Thursday, February 06, 2025

Five gripping thrillers with parents searching for missing children

Katie Garner was born in New York and grew up in New Jersey. She has a degree in Art History from Ramapo College and is certified to teach high school Art. She hoards paperbacks, coffee mugs, and dog toys and can be seen holding at least one of those things most of the time.

Garner lives in a New Jersey river town with her husband, little boy, and shih-poo where she writes books about women and their dark, secret selves. The Night It Ended is her debut novel and The Family Inside is her newest novel.

At CrimeReads Garner tagged five books that turn "that ‘ordinary’ fear—losing your child—into something extraordinary." One title on the list:
Jennifer Hillier, LITTLE SECRETS

My pulse was racing when I read the opening pages of LITTLE SECRETS and it didn’t slow until all was resolved in the end. Hillier opens with a familiar scenario—a mother loses her child in a crowd. But what comes next morphs into a twisty tale exploring the depths of a damaged marriage and the “little secrets” parents keep from one another, often centering around their own child.
Read about another entry on the list.

Little Secrets is among Courtney Rodgers's nine chilling thrillers about marriage, Andromeda Romano-Lax's four top thrillers that explore a mother's worst nightmare, Jessica Hamilton's six top novels about extra marital affairs, and Lisa Regan's ten riveting reads filled with shocking secrets.

--Marshal Zeringue