All in Mysteries and Thrillers
I first heard the term “child peril lit” many years ago when my Jodi Picoult obsession was at its peak. It so perfectly describes the genre that it suggests why someone might be drawn to it. You know: that feeling that reading about it somehow protects you and your family. Now that I have a daughter, I’m not sure that psychology is so useful for me anymore. In fact it seems to lessen my enjoyment of a book, taking me out because I can’t allow myself to get as emotionally involved out of self-protection.
Psychological thriller is not a genre I gravitate toward with any regularity. So when my Bates Boston Alumna book club selected The Woman in the Windowas one of our reads, I wasn’t sure I’d enjoy it. Well, it is a page-turner and a book that you will have a very hard time putting down until you’ve figured out all the story’s twists and turns.
At the other end of the spectrum of writing, this suspenseful beach read will keep you turning the pages with ease.
Suspenseful. A psychological thriller. Chilling. These are some of the reviewers’ comments on this debut novel by S. J. Watson. I’m not normally drawn to this genre of writing, but the premise intrigued me. The main character, Christine, has a neurological condition whereupon she wakes up each morning not remembering anything or anyone from the previous 25 years of her life.
