Six top mysteries that will make you turn back to page one

Before turning to fiction, Aggie Blum Thompson worked as a newspaper reporter, covering cops, courts, and trials, with a healthy dose of the mundane mixed in. Her writing has appeared in newspapers such as The Boston Globe and The Washington Post. She lives in the suburbs just over the Washington D.C. line with her husband, two children, cat, and dog.

Thompson's new novel is You Deserve to Know.

At CrimeReads the author tagged six mysteries with a very late reveal thar "reframes the entire book and turns everything we think we just learned on its head..., sending us back to chapter one to see if we can spot what was hiding in plain sight all along." One title on the list:

The Wife Stalker by Liv Constantine

An unreliable narrator is an essential linchpin in these types of endings, and Liv Constantine’s psychological suspense delivers not one, but two in The Wife Stalker. The first voice belongs to a sympathetic woman seemingly struggling to keep her family intact, while the second point of view belongs to a ruthless gold-digger who wants to marry up. The man at the center of this frenzy is hardly the point — you keep reading to see which of these women will prevail. It’s not until the very end that you learn of a relevant detail, carefully omitted, which casts the entire book, and the trustworthiness of the two women, in a startling new light.

Read about another mystery on the list.

The Wife Stalker is among Kaira Rouda's thirteen books highlighting the wives in domestic suspense.

My Book, The Movie: The Wife Stalker.

--Marshal Zeringue