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In Perfect Happiness, You-jeong Jeong delivers a chilling portrait of narcissistic destruction.

In 'Perfect Happiness,' You-jeong Jeong — South Korea's 'Queen of Crime' — turns domestic life into a claustrophobic masterpiece

November 16, 2025 8:01 pm

In 'Perfect Happiness,' You-jeong Jeong locks her villain out of view, letting the true horror seep in from the lives she erodes.

The Samurai Detectives paints an intricate portrait of Edo Japan.

The Samurai Detectives: Read it for the history, not just the whodunit

November 21, 2025 6:18 pm

The Samurai Detectives is an immersive Edo-era tale that’s more about people than puzzles.

The Hallmarked Man Review: The cover of the Hallmarked Man, alongside its author Robert Galbraith a pseudonym for JK Rowling, creator of the Harry Potter series

The Hallmarked Man Review: Robert Galbraith’s most intimate and uncompromising novel in the Strike series

October 21, 2025 7:14 am

The Hallmarked Man Review: The eighth Cormoran Strike novel deepens the intrigue—and the emotional stakes—between Strike and Robin.

Uketsu’s Strange Houses, newly translated into English, is every bit as twisty as his earlier work Strange Pictures.

Strange Houses: Masked author Uketsu turns floor plans into murder plots

October 04, 2025 2:47 pm

Uketsu –Japan’s most mysterious bestselling author and creator of Strange Pictures and Strange Houses – is redefining horror and mystery through floor plans, sketches, and chilling twists.

Dan Brown serves up puzzles and page-turning drama in The Secret of Secrets.

Dan Brown is back: The Secret of Secrets mixes twists, trivia and noetic science

October 27, 2025 4:39 pm

Dan Brown returns with a trivia-packed thriller that’s part Wikipedia, part rollercoaster.

The book covers of the eight titles under The Cormoran Strike series penned by JK Rowling writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. The upcoming book is called The Hallmarked Man.

Before you read JK Rowling's 'The Hallmarked Man': A complete Cormoran Strike series recap

September 24, 2025 3:25 pm

Revisit the twists, traumas, and tantalising tension between the private eyes in the Detective Cormoran Strike series before J K Rowling's latest thriller hits the shelves.

Mount Fuji and the covers of Japanese thrillers The Honjin Murders, Out, beast in the Shadows,

Beyond Scandinoir: Why Japanese thrillers are the new crime fiction obsession

September 09, 2025 7:19 pm

From slow-burn psychological thrillers to locked-room puzzles, here’s why Japanese mysteries are a global obsession.

Invisible Helix: Keigo Higashino weaves another elegantly knotted mystery

May 24, 2025 3:42 pm

Read It: Those expecting a tense, suspense-laden page-turner on the lines of The Devotion of Suspect X are likely to find Invisible Helix a little on the slow side.

Secrets We Keep review: Addictive and atmospheric, Netflix's Nordic-noir mystery is another Adolescence in the making

May 24, 2025 8:09 am

Secrets We Keep review: A slow-burn thriller that addresses class-disparity, toxic masculinity, and the exploitation of cheap labour, Secrets We Keep takes a rather familiar premise and transforms it into something entirely more complex.