By Maggie Giles
Before my book Twisted came out, I began to get more involved in my local book community. This meant connecting with many different Canadian Authors. It opened me up to a bunch of amazing books I’d never heard of before. These authors masterfully leave clues and hints
that cause the reader to look another way while subtly hiding the truth behind excellent prose and complicated characters with twists and turns you’ll never see coming. Check out these seven thrillers by Canadian women that you should add to your TBR right now!
The Whispers by Ashley Audrain
Sometimes you can discover terrible things amongst the whispers of your neighbours. Following the POVs of four different women living in an affluent neighbourhood, after the tragic fall of one of their sons. Now with the child in a coma, everyone is asking how is happened and everyone is keeping secrets. Content warning to those sensitive to depictions of miscarriage and infertility.
Watch Out for Her by Samantha Bailey
Told from two POVs, following past and present, Sarah and her family move from Vancouver to Toronto after a mysterious incident. However after finding hidden cameras in her new house, Sarah feels no safer here than she did in Vancouver. Once the watcher, now being watched herself, Sarah wonders if her past has followed her all the way to Toronto.
A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny’s beloved series.
As Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir prepare for a special celebration, they find themselves increasingly worried when a young man and woman reappear in the Sûreté du Québec. When last seen, they were only the two were young children after their troubled mother was murdered, leaving them damaged, shattered. Now they’ve returned to the village. But to what end?
Don’t You Dare by Jessica Hamilton
A sexy thriller that throws the main character into the Daring Game, a game from college which leads to affairs, dangerous secrets and all-around debauchery, until someone anonymous takes over and they know everything…
Everyone Here is Lying by Shari Lepena
William Wooler is a family man, on the surface. But he’s been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So when he returns to his house, devastated and angry, to find his difficult nine-year-old daughter, Avery, unexpectedly home from school, William loses his temper. Hours later, Avery’s family declares her missing. William isn’t the only one on his street who’s hiding a lie. As witnesses come forward with information that may or may not be true, Avery’s neighbors become increasingly unhinged. Who took Avery Wooler? Nothing will prepare you for the truth.
The Lost Ones by Sheena Kamal
It’s late. The phone rings.
The man on the other end says his daughter is missing.
Your daughter.
The baby you gave away over fifteen years ago.
What do you do?
Nora Watts isn’t sure that she wants to get involved. Troubled, messed up, and with more than enough problems of her own, Nora doesn’t want to revisit the past. But then she sees the photograph. A girl, a teenager, with her eyes. How can she turn her back on her?
But going in search of her daughter brings Nora into contact with a past that she would rather forget, a past that she has worked hard to put behind her, but which is always there, waiting for her . . .
If I Lose Her by Brianne Sommerville
Coming March 5, 2024
Who can you trust when you can’t trust yourself?
The pregnancy podcasts warned Joanna Baker about the baby blues, but when a near-fatal mistake places the first-time mom under the watchful eye of Child Protective Services, she receives a serious diagnosis.
Postpartum depression. Jo hears the words, yet they don’t make sense. Nothing does. Her blackouts are increasing, and she can’t recall events she’s been accused of. As she fights to keep her daughter, she discovers cracks in her neighborhood, family, and her own home. With the support of her sisters, she attempts to piece together her traumatic past and uncover who is truly in control. Jo must battle her faltering mind to save what’s most important—her daughter.