![]() ![]() ![]() The beloved as potentially lethal stranger is an essential tenet of this subgenre of crime fiction, and it has a flip side that is rarely if ever examined: the assumption that we, like every psychological suspense novel’s protagonist, urgently need to learn our loved ones’ secrets, discover their true nature and change our lives accordingly. If you’re well read, you know the formula canny contemporary readers go into a domestic noir novel believing it far more likely that the heroine’s charming and handsome new boyfriend is late for their dinner date because he’s secretly a sociopathic killer - one who suspected his appetite would be ruined by the thought of all those exes he hadn’t yet garroted with piano wire - than because his taxi was stuck in heavy traffic. ![]() $26.Ĭan we ever truly know those closest to us - our spouses, children, best friends? Most psychological thrillers are firmly, and successfully, premised on the conclusion that we can’t. ![]()
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