Carinn Jade is a lawyer, writer, and cohost of the Pop Fiction Women podcast. Her debut novel, The Astrology House, was a 2025 International Thriller Writers’ Awards finalist in the category of Best First Novel.
The Dahlia Suite is her new novel.
At CrimeReads Jade tagged five "favorite books that refuse to stay grounded in the reality we can explain." One title on the author's list:
Riley Sager, The House Across the LakeRead about another mystery on the list.
This novel begins with a very strange occurrence: a woman found face down, drowned, in a lake is revived with no real effort. The storyfollows Casey Fletcher, a widowed actress who becomes entangled in the mysterious disappearance of her neighbor while staying at the family’s lake house.
But what really happens is far more eerie and shocking than any true crime documentary could ever touch.
The House Across the Lake is among Maia Chance's six top uncanny domestic thrillers and Alice Blanchard's five mysteries set in still waters.
--Marshal Zeringue