Tell Me What You're Reading #41: Alison Gaylin/ Wendy Corsi Staub - domestic psychological thrillers, etc.
James Conrad of The Golden Notebook in Woodstock leads a monthly book club and not so long ago recommended that the book club read two mystery novels.
My reaction was that these are not my kind of books, I don’t usually read books like these, I read history, I read biographies and memoirs, I read big, long serious novels and great short stories, I love historical fiction, I can’t remember if I’ve even ever read mysteries, much less murder mysteries. But, James' recommendations the last few years have been almost flawless, and he did it again. Both of the books he recommended are compelling page turners, and the authors are my guests today.
Alison Gaylin is a bestselling mystery writer who has been nominated for the Edgar Award four times, and has won the award in the category of Best Paperback Original for If I Die Tonight, and New York Times bestseller Wendy Corsi Staub is the award-winning author of more than ninety novels, best known for her psychological suspense novels.
When I spoke with Alison and Wendy they were in Minnesota at the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention @Bouchercon
Books and Other Resources Discussed with Alison and Wendy
The Collective – No Killer Goes Unpunished, by Alison Grayln
Reviews The New York Times | The Los Angeles Times | New York Journal of Books | Criminal Element | South Florida Sun Sentinel
The Other Family, by Wendy Corsi Staub
Reviews New York Journal of Books | Criminal Element
Domestic Suspense/ Domestic Psychological Suspense - other authors
Mary Higgins Clark #maryhigginsclark
Gillian Flynn @TheGillianFlynn
Lisa Jewell @lisajewelluk
Harlan Coben @HarlanCoben
Linwood Barclay @linwood_barclay
Jeff Abbott @JeffAbbott
Carol Goodman @C_Goodmania
Patricia Highsmith @MsTomRipley
Laura Lippman @LauraMLippman
James M. Cain @JamesMCai
Wanda Morris @WandaMo14
The Talented Mr. Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith
Reviews The New York Times | The New York Times Style Magazine | Kirkus Reviews
The Many Faces of Patricia Highsmith The New York Times Style Magazine
Edmund White T Book Club discussion
Strangers on a Train, by Patricia Highsmith
Reviews CrimeReads | Literary Corner Cafe
Jack Reacher series by Lee Child
Center for Fiction @Center4Fiction
Mystery Writers of America @EdgarAwards
The Golden Notebook @GoldenNotebook1
Nancy's of Woodstock Artisanal Creamery and Coffee House
What Howard’s Reading
Trans Atlantic, by Colum McCann
Reviews The New Yorker | The New York Times | The Guardian | Express | The Washington Post | NPR | Kirkus Reviews | LA Review of Books | Denver Post | The Irish Times | National Post | Chicago Tribune
Not quite but almost a historical novel, a beautiful story that links together four generations of independent women descended from a poor Irish family, and the arduous trans atlantic journeys to Ireland by aviation pioneers in 1919, by former slave Frederic Douglas as he seeks to raise money for the abolitionist movement in 1845, and of former United State Senator George Mitchell as he brokers the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. Really beautiful.
