January 27, 2025

Six great thrillers featuring sisters (and murder)

Kate Alice Marshall is the bestselling author of thrillers and horror for kids and adults. Her middle grade books include the Secrets of Eden Eld trilogy and Extra Normal. In YA, she’s written the survival thriller I Am Still Alive, as well as supernatural suspense including Rules for Vanishing and The Narrow. She made her adult thriller debut with What Lies in the Woods, followed by the USA Today bestseller No One Can Know.

She lives outside Seattle with her family, two very friendly (but not very smart) golden retrievers, and a growing collection of fancy pens.

At CrimeReads Marshall tagged six of her "favorite stories featuring sisters—the good, the bad, and the complicated." One title on the list:
My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

I couldn’t resist including Oyinkan Braithwaite’s compulsively readable story of Korede, whose sister Ayoola is either deeply unlucky in love or maybe (probably) a cold-blooded serial killer. She’s always got a perfectly reasonable excuse for why her latest boyfriend had to go. Korede is always there to clean up her sister’s mess, moral qualms or no, but when Ayoola starts cozying up to the man Korede is in love with, Korede has to decide if it’s time to put an end to her sister’s bad habits.
Read about another entry on the list.

My Sister the Serial Killer is among Margot Douaihy's four novels that show the power of siblings in mysteries & thrillers, Francesca McDonnell Capossela's seven books about women committing acts of violence, Tessa Wegert's five thrillers about killer relatives, Catherine Ryan Howard's five notable dangers-of-dating thrillers, Sally Hepworth's top five novels about twisted sisters, Megan Nolan's six books on unrequited love and unmet obsession, Sarah Pinborough's top ten titles where the setting is a character, Tiffany Tsao's top five novels about murder all in the family, Victoria Helen Stone's eight top crime books of deep, dark family lore, and Kristen Roupenian's six best books.

--Marshal Zeringue