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Recent listens:
Every Last Lie, by Mary Kubica.
After her husband dies in a car crash, a new mother becomes obsessed with the idea that it wasn't an accident. Dual narration from husband beforehand and wife afterward. Disappointing; wife is overwrought and off-the-rails from the outset--a gradual buildup would have worked better.
Eileen, by Ottessa Moshfegh.
A miserable young woman trapped in a miserable life, Eileen latches on to a new female counselor at a juvenile detention center where they both work, back in the 1960s. Weird as hell; I picked it because the blurbs referenced Hitchcock and Shirley Jackson--but no. I finally decided there was no deep meaning or attempt at real suspense here; Eileen was nothing more than a jumble of disgusting character traits and the story lacked believability.
The Child, by Fiona Barton.
The discovery of a newborn's bones at a building site reopens an investigation into a baby's disappearance from a maternity hospital forty years earlier. This was pretty interesting, with multiple narrators and points of view that eventually came together. The same investigative reporter who appeared in Barton's earlier novel The Widow is also prominent in this story.
Don't Close Your Eyes, by Holly Seddon.
Twin sisters, both damaged by their parents' choices, reunite. This should have been better than it was--a lot of the book details the girls' early lives, and it takes a long time to know where the story is going. In fact, I'm not sure it ever really gets there. But it did hold my interest.
Final Girls, by Riley Sager.
The "girls" are three women who were the sole survivors of three different killing sprees, linked by the media. The focus is on Quincy, ten years after her friends were murdered in Pine Cottage, when the first final girl dies and the second one shows up on Quincy's doorstep. Twisted fun, with slasher film-type flashbacks to what happened at Pine Cottage. I enjoyed this because it didn't take itself too seriously, and it wasn't filled with overly gruesome details; it was slick escapist entertainment.
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