Michelle Maryk graduated from Cornell University with a degree in English and attended the Yale Writer’s Workshop. For the better part of twenty-five years, she’s been a successful voiceover, on-camera commercial, and comedic actor, and she is a dual Swedish and US citizen.
The Found Object Society is her debut novel.
At CrimeReads Maryk tagged nine of her "recent (and one of my oldest) speculative favorites that thrillingly delve into crime and murder in its many forms." One entry on the list:
Good Neighbors, Sarah LanganRead about another novel on Maryk's list.
No one skewers the sweet candy-coating of suburbia and lets spill the gooey gore inside better than Langan. Set in the very near (and increasingly hot) future, an unconventional family has moved to picture-perfect Maple Street, sending ripples of disapproval throughout the well-manicured McMansions. Soon after, a giant sinkhole opens up in the park, swallowing the daughter of the neighborhood’s self-appointed Queen Bee. Rumors and accusations fly, directed squarely at the outcast new family. Laced with ruthless humor and tension, this novel lays bare the noxious underbelly of the American Dream.
Good Neighbors is among Kate Broad's eight novels about class & racial tensions in the suburbs, Katrina Monroe's nine terrible mothers in horror, Chris Cander's eight novels about dealing with difficult neighbors, and Amelia Kahaney's six top coming-of-age mysteries & thrillers.
The Page 69 Test: Good Neighbors.
My Book, The Movie: Good Neighbors.
--Marshal Zeringue
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