![]() ![]() Think Gone Girl set in the ‘50s, complete with a bored, sexually promiscuous housewife and a controlling, troubled husband. All her novels are marvels because character always take center stage, but my favorite is the portrayal of a poisonous, disintegrating marriage in Deep Water. ![]() The oft-dubbed queen of crime wrote a phenomenal number of tense, sharp psychological thrillers, many of which are some of the most well-known crime novels in literature, such as Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Twice a month, you’ll hear about the five non-male authors who most delight your favorite writers. Read More Women is Electric Literature’s series, presented in collaboration with MCD Books, in which we feature prominent authors, of any gender, recommending their favorite books by women and non-binary writers. Here are the books-some thrillers, some not-that Hall recommends when you want to read something by a woman. But listen, sometimes you want to get deeply outside the mind of a man for a while. ![]() Sign up for our newsletter to get submission announcements and stay on top of our best work.Īraminta Hall’s thriller Our Kind of Cruelty gets deeply into the mind of a man: a stalker convinced that the object of his obsession is sending coded signals of romantic interest, even at her own wedding. ![]()
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