Tag: Suspense

• Retreating into reading: The refuge of older books

  Lately, I have been turning to older novels for my reading, as a means of escape from the stresses of being alive, here, in 2017. Older books offer a unique form of immersion in another time and place, as actually lived by the writer, rather than as imagined by a writer conjuring up a historical time…

  Shannon Turlington

  February 10, 2017

  Notebook, Reading

  Classics, Domestic suspense, Mid-century thrillers, Reading list, Suspense, Thrillers, Women writers

• Recommended Reading: Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives

  In the introduction to the short story collection Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives that she edited, Sarah Weinman laments that “an entire generation of female crime writers…have faded from view.” Many of these writers, popular and lauded in their day, have been forgotten over time. Weinman has selected stories by fourteen of them, ranging in publication date from…

  Shannon Turlington

  July 1, 2016

  Reading

  Anthologies, Crime, Domestic suspense, Noir, Patricia Highsmith, Recommended Reading, Sarah Weinman, Shirley Jackson, Short stories, Suspense, Troubled Daughters Twisted Wives, Women writers